trustfelled | Week 3.

WEEK 3
Grace and Doug are dead. It seems that there isn't anything more to do but mourn your losses and try to move forward. The Transmitter's rules still hang in every room, a reminder of the only means of escaping this place.

But surely no one else will give into them, right?

Saturday is given to regrouping and rest; the static blares out early on Sunday, but at least there are no bodies to find today - it seems you're safe for now. The night before wasn't necessarily a peaceful one, however; you'll probably feel a bit groggy when you wake up, and it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost...

Once again, however, it seems your efforts won't go unrewarded; another set of corridors have opened up, much in the same fashion as the other new area did last week. With them come new rooms to explore; maybe some of them will be to your liking.

Or perhaps it's better to say that hopefully some of them will; after all, if the Transmitter gets her way, you may be here for a very, very long time.

PATIENTS REMAINING: 26

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[OOC: Welcome to week three of Trustfell! Feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget to save those threads for coins and the activity check!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Transmitter, you can do so through text or the phone in your room!]

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[Sorry Lovecraft, it'll probably seem confusing but we need to back up and establish a few things here. Your disney princess hair can wait]

... You can hold your breath long enough for a nap?

[She's kinda concerned.

Kinda sorta extremely concerned.]

[He does seem a bit confused. Only because...well, to him, it isn't a big deal.]

...Yes?

[In a way, but he's not really inclined to offer a proper explanation. That one works.]

[... R I G H T .

Big smile. She's going to put a pin in that for later]

Aah, I see. That's very... unique. I've never known anyone who could do something like that.

[But gesturing back to his hair]

And I thought your hair might get tangled since it's so long...

Oh. I guess you could say I'm not like most people.

[A topic to be picked back up at another time...!

He glances down and around, observing his mass of hair that's spread out and floating around him. He's considering the offer, but...]

I mean...if it has, I haven't paid much attention to it. It is what it is, to me at least.

[Lovecraft is unlike most people in many regards, Sakura is realizing. She just hadn't expanded that assumption to "defies the limits of human capabilities". Lesson learned.]

As long as you don't mind it.

... [curiously] Do you ever comb it?

Sometimes. I'll run a comb through it after getting it wet. [Because even if he doesn't pay much attention to tangles, they do happen.] But usually, I just leave it alone.

[That seems to be enough to satisfy her. She wouldn't want his hair to get damaged]

Maybe that's why it's so long... you're almost like Rapunzel.

Rapunzel...?

[That sounds...kind of familiar, but he isn't quite sure.]

It's the story of a girl locked in a tower, but because her hair is so long, the prince uses it to climb through her window and see her.

[...]

That sounds uncomfortable for her. I wouldn't want anyone climbing my hair...

I did always wonder why she was so happy to see him after that... He had a long way to climb, too.

-Not that you're like Rapunzel, of course! I just remember reading that her hair was well-kept despite it being so long, much like yours.

If you ask me, solitude in a tower doesn't seem so bad anyway.

[But in the end he shrugs, though it's a little difficult to see with the way he's partially submerged. Since he's already close enough to the edge, he puts his arms up so he doesn't have to tread water so much.]

Like I told Rin, I don't really do much with it...and I don't have an explanation. It's always been this way.

[... She starts giggling like a fiend for some strange reason]

Tohsaka-senpai asked you about it, did she?

[Sakura looks delighted.]

Careful, she might try to bribe you so she can study it.

[He just looks on with confusion.]

I- What?

[What does he even do with any of this? He can't help but blurt out his thoughts.]

Is...is that why she has been giving me sweets? To...study my hair?

[Sakura was joking but now...

Now...

She is not sure anymore.

Because Rin would actually do that.]

I... I guess that's a possibility.

-- B-but don't worry! Tohsaka-senpai is really kind, so she doesn't mean anything cruel by it...

Oh...

[That calms him somewhat, and lets him clear out the confusion.]

Then I suppose it isn't so bad. [...] The sweets were good as well, so...

[Clearly in the end it would be worth it, is what he's saying.]

Have you been speaking to her, too?

She's my upperclassman, actually. We don't talk a lot... [A pause, because this might be the only time Sakura has ever sounded even close to disappointed about not talking to someone]

But I've seen her around school, and can tell she's very sweet.

Oh. You knew each other previously.

[Like Corrin and Felicia...and Wesker and Krauser, presumably? He can't help but wonder how that worked out, when Steinbeck is nowhere to be found.]

She seems...firm on her opinions. [Some of them being more peculiar than others.] Have you been getting to know her better by being here?

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... You could say that we are.

[Her smile is a bit sad]

But I don't want to impose anything on her. We come from different lifestyles. Once we're back home, I'm sure things will return to normal.

Should that put a limit on your interactions with her? I can't imagine we have similar lifestyles, either.

[Just throwing an example out there.]

... That's true.

[There's no easy way to say "It's super complicated".]

I guess I don't want to bother her while she's here.

If you're sure...

[He shrugs. It's really Sakura's choice, ultimately.]

[She's grateful enough when the subject is dropped. This is just One of Those Things apparently]

-- Oh, but don't let me keep you if you'd rather go... nap... [Underwater... she's still going to roll with it]

I was worried when you were underwater for that long, but if it doesn't hurt you, it must be okay.

If only that rule didn't exist...

[He totally would, otherwise! Though, it's really for the best that he's not even able to try.

He lowers his head to let is rest on his arms.]

Mm. I'll be fine. [...] You don't have to worry about keeping me from anything in the future, though... I don't mind.

[And then Sakura encouraged Lovecraft to a watery grave because her player was tagging while half-asleep]

Oh? Very little seems to bother you, Lovecraft-san.

[She means it as a compliment, based on her smiling tone. At worst, it's a little envious]

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