trustfelled | Week 6.

WEEK 6
Only two died this week; it still feels strange, maybe, but with the deaths of Mozu and Yang Xiao Long, it's difficult to ignore that your numbers are lower. You're almost down to half of the group you started with.

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...

As before, another set of doors has opened up, this time branching off of the eastern corridor toward the north. Feel free to explore as much as you like; perhaps you've earned it.

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That'd be the best case scenario. [And the one anyone would want to see]

I hope Juri-san doesn't take badly the lack of victims.

I hope so too, but...

It seems like the only things he can feel are hatred, anger and spite. I'm bracing myself for a worse case scenario to follow this.

[Whatever that could be. They've already gotten an existential crisis, what could possibly top that?]

If we make it through this, it's going to be through our own resolve, and nothing else.

[Naoto crosses her arms, thoughtful, but she also looks...kind of wistful?]

Juri-san has a broader range of emotions than you're giving him credit for. I heard everything he said to you, but I think...he was trying to get you angry.

[She doesn't mean to defend Juri's actions, but Naoto does think there's a lot more to Juri than people think]

You're right. It's good most of us are the type that never gives up. I have no doubts someday we'll manage to overcome this dreadful game.

... yes, I understood that much. You don't tell someone you hate them if you want them to be on your side.

[She shakes her head.] But if he's not ignorant by nature, then he is by choice, which might be worse -- especially when he refuses to justify anything he does. And talks to us like that when we suggest that he should.

As if it's only for our own sakes that we care about the kind of person he is.

...do you think he's hiding something regarding his past? Like...he could have a reason to be afraid of getting attached to people again, even if it's a group of strangers in a game like this?

[She considers it, but doesn't answer outright. She can't be sure.]

... well, it would explain why he's so hung up on whether or not he's playing favorites with us. That, or Ferid being so... erm... affectionate is rubbing him the wrong way.

I wouldn't be surprised if Bathory-san's behavior got him frightened enough to stay away from the reunions and parties.

I know I would have stayed away too if Bathory-san and Aligula-san's affection was the first contact I had with a group of people.

[They can be rather repelling, one needs a lot of fortitude to endure his company]

Same here. [She glances around, briefly, to ensure they're not in earshot before adding,] They were just shy of being stalkers, and I don't know if they've gotten much better. Honestly, it reminds me of some of my least favorite patrons to my shows...

[She sighs, resignedly, and folds her hands behind her head.] Maybe that's why this all bothers me. He does so many little things, drops so many signs, that he's not actually all that bad. That he's... even relateable, to some degree. And then when it's time for business, his actions turn him into a person that I can barely reconcile with the first. There's been a few times I've thought he must be two different people.

Edited 2016-08-16 23:25 (UTC)

I think they have gotten much better. At least they aren't asking us to inquire to each other what vegetable represents us better.

[Well, Aligula is still rather interested in everyone's love life but that's natural of her, and Ferid...yeah, no excuse for Ferid]

I have been talking to him every week, and most of the time I'm intrigued by his behavior...

...

...he once said he wouldn't mind if I lived with him if I needed to stay in this world after all this was over. It was...rather unexpected.

Edited 2016-08-17 00:34 (UTC)

[Jean would comment more on Aligula and Ferid, but when she hears what Juri told Naoto... she looks taken aback.]

He really said that? But... I mean... why would that even be something he'd consider as an option? Did something happen to your world as well, or...?

The week I had talked with Juri-san about it my world was indeed at risk, so I was considering...the reason why I left my world was because humanity was perishing.

[Naoto says that with a shrug. Looks like she isn't very concerned about that now]

But further memories show me my friends and I managed to stop the destruction of humanity, and that although it almost happened again, it was stopped as well.

[But now that you say something...]

"As well", Jean-san? Was something happening to yours?

Edited 2016-08-17 03:15 (UTC)

I suppose "something" is a way of putting it, yes.

[And unlike Naoto, she's very much concerned about it.]

Humanity was also in peril on my world. An ancient god of destruction had been resurrected, and had us all at his mercy. He... had planned everything out, from start to finish, and we were cornered into a no-win scenario.

Either he would drain all life out of the planet and turn us all into monsters... or we unleash a power strong enough to take him out, and wipe out all life on our planet as collateral damage.

It's miraculous that I'm here, really.

That's a tough situation...

[Hmmmmm...]

Was that your most recent memory?

Chronologically, yes.

This week, I learned more on the ugly truths about what led to that. Gods don't just summon themselves on their own. It takes a lot of anger and suffering, and... the spilling of innocent blood.

...that's starting to sound like an universal constant. In my home the gods that caused trouble were summoned that way too.

[And it's more true than Naoto thinks. Looks like gods are jerks!]

So it's possible you and others may have found a way to turn around the situation. Don't lose hope, Jean-san.

... ... ...

I want to believe that. Really, I do. But...

We already lost a planet to him. The one our ancestors came from, long ago. The Blue Star -- from what other people have told me, it sounds like it might be the same one that they call Earth.

You live in another planet?

[Oh wow, space travel must be very advanced in your world, Jean!]

Yes. That was the doing of the goddess Althena. She transformed the Silver Star that orbited it into my home, Lunar.

[Everything is advanced when deities get involved!]

... I suppose it was an apology to us. But also... entrusting us with it. Making sure nothing happened while the Blue Star was being restored.

She believed in us, and we...

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