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!]

Comments

[cherryblooded]

They do. It's nice to sit back with a cup of tea and a nice book now and then.

What will you be checking out next?

[amygdalae]

...I'm not entirely sure yet.

[Maybe just one or two... who knows.

He's still deciding.]

[cherryblooded]

Could make some recommendations, if you want.

[amygdalae]

I wouldn't mind that.

[Gives a smile here.]

[cherryblooded]

Have you read 'Evening on the Space Trainway'? Technically it's for young readers, but it poses some philosophical questions I think you might enjoy.

[amygdalae]

I'll look into that, then.

[Just another thing to help him pass the days... yep.]

[cherryblooded]

Tell me what you think of it, afterwards. Been a while since I got to discuss a good book with a friend.

[amygdalae]

Of course.

[Bruce says it without a beat, and he manages a smile, too, although its more polite than anything else.]

I'll look forward to that.

[cherryblooded]

[...Cherryblod's smile fades after a second. They should probably talk about the elephant in the room.]

What are we going to do about that incentive?

[amygdalae]

[...he was really hoping Cherryblod wasn't going to talk about it.]

I'm not sure. There's still some time, so...

[Think. He has to think.]

[cherryblooded]

Right. We can come up with something, within a few days. There's time.

[This is the kind of situation where Caren would be completely right: they can't afford to play around.]

[amygdalae]

[The irony is probably palatable here.]

We still have a choice.

[...not a very pleasant choice, but.]

[cherryblooded]

A choice no one here wants to make.

[Who would?

Don't answer that.]

[amygdalae]

Somebody will, eventually.

[If not one of them, then the Kingmaker himself.

Would they be so willing to leave it up to fate?]

[cherryblooded]

...That's true.

I don't think I could choose. At best I might go along with a majority vote and hate myself for it.

[amygdalae]

Making us choose like this...

[His jaw clenches for a moment, and Bruce glances away. Sugarcoat it however you want, its still terrible.]

One way or another he's forcing even more blood on our hands. If we choose, we bear the guilt. If we don't choose, we still bear the guilt anyway.

[cherryblooded]

We can't just go along with this. Neither option is something I can accept - there has to be another way.

[amygdalae]

We'll find one.

[Or else... well, Bruce will ensure there is one. Somehow.]

[cherryblooded]

Right.

[...]

I don't care for Sigrun's 'fight to see who's most useless' idea.

[amygdalae]

[...Bruce doesn't even know that was a thing since he had left rather quickly, but.

Well.]

No, that defeats the whole purpose of what we're trying to accomplish.

[cherryblooded]

Honestly. Sometimes I don't know what she's thinking. She means well, but...

[She's strange sometimes.]

[amygdalae]

[Not so strange for Bruce - she's a military woman after all, and she's just being practical. Bruce can't fault her for that.]

She's doing her best to help, in her own way.

[cherryblooded]

I'm glad that someone's trying to take charge. I'm not the leader type at all.

[amygdalae]

Neither am I.

[Seriously, have you seen him. He's all ruffles and passiveness.]

[cherryblooded]

Besides her, do we even have any other candidates...?

[Kogoro, maybe, but ehhh.]