Week 3.

[trustfellowship]

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!]

Comments

[nachetanya]

I... I suppose so, actually. [ She blinks, as if she just realized what she had been writing right now. She shakes her head, laughing it off ]

The description, the curse aside, isn't too far off from the sort of landscapes you'd expect in Piena's countryside.

[ Huh, she had been doing that. ]

Do you believe a villain ought to not be sympathetic? I'd actually agree, based on most that I'm familiar with from our own legends and stories. But it's a little more complicated here.

[georgeous]

Hmmh...

[ He gives the notebook back and then hums a little as he leans back in his seat to mentally phrase an answer to the question. ]

I think making them sympathetic makes the story lose focus. A hero is meant to protect and never lose sight of what they protecting, the villain doesn't need to be anything more than a threat. They're the aggressor, they are the beginning of the violence, while the hero brings about the end.

Why would you want to show their perspective? The hurt your hero and their people feel will not be soothed by that. It wouldn't be satisfying to switch sides.

[ #BiasedStorytellingOpinions ]

[nachetanya]

[ Interesting... as she takes the notebook back, she skims over what she's read so far. Honestly, his opinion's interesting, and it explains a lot about what he's said and done so far. The princess tilts her head, and sets the notepad down on the chair next to her, once more taking up the pen in her one hand. ]

So you believe that delving into the thoughts of the villain would complicate the narrative, because the hero and the ones they're protecting... their emotions are more important.

[ Mmm ] Well then, if the Risen would be the villain - and I don't disagree - who would be the hero?

[georgeous]

[ George nods. For him, it matters to pick your community and to know whom you owe your loyalty and effort to. Sympathizing with intruders will do no good and only confuse a situation, distract you so much that you might lose sight of those you have already sworn to protect... ]

That's a harder question. The hero defeats the villain and protects those worth protecting, but here...? We've had quite a few bad surprises. We're all just our own hero at this point, nothing else.

[nachetanya]

That doesn't make for one story though, that's thirty different stories... no, thirty-one. Maybe even thirty-two, if you want to count the Risen's perspective.

[ Which we agreed we didn't. ]

[georgeous]

Well, you could only write your own anyway, right?

[ Problem solved, just write self insert fiction! ]

[nachetanya]

I don't think that seems fair, which is why I was going to write something else. [ A beat ] Though it's interesting how different your and Tsubasa's answers were to that.

[georgeous]

I'm not surprised they are. What is it she said?

[ He's also not surprised Nachetanya went to Tsubasa first of all... ah, young love. ]

[nachetanya]

See thought that the story doesn't need one "hero" and that it isn't compromised by having thirty people all with different perspectives. To her, that sounded like a more interesting story.

[georgeous]

Hmph.

[ Despite the noise of distaste, he genuinely considers this for a moment. ]

It depends on what you're looking for in the end. And what kind of purpose you're writing for.

[nachetanya]

Mmm, I think so as well. To me, that makes the narrative more confused, that the "reader" can't draw on one perspective as the most ideal one.

[ But from the way she says it, with her little smile - she's considered Tsubasa's pov a lot ]

[georgeous]

Heroes are the example we should follow, that's right. A guideline you have when you're lost. I haven't relied on such a thing for a long time, of course, but as a child I like stories of dragonslayers and the likes.

[ Congratulations to Nachetanya for getting the quite possibly first mention of his personal life. ]

[nachetanya]

Ooooh, dragonslayers?

[ She sounds interested in that, eat least! ]

Where I'm from, there isn't a single child in the world who didn't grow up with stories about the Saint of the Single Flower or the previous two generations of Braves.

[georgeous]

[ He nods, smile widening. ]

The dragon myths of different countries very wildly, but in the area I'm from tales of dragons are stories of destruction and terrorized settlements until someone comes along who is so true of character that he can defeat the evil. Your friend Tsubasa would call them simplistic, I am sure, but there is a reason they have endured so many centuries. They're a little outdated nowadays, but still very much alive.

Such stories' heroes provide hope - whether that be the hope that the hero will save you or that you can, one day, become the hero.

[nachetanya]

Mmm, she might think it, but I don't think she'd mind either. She can accept anything.

[ But that said... ]

I think I like that sort of simple story better. I've always admired that ambition, to save people and to become a hero.

[georgeous]

Sounds like you've been preparing for your role since childhood then.

[ Whether she knew it or not... but heroism seems to be written all over Nachetanya's life in bold letters, one way or another. ]

[nachetanya]

There's no need to try to flatter me!

[ She mock-pouts, but it only lasts a moment. She laughs it off, and she looks back down at the page ]