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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2020-04-18 10:57 am
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FIRST TRIAL

Alright, that seems like more than enough time to poke around the crime scene. Gather at the vault door, won’t you? It seems that for many of you it will be a short walk.

[ Once you’re all gathered at the vault door, Angel meets you there and quietly taps a keycard to the side of it. There’s an enormous whirring and grinding from inside as various mechanisms within the door move and whir - until with one last shuddering thud, the door starts to swing inwards, revealing a fully-glass tunnel leading off the side of the plateau the base is built on. Small lights built into the floor illuminate as you walk forward, until finally they light up an enormous elevator, perfectly capable of holding the twenty-four of you.

Angel comes too, putting a few numbers into a keypad just outside the door and inserting her card key once everyone is inside. She’ll gestures to get in if anyone seems unsure, but doesn’t really speak or enter the car herself. ]


Going down.

[ And down the elevator goes, leaving the lights of the facility behind - from here everyone can even see some parts of the facility you don’t have access to, it’s bigger than you realized. But it’s a long and uncomfortable ride to the depths, at least a minute or two before the elevator stops.

When the doors open, enough lights flash on to show that you’ve reached the ocean floor, some distance below even the depths you knew before. Lights around the outside of the massive glass dome you've found yourselves in illuminate the barren depths of the sea, with little if any ocean life to currently disrupt it.

At the top of the dome, among the lights, is an outward-facing circle of five or six different screens, each showing the telltale spiral that indicates The Professor is as present as he ever is.

Below them, of course, are the podiums, a circle of simple metal stands with some kind of video screen embedded into each, though they’re turned off for now. Each of your names is carved into one of them, though the podium constructed for Aela seems to have been just set to display a blank red light.

The screens lower down until they’re too close to eye level for anyone’s comfort. ]


Welcome to the trial room. You have as long as you need to discover who among you killed The Huntress. Once you have, I will explain further action. Take your places.

[ The screens rise back up - welcome to your first trial. ]
nothingcanstop: (was out of my reach)

[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-18 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone's got cultural differences, Jasper. Come on, you two, stop arguing. We're trying to work together here.
emberserker: Manic smile. (can you not)

[personal profile] emberserker 2020-04-18 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
She started it.
nothingcanstop: (and the world war ii crew‚ they retired)

[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-18 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't care who started it, don't escalate it.

[ she's not mad she's just disappointed ]
hardnosed: (Default)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-04-18 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ but MOOOOOOOOM ]

My point is someone used the sink to wash something. It was full of — dried blood, I think. Does it always go brown?
emberserker: Stern look. (this is why you're wrong)

[personal profile] emberserker 2020-04-18 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, and quickly. Blood oxidizes and dries that way.
ladygeryon: (intense stare)

[personal profile] ladygeryon 2020-04-18 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Human blood does, yes.
bolderfell: The real poisoned apple was the friends we made along the way. (Official art) (APPLE 🗡️ A little Snow White.)

[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-18 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Full of it, huh? ...Maybe the sink wasn't enough. Blood's hard to get out of a lot of things.
ladygeryon: (intense stare)

[personal profile] ladygeryon 2020-04-18 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, you usually need special detergents for that. Though sometimes rinsing out the worst of it under a faucet is still helpful.
hardnosed: (pic#13920933)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-04-18 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Most of it was stained. And it looked... lighter than usual. Like someone watered it down. I don't think that's how it dries.
bolderfell: Four-letter ones, even. (Concept art) (SAY 🗡️ I'll use small words.)

[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-18 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like someone tried to wash it off but didn't wait to make sure all of it went down the drain.
snackooed: <user name=baconplates site=livejournal.com> (ema016)

[personal profile] snackooed 2020-04-18 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It is fairly hard to tell the time in this place. Perhaps they were worried that the morning chime would ring soon...
hardnosed: (pic#13924515)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-04-18 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
If they decided to try the machine instead, would there be blood in there too? Because it sounds like there wasn't anything.
nothingcanstop: (carila papaya)

[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-18 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
...Yeah, I'm starting to wonder if it was someone cleaning up after the fact, or if it was someone who got surprised beforehand.

The question still remains of what was going to be put in the washer...but it's something to keep in mind. Maybe there's no blood because they cleaned up in the bathroom, but then what was the washer for? Something doesn't add up.
hardnosed: (pic#10727951)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-04-18 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ hmmmmmmmmmmmm ]

Did Aela know how the machines worked?
nothingcanstop: (suddenly i'm in a hotel)

[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-18 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
That I don't know. Anyone do laundry with her at all or...?
fivestagegod: (Default)

[personal profile] fivestagegod 2020-04-18 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I taught her how to use them. She asked me about it way back at the start of all this.
hardnosed: (pic#13920984)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-04-18 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
So she wouldn't be the one responsible. Tch — forget it.