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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Everyone seems to agree on that, anyway. Or at least letting me kill him. It's really nice of all of you, since I know everyone hates his guts just as much as I do. And did for longer.

[There was something like a want to drag his stupid ass off the misguided path before, but now he's just a goddamn bastard.]

You probably deserve it the most at this point.

[They all have a bone to pick with him, but Sigrun just has the biggest bone right now among them.]

[So sweet of them to agree on that, though she laughs a little.]

Maybe, maybe. [And she hesitates a moment, struggling slightly with the words.] ... But it's still my own fault in first place. I can admit to that much. I just need to make sure there's nothing else being hidden from us on the people front, though there isn't much I can do there at the same time.

[Whether there is or not isn't something the Kingmaker would give easily, probably, and even if she knew there were others what could she possibly do?]

[It may be her fault as the 'leader', but it is also their own fault at the same time. All of them should have been more aware, should have thought of the possibility - but even for Bruce it didn't quite cross his mind. After all how could anybody think of working with the person who put them in this situation in the first place?

How very wrong he was... and now they all had to pay the price for that.]

...we'll just have to do our best. [At least now they're aware of the possibility, and as hard as it is, they have to try and be wary now. Wary, but not alienate one another. That distrust would be their downfall.] He doesn't seem found of doing things twice, at least, so that's something in our favor.

Yeah, it is. If only he got bored of us finding bodies and convicting our peers.

[That'd be nice. But nooo, it's still interesting.]

The factors around it are different each time... its not hard to see why he wouldn't get bored.

[It's interesting because its always different people, different scenarios, different incentives... like a scientist bringing in new elements and seeing the reactions to it. Everything the Kingmaker does - it just seems like its for nothing more but for his own 'experiments'. Its sickening.]

[Mad scientist, she was told once. Couldn't be more right.]

I bet he's real happy about the show he's getting in the end here, even if... when I asked him, he pretty much declined to answer. I mean, I was also pissed and pretty much wanted his head on a silver platter, but still.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was. He's getting what he wants each and every week, after all.

[More deaths, more pain, more everything. It's all nothing more but a game for the Kingmaker to watch, and Bruce hates that. Somebody who so willingly made this happen... how can anybody like that exist?]

[Apparently, assholes exist. Who knew.

Sigrun stretches and leans back on her hands, glancing around at the portraits.]

... Well, first chance I get to put a stop to it I will. We'll seize a moment of weakness and make it our counterattack. Hopefully with minimal lives lost.

[A nod from Bruce here. Yeah, he's right behind you on that, Sigrun.]

I'm sure the chance will come. There's only so long he can keep hiding from us.

[And as much as he doesn't want to say it, Mettaton turning against them? Is probably a sign they're getting close. He wouldn't have been asked to stop them if that hadn't been the case.]

[It's okay, she will.]

Him telling Mettaton to kill one of us probably means he's running out of as much time as we are... or he wasn't very happy with how things were working out. He claimed not to be angry after Yato's trial but I have got to wonder if there's something else there.

[That was the week where Mettaton was conspiring with him, too, when both Bruce and that dumb robot came out about talking to the Kingmaker about the incentive. Admittedly with two very difference topics attached.

She chews on her nail in thought, dredging through what she remembers of her conversations, and shakes her head.]

Not that I could think of what outside of impatience, but you know, for all that man is he's got a hell of a lot of it. He'll be difficult even if we corner him though.

It's not like he ever tells us much, if anything at all.

[Anything important, that is. Like why he was doing this, or how they ended up here, or... anything, really. Despite what they know so far they're still as much of in the dark as they were at the start. It's frustrating.]

I won't be surprised if he'll be exactly the same as when we're talking with him through the devices. 'It's not important', or whatever the hell he usually says.

Oh, I'm sure he'll be much more talkative with a blade at his throat.

[... And a few fingers off on the side, but she's declining to mention that part of her plan.]

Think of it as us winning his little game. He'll have to reward us with some answers, right? Either way he's dead, so he might as well spill before we end him.

[Its probably a good thing that she didn't say that since Bruce is still on the fence with exactly how much he wants to see the Kingmaker hurt. A battle of what he wants to do versus what he should do, morally speaking.]

If his life is threatened he might be even less willing to tell us. Especially since he knows he's the only one with the answers that we need.

[Just saying for the record here, honestly.]

[She figures it's fifty-fifty who'd be okay with straight up taking his fingers off joint by joint.]

... Yeah, that's true. Why doesn't threatening people ever work? It seems like it would, you know? But noooo, it doesn't.

[... not here...]

I suppose things are just different in here.

[Almost everyday its their life on the line - their life and their freedom. Along with so many other things. There's so much that they don't know and when the Kingmaker dangles things in just the right way...

The most dangerous kind of people are the ones who have nothing to lose and everything to gain.]

All of us are aware that we could die at any given point. Living with this fear for so long now... its changed all of us, one way or another.

[For better or for worse.]

At least it hasn't made all of us paranoid. We're all wary, sure, but that's just the nature of it. Paranoia would be hard to handle even for me.

[Because once that sets in, there's hysteria to deal with too, and then if no one can trust anyone the whole thing falls apart. No matter how good a leader you are.]

[Bruce is always paranoid, why do you think he's like this. He's just better at dealing with it.]

It helps that we're all in this together, one way or another. And that we're all aware that losing our cool won't help anyone, least of all themselves.

[Well, at least that's what he hopes, anyway.]

WEEK 7.

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