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

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[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

[plentyfriendly]

["What kind of nonsense are you trying to pull."

It's too easy to imagine the Wordsmith saying that. Far too easy. But it's far from the only thing about it that weighs on Phi. All of it was accurate. There was no way she could have foreseen that...

"I'm the only one who should stay."
"Then..."

"Kill me. Kill me, and burn the remains."

Phi is visibly more down than she has been in the past few weeks as she gets a few things from the vending machine.

...None of those people had to die.

Of the rooms on the fourth floor, Phi has the most interest in the infirmary - at a glance it most likely has the most leads that might lead to getting out of here in a way that won't cause even more death.

"Six of us are... dead. Counting myself, there are only three left. They were killed. I... I guess you could say... I killed them. No... no, that's not quite right... Not just them. Not just these six... All of them. All six billion. Soon, I will have killed six billion people."

It was in a room a lot like this one she heard those words for the first time, though. As she walks out, though... she seems to have realized something, rushing back to her room, room 4, for a certain chart, then heading for the game room to make some updates.]

infirmary

[firstaid]

[While just using this time to stretch her legs and explore the fourth floor, the infirmary seems like a great place to check out. The stuff here is different and she's not really sure how some of the things work, like the surgical kits or the IVs. She's not going to mess with it though. Her specialty is healing with magic, but otherwise (even if magic is useless here).]

Do you know how some of this stuff is used? I've never seen anything like it.

[plentyfriendly]

[Estelle's voice is enough to - partially - snap Phi out of recalling all this for the third time.]

...Some of it, yeah. Dr. Ziegler would probably know more, but I'll answer what I can.

[firstaid]

[She does give Phi a bit of a worried look. Since they haven't talked as much, she doesn't feel quite right pressing on the topic. Perhaps someone who she's closer to will be able to do that.]

I'm just looking at the needles and what look like knives. Are these for surgeries?

[She's read about them, but never really seen them.]

[plentyfriendly]

Yep.

[For the scalpels in particular...]

The body is a pretty delicate thing, so you need a lot of control when you're cutting into it to remove something from it or add something like a pacemaker.

[firstaid]

A... pacemaker?

[Her eyebrows furrow at that. She's definitely not thinking about a device that aids the heart. She's literally thinking of a 'pace' in terms of traveling.]

[plentyfriendly]

A kind of machine that's designed to help people with heart disorders.

vending machine;

[tsugomori]

[ Just a regular day, hanging out over at the vending machine it seems. Well, he can't help but have his attention drawn to the other and say something at least. ]

Ah, what quite an unusual device this is. It will still take some time for me to get used to it.

Are these types of things common from where you've come?

[plentyfriendly]

[There's a pause before she speaks, as she stares at the longsword for a bit more.]

Yes.

[tsugomori]

[ ... ]

Is there something on your mind?

[plentyfriendly]

Too much.

[It's. It's a lot.]

[tsugomori]

If you want, you can start somewhere, and I can listen. Holding it all back probably isn't the best thing to do.

[plentyfriendly]

[She has to think about this.]

...Fine.

I know what happened that leads to the future that I wanted to prevent.

Game Room

[matchbreaker]

[ Well Elda had been doing an investigation in the Game Room and when she sees Phi working there...

Well, it's time to look around her body and see what's up again!! ]

[plentyfriendly]

[It's her timeline graph again! There's a new node labeled "manufacturing (NO)" attached to the Cx branch off of "execution".

For that matter the Cx label now has a giant question mark on it, too.]

[matchbreaker]

[ Oh, wait, ]

You remembered something new?

[ HOPE SHE DIDN'T SURPRISE YOU... ]

[plentyfriendly]

[HI there.]

New, horrible, and, at least in part, it doesn't make sense yet.

[matchbreaker]

Okay.

[ She hums, and then motions for them to sit opposite at the chess table ]

Why're you still working on it in here?

[plentyfriendly]

Habit, I guess.

[Although she's only done it once before. Maybe not.]

game room

[introspects]

[ Orihime was on her way to the game room to get a deck of cards. She knew someone would be in here because it's the game room, and that someone happens to be Phi. ]

Hi, Phi-san! You're hard at work!

[plentyfriendly]

You could say that. I remembered something that... well, it was pretty bad.

But it doesn't completely make sense.

[introspects]

[ Ah...so that's what this is about. ]

Do you want to talk about it?

[plentyfriendly]

If you want to hear, sure.

[introspects]

I don't mind. Go ahead, Phi-san.

[plentyfriendly]

It kind of has to do with a secret of mine, too... both last week's and one I've been holding aside from that.

[Although she's told that second one at least to someone already.]

I mentioned to a few people before now that I got wrapped up in a thing called the "Decision Game", and what I remembered was... I guess I could call it one possible ending. The worst one.