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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[foundfate]

[You never know it could be POISONED!

Ok it's not, it's just regular rice. But when it's eventually ignored, Watanuki starts to get irritated. Irritated enough to speak up.]

You're supposed to eat it.

[trustwellness]

[Jeez, maybe you were planning on wanting this back or something, how should it know.

Anyway, for a while it seems perfectly content to ignore Watanuki and everything he says - it doesn't seem to be responding at all, it's just continuing its usual pattern of flowing down the wall and generally being a black waterfall of vaguely disgusting-looking shadowy crap. After a few moments, though, it'll creep back in the direction of the rice again, and eventually it will eat it, so at least there's that.

...I mean, it also takes the bowl and the fork with it. But it did very much eat the rice, it did do that.]

[foundfate]

[That's okay, there's more of those in the kitchen.

But hey, at least he got an answer of if that thing eats or not. Now he can go on with phase 2 of his plan.

Now he sets out two pieces of paper, one with 'YES' written on it, and one with 'NO' written on it. Both papers are set on the ground, right about where the bowl of rice had been.]

This one- [he points to 'YES'.] -means yes, and this one- [he points to 'NO.'] means no. You don't have to eat these, just touching one, or even getting close to one, is enough for me to tell what you mean.

Can you understand me?

[Might as well do a baseline question first, to see if it'll work.]

[trustwellness]

[Thankfully, it doesn't move to eat either sheet - and it doesn't drift over to "NO", either, because that would be either an accident or make it just, like, an impressive smartass.

But eventually there will be a reply, though not without a good several seconds of it ignoring the hell out of you again, Watanuki.

YES.]

[foundfate]

[Patience is a virtue he is struggling to remember. This would be so much easier if he already had certain memories back.

But hey, an answer! So he just takes in a breath, holds it for a second, and then asks his next question.]

The people who died- not the ones we saw you take, but Adelina, Christo, and Chiyuki- are they with you?

[trustwellness]

[It...pauses briefly, then, the amount of flowing around it's doing seeming to still a little before it responds.

YES.]

[foundfate]

[Huh. That's an interesting response. It's too bad Watanuki can't ask for more details, he's curious as to why the flowing slowed.]

Can we talk with them?

[His thought being, even if they can't see the dead, there must be a way to communicate with them.]

[trustwellness]

[NO.]

[foundfate]

What if I gave you a message written on a piece of paper? Could you give it to them?

[trustwellness]

[That gets neither yes nor no; just kind of more flowing down the wall and avoiding either.]

[foundfate]

[Rude. He'll just have to try the letter later anyway.]

Do you need to eat to stay alive?

[This question might seem out of left field, but Watanuki previously thought that the shadow was eating bodies, so.]

[trustwellness]

[NO.]

[foundfate]

So when you, er, 'absorb' people, you're not eating them?

[trustwellness]

[Neither yes nor no; that's apparently another kind of weird nebulous question.]

[foundfate]

[Watanuki is beginning to wonder if the shadow isn't answering some of his questions because it doesn't want to, or because the answer is more complicated than 'yes' or 'no.' He'll have to test this later, when he has much more patience and 26 pieces of paper.]

...

Can I touch you? Without dying or getting absorbed by you or anything, I mean.

[He might as well figure out how solid this shadow is, while he's here.]

[trustwellness]

[NO.]

[foundfate]

[There goes that idea.]

Is it because I'll die if I touch you?

[trustwellness]

[NO.]

[foundfate]

You...just don't want to be touched?

[trustwellness]

[YES.

(because i mean dude you would probably be a little wigged out if someone randomly came up to you and wanted to touch your face or something.)]

[foundfate]

[Whaaat, the shadow thing hasn't ever heard of a handshake?]

Alright, I'll keep my distance. So you don't get uncomfortable.

But instead, what if we became friends?

[Diplomacy check: befriend the darkness]

[trustwellness]

[NO.]