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

[dullshooter]

Yeah, you know something's messed up when I'm the one dishing out the advice. Who've you got in there? Your personal trainer?

[He's ... joking. After their conversation, he knows it's probably Date.]

[pairtner]

Trainer? You make it sound like I'm a pet!

[Aiba puffs her cheeks for a moment]

Kaname Date, of course. If it hadn't been him it would have been our boss, Boss. My circle of relationships is small, for reasons that probably are obvious. Being with you all here has expanded it almost tenfold.

[dullshooter]

So you've never known this many people at once before? That's gotta be weird.

[pairtner]

I have seen a lot of people throughout the years, but I never talked with any of them. They don't know I exist, after all.

[Aiba considers something for a moment]

...I...am finding out I don't dislike social interaction, now that I have a chance to experience it. It's interesting!

[It's been nice people know her. It's nice to talk and move around freely. At first she had gotten concerned about it all, but who knows, maybe by the end of the murdergame she will be bummed out she will have to return to being an eye, haha]

[dullshooter]

Good for you! The wider world's been robbed of your straightforward charm for too long.

[Hm...but then he has to consider...]

How do you feel about going back?

[pairtner]

I know. I'm delightful and the world will never know about it.

[Hah, perhaps she should consider creating a name for herself in the wide internet. Who would figure out they're talking to an AI?

...well, apparently one of her dislikes in the new game is solving the obstacles that ask if you're a robot, and I really doubt those can stop her, so hey, maybe she does spend time online, who knows]

I want to go back as soon as possible. Although I do enjoy talking to you all, I have a job to do.

[She knows her role in life and is content with it, yup. AIs are meant to help humanity, after all]

[dullshooter]

[Once Aiba finds out about vtubers its all over.]

You sure you can't convince that guy to let you make a few friends?

[He gestures over to Date, who has been there this whole time and Misfire has barely acknowledged.]

Why'd he keep you on such a tight leash for?

[pairtner]

My existence and those of other AI-Balls are a secret. The place that created me is a special branch of detectives and investigators, so...the general opinion is that the world isn't ready for me.

[Not even Date's own roommate didn't know her roommate/adoptive father had an AI in his fake eye, and she has lived with him for four years. Since a bit ago she knows, but it took literal life-threatening adventures for her to find out]

I'm supposed to self-destruct if taken by a nefarious individual, like it happened now. Since there are backups for my data and I update them constantly, I would just get downloaded into a new eye.

[dullshooter]

Wait.

[Wait a second.]

You…go in-

[He motions to Date, then circles a thumb and forefinger around his own eyelid.]

His eye? You’re not just an AI eyeball, you’re his? AI eyeball? In the most literal way that sentence can be said?

[pairtner]

Correct. It's very literal. Replacing the left eye with an AI-Ball is a normal procedure for agents in that organization.

[Kind of unpleasant to think about, really]

[dullshooter]

And you have to see everything he does?

[His repulsion is misplaced.]

[pairtner]

You learn to tune out everything after a while. I have been with him five years, I can handle anything.

[At least until in the sequel Date tries to watch a VR video of women in bikini splitting watermelons in the beach. Aiba got so fed up she pretty much ran away]

[dullshooter]

[He takes a moment to process that.]

You are far, far stronger than I ever gave you credit for. And for that, Aiba, I am truly and deeply sorry.