WEEK 2.

[trustharder]

WEEK 2 Two people are gone from the group. Zagi and Kamui are dead, twenty-five of you are still alive, and the first week in the Vault comes to a close. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; on Sunday morning, those klaxons are as annoying as ever but at the very least there aren't any bodies to be found. It can be assumed, perhaps, that 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... However, those weird dreams aren't the only new thing around here; one of the previously closed-off section near the vending machine has opened up, revealing a spiral staircase leading up to the next floor. Go ahead and explore as much as you like; consider it your reward for a job well done. SURVIVORS REMAINING: 25

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY
[OOC: Welcome to week two of Trustfell! Save your threads for coins and the coming week's activity check; don't forget to check in to this week's activity check and submit your memory regains!

The text and calling posts are still active, for the sake of contacting the jerk who's keeping you here, to be used at your leisure!]

Comments

[captainobnoxious]

Between you and me, Cherry, I'm actually kind of wondering if there's something more beneath that sweet smile of yours.

[Since she's kind of the same way herself, she knows. Pretty carefree and goofy. And that pisses certain people off to an almost hilarious degree.]

[cherryblooded]

Really? What exactly do you mean by that?

[Do their names start with 'C' and end with 'aren'?]

[captainobnoxious]

Call it a captain's intuition. You don't get to be as high as I am without knowing a few tricks here and there, especially in how to face people.

[If it ever comes to blows again, Sigrun has a pocketful of salt from her robro to toss at her instead.]

Not that it's a bad thing, old timer, your manners must've earned you the friendship of pretty much everyone here. [... as has her lack of manners??] And it's not like you're hiding any bad intentions as far as I can tell, all honesty and good will, but I'm just curious about you, that's all. With your vigilante wife, long life, and civil war.

[cherryblooded]

[He chuckles, seeming genuinely amused by the way this conversation is going.]

Well, it's true that I haven't been sitting around drinking tea for five hundred years. But I wouldn't know where to start, if I was going to start telling stories.

[captainobnoxious]

[This is what you get for talking to Sigrun about a lobster wife who'd be more than welcome into her friend's circle, honestly.]

Alright, I'll give you a place to start. How'd you and your crime-fighting wife meet?

[cherryblooded]

I was being a young hooligan at the time, and she told me to get out and - how'd it go - 'dump myself into a trash can'.

Then I picked a fight with her and she beat me up.

[captainobnoxious]

[THE GREATEST LOVE STORY SHE HAS EVER HEARD!!!]

Did you fall in love right then? Or did she have to kick your ass a little more before?

[cherryblooded]

[Still better than Twilight.]

There was a little more ass-kicking involved.

[captainobnoxious]

[Honestly, if a man wants to impress Sigrun into marriage, he's gonna have to best her in a troll hunting spree. That's how it's gonna go. No acceptance otherwise. And she probably won't think about it otherwise anyway since she's duty and glory first.]

That's romance right there. Did you shape up for her? How long did it take for her to like you back?

[cherryblooded]

[He'd like to see that courtship.]

She's definitely the reason I reformed. If it weren't for her, I'd probably still be living that kind of life. And... hm, I'd say a few decades, at least? You'd have to ask her exactly when.

[captainobnoxious]

[A few decades must not be anything to them, being so obviously long lived, but she still gives a whistle.]

I certainly will. Man, that's cool. What was the war about?

[cherryblooded]

Succession. Our previous king had twin daughters - he appointed one to be the next ruler, before he fell into a sleep we're fairly sure he won't wake up from.

The other princess didn't take it very well.

[captainobnoxious]

Yikes. We don't really have that issue, since we can't afford to fight among ourselves anyway, but I can't deny that there's tension between the people who think the old world's a load of crap and we shouldn't bother with exploring it outside of our own countries and the people who, like me, want to see what else is out there.

[It's like an itch on her brain, where exactly she'd been heading out on her volunteered mission, but nothing's coming to mind.]

So, what happened in the end?

[cherryblooded]

People took sides. The other side made a bargain they really shouldn't have, in order to gain power. Our side barely managed to prevail in the end because the Great Sorcerer sealed our enemies away, at the expense of his own life.

That's the short version.

[captainobnoxious]

And that's still a mouthful. Did both of you fight in the war?

[cherryblooded]

We did. Doloz can't resist getting involved in something when it upsets her morals, and I can't let my honey fight alone.

[captainobnoxious]

You're such a cool old person.

[Yup. What else...]

Were there people you knew that you had to fight against too? What was that like?

[cherryblooded]

Painful.

[...seems like he doesn't have much else to say about that.]

[captainobnoxious]

[...]

So is your daughter a new addition?

[cherryblooded]

[Yep let's talk about anything else.]

She's turning a hundred and eighty this year, so she'd be about Mettaton's age, comparatively speaking.

[captainobnoxious]

I still think it's weird that a machine has an age. Do you think that means he has a birthday too? Was he a babybot at one point, or was he always as leggy as he is now since the day he was... born?

[don't worry shrimpy friend she knows her way around a convo]

[cherryblooded]

He had to have started existing at some point - you'd call that a birthday, even in robots. And he did say he had a different form before this one, didn't he?

[Boxes can look young. Although he doesn't know he was a box yet.]

[captainobnoxious]

[Is that what those box things were..... His baby portraits?? That's so bizarre.]

Yeaaaah, there's a couple things that make sense now. Like his weird paintings in his room. The boxy ones. Talk about a huge change.

[cherryblooded]

[...That's actually adorable though, now that Cherryblod realizes that's what they are, and he will definitely tease him about it later.]

I think he's charming in any body.

[captainobnoxious]

[Please do. Tease the hell out of him.]

I probably would've pushed him over the first day if he was his other form. [Sigrun, the bully.] But... Yeah, I guess he is... kind of cute in that weird way. Even if he was in his other body.

[... At least, he acts cute? Sometimes? It's weird.]