WEEK 7.

[trustharder]

WEEK 7 Two more Survivors have left you; Aqua was killed in cold blood and Mettaton... well, your thoughts on Mettaton probably vary depending on how close you were to him, but either way he chose to end Aqua's life and paid the price for it. There are so few of you now. 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 seventh floor. Go ahead and explore as much as you like; you've done well. You've earned it. SURVIVORS REMAINING: 12

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY
[OOC: Welcome to week six 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

[trustharder]

[GYAH...

Well, those candle flames will flicker a little bit after a while; the movement is visible on both sides of the mirror - that is, the reflection and the actual flames are doing something, not just one or the other, and after another brief moment, the Wayfinder (the object and its reflection) will move forward a bit.]

[goodforsomething]

[Stan would honestly have been more alarmed if the flames' reflections were doing something different from them, but the motion draws his attention away from the book enough that he definitely sees the Wayfinder move.

Well, holy fuck.]

...hm.

[The chances of the Kingmaker watching this now seem slim; who wants to watch people mourn in a church all day? Still, he's not going to make a big deal and draw attention just yet. Stan nudges the Wayfinder back a tad and then apparently turns back to his reading, though now he's carefully watching it over the top of the book.]

Hey, move it to the right this time if you can hear me.

[trustharder]

[Well, it...definitely moves, but it's not heading rightward, it's just kinda wiggling in the way that inanimate objects generally do not.]

[goodforsomething]

[Yep, sure is wiggling. He's gonna assume they can't hear him and they're not just being dicks about it.

Notebook, notebook, who's got a notebook...Stan tears out a piece of paper and scribbles on it before laying it down, facing the mirror.]

Hey ghost!

[trustharder]

[After a moment, you're going to get a vague reflection showing up in a section of the mirror just above where your paper's reflection is.]

[goodforsomething]

[Stan hasn't spent years reading his brother's shitty codes not to be able to instantly understand backwards writing.]

Sure can! Who's this?

[trustharder]

[It'll take a little while but eventually the paper will be replaced. You'll find a bunch of doodles on it along with the backwards words "THANK YOU".

The doodles are as follows:
- A little Wayfinder
- A shell with wings, like a certain mermaid's pendant
- A deck of cards
- A crown
- A poorly-drawn cat head (with "KAMUI" written under it)
- ...is that a knife, who the hell drew a knife.]

[goodforsomething]

[...norman if that's you he's gonna cross the fuck over and kick your ass

Stan grins widely and chuckles to himself; he can't quite help it. The next note is headed by a little drawing of the symbol on his fez. He can't see them, so maybe they can't see him either.]

Good to hear from you!

You all doing okay? Under the circumstances? [Yeah he gets it's a weird question to ask the literal dead, but he wants to know. Things can always get worse.]

[trustharder]

[Another pause and this time you'll get uh... something that is presumably Very Important, though it's a little... weird.

There are drawings of cartoony heads of people in the Vault with arrows between them. You've got:

Yosuke ↔ Black
Tarrlok ↔ Colress
Cherryblod ↔ ...a lobster, probably
and a small Sigrun killing a troll.

There's also some more words under the chart: "REALLY, YATO? ROMANCE AGAIN?" and something that actually addresses what you wrote with: "IN ONE PIECE. NOT GETTING INCENTIVES AT LEAST."]

[goodforsomething]

[Oh my god, seriously?]

Tarrlok <-> Colress? Had no idea!

Are you all stuck or something? Is there something we should do?

[trustharder]

[Thankfully this time there aren't any more pictures, just words.

"STICK TOGETHER AND STAY SAFE; WE'RE WORKING HARD ON THIS END"

"THERE'S A HIDDEN ROOM ON THE SECOND FLOOR. SLIDE THE WALL PANEL TO THE SIDE. IT'S WHERE WE SET OFF THE KLAXONS. BE CAREFUL, IT'S PROBABLY WHERE THE KINGMAKER WATCHES YOU."

And finally, "CHECK FOR OTHER HIDDEN ROOMS TOO."]

[goodforsomething]

Got it.

[The Kingmaker can't stay in there all the time, can he? He's gotta sleep sometime...maybe late one night he'll take a few folks to try and check it out. They'll go armed just in case, but Stan doesn't quite trust their chances; it's not like he wouldn't see them coming.]

Do you know when he goes out?

If I do this with the others later, can you meet us?

[trustharder]

[Well, first of all you're getting an important message:

"PLEASE IGNORE YATO.

SPEAKING OF COLRESS, THOUGH, COULD YOU ASK HIM IF HIS POKEMON HAS ANY SPECIAL CAPABILITY TO SENSE SPIRITUAL ACTIVITY? IT'S POSSIBLY A LONG SHOT, BUT IT MIGHT MAKE COMMUNICATION EASIER."

And there's another one: "WE'RE NOT SURE WHEN HE'S IN OR NOT. WE DON'T OFTEN SEE ANY OF YOU, EITHER, USUALLY JUST DURING THE TRIALS, SO IT WOULD BE HARD TO WATCH FOR A SINGLE PERSON.

WHEN ARE YOU PLANNING TO MEET UP AGAIN?"]

[goodforsomething]

Not at normal Monday meeting. The Kingmaker watches them.

Late tomorrow night? He has to sleep sometime.

[If they all go somewhere at once during the day, it'll draw attention. But if they have several smaller meetings with smaller groups, that's more time spent on it: the chances he'll stumble over one session or the other go up. Besides, it sounds like that'd be harder for the ghosts to manage anyway.

Anything they do is a gamble. Might as well go all in - one big heist, so to speak.]

[trustharder]

["UNTIL WE'RE ABLE TO MEET UP AGAIN, PLEASE TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER IN OUR ABSENCE, OKAY? MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS GETTING ENOUGH TO EAT AND PLENTY OF REST." This is accompanied by a doodle of Guma-chan — a bear's face with a mustache.

There's also: "GOOD, DO IT FAST. WE'VE LEARNED OUR LESSON ABOUT TAKING OUR TIME."]

[goodforsomething]

[Makes sense. They all had less time than they expected, didn't they? If he keeps this quiet too long, he might end up taking it to his grave. And they need this - they all need this.]

Tomorrow night, here. At one. [Midnight is cliche.]

I'll do my best. Talking to you will help.

You stay safe too.

[He's not sure what dangers might be over there, but it's never bad advice.]