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?




SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[ 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

[withagun]

Blending in...?

[ His brow furrows. ]

cw: racism

[allatonce]

Yeah, you know like... everyone in American has names like John or Amy or whatever? So Chinese immigrant parents give their kids American names so nobody, like, bullies them for having a weird name.

[She says it like that's just life. At some point, when racism is that prevalent, you just stop noticing it.]

[withagun]

Oh. I hadn't realized... [ That she's American. But, it makes sense, doesn't it? The principle of it all. ]

...Mm. I...think I get it. No one wants to stand out or...go against the grain...and in that situation...you do automatically.

[ No one, he says, but it's a little...not quite bitter? Just uncomfortable. Just sad. ]

[allatonce]

[distant be more chill]

Yeah. And that's not always bad, but... you know, it can suck if it's all the time.

[withagun]

[ no please keep a squip away from this boy ]

Yeah. I know. It's...suffocating.

[allatonce]

But hey! We all make our own path, huh? And it doesn't really matter what other people think as long as you're being true to yourself.

[withagun]

[ His lips curl to an almost-smile. ]

Uh. Yeah. You think...? Yeah.

[allatonce]

I know. Trying to be something someone else wants... it never ends well. So being yourself is the only way to go.

[withagun]

[ Ah. He wonders, if she was in Tokyo... She wouldn't have told him to go home like the rest. That doesn't seem like how Joy is. ]

...You're...very wise, Joy-san.

[allatonce]

Comes with age, a little bit. You get old enough and see enough things... you learn that the world's weirder than you ever thought and things that seemed insurmountable at 15 are just... so far away from where you are.

[Also sometimes you make a bagel that's a giant black hole and stare at it for hours but you know? She feels like maybe that one's not super universal.]

[withagun]

[ Hodaka feels the need to childishly clarify: ] I'm 16.

That's...really true, though? I just thought it was something grownups said. To be...superior.