WEEK TWO

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WEEK TWO

23 Villagers

Three people have fallen and a tower has risen. Along with it, some of the restraints on your mind have dispersed and a memory has returned to you - is it precious, is it painful? Is it cherished, is it loathed?

Mercilessly, dawn breaks on another morning. The rooster still calls, and the crops still need tending to. Rise and shine, Puffin Town! It seems like the residents are not the only thing that has chosen to rise, as a few more establishments have opened up for exploration. The sound of moo-ing near the farms may feel especially inviting here - how about making some new additions to your farms, to drown out your loneliness?

There is no festival just yet but if you question the ducks on it, some excited quacking will herald fun things to come later in the week. Some of the ducks will also wave the gift notes from last week; regardless of murder, being kind to your neighbors is still encouraged! Can't let our beautiful town sink into gloom and doom, right?

(( OOC: Murder proposals are due by Tuesday at 4 PM EST / 1 PM PST, for the current week's murder, but feel free to submit for later weeks if you like!

We have also added a page to report your Astera planting - this does not need to have been threaded, we're just taking stock on an OOC level.

Further, the Gift Mechanic has been updated. All turned in threads will now yield a character specific item as a reward! We're only dipping into the random gacha once all personalized rewards have been given out.))

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[collisionheart]

I guess they’re messing with us…

[ and giving people a place to let their guards down… ]

[enkiboo]

I wouldn't be surprised. The nature of this place is quite contradictory at times, to our detriment.

[ Enkidu says this with ease, and yet...they don't let it all drag them down. There's no reason for that anymore. ]

I hope we can use the fact that there are relaxation facilities to our advantage, instead of it affecting us adversely, however.

[ They are not so optimistic to believe it would forever put off murder. But maybe if it does for a little amount of time, then...]

[collisionheart]

[ Amy nods, staring at them awkwardly for a moment. Then, said too fast: ] I was thinking that... um, I have a friend who might like this sort of thing.

[ beat. anyway. ]

What else is contradictory?

[enkiboo]

Hm? You do?

[ Enkidu asks, anyway. There could be a lot of friends that Amy is thinking of, after all. ]

...Oh, just that given the situation there is the usual atmosphere of this place in general, which gives off a peaceful one. But, we are more or less under a pressure to leave only by murdering someone.

[collisionheart]

[ Right. That. Amy doesn’t know what kind of answer she had been expecting. ]

Y-yeah… I don’t really know how anyone could expect to get away with something like that…

[enkiboo]

I understand why someone would expect as much.

We're all strangers. Just the thought of "if I can fool enough people" can be enough.

[ Which is, well, that way for a lot of situations, really. But this included. ]

[collisionheart]

Even if you fooled enough people… I guess I just don’t understand how someone could go through with it…

Someone else would die in their place.

[enkiboo]

For some people, sacrificing the life of another is easy. Or, even if it is difficult, they are able to justify it if it would benefit them. Or if they can make it acceptable in their head that other life is worth less than their own.

Or perhaps they simply have more lives they think they can exchange for a shorter sacrifice that seems more humane.

[ Even with that may not be the case. ]

[collisionheart]

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

There are so many people here, feeling trapped... [ Amy's hand curls tight into the front of her shirt. Her voice goes low and shaky. ] It's only a matter of time before someone else... thinks it's acceptable...

[enkiboo]

Oh, that's right. There's bound to be someone else.

[ They say straightforwardly, because they really do believe it's inevitable. But... ]

...What we really need is some kind of discouragement against that, however, so we can have more time to tackle the issues of this place.

[collisionheart]

[ It's so awful to even think about... who might make that sort of mistake next, and who might suffer for it... Amy looks down at her hands. ]

I wish... we had had more time to talk to Sora... maybe if could have told everyone if it felt horrible...

He must have regretted it...

[enkiboo]

Regret...

[ Those words get Enkidu to pause, remembering Sora's reactions; his words, his actions, and his feelings. ]

I am uncertain if Sora felt regret in his actions. Not because I believe him to be some monster, but his state of mind clearly allowed him an inability to feel certain things. If there was ever any regret in his heart for what he did, I can only imagine he buried it until it couldn't reach him anymore.

[ Until, maybe, it gripped him in his last moments. But even then...they wondered if there any of it then. Though, it makes them glad that someone could say that, about Sora. ]

[collisionheart]

[ Amy wishes she could say she can't believe it, or can't understand it, but... ]

He sounded like... there was someone he couldn't let go.

[enkiboo]

He couldn't let go, and instead that was what dragged him to his death.

[ There are some people who could never let go, no matter what. Sometimes, to their benefit.

Sometimes, to their detriment. ]

I would like to believe that wasn't always the case, but I wouldn't be able to know either way.