WEEK 6.

[trustwellness]

WEEK 6 With the deaths of Viktor Nikiforov, Varric Tethras, and Killia, you're down to half of your original number. There's only fifteen of you left. How much longer before your number drops again? 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... Of course, that doesn't mean that you've gained nothing else among the many, many losses you've faced; it seems that another floor has been made available to you for surviving another week. Congratulations and well done, even if you might not necessarily appreciate the reward. APPRENTICES REMAINING: 15

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[OOC: Welcome to week six 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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[feistytrader]

[...The difference between being awake and in a dream? That's...]

You can't tell until you wake up, right?

[Sometimes you can tell, sometimes you can't. Especially with these weird memory dreams.]

[foundfate]

But how do you know when you woke up? Or how do you know when you've fallen asleep again?

[feistytrader]

[...Well, his answer to that is simple enough; he lifts up Weavile and holds him out as if that explains everything. But there's something more to it, right?]

Are you having trouble with your dreams?

[It's an admittedly open ended question, but he figures that Watanuki dreamed about something pretty bad, and if he answers with that, that's okay too.]

[foundfate]

[Yeah, that is completely a non-answer, and it just makes Watanuki frown. But instead of getting pissy about it, he'll explain.]

I know I'm awake right now, I can tell that everything in this school has been real. ...I'm pretty sure, at least.

[There is no way he could have imagined up 29 other people like that, plus weird shit like pokemon and dwarves.]

But some of my memories from home are real, and some of them are dreams. And my memory is so patchy that I can't tell which ones are which.

Well, I mean, I can guess at some of them being real- the stuff involving my eye has to be, or else it wouldn't be brown right now. But other stuff, it's hard to tell.

[feistytrader]

[...That's pretty damn heavy, and he stops and sits down on the floor, idly petting Weavile in his lap as he considers how to answer it. With his memories, there was never a question of whether or not they were real. He has his Pokédex with entries of Pokémon he's only met in those memories. He had Gold remembering the same things. But there's the possibility that it could all be some elaborate illusion set up by an Alakazam too, and he wouldn't know the difference.]

I'm a simple person. I don't think about things like that very much. No matter how much evidence there is pointing to everything being real, there's a chance that it isn't. For all I know, that shadow thing made all of this up, and we're all asleep right now.

[It's a possibility, and he's not sure how he feels about it.]

It might be better if this is all a dream. Half of us wouldn't really be dead. Most of my memories have been terrible. But if you ask me, it doesn't matter if any of it is real. Real or not, your memories affect you. They shape who you are, how you feel, and what you do.

I've decided what I want to do here. I've decided that I care about you and a lot of others in here, and I want as many of us to get out as possible. And maybe once we're all out of here, we'll go home, pick up our lives and try to move on, and this will all seem like some distant dream or nightmare anyway. But we've experienced it, and it's impacted us. That's what makes it real to me.

[...Or that's what he thinks, anyway. He plays with Weavile's hands a little; Weavile looks up at him reassuringly, then looks at Watanuki with a good deal of concern.]

[foundfate]

[Oh, they're sitting now? Okay, sitting can be a thing. It takes Watanuki a moment to get to the floor, though, as he's still holding the bowl of rice. Which he is still eating, by the way, because this talk isn't as heavy to him as it is to Silver. He remembers being upset over it already, so being upset a second time won't help.]

'If you wish hard enough, you can make anything real.' That's what Yuuko told me, when I asked her if anything I had lived was real. So...I guess if you wish hard enough, then your dreams can be real too. It doesn't just have to be a memory to be 'real'.

[He pauses for a moment.]

What is your wish, by the way? To just go home, pick up your life, and try to move on?

[feistytrader]

That sounds more like a plan than a wish. Either way, I don't have an answer.

[Focusing on being in here is the best he can do right now.]

[foundfate]

Really? Nothing at all?

[He sounds very surprised to hear that.]

[feistytrader]

...I mean, I want Gold bad, and for my world to be okay, and... A lot of other stuff.

But I can't do anything about any of that right now. I don't know what I'm going back home to, or if I am. I'll figure it out later. Thinking about anything but being in here is just gonna get in the way.

[...Well, that was happy.]

What about you? Do you have a wish?

[foundfate]

I did, but the longer I'm here the more I felt like it was the wrong wish. Now I'm stuck wishing that I could undo the wish I made.

[Clear as mud, right?]

[feistytrader]

...I guess there's a reason why people say be careful what you wish for.

Can you undo the wish you made?

[foundfate]

Yuuko said that if I wish hard enough, then my dreams can become real. So I guess wishing to undo a wish would count as wishing, if I do it hard enough.