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

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY
[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

[cadmiums]

[ The easy answer here is "yes". ]

That sounds like him too.

[heritrix]

You're really familiar with him. I'm surprised. You almost make it sound like you know not his deeds, but the man personally.

[cadmiums]

No, it's not that. It's more like...I know someone who does, in a way.

[heritrix]

Oh?

[She just claimed to know some of these guys herself, so she's not as surprised as some might be. It has more to do with:]

I didn't realize legends like him were an active presence in your world.

[cadmiums]

It's not really the legends themselves: more what they represent, what they...personify.

[ A beat. ]

I didn't know either.

[heritrix]

That's something you remembered today, I take it.

[cadmiums]

[ ... ]

Yeah.

[heritrix]

That doesn't bode well for your world.

[cadmiums]

[ He freezes, his entire body rigid for a few moments. Have his eyes always been such a bright blue? But then he relaxes and reaches for his scarf like he tends to do, though it doesn't seem like he's going to respond. ]

...

[heritrix]

[That makes her feel like she's on the right track, so she's going to continue.]

On their own, Orpheus and Persephone have stirring tales. They're strong heroes, and likeable. But the only common thread their legends share is the connection to the underworld.

[But he showed her Persephone's page. Whoever he was looking for in the T section bothered him more.]

[cadmiums]

Is that so?

[heritrix]

[...]

Ryoji, once when I was acting strangely, you said you'd understand if I didn't want to tell you my problems, but that you would gladly listen if I did.

I didn't take that offer, but a few days after Gant's trial, I wished I had.

[cadmiums]

Why did you change your mind?

[heritrix]

[Her smile is bittersweet, and her vision awash with green. An early morning, waking up on a park bench.]

I want to live a life without regrets. That would have been a regret, win or lose.

[cadmiums]

I feel-felt, similar. It's a little more complicated now.

[heritrix]

So suddenly it's unimportant?

[cadmiums]

No, what I want isn't.

[heritrix]

[...

After a heavy pause, when Rin speaks again she sounds deadly serious.]

Ryoji, I don't know what's going through your head right now, but I'll tell you this. Unless you're secretly a psychopath and what you want endangers our lives or the lives of your world, it's important. There's nothing else that could be more important.

1/2

[cadmiums]

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

[cadmiums]

Thank you for telling me about the legends, Rin.

[ And he is totally going to make to leave unless she stops him. ]

[heritrix]

[She's so irritated right now; as much on his behalf as she is at Ryoji himself. But in this moment? There's a different emotion that plays out on her face, stronger than it.

It feels like that moment you feel your feet catch in the wrong way, at the top of the stairs. The phone call at breakfast, when mother didn't come home the night before. The way Archer's footsteps didn't immediately follow her, as she entered the church, and she hates it.]

Mochizuki-kun.

[We're back to this; he's probably near to the door by the time she thinks to call for him.]

You weren't at the meeting last night.

[cadmiums]

[ He doesn't expect anything else, he dropped the familiarity first. But he'll stop in the doorway, though he doesn't turn around. ]

I know, I need to apologize to Wesker for it. [ Cause that's relevant in his mind somehow. ]

[heritrix]

[...]

There's a notebook Nachetanya had; it included profiles on all of us. George and I decided to distribute each of them to the individual they correspond to.

[Rin pulls out a piece of paper; the notes on Ryoji.]

I think you should take yours, and read it.

[cadmiums]

Even now, I can't understand her. [ He doesn't really want to read what she had to write about him, but he might as well. With a small sigh he turns around and walks back over to her, to take the piece of paper. ]

[heritrix]

[She'll hand it to him wordlessly, curious to see if he'll read it right there.

Rin hopes he does. His reaction will decide her course of action from here.]