trustfell | Week 8.

WEEK 8
Regardless of what you think of the most recent deaths, four more people have died this week. Milla Maxwell, Angel, Susan Ashworth, and Aligula are gone now, leaving you with about a quarter of your original number. Thirty-five down to twelve - this can't keep going for much longer, can it?

Is there anything you can do?

Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; come Sunday morning, the clock chimes the hour at seven o'clock and there are no dead bodies to be found, so it can be assumed that all of you are safe for the time being. That said, you'll be feeling a little groggy when you wake up; it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost...

Unlike the previous weeks, however, it seems that either you've reached the end of the line or Jericho has decided to stop rewarding you for your effort; where there would usually be a stairwell to a new floor, you're met with nothing but solid wall. Perhaps it's distressing; perhaps it's a good sign.

Only time will tell, and time isn't something you have a lot of around here.

PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 12

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[OOC: Welcome to week eight 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 Coordinators, you can do so through private meetings with Hilda!]

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Oh.

[...he'll just awkwardly shift the stuff toward Elda then.]

I am making attempts at specialty drinks from Elympios. I've been taking photos of my results.

[...along with himself, of course.]

Man, cameras look like so many different things these days.

[ She laughs, and leans over to sniff the drink. She can't - well, won't - drink it, obviously, but she can try to guess at it from the smell. ]

That they do, and this isn't even my preferred type. It is extremely limiting with the single roll. If I'm going to take cheap photos, I'd much rather use my GHS.

[But that's not really much of a point in a place like this...and when his phone's battery life is more precious than ever.

As for the drink, Elda should be able to sniff out that it's got a whiskey base!]

What's a GHS? One of those things that Chie had?

[ Sniff, sniff. Huh, this smells... oh, it smells like the old country! She nods to herself and then just sort of picks it up to swirl it around a little. ]

This is a GHS-

[He reaches into his jacket pocket and pulls out a red flip phone. The flip part becomes obvious once he flicks it open. He shows it off to Elda.]

It is a mobile phone with a built-in camera. It has other features of course, but we're talking about cameras here, so.

Wait, that is a phone? ... Why would a phone be a camera?

[ Technology is amazing... wait. ]

Oh, right, didn't Sayaka mention that to Rin back at the trial where Chie was dead?

Ah, yes. She did bring them up, didn't she? Yes, this is exactly what she was talking about. I happened to retrieve mine from the vending machine quite some time ago.

[Since he has battery life to spare, he'll go ahead and show Elda the camera function after powering the phone on.]

It's convenient to have a basic camera on a phone. It's one less thing to carry with you, and phones are already useful enough to have on your person at all times. Plus, you can send the photos you take to others via text messages and emails.

How's the phone even work? I thought they pushed the voices through the wires they connect to.

[ ... and what's an email. Still, she does glance at the phone, leaning in to see both the screen and what he's demonstrating about it? Still, let's... well. Start at the basics. ]

[Currently he has the camera function active, so Elda can see what's directly in front of them through the screen, almost like looking through a camera's lens.]

Some phones do. But mobile phones access a network by sending signals to nearby cell towers. Think of them more as radios, only much, much stronger.

Huh. ... I wonder if that's how those Television things work. I thought that was little men in there, but this phone thing can radio over pictures too, if it's got a camera, right?

[...El...da......

Don't judge, don't judge, don't...judge...]

That is exactly how it works in terms of television. Radio waves are sent from towers to television sets, where the waves are received as pictures and sound.

This camera operates the same way, yes. You can send a photo just like you can send your voice.

.... But aren't radio waves sound? Does that mean that pictures are sound too?

Not quite. [It's really technical, and not Rideaux's field of work. He's doing his best to describe it though.] But they can be converted into a signal much like sound can.

... Huh.

Man, I just wish technology would hurry up to the flying cars already.

[...here's where some funny JRPG inconsistencies come in.]

Cars?

... those metal boxes people drive around in? Been around for about a century?

Huh. I assume they must be similar to the motorcycles that Rin described to me. Elympios has no such transportation. We do have trains and ships, but nothing on a "personal use" scale.

[It sounds great, though? He'd like a car.]

Oh yeah, same thing but enclosed and bigger and... four wheels, usually? The whole gist is that people use them to get around. Anyway there's been novels for years that eventually they'd fly.

So...what you're saying is that they'd end up becoming akin to those small flying ships in the novels around here?

[Spaceships, basically. But without the space.]

That's what the books seems to think back in the day.

[ And she wanted to see them.... ]

Perhaps they do exist in one of the worlds represented among us. Though, it may be difficult to tell now...

[With so few of them still around on the living side.]

Mmm, maybe. I wonder who would have that. No one's seemed all that scifi.

Hmm. You know, I would guess Angel's world first. No real reason, just a hunch.

... Oh right, she was an alien and had a machine in her head, didn't she? I bet they have them, now I think of it.

[Okay so he's not going to refute the machine thing, but-]

Technically, most of us could be considered alien to one another. I'd never heard of Earth before, for example.

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