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

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[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

[oyashiromama]

...Only three of you could escape.

[nani the fuck zero escape]

[plentyfriendly]

If that. I imagine there might be less if the three left alive were on different teams and couldn't coordinate because Gab wasn't around.

[He's a good dog.]

Oh, I forgot to mention him - he's an old dog we have at Dcom. Since he's small, he could fit through the ductwork connecting the wards.

[oyashiromama]

You used a dog to...communicate, during that first experiment?

[SHE FOLLOWS, SHE JUST HAS TO CLARIFY.]

Could he speak...?

[plentyfriendly]

No...

[Phi's guess is that gods can understand dogs.]

He was with us during Dcom, but he got taken to the bomb shelter, too. He was an aid dog for the ninth person there, who was a helpless old man - his collar has a case for heart medication in it that the other teams have slipped notes into.

[The note got to D-team last, and with not enough time to get it back to C-team.]

[oyashiromama]

[No, she just has accepted that all things can be real and why the heck not a talking dog.]

O-oh. Oh, that makes much more sense. Why, then...couldn't you use him there?

[plentyfriendly]

We did, but there's only one of him. He's old, so it takes him a while to get places.

[oyashiromama]

O-oh. He didn't...travel like you did, aah, I understand.

[plentyfriendly]

The other rule of the Decision Game is that the players are only ever awake for 90 minutes at a time, thanks to another bit of special equipment we had.

[oyashiromama]

Wh-what...?! How... What did that accomplish?!

[plentyfriendly]

It could be to throw off Sigma and I's power, but there's no way to tell.

[It's sure confusing her now, at any rate.]

[oyashiromama]

...You're in...such a horrible situation... [...She places a hand on Phi's shoulder.] I pray...that you remember something more fortuitous.

[plentyfriendly]

[She'll take it.]

...Thank you.

[oyashiromama]

Thank you for telling me all of this, as well. I hope... I pray talking about it lifted some of the burden from your shoulders.

[plentyfriendly]

Some, but not completely. I'm going to figure out why that happened. I can, and I will - but I don't necessarily have to do it alone.

[I mean, she already isn't, technically.]

[oyashiromama]

Of course. Though we may share our burdens, we will always carry them with us. [...nice, hanyuu] I have no doubt that you will discover the answers you so hope for, though.

[plentyfriendly]

[She nods. That's what she's all about - nothing is unknowable with enough effort or insight.]

Both there and here. We'll understand this mess and get out of it.

[oyashiromama]

[...Okay, Hanyuu has less hope for that second one, but-]

Yes. Of course.