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

cw: nsfw references, he got the nudie mag

[dullshooter]

[On account of it being depressing for several reasons, Misfire decides to draw the line. Today, no matter how much that pesky thing called 'responsibility' nags at him, he's not going near the meeting room. Even if Grimlock has a fit and starts rampaging and killing everyone. Nuh-uh. Not a chance.

So what instead? To the vending machine of course! It spits out all manners of fantastical garbage, most of it he plans on keeping, but one item is...uhm...]

[Softly:] What the fuck.

[It's the nudie mag it's the goddamn nudie mag. He kind of just stands there, curiously flicking through it, less excited or scandalised and more just-]

Really?

[The magazine will be promptly hidden to any young looking passers-by, but for now, he's judging.]

just putting a blanket nsfw on this

[sixthnonsense]

[Okay so this is definitely Dandy's and not Hagakure's but he's excited to see it anyway. Truly, a beacon of light during these dark times.]

Finally, some actually good reading material! Browsing the library just made me want to sleep.

[dullshooter]

I don’t think there’s much to read…

[Still, he opens it out for Hagakure to see better. Tilts it a bit.]

Gotta say, I didn’t expect Fontaine to be looking out for us in this department.

[sixthnonsense]

I'm taking in information with my eyes, it's close enough.

[With that said, pores over the page with great interest. A small whistle escapes him- he definitely likes what he's seeing.]

Right? I didn't see anything like it in the library... Maybe this one slipped through the cracks because of the vending machine? I've seen some, uh..."interesting" crap drop from it.

[dullshooter]

Stop me if this sounds insane, but…do you think the vending machine is an independent agent?

even if he starts murdering everybody???? MISFIRE; cw emeto

[bootyhunter]

[Dandy catches sight of that particular issue of one of his favorite (and read: only) kinds of subscription-based periodicals. This issue was unforgettable, even for a man of such little commitment to memory that he's one step away from being a perpetual amnesiac.]

Blonde babe, red thong? Keeled over like she's gonna hurl into a plastic bag, but somehow... That ballsy bimbo still manages to make it sexy?

Say it isn't so!

[When Dandy approaches Misfire, it's with an oddly serious, threatening intensity.]

I think you've got something of mine.

[dullshooter]

Oh? Do I now?

[Dangerous words, Dandy!]

What’re you willing to do for it?

[bootyhunter]

[...When he's presented with that challenge, his expression falls flat right away.]

You do know I've read all of it, right?

[dullshooter]

Oh yeah. No doubt.

[He waves it casually.]

Does that mean you won’t need it for the whole of our long and boring stay here?

[bootyhunter]

[His lips curl into a pouty frown.]

If I'm gonna get my rocks off, I'm gonna wait around for the real thing.

[Oh! He sounds surprisingly resolute about all of that, except-]

What do you want?

[dullshooter]

What do you have to offer?

[bootyhunter]

[Instead of saying anything he's gonna sigh and turn on his heels in the other direction??? Dandy...

He will be sneaking a not-so-subtle glance over his shoulder to check if Misfire is looking, though.]

[dullshooter]

[He's looking. He's waiting.]

[bootyhunter]

Nothin' but the shirt off my back, and I'm pretty sure you don't want that!

[dullshooter]

Haven’t you gotten anything from the vending machine?

[howveryglib]

...

There are not. Multiples of those. Are there.

[HE WOULDN'T GIVE A SHIT IF THERE WEREN'T KIDS AROUND LOOK SOLDIERS LIKE THEIR PORNOGRAPHY]

[dullshooter]

Hey, if you want this one, you can just have it. I don’t want it.

[howveryglib]

…I would just prefer they did not end up in the hands of any of our younger companions, that is all.

[dullshooter]

[So paternal…]

I’m pretty sure if there are any more of them, they’ll be piled high in Dandy’s room. I’m counting down the minutes until some internal sensor tells him I’ve got this one.

[The man just has a way of knowing when something lewd is afoot.]

And if a kid tries to sneak a look at this, I’ll roll it up and hit them on the nose with it. That make you feel better?

[howveryglib]

...hm. Yes, that is likely enough, yes.

[he thinks about it.]

Honestly, the majority of the youths here seem about the age where it is not abnormal for them to seek that sort of thing out, but I do have concerns that it may actually prove fatal to Mielle or... well, Jonathan, really.

[dullshooter]

I get Mielle, but Jonathan…?

[He thinks about it for more than a second.]

…No, you’re right. He’d faint on sight.

[A pause.]

But it would be funny.

[howveryglib]

I… would not wish to cause him even more undue distress.

[but honestly there is something in his voice that suggests he kind of agrees that it’d be kinda funny.]

[dullshooter]

Distress is excessive, it’s just the beauty of human anatomy…

[He looks at the magazine in some hope it’ll reinforce his point, but…]

Uh - are spines meant to go that way? Is that normal for you lot?

[howveryglib]

…

[he kind of squints.]

I admit, photography is not terribly common in my homeland as of yet, so I am uncertain what techniques can be used to alter images without being too obvious. For the model’s sake, I hope that some were employed there.

[dullshooter]

You and me both, buddy.

[God, that looks painful.]

No guesses that this isn’t your kind of thing, then?