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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. ]
archboxer: (4)

[personal profile] archboxer 2020-04-18 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah... I mean the laundry.

[When the player might have replied to the wrong thing.]
nothingcanstop: (suddenly i'm in the cockpit 🚀)

mods

[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-18 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's duck time

but no, this is something we forgot to ask, can we clarify, any water or soap at all leading out the door? ]
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[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-18 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ THANK BLESS YOU

Della speaks up- ]
There wasn't any trail of water or soap or anything, no.
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[personal profile] archboxer 2020-04-18 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Then if it was as messy as you say...

Nothing was taken out of the laundry room. Is that safe to say?
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[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-18 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She hesitates for a moment, but. ]

I think that's a valid theory.
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[personal profile] archboxer 2020-04-18 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
If there was nothing in the machine but soap then nothing was washed. It could be that the culprit was scared off by it not working correctly or that it was simply a distraction.
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[personal profile] emberserker 2020-04-18 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you certain nothing was simply taken out of the machine after it malfunctioned?
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[personal profile] archboxer 2020-04-18 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
It would have left a trail.
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[personal profile] lovelikeyou 2020-04-18 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't a very good distraction. I don't think we would have noticed, if Della hadn't thought to open the machine.

[Rose isn't all that familiar with the inner workings of a washing machine, herself. The soap thing is a bit of a cipher.]

Maybe they tried that first, and then went to the bathroom to use the sink instead? They could have just bundled whatever it was up so it wouldn't drip.
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[personal profile] nothingcanstop 2020-04-18 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the thing, it was already open. If they wanted us to find it, then...yeah, flood the laundry room. That... I would say that's a good idea, but wasn't there a trail, from the library to the bathroom?
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[personal profile] archboxer 2020-04-18 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
That leads to another question, if they took it out.. would it not have made a mess, too?
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[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-18 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe not if it was small enough. Just wrap it in your shirt.