WEEK 2

[bathymetric]

So far, good news! You've managed to avoid killing! A week has passed in the facility, but how many more are there to go until one of you tries out Rule Seven? I mean.... we know, but.

No new areas just yet, it remains you guys and yours here for now. Well, and Angel, but again - you don't exactly see her unless you want to. It's more than a little lonely... maybe someone ought to shake things up.



SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[ ooc: Welcome to Week 2, your first case week! Remember to turn in regains here, your AC for last week here, and if you like, come visit Angel's office hours here!

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WEDNESDAY

[bathymetric]

SUPPLY DROP

[bathymetric]

[ There's another package in the Lounge today! It's a little bigger than the last one, but it looks like this week's shipment of things is here.

- Scotch tape for Ema
- A heavily customized set of window shades for Nira
- A film camera and roll of twine for Shelley, with a small attached apology note
- A few DVDs for Mira! The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, and... Les Miserables (2012) ]

[bolderfell]

[Tuesday sure happened. Like others, Therion made himself scarce after first the Professor's meeting, then the one in the lounge. Wednesday shows how he's kept his hands busy. When he leaves Room 24, instead of wearing his cloak, he appears to have tied it as a kind of temporary item bag.

His first stop is the dining area, where he doesn't stay to eat lunch, but rather unceremoniously leaves the following items on a table in the back: A gingerbread house missing all its candy decorations and also one panel of roofing, a Black Lotuss card, a coconut, and a dinner dish that sort of still smells like mapo and/or the brimstone of hell, even though it's been desperately scrubbed clean. Whatever. These are not his problem no more.

His makeshift sack still has plenty in it, though, when he brings it to the fitness room. Its contents, once he unties his cloak and spreads it out, turn out to be strips of fabric, all of different weights and colors. He might have six or seven entire outfits' worth of imperfectly-cut, inch-wide ribbon. Say, are those... tiger stripes? Is. Is that Nic Cage's eye staring out at you from the pile?

He ties a few strands to one of the machines, about waist-high. Once the knot's secure, Therion begins to braid. Since he has to keep tying new strands of fabric to old ones and none of them are the same material, the rope's coming out uneven and lumpy. He'd never make it on Pinterest. But his hands are deft, and ugly cord may be better than none.

He only ever pauses to pop a gumdrop into his mouth.]

fitness room

[snackooed]

[ Oh good, gumdrops, maybe she'll borrow one... ]

Pretty creative use of fabric, there!

[ Despite the somber mood from yesterday, Ema seems like she's in particularly high spirits today. She might just be frustratingly plucky-- ]

Not looking to mess with your rhythm or anything, but when you've got a minute to spare, I wanna show you something cool. Won't take long!

[bolderfell]

[He glances at her, looks down at his rope in progress, and then looks back.]

Is it something you can show me here? Probably have to redo some of this if I tie it off now.

[He's willing to stand here keeping the cord taut if she is.]

[snackooed]

Sure is. You touched this machine, right? At some point, before you went to town with that rope?

[ Picking up what she's putting down? ]

[bolderfell]

[Oho. Yes, he does.]

Hmm. Why don't you tell me?

[drladysounds]

[Shelley got a deliver, hm! Look at that, it's a film camera, with an apology note. Aw. Well, the effort is appreciated!

So there she is at the dining room sitting around with the film camera and examining it all over. She also has the roll of twine, yup. What a trinket this is, how does this work. It's useless without genuine film, but hey, she got something]

This is so old. It's like I have a piece of modern history here in my hands.

[She hasn't seen one of these in so long! Since childhood]

[bolderfell]

...What is it.

[Speaking of history, here's everyone's favorite pseudo-medieval thief.]

[drladysounds]

This? It's a camera.

[He shows the lens]

It's for photos!

[bolderfell]

...

[Does he have to ask. Out loud. After a whole week.]

[drladysounds]

You...don't know what photos are either? It's...I wish I could show you, but it's as if a moment is eternally frozen into one thin piece of paper.

[That has got to be a somewhat roundabout description, but hey, perhaps it works?]

[philoxenia]

[ Here's Mira, dog in tow, peering curiously over at the camera Shelley's got. ]

Oh, wow... That's a really old camera, isn't it?

[drladysounds]

It is! And a roll of twine. [She makes the twine roll a little] It's like it's the seventies down here!

[Twine isn't exclusive to the seventies, Shelley]

[philoxenia]

[ She can't help but laugh lightly. ]

The seventies? That's about... forty, fifty years too early for me.

[drladysounds]

Ooooh, you seem to be from the future...six to twelve years ahead of me! For me, at least. That's refreshing, people here tended to be from the past instead.

[Judging by how some people aren't familiar with washing machines]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Yesterday...was sure something, wasn't it? No one's too happy about the Professor's stunt, and while Della's not too visibly effected, she's still a bit on edge. That means gathering materials. She's been...kind of hoarding the coins before using them. That's sort of how things work, when you grow up with Scrooge McDuck you just kind of...learn how to be a little stingy, save up.

But, enough's enough. Della's got a fistful of coins and a dream! ...To maybe get something she can use to bust out of here.

The results? Interesting. Very interesting. Remarkably interesting. At the vending machine Della just...lines her two spears against the wall (they're so big for her), and pockets her gold tooth, and stares in confusion at the pile of sand, and pops in coin after coin, until she's got no more left.

The problem with all this, of course, is...there is just so much stuff. ]

...Aw, phooey. Should've asked for a bag.

[ So, she's going to spend some time carting these things back to...well, her room. Sure, most of them seem kind of useless, but she can certainly find use for some of them. Okay, probably not the waterfall poster, but they can't all be winners, can they?

After all that...well, they all need a little levity, don't they? So, Della's taking over the TV. ]

Goodbye, smooth jazz, hello tunes!

[ Cue a choreographed dance routine. It's...a little shaky, in some areas? Mostly around when she needs to do something fancy with her prosthetic leg. But it's honestly very good.

After the dancing gets old she collapses into a chair and just listens to the rest of the album, which includes some other jams. There's more than just two songs but please just...imagine your own, they've all got deliciously 90's names like "Go 4 U" and "Breakdown!" and "B4 Tomorrow" or the like. Please have fun with it.

Della's singing under her breath and just...flipping through a guidebook, looking all soft and nostalgic and all that. ]

[snackooed]

Talk about a blast from the past...

[ The 90's are a bit before Ema's time, but she did have an older sister, and all of the hand-me-downs that come with that privilege. So even though it's been quite some time since she's heard a song with a title like "Gotta B With Me," it's certainly sending her. She's happened to catch the tail end of the album, but that doesn't mean it throws her for any less of a loop. ]

They really don't make music that sounds like this anymore, do they?

[nothingcanstop]

[ Here Della is, humming along. She shoots Ema a grin, looking up over the top of the book she has her bill in. ]

They certainly don't. A little Powerline's just what the doctor ordered to take the edge off.

[snackooed]

It's definitely better at putting a spring in your step than...whatever elevator music was blasting through these speakers the last week or so.

[ She flashes a smile right back, and parks herself across from her. Might as well get comfy and listen to the rest, right? ]

Are you reading anything good there to go along with it? All of the stuff I've found here is pretty dry...

[nothingcanstop]

It wasn't something in the library, that's for sure.

[ She holds it up, the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook. ]

This is mine. From when I was a kid.

vending machine

[thieviusraccoonus]

So, this is what happens when you put those coins in.

[Sly's moderately interested in checking out the machine now, seeing as people just keep getting things from it. He's intrigued by the spears and the glimpse of gold before it was pocketed, but the sand...]

Hard to believe all that's fitting inside there.

[nothingcanstop]

It's probably some kind of pocket dimension or cursed artifact magic going on.

[ Just gonna say that with a straight face, Della? Alright... ]

[thieviusraccoonus]

....Normally, I think I'd be a little skeptical about that, but I've seen some pretty crazy things in my life. So, I guess I'll have to go for pocket dimension.

[Because, on the other hand...]

Although... being cursed would probably explain all the sand that's now getting into everything.

[nothingcanstop]

Yeaaah, you know the sand was a bit of a surprise. Everything else's been a distinct object.

[ no one tell her about poor aela and the sea water ]