FINAL INVESTIGATION

[bathymetric]

Good morning, passengers. You've made landfall.

The ship arrives at the shore of the island early in the morning, suddenly grinding to a halt for the first time in weeks. A ramp is lowered directly onto the beach, and The Captain almost immediately hops down it, laughing the whole while as he does. Jones stands on the ship, not following, and The Captain addresses you:

"Don't take too long! We have business in that lighthouse, you and I."

Without another word, The Captain heads towards a path on the beach that heads lighthouse-ward, but not before turning back again.

"And Jones! Head to your ship and ready the crew for when this is over."

Jones seems... not quite content to do this, whatever it is, but after a minute or so for any last conversation, he vanishes into a wall.

With both of your captors no longer on board, the ship is quiet. Its engines are stalled, the journey over. If you wish to survive the day, you're going to have to go onto that island and face The Captain once and for all.

But first... there are some areas you definitely haven't explored yet! If you're going to go in with all the information you need, might be time to take advantage of this situation...

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[jibunwo]

[He's all packed up with a bag full of junk, letters, a school uniform, and a helmet. So fuck it, let's pile into the elevator looking for trouble to cause.]

[If nothing else immediately stands, out, he's going to go straight for the desk I'm assuming is there and start rifling through it.]

[bathymetric]

[ There's some other stuff to look at in here, but the desk is a decent place to start for sure!

First off, the surface of the desk isn't organized - in fact, it's pretty messy, all things considered, especially by comparison if you've been in here to talk to Jack before. ]

[jibunwo]

[yeah that about scans to his impression of jack as it is, much less our terrible eldritch buddy.]

[What's the state of it; are we looking at a mess of paperwork, junk, paperwork AND junk?]

[bathymetric]

[ Most of it is junk - scrap paper, that sort of thing.

Scattered in particular are the remains of a poor sudoku book that seems to have fallen victim to a blade of some kind. ]

[jibunwo]

[i swear to god if any of you make me do math i will throw lelouch off the boat right now]

[But that's sure suspicious. Let's see if we can't gather those pieces up and take a look at them. Any indication what led it to deserve its unfortunate fate?]

[bathymetric]

[ THE FINAL BOSS OF UNKNOWN SEAS- god no we would never expect any of yall to solve a sudoku to get evidence.

Well, whoever tried this sudoku didn't get far... and if the scribbles are any indication, got very frustrated very quickly. ]

[jibunwo]

[awww, either jack or some horrible green fire ghost has a short temper? if only there was a horrible insufferable noodle goblin child that loves pissing people off!]

[What else have we got in this mess, either math-related or otherwise? Anything kicking about in the drawers?]

[bathymetric]

[ if only!! can you imagine??

There's plenty in the drawers, actually - the first thing he'll find is a picture frame, turned upside-down. ]

[jibunwo]

[well THAT'S certainly not ominous! He'll just take that and flip it right back over--what've we got in the frame?]

[bathymetric]

[ It's a poorly-painted replica of this image! ]

[jibunwo]

...Oh, please don't tell me someone procreated with that.

[sorry, lulu]

[If he were to take it out of the frame, are there any secret picture goodies hidden in here?]

[bathymetric]

[ Nothing relevant, but there is an embarrassing first attempt at this same image on the back. ]

[jibunwo]

[hahaha get dunked dumbass]

[Anything else relevant in or around the disaster desk?]

[magycks]

[ And on his heels is the tiny duck, comedically oversized velvet bag attached to her staff, attempting to physically push the tinier coin shark golem into the elevator. The siren song of Jackbucks is apparently too much for her to withstand! ]

I swear, I will disassemble you coin by coin and leave your remnants at the bottom of the ocean for some dork in a submersible to come upon...!

[ But okay, whether or not Tiffany makes it to the office, if Lelouch is going for the desk, she's looking for the voodoo dolls! We've got priorities here, folks. ]

[bathymetric]

[ The voodoo dolls are indeed pretty easy to find! There's one for each of you still alive. ]

[magycks]

[ AND SHE IMMEDIATELY STABS LELOUno, uh, after getting hers while chuckling darkly, because of course that's the priority... is there any difference between these and the ones in the morgue?

Also are they still wearing outfits made out of their clothes, because that's creepy. ]

[bathymetric]

[ No, actually! Rather than outfits, there seem to be necklaces made of threads from your clothes on them. ]

[magycks]

[ Hmm! Less egregious, but still not great. Is there anything else notable about them, or should she just... try gently tapping Magica De Doll's shoulder before removing the thread? She has to know. ]

[bathymetric]

[ Man, did someone just clap a hand on your shoulder? They're online.

... Until, that is, she removes the thread. Then the weird slight pressure she'll have felt while holding the doll stops. ]

[magycks]

[ Hmm!! Surely she will not misuse this information at any point in the future, it's fine.

Anyway, after removing the boOooooooOoNe, which is presumably a duck's, and tucking it into her cloak, she's going to forgo grabbing all the others while they're still activated, since that would probably be a whole mess, and check around the rest of the office. What else is here to find? ]

[bathymetric]

[ Oh it's super a duck's bone, yeah.

Well, there's a liquor cabinet and a bookshelf for starters. ]

[magycks]

[ Bookshelf, baby! Let's put the moi in grimoire. ]

[bathymetric]

[ Looks like a number of arcane texts on dark magic and voodoo. Your kind of scene, basically. ]

[magycks]

[ Nothing she'd recognize, though, right? No Grimoire Du Merlock up in this library?

Either way, are any of these visibly distinctive? Like, are there any cracked spines or books with bookmarks in them, anything that looks like it's been revisited multiple times? ]

[bathymetric]

[ Nah, nothing she knows. I mean... there might be non-duck-pun versions of duck-pun books? Maybe?

One of them seems to have a couple bookmarks in it - Remedies for Ailments and Enemies. ]