Week 3.

[trustharder]

WEEK 3 Another week has passed; two more Survivors are gone. Pearl and Caren both had someone to fight for, someone worth killing for; perhaps it's for the best to hope that somehow they've found peace despite not being able to collect on the Kingmaker's incentive. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; there aren't any bodies to be found on Sunday morning. That doesn't mean the night passed easily, though - it seems another piece of your personal puzzle may have fallen into place while you slept... Following that spiral staircase up to the second floor will reveal something strange; those stairs definitely lead far higher than you remember, up to a previously inaccessible third floor. Go ahead and explore as much as you like; consider it your reward for a job well done. SURVIVORS REMAINING: 23

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[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!]

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INCENTIVE.

[kingmakereffect]

[Just like last week, slightly after noon the Kingmaker's voice can be heard throughout the Vault.]

I have another announcement for all of you. You have ten minutes to gather in the dining room.

[...And just like last week, that's mostly a formality, because he can still be heard throughout the Vault even if you didn't show up. So the announcement is impossible to miss, even if you're still in your room or just feeling rebellious and stayed where you were.

Either way, he seems pretty invested in what he has to say today.]

The Vault is full of opportunities. You're completely provided for, and no one has to go without if they ask for what they need. Unfortunately, all opportunities come with a price.

The price I'm asking for is blood. Specifically, from one of you.

You're probably going to say that I'm forcing you to kill someone. I'm not. If you don't pick someone to pay the price yourselves within the next four days, someone will be selected by me. That person will die, and you all can go back to living your lives.

It'll be completely randomized, so it's not as though I'll play favorites. Maybe it'll be you or someone you care about. Maybe it won't. If it's you, though, you probably won't like how you go out.

Or you guys can pick someone. It'd be a great chance to try to complete Rule Seven. Somebody's going to die anyway, right?

You have four days to make your choice. For now, you're free to return to your activities.

[As before, any attempts to question the Kingmaker will be met with silence; looks like he's done for today.]

Re: INCENTIVE.

[sleepingkogoro]

[The Kingmaker won't reply but that won't stop Mouri from talking at wherever the voice came from]

Not disguising your intentions anymore, eh? This is practically admitting all you want is to see everyone in here die.

Not that anyone believed you had any other plans, of course.

[That is not even an incentive, nobody will fall for it, right?]

[ignorantly]

[ ... ]

What the hell?

[isafraid]

That about hits the nail on the head...

[honestly]

[neverafters]

T-The Kingmaker can't fight everyone at once right...? What if everyone stays together for that day as protection... can they catch him?

[cherryblooded]

Better than the alternative, but...

[The way people disappear at trials without a struggle and reappear in the pit doesn't bode very well for that plan.]

[sleepingkogoro]

At some point we'd have to sleep, and all of us won't fit in one single bedroom. We could divide in smaller groups, though.

[bloodisthicker]

I think that's a good idea for a last resort, but there has to be some kind of alternative, given that he may send... the thing in the pit after us, whatever that is.

[amygdalae]

[...honestly, can that even be called an incentive? It's literally putting them between a rock and a hard place... as if things weren't hard enough as it is.

There is a hard lump at the back of his throat. Either way, somebody is going to die. And if somebody must die...

Well. It's clear enough on what has to be done, isn't it?]

[prismbloom]

[ ... ]

Bruce?

[ratingspoint]

[...]

Well. It's not like our individual chances are that bad? One out of twenty-three, if we leave it alone.

[...couldn't you get anything else out of that you raging narcissist]

[captainobnoxious]

Yeah, but what if it's someone important? Like me. Or the doctor. Then there'd be people without medical stuff and you'd all be without me.

[A real terror. A shame. Truly, the worst.]

[bloodisthicker]

[...holy shit.

Are you fucking kidding him???]

And I'm sure we can't arrange for it to be the utter waste of flesh trying to force us to make this choice, can it.

[happysweets]

That would be the easy option...

[ Unforgivable. If he can't make them kill each other, he'll kill one of them himself for no reason...

Waste of flesh is an understatement. ]

But, um...we can't actually pick someone, can we? There's no way that'd be right...

[penduli]

[ ... ]

If it's just blood, do you think he'd accept the thing we did in the first trial as a suitable offering? It would technically be following his incentive.

[ BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD or whatever. ]

[captainobnoxious]

I was thinking that. We could just collect a bucket of blood.

[...]

You know, Mettaton's pretty much exempt from this one, isn't he? Since he has no blood.

[captainobnoxious]

Alright, so, show of hands. Give me a fist if you want to start a face off to weed out the weak, a thumbs up if you're willing to sacrifice yourself for the good of all, or your pinky if you'd rather not do either of those things.

[...]

King, you can just say which option you'd like.

[sleepingkogoro]

You can't be serious about having a face off.

[He does expect somebody to go and offer to sacrifice for the good of all, though. He won't approve it at all, so his plan is to check who does indicate that and convince them in private to not to do it]

[garudynamic]

[There's something weirdly familiar about the idea of a grand prix mass melee, but he can't say what. Still, the idea feels him with dread... ]

What? No way, we can't fight it out!

[Even though the little voice in the back of his head assures him he'd be at least middling ground and be safe if they did]

[penduli]

[ PI.....NKY.....

he would probably die in a face off, and he's not sacrificing himself for u chucklefucks ]

[happysweets]

[ a...pinky from misa-misa...... ]

Misa-Misa d-doesn't have any better ideas right now, but, we can't sacrifice someone...and I obviously can't fight anyone...

[ seriously she's 5'0 and 79 pounds she'll be eaten alive ]

[isafraid]

[PIN... KY....?]

I'd... I'd rather have it so no one hurts anyone at all!

[He already inadvertently volunteered to be eaten, he's not going through this too!]

[goodforsomething]

[Stan hesitates, then offers a pinky.]

He never said whoever killed 'em wasn't gonna get executed themselves afterwards.

[notjustawriter]

[Pinky???]

The killer is just going to be killed after the fact.

[psychoh]

[AGGRESSIVELY RAISES PINKY]

Why would anyone...