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

[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?

[howveryglib]

Not this, no. Perhaps when I was a young man with no actual experience it may have held some sort of appeal, but as it is now it feels... juvenile.

...

Or geared to extremely specific tastes, I suppose.

[dullshooter]

We have a decent enough mix of column A and column B here...

[And Dandy, who occupies both.]

Gotta say, though, I can't begin to imagine you as a 'young man'.

[says the 4million year old]

[howveryglib]

Well. One of them can enjoy it.

...

I feel like in some respects, that can be preferable.

[he says like he hasn't been weirdly serious and intense his whole goddamn life.]

[dullshooter]

How so?

[howveryglib]

Does everyone not regret their...

[...wait he's talking to misfire he doesn't want to talk about dumb shit he did when he was younger with fucking misfire]

No, I am not continuing this sentence.

[dullshooter]

Nope. Nuh-uh. You started it, you finish it. Them's the breaks.

[You can't JUST say that to him.]

[howveryglib]

…

I.

Was often reckless in the interest of looking impressive. I am surprised our unit’s field engineer became one of my long time friends, though I think he did find that the machina I wrecked made for good experimental subjects…

[dullshooter]

[Oh. Oh. Misfire's grinning now. Like the pest he is.]

So you were a little showboater, huh? How'd you wreck that thing?

[howveryglib]

...

I tried to execute the maneuver that I believe is commonly referred to as "drifting" on a walker that had two legs.

It does not work with bipedal walkers. They just fall over.

[dullshooter]

[He tries to stifle a laugh but it just comes out as a snort.]

No.

Freaking.

Way.

[howveryglib]

…in my defense the field engineer encouraged it.

[because he was kind of drunk.]

[dullshooter]

Did you have to scold yourself?

[howveryglib]

I am not necessarily certain I had to. …but I certainly was during my time in the infirmary…

[dullshooter]

Oh man. What I'd do to go back in time, head a few universes to the left, and see that.

[howveryglib]

...it really was not that exciting.

[dullshooter]

Of course you’d say that. I’d need to go on with a camera so it can be preserved for the ages.

[howveryglib]

I am extremely glad that no one was there with a camera. I am sure there are people who remember it, but...

[...a lot of them are dead probably?

man.]