trusthell | Week 3.

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.

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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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...So am I going to hear why you were pretending to be your twin, or is that an even more secret secret?

[He'll drop it, if the subject's obviously touchy.]

It's kinda a long story.

The short version's that he's been away for a while. Not really by choice. I needed to keep access to his things to help get him back, and it's not like I was doin' much with my name anyway...so "Stanley" had a little accident. Bein' Ford was a lot more useful.

[Yeah he basically faked his death and erased his own existence, legally speaking. He doesn't seem to view this as a loss, though, so eh.]

But he's back now! I ain't gonna hold onto his identity while he's around to use it! It'd kinda defeat the purpose.

I see. That'll be difficult to explain to everyone else, I imagine.

[Faking your own death is a messy thing to undo.]

...Thank you for trusting me enough to say.

[He shrugs.]

I'm gonna have to get used to doin' it anyway, right? Feels weird, usin' my name after so long.

Imagine it would. Think it suits you better, though.

['Stanford' sounds like a nerd.]

Yeah! Stanford's only the nerdiest name in the galaxy.

[Stanford is a nerd!]

With a name like that, you know you're expected to get fifty degrees when you grow up.

Oh, he's got some of those. More than anybody really needs, if you ask me.

One or two should be enough... especially for a human with less time to waste.

You'd think that, wouldn't ya? I found like five diplomas in his house, just layin' around...

That's too many. Do something productive with your time instead.

That's what I'm sayin'!

[Stan sighs.]

He always was a brainiac.

It's good to be intelligent and educated - certainly won't argue against that - but there's moderation to everything.

Buddy, you have no idea.

[Going to endless college one day, building horrible dimension portals the next. Yeah, fuck that.]

Really that bad, huh...?

[Yeah, he has no idea at all.]

Let's just say that you don't gotta investigate every weird, fucked-up thing out there.

True. Save some for everyone else.

[...is that where we're going with this? Probably not.]

Yeah, sure.

[It wasn't, but okay]

How's a guy supposed to sell merchandise if someone's goin' around talkin' about facts?

You might have to get something more appealing to sell.

[Don't go to Oregon, kids.]

Nah, wouldn't work. Nobody wants the truth, you can get that anywhere.

Almost anywhere.

[Trust him on this one.]

Point is, it's common. And usually not as fun.

Like, okay - I can tell some tourists some story about a Sasquatch, show 'em a model, the kids get a scare and everyone has fun. It's kinda different if I talk about its eatin' habits and migration patterns for an hour.

Sounds boring. The kind of thing nerds are into.

[He's getting a super nerdy impression of Stanley's brother right now.]

I got all his papers. That was like the only thing he did.

[lbr that's the correct impression]

People should have hobbies.

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