WEEK 4.

[trustwellness]

WEEK 4 Three more have died this past week. Milla Maxwell was killed for breaking a rule, Chiyuki was murdered, and you all had a hand in executing Yoshikage Kira. It seems like this isn't going to stop any time soon. How many more will join them this week? Saturday is given to regrouping and rest; on Sunday morning the clock chimes as it always has, but at least there are no bodies to find today. It seems you're safe for now. The night before wasn't necessarily a peaceful one, however; you'll probably feel a bit groggy when you wake up, and it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost... Despite the Wordsmith's reaction to the last trial, it seems as though you've been rewarded once again for a job that was...well, it was done, even if he didn't explicitly say it was well-done. Another door has opened in that stairway, it seems, leading you further down into the building; once again, there are more rooms down there, more things to occupy yourselves with. Or perhaps just more means to get creative with regards to how you take initiative with your fellow Apprentices. APPRENTICES REMAINING: 23 APPRENTICES REMAINING: 22 APPRENTICES REMAINING: 20

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[OOC: Welcome to week four of Trustfell! Feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget to save those threads for coins and the activity check!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Wordsmith, you can do so through letters or the switchboard!]

Comments

[feistytrader]

...You made a big fuss when I walked in on you. I figured you'd appreciate the heads up.

[Was that a fucking pun-]

[matchbreaker]

[ WOW

Okay, she's got it on but some hair is tangled. She should have gotten out to do this?? ]

You're helping with my straps and my hair, boy!

[elepe]

I see...

[Lusamine does listen, at the very least, and tries to emulate it. ...She's not actually sure what the stance is, so she's. Kinda. Making it up as she goes--but at the very least, she's got a tighter trip on the knife itself, makes sure her pose is straight, and looks back to him.

...Admittedly, she kind of goes back and forth whether to simply grip the handle, or have her fingers touch the blade to steady it. That's. Something she's looking back to Mikazuki for.]

May I ask how exactly I should be holding these? I want to make sure it's perfect.

[elepe]

I'm going to worry anyway, Guzma. You know me well enough by now.

[Good boy. You're too useful to die.]

That seems obvious enough, at least. If he does rear his ugly head, however, keep that in mind as well. We know what he's capable of now...as well as that creature.

[...]

I can only imagine what Angela must have done, but...let's see to it that the mistake is not repeated.

[byday]

[...he's absolutely bleeding from his hand right now, and gives him an aside look along the lines of "are you serious bro".]

...I don't think doing anything with the walls would be smart, at this point.

[byday]

[...oh. it takes him a few seconds to snap out of the little thing hes got going on right now, but he eventually turns back towards her.]

Help yourself to it.

[byday]

Well enough. Its not something you need to worry about.

1/2

[matchbreaker]

Thanks!

[ She picks it up, clearly intending to go... oops... ]

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . But then thinks better of it, doesn't go and looks around his shoulders to see what got him spooked more clearly. So from dick to nosy tbh. which is fitting, detectiving and all. ]

[byday]

[...are you trying to sneak up on batman. is that it. are you trying to make sure he won't notice. because he's absolutely going to notice that bullshit, even if she sees what he's holding.]

What are you trying?

[byday]

[It doesn't take him too long to find a deck, and he'll take a seat, setting up his deck patiently.]

I have to admit, its been a while since I've played.

[matchbreaker]

[ To be fair, she is a vampire, sneaking is sort of their thing.

... But no, not sneaking, just regular old nosy ]

You got messed up by something, I thought I'd see what it was.

[ . . . And it's - ] A little tacky?

[elepe]

[...is he--]

You're certain? [...it gets the smallest hint of a smug smile.] I don't mind if it's simply a demonstration, and not a thinly veiled attempt at overachieving.

[sportadork]

You blacked out and punched a mirror. [WHAT PART ABOUT THAT IS HE SUPPOSED TO NOT WORRY ABOUT???

he sighs.] I want to help, Bruce, even if it's just a little bit. Please, let me.

[elepe]

[Lusamine smiles.]

I'm truly thankful that you are looking out for her like that...she never was one for open water before. This must be an interesting new experience for her.

[Lilligant pipes up in agreement and it causes Lusamine to smile wider. In any case, she's gonna be jumping right on into the deep end--she certainly has no problems with swimming despite that stupid amount of hair, at least.

...It takes a little bit, but Lusamine surfaces nearby after a little bit of time.]

Ah...perhaps this place has become the slightest bit more tolerable.

[elepe]

[...]

You're going to wind up falling on the floor if you do that.

[She's laughing a bit? She's definitely laughing a bit.]

I don't suppose you need assistance in getting everything in order...?

[oyashiromama]

[Grumble grumble UGH

(Hanyuu, just because you always walk so loudly-)]

Wh- what do you need help with, Elda?

[oyashiromama]

...I know. [Her voice shakes a little.] I-it's...it's cruel. Life, and...the end of life...and I'm sorry, that you have to experience this.

[oyashiromama]

Do you have someone like that?

[she takes no prisoners this week]

[oyashiromama]

...That's true.

[She...ah... She's equally unsettled.]

If...if you could watch over the ones you love, it'd be easier.

[oyashiromama]

That's fine. I'm not exactly practiced myself. [she hasn't really played a lot-] But how it will start is the one with the lower one-card stack will go first. Do you follow?

[foundfate]

[Watanuki wasn't sure that this was something he could make Varric feel better about. Grief and moving on, that was something very personal, and everyone handled it differently.

He wanted to try, though. Even if it meant risking failure.]

I just don't want to see you do something you regret, only to not even get the reward you were hoping for in the first place. I've seen that happen before. A lot.

[He paused there for a moment.]

Would you...want to see her again? Even if it meant that she was still dead, and that it was just a chance to say goodbye.

[That, at least, can be done.]

[firstaid]

That is true, however, even communication from the dead to the living sounds too far fetched... I mean, I want to believe it...

[firstaid]

It could be. It's about an elegant woman in a town who enjoys reading and her father is a scientist. However, while he's on to a fair to show off his invention, he gets lost and finds a manor belonging to a monster. I've just gotten to the part where the daughter has gone to the manor to find her father.

[deofoled]

...I'm glad I didn't break through it a few weeks ago.

Want something for your hand? [ Kind of a rhetorical question as he offers Bruce a paper towel.]