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!]

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[ravagers]

[ Vanille feels... sick. Sicker than sick, even. She'd just given her a plush chocobo to cheer her up, and now... she's gone.

She goes to the kitchen to try and distract herself, and for a little while it works. But halfway through her fifth batch of cookies, she ends up falling to her knees, sobbing.

Once she's done crying her eyes out, she goes to the pool. She changes into a swimsuit--nothing too fancy, but it's pink, of course--and hops into the water. For a while, she floats on her back, staring up at the ceiling. Mostly, she's just thinking. About how messed up all this is, how she's had to face all of this without her friends from back in her world, how Alani would have loved to have a swim in the pool.

... So after a while, she ends up flipping over and starts swimming laps pretty intensely.

Once she's tuckered herself out, Vanille showers and changes into her uniform. She's about to head back to her and Varric's room, but she stops by the profiles. There's almost a hardened look to her, and she lets out a quiet sigh. ]

I get the "disliking Fal'Cie" thing now, I guess...

[ Orphan was a jerk. ]

kitchen

[matchbreaker]

[ Elda was jut walking to the mail room in peace, sort of hobbling a bit on her not-injured leg. ... And then she heard sobbing. And then she sees a girl on the floor of the kitchens. and then she smells a lot of cookies.

...

...

Wow, this is so not her bag.

That said, she did just get some stuff from the vending machine and she can't actually eat any of the food? So she'll just come into the kitchen and throw (underhand, at least...?) the chocolate jerky at Vanille's head. Clearly that'll help??? ]

[ravagers]

[ ???

what's happening

She looks up when the jerky falls at her knees, and she wipes her eyes. ]

O-oh, hi, Elda...

[matchbreaker]

Eat that.

[ CLEARLY.

SO HELPFUL. ]

[ravagers]

Erm-- alright.

[ She unwraps it and takes a bite out of it. ]

It's pretty good.

kitchen

[sportadork]

[it's. been a rough day. rough to the point where he sees a person weeping on the kitchen floor and only thinks "this is absolutely reasonable."

he crouches down next to her, and says softly:] Vanille?

[ravagers]

[ She swipes at her eyes, and-- ]

Sportacus...? [ Friend... ] S-sorry you had to see me like this.

[sportadork]

There's nothing to be sorry about! If only everybody here was as open about their feelings... [... well this is not the time for him to bitch there are more important things.]

Do you want to talk about it? It might help-- maybe a little bit more than stress baking did.

[ravagers]

[ If there's one thing she's learned from her time here, and from those dreams... it's that reaching out to people is better than pushing them away. ]

I-I'd like to talk about it... yeah.

profiles;

[alchemicals]

[You know, Kimbley isn't altogether sure what to do with anything that's been happening here for the past several days, but at the same time Vanille had come to try talking to him after he'd kind of had A Day, so the least he can do is...

...

...Well, not exactly return the favor, but at least he'll notice her and try not to be a total goddamn disaster in her direction, and we'll all have to call that good enough for government work.]

We tend to end up here after the weekends are over, don't we.

[ravagers]

[ She's had a lot to think about over the weekend, and when she sees him she gives him a nod. Their last conversation is still on her mind, and at least things aren't as tense. ]

Yeah... I guess it's just that I'm pretty curious to see how right my profile actually is.

[ ... ]

I remember killing a god.

[ how's that for a bomb to drop ]

[alchemicals]

[...what do you even. say to that.]

...Congratulations, I guess.

[probably not that?? probably not that.]

[ravagers]

[ sorry man ]

I just... guess I get what you were talking about, when you said religion wasn't taken well back in your home. [ She shakes her head. ] He was a real jerk.

profiles

[oyashiromama]

[Well, it's not yesterday but that doesn't necessarily make this day better. Especially after this morning... Hanyuu, however, in...most of her miko outfit, just without the sleeves today, is at least out, and eating, and trying not to waste away.

It's on a trip from the kitchen that she comes across Vanille looking at the profiles, with that comment--]

...Your dreams...are enlightening? [She still sounds like she's been run over by a truck.]

[ravagers]

[ Oh, Hanyuu... Vanille reaches out to touch her hand gently. ]

Yeah... real enlightening. Lots of stuff makes sense now.

[oyashiromama]

[Everything is awful Vanille.]

...Mine too. [From Vanille's interests...yeah, that doesn't sound like she's had a good weekend either.] I'm sorry.

[ravagers]

It's okay.

[ She brings her in for a hug. ]

D'you... want to talk about anything?

pool

[firstaid]

[Estelle decides the pool is a good place to just... relax and maybe get away in a place other than the library or her room. Dressed in a simple light blue one piece, she jumps in and mainly just... floats there. It seems she's definitely not the only one with that idea.]

It feels really nice in here, doesn't it, Vanille?

[ravagers]

[ Oh, Estelle! Vanille turns over onto her stomach and swims on over. ]

Mm-hmm. It's real relaxing. I didn't think we'd get one!

[firstaid]

Well, it's really nice that we did.

[She smiles as she sees Vanille swimming over as she continues to float on her back.]

It feels like all our fears and worries are just floating away.

[ravagers]

Yeah, I think so too.

[ She treads water, and Estelle's absolutely right. Being able to do something that's not just milling around is nice. ]

Have you done much swimming, back home?

profiles

[quadruples]

[ Viktor is on his way to the kitchen when he heads into the foyer just in time to overhear Vanille. ]

...Mmm? What's a Fal'Cie?

[ravagers]

[ strap yourself in viktor cause you're in for a RIDE ]

They're the gods, back on Cocoon and Gran Pulse.

[quadruples]

...Are they gods of annihilation?

[ he's reminded of his conversation with gangrel the other day... ]

[ravagers]

Well... some of them are. Some of them aren't bad--they help out a lot of people. But those who are bad... they're really bad.