trusthell | WEEK 7.

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.

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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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[ Something about Hamlet, something about Polonius... ...apparently it's a bastardization of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and going by his pitch, he's playing Ophelia.

...that's not weird at all—and it's stopping as soon as he notices Stan, stopping mid-valiant speech.

Um. ]

...c...can I help you? [ ...yyyyyeah. ]

Just gettin' a book.

[.....]

Whatcha doin'?

Just... getting a book too?

[ ..... ]

I promised Misa I'd do the play I offered to write for her a couple of weeks ago at her trial, so I've been practicing, since it's... pretty much finished writing-wise. [ How embarrassing. ] It's about Ophelia and giving her a better ending than what she got in the original story. That's all.

[Stan grins. That's kinda cute. And kinda funny.]

Yeah? A one-man show, huh? That oughta be fun.

It'll be something, alright. [ Sigh... ] I haven't decided if I'm just going to do it when no one's up so I won't get caught, or if I'll be putting it on for everyone yet.

...I'm leaning towards "secretly embarrassing myself," honestly.

If nobody's there to see you do it, is it really a play?

[ ... ....... ......... ]

Yes? [ He... yes? ] If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, that doesn't null the fact it fell, so shouldn't the same logic apply here...?

[ He really doesn't sound sure about that though?? ]

Half the play's the audience, though! It's like guidin' a tour - I can do it by myself, but it ain't really a tour if no one's seein' it!

[ He's going to get harassed into embarrassing himself in front of the entire Vault??? ]

...you're right. [ He can't believe this. ] Everyone'll laugh at me though, I'm sure of it, and it's not supposed to be a comedy. ...not that kind of comedy, anyway.

[ It's a comedy in a sense NO ONE FUCKING DIES but yeah ]

Look - either you don't let them laugh at ya, or you roll with it. When people are laughin', they aren't payin as close attention.

[That's more for pulling cons, though. Doesn't help a lot for a play.]

Otherwise, just make 'em feel bad and they won't!

[ He'll run dramatically out of the chapel, wiping the tears from his eyes— ]

Those are easier said than done, aren't they. [ In his case. His poor, shy case. ] I'll try my best, Mr. Pines. I'll just... channel my sister or something, like I did when I was a kid and I won part for the damsel in our class play.

[ ..."won" by random lottery. ]

That was always me, between me and Ford. He's a lot more like you.

[.....]

But hey, no one easier to imitate than your own twin!

It'd be easier if I was a girl. [ ....ANYWAY, ]

Do you make a living imitating your brother?

Only on paper! No one in town knew him all that well, so I can act however I want.

[ YOU'RE IMPERSONATING YOUR OWN TWIN BROTHER ]

He came back though, [ and kicked you out of your own house ] right? Didn't people notice?

I don't remember too much of what happened after. Ran for mayor at some point...I think he was hidin' out in the basement with his need crap then.

[ ...ran for mayor... ]

I see. Sounds like you guys were pretty busy. [ To put it... one way... ] How'd running for mayor go? If you can remember that much.

I won the vote! But apparently you can be disqualified for "multiple felony charges."

[ OF COURSE YOU CAN??? ]

That's too bad. [ ................. ] What would you have done as your first act as mayor?

Had the charges dropped!

And then started takin' over the mayor's house. Let's see my brother kick me outta there!

[ ...that's so petty...

but well-deserved, probably? ]

Not to say you're a bad person or anything, Mr. Pines, but how did you even win?

Well, my biggest opponent was bein' controlled by someone in prison. Literally - with actual mind control.

[Actual mind control helped Stan a lot too, but he kinda...doesn't want to talk about that....]

He had the kids kidnapped and was danglin' them off a mountain during the last debate, so I climbed up and got 'em. Had to punch an eagle! Then there was some dynamite, so we had to jump, there were a lotta explosions...but we landed in the voting birdseed. Fucked my back up, but the kids were fine. That's why Mabel made me that sash!

Plus, savin' kids in front of TV cameras is pretty much a foolproof way to win an election!

[ voting birdseed. ]

I... it certainly is, Mr. Pines. [ voting birdseed??? THE voting birdseed. ] How exactly are elections conducted in your town?

[ he isn't sure why he's stuck on fucking voting birdseed given there's "mind control" and "had to punch an eagle" also in that sentence, but it's just. it's the weirdest thing?? probably?? ]

...okay, you gotta understand: pretty much everybody in Gravity Falls is crazy. Far as I can tell, it's always been like that.

[This is what prompted him to clarify that?]

Everyone in town shows up for the last mayoral debate. They all throw birdseed at the guy they want, then they release the freedom eagle. It goes over to the birdseed guy, and he wins.

The last mayor was about a thousand years old, so this is the first time I saw one of these since movin' to town. It...I don't even know why the eagle wants the birdseed, they eat fish.

[ This is what prompted him to clarify that. ]

Maybe they... trained it to... eat birdseed? [ Can you do that? ...is that legal. ] Is any of that legal? Eagles are protected by the state and all. I'm not sure you're even allowed to have one or build anywhere near where one might be roosting.

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