Week 5

[bathymetric]

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

Another week, another motive, another trial. Even without a literal time loop, it's easy to start to feel stuck in something of a rut. Though vandalism parties and the like can help shake the feeling somewhat, it's only natural to start going a little... stir-crazy, don't you think?

Fortunately for you, another week brings another new section of New Rapture to investigate. This one is the biggest yet! And look at that fun theme park. And a bar!

Seven of you are dead, but eighteen of you remain. What you do to try to escape is up to you, but at least following :)'s advice gets you coins for stuff, you know?



SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

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

Comments

[visiblepattern]

I imagined they likely returned to Nohr, but I don't know for certain...

[It's kind of hard to keep track of people in another dimension entirely??? Like, he doesn't fault his parents for just not visiting for a while, the whole timeline thing's a mess.]

[inaclearing]

Hm.

[There's something sad about that - that he wasn't close enough to the people who raised him to know anything more than that.]

That really must have been lonely. I'm glad you were safe, of course...but I can't imagine what making that kind of transition must have been like.

[visiblepattern]

It was difficult, but I really did appreciate being around my family again when I could be. There's a lot of them, evidently - I have four aunts and uncles, and several cousins. I also got to spend some time with my father, but I didn't get to know him very well...

[He trails off at that, though, making himself stop. As though he's realizing he said something he probably shouldn't have.]

Ah, it hardly matters, though, it's all right.

[inaclearing]

...hey. You don't have to talk about it.

[Like he said - he's heard enough about the man to draw his own conclusions.]

[visiblepattern]

I know.

[It takes him a moment to try to shake it off, though, and when he smiles it's kind of blank.]

I guess I just wish I had managed to do one thing that actually made him proud of me.

cw: parent death

[inaclearing]

...yeah. I've always wondered what my parents would have thought of me - the person I ended up being. I think there's something primal, in wanting their approval. Their acceptance.

[He wasn't out at thirteen, even to himself. Wasn't at an age where he'd come to know much of their political opinions, or form a guess at what they might think - and now he'll never know. Brett twists his wedding ring idly around his finger.]

But I think that says more about him than it does about you. You're so young, and you're already a medic and a talented artist. You're incredibly accomplished whether he recognizes it or not.

...yeah. cw: parent death

[visiblepattern]

I don't think he's...

[He's quiet. Hesitates.]

I don't think he was a terrible person. Something of a stubborn jerk, of course. He admitted that much to me himself. But I truly don't think he meant badly.

He tried to apologize to me. And to give me Brynhildr. I told him I couldn't take it. That I was afraid to. I inherited it anyway, after he...passed. So I suppose I couldn't even do that right.

oh no cw: parent death

[inaclearing]

...oh. [Brett looks briefly stricken.] I'm sorry, I didn't realize.

[Forrest did mention getting Brynhildr before, he realizes suddenly. Brett had simply thought it was handed down to him. Hadn't realized it was an inheritance. It doesn't entirely change his opinion - a small petty part of him notes that the man might have had a better idea how to parent if he hadn't banished his infant son to a time warp. But, of course, it changes the entire situation. He knows that.]

Don't be so hard on yourself. I don't think anyone knows how to handle...things like that. It's perfectly natural to be scared.

[visiblepattern]

It's not something I've been mentioning. It's all right.

[He's been keeping a lot of things to himself, honestly.]

It isn't something I agonize about. It's just something I've been thinking about lately, I suppose. We've been here for a while; that's likely why.

[inaclearing]

This place brings up stuff like that. Everything happens too fast to even really process.

[It's not like it would all be better if there were more than a week between murders, exactly, but...god, sometimes it's like he can't breathe.]

I'm always here, if you do want to talk about it. [He may not understand all of it, but he does get it.]