Week 4

[thecastle]

Week 4

Sunday - Thursday

You've lost four in the past week—Machias, Vanitas, Natalia and Edna. Just in time for the fourth week to roll around, for those of you who are superstitious. But it really isn't like you could forget that death is a common occurrence in this castle, whether you believe in legends or not. Some of you might find solace in the chance to recuperate and move on, if you're still up for companionship with your fellow warriors.

Either way, dawn is soon upon the castle and like it or not, you will all have to face whatever comes this week.

Like before the pattern repeats itself, with new areas revealed for you to explore. It may be that something worth discovering lies in wait to be found, or you can simple enjoy the new additions for what they are. Distractions are most likely welcome, regardless of your feelings of the past week.

SURVIVING WARRIORS: 21

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Comments

[coinflipped]

[Well Eizen's been in and out of it, but he decided he'd join because this seems interesting. And 'sublord' caught his attention. He can only imagine everyone's put it together, though.]

So, what does this all mean? Especially involving the trial room.

[pseudoregelia]

...Maybe some part of the dead still remains? Like ghosts, except they can only haunt the trial room?

[She's really just. Throwing ideas out here. What are ghosts and how do they work.]

[coinflipped]

Maybe. Though once us Malakhim die, we're... gone forever.

[So that part confuses him.]

[pseudoregelia]

This place has also brought people back from the dead though, hasn't it?

I don't know about your world, but that's definitely impossible where I'm from. Maybe they have some way to preserve the souls...?

[Though judging by her uncertainty, this is more thinking aloud than any sure thing.]

[coinflipped]

Not just that, but they've also taken people from different timelines. Edna and I were proof of that. However, it's all still odd to me.

[He's thinking aloud too, because they need to get this sorted out.]

[pseudoregelia]

...We need to know just how much power they have over us. Us... and our very state of existence.

[What a daunting thought...]

[coinflipped]

At this point, I imagine a lot, especially if they were the ones to bring us here like this.

[pseudoregelia]

Madam Lutece said some things that made it sound like grabbing people from different times and worlds wasn't actually that difficult, though...

[But then again, Rosalind had various reasons to know this.]

[coinflipped]

There's nothing like that in my world so it's foreign to me.

[pseudoregelia]

She would explain it better than I could, unfortunately. We should check with her.

[coinflipped]

That would be a good, especially if someone is familiar with the idea.

[originallutece]

Do you want an explanation of the precise process? In terms of sheer power levels . . . mm. It would take a great deal of power, but not an impossible amount. My machine took up two floors of a building, for example, and required three generators, but that's hardly an impossible amount of power to obtain.

[coinflipped]

For Edna and myself there was about one thousand years between our timelines. I would consider that quite significant.

[originallutece]

You're thinking too linearly. One year or a thousand doesn't make a difference, not if you know when and where you want to open a door to. Why should it? If you have the ability to make a door in any world, in any point of time, all it boils down to is a matter of choosing.

[coinflipped]

Too linearly... Are you suggesting alternate timelines?

[originallutece]

Well, those are a thing.

[Much like the sky is blue, her tone suggests.]

Tell me what it is you want to know, exactly.

[coinflipped]

I just wanted to know what was possible.

[A beat.]

Could it be those who have perished are in another timeline?

[originallutece]

It could be. Dead is only a certainty in one universe-- and someone who died in one timeline might have lived in another.

[coinflipped]

That would make sense, even if I'm still attempting to wrap my mind around it.