Week 5.

[trustfellowship]

WEEK 5 Another week has passed; another two people have died. Tsubasa Hanekawa and Nachetanya Loei Piena Augustra have joined the ranks of the deceased. Whatever you may have thought about them in the end, one thing hovers heavy over the group: the fact that neither their compassion nor their ambition was enough to keep them alive in here. Is yours? 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... And of course, with another successful trial comes a new addition to the building, another corridor opening up on the west side of the building. The doors leading to it branch off of the hallways leading to the second and fourth sections of the building; have those doors always been there? You can't remember... It's a new week. Of course, that means you've been here for over a month, and your stay doesn't seem to be coming to a close yet. PATIENTS REMAINING: 22

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[OOC: Welcome to week five 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

[crywiththesaints]

They may well have been taken from the same worlds we have. After all, not every world has... is that one about the Titanic?

[aspiringly]

If they've filled the vending machine with our possessions, then it's true that there's no reason they wouldn't be able to take other objects as well.

[His attention's directed towards the book she indicates, though. He'll pull it out of stack and flip through its pages before holding it out.]

It seems like it. Does it interest you?

[crywiththesaints]

Only as much as anything else does. You know, they're right that the ship had too few lifeboats, but that isn't why there was so much loss of life. The boats they did have weren't even filled, and the ship had more than any of its peers did compared to people on board. The real point of interest is that it took until that ship sank for their society at large to decide that having enough for everyone was a good idea.

[aspiringly]

Sometimes it takes a calamity to open peoples' eyes to the dangers around them. I'm sure that's something we should know far too well by now.

[crywiththesaints]

You're very right about that. Of course, this and some of the other rooms in this place already look like they've been through a calamity.

[aspiringly]

As much as a warning sign as they may be, it can be difficult to accept without being directly exposed to its effects as opposed to the aftermath.

[But in light of this last trial...]

After this week, though, it seems that we might start taking this situation a little more seriously.

[crywiththesaints]

You mean, with enough people running cheerful little long cons.

[aspiringly]

Precisely. While this incident damaged the collective ability to trust here, most still seem willing to cooperate in order to escape. However, the more we prolong our stay here, the more betrayals we will face; if it comes to the point where we've degenerated into a mass of paranoia, I have my doubts that anything will get accomplished.

[crywiththesaints]

At the very least, most still seem willing to hold meetings and share.

[aspiringly]

As long as enough people are in attendance, safety shouldn't be an issue, at least. It's also apparently "highly discouraged" for someone to take everyone else's lives, so it would only be a dead end for the culprit in that case.

[crywiththesaints]

So you put enough faith in that statement, even if there's no limit to the exercise?

[aspiringly]

Unfortunately, we don't have much of a choice but to put our faith in certain things, and the Transmitter's word happens to be one of them.

[crywiththesaints]

Perhaps. I personally think they're too contradictory, both she and her people, to be taken at their word.

[aspiringly]

I don't doubt that. Still, they seem to favor evasion and misdirection rather than outright lying, even if I can't deny the possibility of them slipping falsehoods in what they do decide to answer. However, if enough people believe her words to be true, then it can act as enough of a deterrent either way.

[crywiththesaints]

Unless they just want to kill to begin with. Augustra seemed that way.

[aspiringly]

True, and convincing someone as intent as she was would have been an exercise in futility. Do you think most people here are capable of that?

[crywiththesaints]

I think if they were, it wouldn't be a surprise. We were selected.

[aspiringly]

That may be, but their criteria could have been based on entirely different factors. And besides that, would you be including yourself in that category as well?

[crywiththesaints]

I don't know if there's anybody who isn't.

[aspiringly]

That's a fairly negative outlook to have in a place like this.

[But he doesn't sound like he's disagreeing either.]

[crywiththesaints]

Oh, I didn't say it wasn't. Just that it was likely.