Oh, some say, in life, you're gonna get what you give - but some things only God can forgive

[georgeous]

[ It's quiet in the hospital after this trial. Time passes and there are no notes slipped under doors.

The eerie silence reflects the horrors that have been witnessed today. More than any other week, there is a lingering understanding that there are thing regrouping and cooperation will never be able to fix.

There are 7 dead to mourn. No amount of funeral will bring them back.

The rules George has posted to the kitchen at the start of the week have been kicked over. ]

((ooc: This is not a week for any amount of partying, no matter how little, so here is the after-moping. Tell us where your character mopes, group together to mope together, etc...))

Comments

[ossifragant]

[Greed smiles grimly.]

Don't I know it. I've been living on borrowed time the entire time I've been here.

[cadmiums]

What do you mean?

[ossifragant]

I'm dying.

By all accounts, I should be dead.

[cadmiums]

[ .... ]

Are you sick?

[ossifragant]

Homunculi rely on something to continue existence. We call it our "life", but it's more like the source that powers the living alchemic array that powers our bodies. Without it, after a certain point our bodies will literally fall apart.

Before I arrived here, I had my "life" ripped from my body.

It's not possible for Misty to get the power source here. I asked her the first week here, and haven't asked since.

[cadmiums]

[ For several long moments he's silent, before he just looks incredibly sad. ]

That must be really painful. I'm sorry, Greed.

[ossifragant]

It's.... fine.

This isn't something I've really told the others, because it's an... unpleasant topic when you get down to it, but homunculi are born knowing we shouldn't be alive. You reach a point when you realizing the only thing that you've been longing for is your own death.

[cadmiums]

Ah...so homunculi like humans chase after death.

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

[ossifragant]

...Yeah. That's the gist of it.

[cadmiums]

[ He sighs. ]

Do you mind if I ask...if your viewpoint has changed being here? Do you still wish for death?

[ossifragant]

....I don't know.

I still shouldn't exist, that's never going to change. But I can't say I'm willing to die here, just to be turned into a pawn for the Risen's "game."

[cadmiums]

I shouldn't exist either-- but now to me that means I'm just going to fight harder.

[ossifragant]

Yeah. I hear you.

I'm going to be doing everything I can to prove the Risen wrong.

[cadmiums]

[ Nod. ]

I really don't like them. [ That would be mild coming from anyone else other than him. ]

[ossifragant]

[Greed laughs darkly.]

We'll find them, somehow. Of that I'm certain.

[cadmiums]

Why are you so sure?

[ossifragant]

Because I'm going to prove them wrong.

[cadmiums]

Did they say something in particular to you?

[ossifragant]

No. I've gone out of my way to avoid talking to them after the first time.

But I'm familiar with the sort of person who sees other people as playthings, and thinks nothing of causing them to suffer.

[cadmiums]

Me too.

I wonder if they really are completely unified as a group. They sounded different today.

[ossifragant]

They sounded... strange, didn't they? I wonder what could have caused something like that.

[cadmiums]

[ Nod. ]

I'm going to call her later, so I'll see if I can find out then.

[ossifragant]

Sounds like a plan.