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

[heritrix]

It has to be a 99% certainty.

[crywiththesaints]

I can see why. This place is one for surprises, none of them good.

[heritrix]

Even putting aside that, the Risen will never let us go willingly. They're like children, stubbornly clinging to the rules of a board game. But even if you beat them fair and square by the end of it, they'll throw a tantrum.

[crywiththesaints]

Of course. "Change the rules at any time," after all. I don't know what they intend to study that way.

[heritrix]

I'm starting to think there's nothing to study. They want us for something else entirely. [A scoff; a correction.] I mean, by this point that's obvious.

[crywiththesaints]

Human sacrifice, possibly. Or simply proving that there's nothing to attachment in the end.

[heritrix]

I'm not even joking about the former. I'm convinced that's a component of their plan now.

[crywiththesaints]

Is it something that's done, in your world?

[heritrix]

That's not relevant. [Rin waves a hand, and decides to just cut to her theory.] Actually, let me do it this way.

[Rin reaches into a pocket to retrieve her notebook. She learned this in a conversation with the Transmitter, so the Risen likely overheard already. But just in case they did not, she decides to use this method. From Nachetanya's diary, she has good reason to suspect their observers techniques aren't fine-tuned enough for these.

So Rin scribbles a note, and hands the notebook to Sakura with her pen.]

The Risen don't have physical bodies.

[crywiththesaints]

[Sakura nods and writes back:]

I see. Hence their need to possess the Transmitter every time they want to do something. But where does that lead mass death? Particularly death by electrocution in the form of a loved one?

[heritrix]

[Rin's response takes longer this time:]

My theory breaks down as follows:

1. As they have no form of their own, they're eager to see us murder each other off so that they can take our bodies as their own.

2. The person they change into is not always a loved one. I began to suspect this at Gant's trial. I have a few theories about this, but I need more information to pin it down.

3. The executions are theatric in nature, drawing out an emotional response for the shock value. That's exactly the Risen's style.

[After Krauser's execution, Rin will have a great deal more to share, but these are her thoughts for now.]

[crywiththesaints]

This is true. They could need the bodies for themselves, hence using the same type of execution for each culprit. As well, access to a variety of worlds would allow them to spread whatever it is they're working on, though that's simply an undeveloped idea.

You're right about that second point; the villagers at the second trial were a conflicting point as well. Perhaps only someone the person would find important to them in a way that their lives would not be theirs otherwise.

[heritrix]

It could potentially be even simpler.

[crywiththesaints]

What are you thinking?

[heritrix]

That it has some kind of psychometric ability, or telepathy. If it's the latter, it could be as simple as drawing on the person or persons the victim is most heavily thinking about as they enter the arena.

[And after Krauser's execution, Rin will feel more convinced about this theory than some of her other ones. We can handwave that she would have told Sakura as much.]