RECORDING 10: THE FOURTH WEEK.

[foundationmods]

A fourth week in this place begins, with less of your number among you. The last trial took it's toll, along with the death of an innocent person - executed at behest of the rules of this game.

When you wake up - it's clear the Miasma has yet again gotten thicker. Everyone, including those who were divinely protected until this week, are now even more deeply affected by the curse - though those who possess nullification powers are still safe. Arguments will be flaring up more, along with negative thoughts and feelings...and even more worrying is now that occasional flashes of bad memories will come to the forefront.

Any magic that touches the house itself will corrode over time, just like last week. If a barrier is put in place and touches the floor, walls, or ceiling, in half a day it will be completely consumed by the miasma and fizzle out. Spells or seals will also corrode, and now healing has been drastically reduced to even the most powerful of spells only healing minor injuries.

You will not be able to save a grievously injured person from death through spells anymore.

The Temperature still remains in about the 60's, thankfully - though it is staying on the 'lower' end of the scale. As before, the rooms have changed, so hopefully you kept anything essential in the static area.

21 of your number still remain.

...What new horrors await you this week?


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Comments

[cw_suicide]

What's the point in trying to hide what the votes were? The ghosts know who voted what. And they want us to keep quiet and stew in paranoia and distrust. By not simply admitting to a vote which makes complete logical sense, all you've done is create the breach Ky-kun was desperately trying to avoid creating.

[foxetious]

I don’t see you asking everyone for their votes, Dazai-kun. You’ve asked people to assume they’re on a list the malicious ghosts who want us to kill each other produced, and admit fault. Yes, I voted for Rin, if you need me to say it. But I won’t say who I voted for just because someone announces to a room of 20 people, “I know what you did”.

If you’re really concerned for transparency, you would have everyone announce who they vote for, with a person watching as they write it, during the trial.

[cw_suicide]

If you want transparency: this is just making me wish I hadn't changed my vote back to Rosa-san.

[foxetious]

You’re free to do so, Dazai-kun. No one said you can’t base your votes on your opinion.

[sageking]

And you're saying that doing this idiotic sing song and dance continuously will be to our benefit? Don't make me laugh, mongrel.

We've enough paranoia and distrust as it is. Simply stating only a few people's votes will create enough resentment on its own.

[cw_suicide]

Why should there be resentment from anyone other than Battler-kun?

You had a perfectly sensible reason to vote Rin-chan out. There was no need to try to discredit anyone or place the blame on someone who only wanted to keep things from getting worse or hesitate in admission.

In fact, the only person I could see as having any reason to hesitate would be Romani-sensei. And that's purely because of his connection with Battler-kun.

[sageking]

[ He'll raise a brow at the first sentence, as if he doubted the question. Rin seemed like a fairly sociable person to him.

...Admittedly, he was concerned that people would see Romani as a valid target, knowing what he voted, which was one of those things. Besides the fact that this would fracture the group.

Then again, he supposed thereby them having this discussion and him even being angry in the first place AND Battler's breakdown, the ghosts got what they wanted in the end. What a shame. ]

Discredit you? Hmph, speaking honestly I'd reached the logical answer that you had come upon information that was designed to be that because of how little both of you explained how you were lead to the conclusion in the first place.

Keep in mind where we are. How was I to trust that what you recovered was valid in any way? Why wouldn't I believe that this place would try to twist our perceptions or provide misleading information? I didn't even know who or which people's names were on the note in first place. All of you simply stated that it seemed to be in regards to the last trial, in which people had either made the decision to vote Zabuza alongside some innocent or simply two innocents.

In the end, these actions seemed to be more or less indicative of a witch hunt, regardless of your original intentions.

These factors coupled with a myriad other ones were reason enough to hold back, not knowing the entirety of the information that was disclosed on the note until it was revealed that it was simply 'votes' and some names. Before that point, it wasn't a matter of hesitation, but careful evaluation of the information you had apparently 'came' to receive.

The fact remains both of you handled this poorly and that shows.

[cw_suicide]

I'm the one person in this damned house not affected by the miasma besides Battler. If I'm a fool for anything, it's forgetting how people could become so paranoid in their thinking due to the influences here.

There has only been one death of an innocent that was voted on. What other vote would cause such discord if people try to hide it? We already know there's a division when it comes to Zabuza. But even then, the votes here had reason. Which I said, from the beginning.

There was zero reason for hesitation in this matter. Ky-kun was distressed but I had already made it clear there was sound reasoning behind the votes. Why could you, of all people, dear king, not own up to a perfectly sound reason for your vote?

[sageking]

Yes, you are. And you would do well to remember that when the miasma levels inevitably rise the longer we stay here.

I can think of another vote that could've caused discord. Perhaps a few others ones, in fact, despite of the obvious fact that no one else innocent except Rin had died.

[ It seems to him that people had voted for Rosa, which was to be expected, he supposed. And he could imagine the look on some of these fools if it was outed that some of their friends were voted for. ]

It's not a matter of 'owning up to a perfectly sound reason for my vote', you fool. I already explained the circumstances; I've no need to kowtow before everyone to elaborate on why exactly I made the choice I had from the beginning of this nonsense!

And even if that was the case, why didn't YOU start off 'with a sound reason' for your votes?

[cw_suicide]

Ky-kun and I have both admitted to our votes on the innocent vote last round.

We didn't do so at the start because no one made that demand of us and because it doesn't change the fact that we had information the ghosts would have outed one way or another.

But if you'd like, I'll gladly provide you the names of the people I've voted for.

Sho-kun.

Yuri-san.

Zabuza-san.

Rosa-san. Though I nearly voted for Gin-san out of spite. Rosa-san was my choice due to feelings of personal endangerment and I've already spoken with her about it and will continue to do so, so long as she permits.

I never claimed having "sound reasoning" for my own votes. But that's also why it's all the more baffling that people who did have reasoning would hesitate so much.

For now, it's best to leave off here.

[sageking]

...Hmph.

My other vote was Zabuza, and for the previous trials our votes will match up as the same.

It's hardly baffling considering the explanation I've given you. Keep in mind that offering such reasoning right from the start wouldn't make sense.

But, very well, I'm content to end this here.

[ As civilly as they could and he'll need to check on Romani. So he'll head over to the Doctor. ]

[foxetious]

[Why do they keep agreeing, like damn. You go Gil, dispense that good logic.]

[sageking]

[ how this keeps happening we don't know ]