Week 2

[bathymetric]

Good morning, New Rapture. A new day is dawning.

It's now been a week since you were all captured. Perhaps you've already settled in. Perhaps you're already confident that you'll make it out of New Rapture alive. How serious about this could Mayor Fontaine possibly be, really?

While there still may not be much to do in your little hotel bubble, you've at least been granted a little more now - some kind of mysterious room and a sizeable library of all things. And in all the places you've looked so far, you've found valuable information, and even learned some of the story of New Rapture along the way.

Make sure to keep talking to the others! You want to keep those regain coins flowing, don't you?




SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[ ooc: Welcome to the second week of Unknown Seas Round 3! Please make sure to mark any investigation toplevels accordingly, and you can reach either Mayor Fontaine or Eleanor for conversations! ]

Comments

[kninja]

Hmmm…

[It’s a good question, actually, to anyone for whom trust isn’t a matter of course.]

Experience, I s’pose. I’ve been with them for a long time, now. It’s like… when you first pick up a hobby.

[He was definitely going to analogize it to learning a new weapon, but remembered in time that his experiences are not universal.]

At first you do it ‘cause it’s fun, even if you’re bad at it, right? But over time, it gets so you can do it in your sleep. It’s like that with them. The good feeling I got about them the first time we met is something way more solid and dependable now, after all the times we’ve helped one another. I don’t know how else to describe it.

[withagun]

[ He turns this over in his mind, lips pressed tightly together. ]

And you're sure they won't double-cross you?

[kninja]

Yes.

[That simply.]

Like I said, I’ve been with them a long time. I’ve made that judgment based what I’ve seen them do with my own eyes, for one another—and for me.

[withagun]

...I see.

[ Time. It takes time. Time, that he doesn't have. ]

I guess...that's the only assurance you could have.

[kninja]

Well, it also helps that even if they did turn me out for some reason, I’m sure I’d live. I’ve had to pick myself up and make my own way before. When you’ve survived something once, it’s not so scary anymore.

[Which is also a time and experience thing, really.]

…Are you worried about that sort of thing? Getting double-crossed?

[withagun]

[ ... ]

I'm...worried about a lot of things.

[kninja]

[For a short time, Obi just lets that stand between them, acknowledging the vagueness for the shield it is. Finally, he dips his chin.]

I’m not going anywhere for a while. If you wanna talk about it, I’m around. If not…

[He shrugs.]

I’m still around.

[withagun]

[ There's a pit in his stomach. He wants to. He wants so badly to rely on someone else. ]

...Okay. Thank you, Obi-san.

[ But, ultimately, Hodaka is too scared. Far, far too scared. ]