Week 5.

[trustharder]

WEEK 5 Three more have joined the deceased this past week. Taichi Yagami was punished for breaking a rule, Megumi Sakura was killed, and Norman Bates... well, the less said about Norman, the better. A third of you are dead now; your losses are becoming more and more evident with each passing week. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; there aren't any bodies to be found on Sunday morning. But that doesn't mean the night was uneventful - it seems something else may have brought you some newfound clarity. Or perhaps not... Once again, that spiral staircase leads farther than you remember, clear up to a previously inaccessible fifth floor. Go ahead and explore as much as you like; you'll probably need the distraction after the last trial. SURVIVORS REMAINING: 18 SURVIVORS REMAINING: 17

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[OOC: Welcome to week five 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]

She really is. Glad we have her, but wish she was somewhere else. She deserves better than this.

[Sip. Sip.]

[isafraid]

[you keep sipping.]

...We all do. Some of us seem to have been from worse straits then this, if you can imagine that. Miss Eide included.

[cherryblooded]

Honestly wouldn't want to live where she's from. But if it's home to her, probably shouldn't say that to her face.

[isafraid]

Honestly? Can't say I would either... But it's the place she's fighting for to her last breath, from the sounds of it. I'm sure she'll do whatever she can for it, same as this place.

[even if her methods aren't... exactly the most stable.]

I'm beginning to think my world is having a terrible time of it itself. My dreams haven't exactly been getting any better, week by week. Just more confusing, and filled with worse horrors.

[cherryblooded]

Do you want to talk about it?

[Please let him do a better job supporting those who are remaining than he did with the King.

Please.]

[isafraid]

What's there to talk about? [...No, he can't just sweep it all aside. Everyone else airs their worries every once in a while.]

The bloody savagery going on there is unbelievable! First I remember a monster of a man tearing coppers limb from limb, next there's a blighter with knives jumping right out of a bloody horse!

[He lets himself sit forward, shoulders hunched.]

I've been feeling more in the dark as the weeks go by...

[cherryblooded]

[How do you jump out of a horse - never mind. He rests a hand on Speedwagon's shoulder.]

But you're still alright, no matter what happened. It's awful, but... it's something you can recover from.

[isafraid]

[Apparently Jack the Ripper did it once, not that Speedwagon can really remember how.

He feels the hand on his shoulder, it's a little comforting. A start.]

Somehow we're both still breathing, right? There's a good few people here who are a fair bit stronger and faster then normal. Then there's me.

[He chuckles.]

Guess we're some lucky ones.

[cherryblooded]

Not everyone has to be strong and fast. There are plenty of people I know at home who aren't, who've made it okay so far.

[Home's not in this situation, though.]

[isafraid]

Then they've done some good then. Glad to here it.

[Home was for another conversation. And this was steadily becoming about him, which he hadn't planned when he walked in here.]

Look at me. I came in here thinking that I'd be talking to you rather then you talking to me. [whoops] How are you feeling then?

[cherryblooded]

Not my best, I'll admit... But I can't entirely blame myself for what happened, can I?

[He takes another sip of his drink.]

[isafraid]

No, it's all the Kingmaker's fault, like as not. Still, hard to imagine just what happened to the little king.

[And hard to picture too. Yeesh.]

[cherryblooded]

[He really would rather not picture it.]

He didn't deserve that. Nobody does.

[isafraid]

Makes you wonder why it would ever happen in the first place.

[cherryblooded]

I try not to linger on it too long. It's all I can do now.

[isafraid]

I can agree with that. There'll be plenty of time to mourn after we've finally dealt with this Kingmaker.

[cherryblooded]

Once things are settled, I'd like to be able to give them all proper funerals.

...For one thing, I'd like to know what happened to their bodies.