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!

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

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...Yes, you could put it that way.

[like what the fuck]

So you're writing down your thoughts, or...?

Something like that.

[There's not a lot of writing getting done, admittedly, but there's some.]

You holding up all right?

Well, I'm alive and there's no way I would ever act on the Wordsmith's latest incentive, if that counts.

[...nope]

[He's quiet for a moment at that, before just...]

...Come here and sit down for a while, then. It's not good to be alone, right?

[...he tried.]

[Bless him, he really did.]

...Right. [So, she sits, across from him, not next to. It'd be rude, to be in a position to read his notes, after all.]

You seem...less bad. ["Better" is a charged word in here.]

...Sunday was worse. The weekend was shit and my dreams didn't help.

[He's still angry with Kira, and he's got some weird misplaced anger toward Chiyuki, but he's dealing with it.]

But today is less bad, yeah.

I...can relate with that. It's more of a relief to be angry again.

[Everything's a little awful in dreamland.]

It's good to hear things are marginally better, at least.

The incentive's really not sitting well with you, I take it.

[...Because speaking of anger, you seem a little. Annoyed.]

[H A]

Among...other things. I want to urge everyone not to be tempted but...I know better than to think all will turn away from it. Repeating a sequence of events- it's not as easy as some would think.

I'm not expecting it to be easy.

[And that's out there before he really thinks about it, before he can stop himself; it's debatable whether he would have stopped if he could.

Well, he's sort of committed now, isn't he.]

Even if this were to be something I went after - there's not going to be anything "easy" about it and I know it.

[...Ah. She doesn't seem mad at him, or cross. The frustration's still there, but that's just a holdover. Rather, she says evenly:]

You'd have a single chance to fix whatever it is that would be wrong. Do you think you could accomplish it?

[Does he?]

Yeah, I do.

[At that, she's...well, she's quiet for a long moment, considering, lips pressed together and finger lightly tapping on the table.]

Hm. Well, then, I would wish you good luck but we are talking about a hypothetical that I pray doesn't come to pass.

[God, he can tell she's sort of agitated at this, but - ]

It's not like it's some lofty goal like saving the world. It's...a lot more personal than that.

I wasn't expecting it to be. [That's neutral. Not judgmental.] Most reasons one would want to try something again...they tend to be personal.

I know mine is.

...So what's yours, then?

[It's blunt, but it's impersonal - not like he's trying to be a dick to her, just wondering.]

[It's actually kind of...nice to be asked about it like that? Huh.]

I want to save my descendant, who keeps dying. ...It's in some ways selfless, but not entirely. If she dies for good, then I've lost the only person I've been able to talk with in a thousand years. ...Before here, at least.

But you're not going to try for it this week.

[She shakes her head.]

I've...already a way to try again, in some sense. And I know, through that, that having just one attempt would end in failure. What the Wordsmith offers... It's nothing foolproof.

Yeah. Yeah, I know it's not.

[...]

Mine isn't to save anyone, either. I guess it would have that effect, if I do what I want. But...

[He shakes his head.]

I've got someone I need to kill back home. I don't care about what happens after that, he just needs to die.

And if you had a...second chance, you believe you could kill him easier. Is that it?

If I had a second chance, knowing what I do now, I would kill him from the start. He's no match for me and we both know it.

What did he do? ...If you don't mind my asking.

...Let's say that he reminds of me of Kira in a lot of ways.

[He doesn't seem too inclined to elaborate beyond that, but you can imagine, surely.]

...I feel like I understand.

[yeah fuck that guy to be honest]

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