Week 4.

[trustfelling]

WEEK 4 Three more Competitors died this past week. Chitoge Kirisaki tried to take matters into her own hands only to be punished as a result while William Flemming and Archie both tried to take the Adjudicator up on his word and escape. Three more of you are gone, but there's no going back now. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; on Sunday morning the clock chimes as it always has, but at least there are no bodies to find today. 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, another set of doors has opened up - this time at the end of the western corridor, leading up and toward the north. Go ahead and explore as much as you like; consider it a reward for surviving another week. COMPETITORS REMAINING: 23

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[OOC: Welcome to week four of Trustfell! Don't forget to save your threads for coins and the activity check, and don't forget to submit this week's activity check and memory regains!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Adjudicator, you can do so here!]

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[glaciates]

[He'll sit across from her, then! Might as well, he's not doing anything else right now.]

Yeah. You too?

[middaymoon]

[ She pauses, then: ]

Since the trial, actually.

[ Since he's sitting with her, she'll close her book and set it aside. ]

There's more tea in the kitchen, if you'd like some.

[glaciates]

Can't say I blame you, I haven't slept well since then either.

[And the dream recently...]

I'll pass though. The kitchen'll be closed soon anyway.

[middaymoon]

[ Mahiru blinks at his statement. ]

It- will, yes.

[ She'd almost finished that as a question - she'd really lost track of time there - and which she thinks it's probably obvious from her tone. Maybe Isaac will be too awkward to notice. ]

It seems as though everyone's dreams have been odd.

[glaciates]

[He notices the momentary hesitation, but he does that all the time so he doesn't think anything about it.]

Yeah. I guess we've still got some memories to regain, so they'll probably be weird like that for awhile longer. It's just strange that there's only one a week.

[middaymoon]

And with such timeliness, as well. Always shortly after a trial, and only ever at night.

[glaciates]

...Well, I guess it's better than knocking us out during the day. Do you think he'd count that as falling asleep outside the room if it hit while we were in here?

[isaac that is absolutely not the thing to get stuck on]

[middaymoon]

That's... certainly a possibility.

[ She considers the options. ]

I'm not sure, however. He's quite firm on his rules, but oddly accommodating as well.

[glaciates]

Is he? I haven't asked him too much about the rules.

[He's been more concerned with his memories...]

[middaymoon]

Not in regards to the rules, but... in a more personal matter, I suppose?

[ Admittedly, she hasn't had a one-on-one conversation with him yet, but based on what she's seen and what she's discussed with others... ]

He could have opted to stay hidden, but didn't. He could choose a safer method of execution, but hasn't. He could have easily forbidden Fern from attacking him and likely gained an excuse to kill her, but decided against it. He could have declined AZ's request, but complied.

[ ... a lot of those involve murder, don't they? ]

He doesn't strike me as a tyrant, is what I mean.

[glaciates]

No, I understand what you're saying. I've been pretty confused by a lot of those things. He was also strangely helpful when I asked him about what was going on? He didn't give me too much information, but he reassured me that everything would make sense in time.

...He's not as terrible as he could be, but in some ways that's just even more confusing.

[middaymoon]

Naoto found that odd, as well. She theorized that someone may have been coercing him into playing this role, since he doesn't seem to take any joy from it.

[ Mahiru doesn't sound convinced, however. ]

[glaciates]

I guess that's possible. But he doesn't seem to hate it either. What do you think?

[middaymoon]

I don't think anyone is coercing him.

[ She speaks plainly, without hesitation. ]

Perhaps his intentions - whatever they are - aren't completely malicious. But the man can shrug off being poisoned or stabbed, move unnaturally fast, and kill with a touch. Anyone capable of coercing someone like him wouldn't have any trouble managing a group like us.

[glaciates]

That's a good point. It's possible that they don't want to for whatever reason... but why leave that to someone else? It seems stupid.

[If you want it done right, do it yourself!!!]

[middaymoon]

Precisely. If he were being coerced and chose to assist us out of spite, I imagine it would be quite difficult to monitor.

[glaciates]

Yeah. Besides, even if that was the case, he's been poisoned by us twice. I don't think he'd be all that eager to help us.

It seems way more likely that he's doing this for his own reasons.

[middaymoon]

Not to mention stabbed and punched as well.

[ Juri's having a rough time, really. ]

I don't think allying with him is necessarily impossible, but I'd wager that's out of our grasp now.

[glaciates]

It seems that way. Personally, I wouldn't want to side with him. Just because he can be alright to talk to doesn't mean he's someone we should trust with anything, even if people do believe that he's not entirely in charge of this.