Week 2

[bathymetric]

Good morning, New Rapture. A new day is dawning.

It's now been a week since you were all captured. Perhaps you've already settled in. Perhaps you're already confident that you'll make it out of New Rapture alive. How serious about this could Mayor Fontaine possibly be, really?

While there still may not be much to do in your little hotel bubble, you've at least been granted a little more now - some kind of mysterious room and a sizeable library of all things. And in all the places you've looked so far, you've found valuable information, and even learned some of the story of New Rapture along the way.

Make sure to keep talking to the others! You want to keep those regain coins flowing, don't you?




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[ ooc: Welcome to the second week of Unknown Seas Round 3! Please make sure to mark any investigation toplevels accordingly, and you can reach either Mayor Fontaine or Eleanor for conversations! ]

Comments

[fuckingguy]

Eh, it is fine. I was never much for poetry to begin with, and now it's like, "okay, we get it, calm down with the Sufism"... but for a while he was very much the big thing.

[ Wait, can he say Sufism? Obviously it's not the same as saying God, but even discussing mysticism of any kind tends to give vampires the heebie-jeebies. Strange, how it just came out without forethought. ]

What do you usually read?

[honeyedtea]

Mm, usually it's the sort of thing I'm assigned by my tutors. I'd already learned the sort of etiquette a girl my age would be studying by the time I was quite young, so we've been focusing on the history of our country most recently.

[ History books about other worlds might be interesting, but now he's got her thinking about poetry... ]

It has been a while since I've enjoyed any poetry, though. Are there any poets you count among your favourites?

[fuckingguy]

Hmm.

[ Having a nice beard and mustache situation is an extremely helpful shortcut sometimes! Like, if you stroke your beard in silence, it seems like you might be actually thinking about something instead of struggling to remember the name of the gentlemen poet who composed the Hustle. ]

The trouble is that nowadays, most poets are more of a balladeer, singer-songwriter type of thing. They set their verses to music, so it really must be listened to for the full effect. You got, you know, your Robert Seger—

[ This, of course, makes him think of Gail, so he's quick to move on and come up with as many names as possible! Like, not even musicians he particularly cares for, just whatever pops up into his head. ]

—your Stephen Wonders, your William Ocean, your Lady Gaga [ he says guh-gah ], the bard formerly known as Prince... all kinds of stuff. Oh, there was a good one that came out very recently. Very talented young lady, really pulled at the heartstrings. And her name was...

[ claire, you knew this was going to happen ]

... Billy Eyelash!

[honeyedtea]

[ Though it causes me, the human behind the screen, physical pain to read this tag, Mielle simply nods along with bright eyed interest as if this isn't all a concentrated psychological attack to anyone who so happens to overhear it. ]

Bards and poets all have such unusual names, don't they? Though, I imagine you might have to be an unusual sort of person to be able to dedicate so much of your life to poetry and music.

[ She really thinks he 100% knows what he's talking about. God help us. ]

Perhaps we'll be fortunate and gain access to more of the city – there could be facilities for listening to those sorts of things, just as we have the library here.