trusthell | WEEK 4.

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!

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Three of 'em.

[ Still shaking the thing, as if testing how much force will snap it's rag doll neck ]

[Okay he's taking it back thank you.]

Then go shake your own! These dolls ain't yours to break, old lady, find something else to be mad at.

That wasn't going to break it!

[ Huff! ] What, are you attached to raggedy Mei there?

Yeah, I am, and-- did you just call her Mei? The hell's that from?

[Like, it's familiar, but it's not connecting.]

It's not her though.

[ Just ignoring the Mei thing....... ]

Shut the hell up.

[... It's not as snappy as it should be, maybe, but he's busying himself with flipping over the interview anyway. He knows, but it's still a nice reminder.]

Thinkin' of makin' her a shrine to put offerings and all. The doll'll be her picture's stand-in.

She's not a god.

[ . . . Oh, oh- ]

Oh wait, you mean those Japanese ones for dead people, right?

[ That... sounds a little nice, actually, but this kid did just snap at her ]

Yeah. It's just too bad we don't have any incense to burn for her.

[... And he doesn't know her favorite food, but he can fiddle with that.]

Given how random all the stuff in the vending machine is, you'd think someone got some spit out.

[ She pauses a moment, and then looks at the doll again. She considers picking it up from him, but thinks better of it, closing her hand before... ]

Which is better, that doll or a drawing?

Drawing, hands down. But I can't draw worth a damn.

[So he won't mar her memory with it.]

[ . . .

ELDA LEAVES.

She returns less than a minute later with pen and paper and makes to sit next to Gold, starting off on sketching something ]

[She can sit all she pleases, he's curiously gonna watch her.]

[ Unlike her family, Chiyuki isn't as burned into her memory for every detail. She might put the streak in slightly the wrong spot. She might not get the eyes right, and she erases them a little too. Elda hums.

... However, it's clear as she sketches that Elda is an excellent artist. ]

[... Wow.]

Are you good 'cause you've had time, or because you like drawin'?

It's something I did often in my youth! [ ... ] Since then, it's mostly time though. I've drawn more in the last few days than I have in years back home. These days, we had one of those new-fangled camera you can own at your house, so there didn't seem to be much point.

[ Or at least, so she tells herself.

... These bangs are all wrong, ugh. She erases them ]

I think you oughta still do it, you're good! Maybe you can sell 'em off or something like that. Do vampires care about stuff like that?

Oh you still need money to get buy, of course, but without food expenses it's not like we need a lot. The savings my James and I built up have the manor as fairly self-sufficient.

[ Little does she knows of Karin's personal money woes... ]

There's nothin' wrong with more money, of course, maybe your grandkids could use 'em.

[... Actually--]

What happens when a human and a vampire get together?

[ She actually stops drawing at that, just for a moment. She... no, she just goes back to trying to make the eyes look right. ]

To begin with, they shouldn't. Nothing good can ever come from it - but if they did, it would be a dead end.

They can't have kids together?

They can.

[ ... ]

They shouldn't, but they can. It's the half-breeds who end up infertile to both species.

[... That is so weird from a Pokéworld perspective, because there's nothing that can't breed with a Ditto. Legendaries just don't do it too often/they do something else to lead on their legacy or whatever.]

Seriously? That's unfair, what the hell, you can't help who you fall for.

Sure, if it's just some flight of fancy. But that's one of several reasons why a romance between a vampire and a human is always going to end in tragedy. It's just a life lesson that [ Karin ] Any young one needs to learn.

[ It's impossible!!!

Gosh!!

... Okay finally back to trying to fix these bangs ]

[That's--

still not fair, and he scowls as he watches her.

... Lets it be for a little while, then pipes up again.]

What if your James had been a human, and you couldn't see yourself with anyone else?

[ She hadn't quite been expecting that, and that question makes her pencil veer a little. She ends up drawing a line through the mostly finished Chiyuki's lips. She'll have to erase that soon, but she grips her pencil all the harder. That's-

... She wouldn't have met James, then, that's the obvious answer. But more to the point, ]

...Then I'd have to grow up. [ She forces the words out like vomit. The idea of denying James Edwards-Marker from being a part of her life at this point, even in an insane hypothetical ] A couple who could only make their children suffer isn't worth much.

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