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]

[Well that's not great, but.]

Still. That's better than couples who break up at the first sign of trouble.

[ratingspoint]

That would just be stupid.

[...Thanks, Mettaton.]

[cherryblooded]

Well, you know. Young people in relationships sometimes expect everything to be perfect.

[ratingspoint]

Nothing in life ever is. But I've also worked for everything I've got, and it's gotten me pretty far.

[cherryblooded]

One of my many favorite things about you, my dear.

[...He glances at his phone in his lap.]

Also, have I ever said that the Kingmaker can go fuck himself? Because I feel that I should say that at least once.

[ratingspoint]

Oh, what did he do now.

[cherryblooded]

Don't know where to start. Remind me that it's absolutely not worth talking to him the next time I think to ask something.

...Can I ask you something?

[ratingspoint]

Of course, sweetheart! Anything.

[cherryblooded]

You know my feelings about you are sincere, right?

[ratingspoint]

...What?

[Where the actual hell did that come from...]

[cherryblooded]

[That's reassuring. Really reassuring.]

You're not some game I'm playing at, you're not a replacement for my daughter or anyone else, you're not somebody I'm using to look like a person who isn't fundamentally selfish. You're dear to me. You're family.

[ratingspoint]

[It takes him a moment to actually...process that, hold on, he has legitimately no idea where this came from.]

I didn't think...

[...]

Well...all right, I thought that maybe that was part of it - missing your daughter or your family, I mean. Maybe. But I've never thought it had to do with being fundamentally selfish.

[...]

Darling, I'm fundamentally selfish. If that were the case, you wouldn't bother in the first place, because you wouldn't care about what it looked like to me or anyone else.

[cherryblooded]

[A quick shake of his head.]

Lobco's away travelling most of the time now anyway, and I don't normally do this when she's gone. Doloz - I miss her, but that's not why.

I know what my reasons are. [Mostly.] I just needed to know that you knew.

[ratingspoint]

...I know, sweetheart. And I believe you.

[cherryblooded]

Alright. Thank you.

[Still going to absolutely wring the Kingmaker's neck when he gets a chance, but that's really nothing new.

Cherryblod settles back down a little, poking idly at a piece of tumbleweed.]

[ratingspoint]

[...]

You can talk to me, you know.

[cherryblooded]

I talk to you all the time.

[What do you mean that's not what he means.]

[ratingspoint]

I mean actual talking. Not like I usually talk to people.

[cherryblooded]

...I know, dear. You're very kind to me and I'm glad.

[Because - like he says, it's not how he usually talks to people.]