Week 3

[bathymetric]

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

It's a strange sort of feeling, waking up on Sunday. Not the least because, well... you fell asleep on Friday, didn't you? Whether you sleep or not, none of you remember Saturday. Everything, by all accounts, seems to be Sunday. Weird.

It's not all bizarre feelings of lost time that you have to show for your efforts, though - it seems that another wing of New Rapture is ready for you. Perhaps there's more information to be found about your situation there... and maybe more about the history of this place, if that interests you.

There are still 23 of you left... Keep getting to know them. There's regains to get, after all!




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, post your ac, and you can reach either Mayor Fontaine or Eleanor for conversations! ]

Comments

[pairtner]

I haven't tried it yet. That vending machine is unnatural.

[Aiba used her x-ray vision on it and the insides are eldritch in nature, or at least that's the closest word she can use for it. Such are the wonders of the murdergame vending machine!]

[buriedstar]

Why's that? They're not usually shaped like this, but it's some kind of gaccha machine.

[pairtner]

I used x-ray vision to investigate what's inside, attempting to figure out if there were other pets inside, and how it could hold a number of large objects.

...I wouldn't know how to begin describing the inside of that machine. I don't...understand it. At all.

[buriedstar]

[ ...this sounds familiar, actually. ]

Is it a mess of indecipherable code or objects? It's probably not meant to be interacted with on a true sight level, so it's scrambled.

[pairtner]

That would be close enough to what I saw -- countless objects occupying the same locations in spacetime, despite how impossible that should be.

[Definitely shouldn't be interacted on any kind of sight level, that she is sure of. It's pretty awful!]

[buriedstar]

Usually anti-vision is tied to an object...but we'd have to find it and then destroy it, possibly beyond regular means. I don't think it's worth pursuing for now, but it's something to keep in mind if the circumstances changed.

[ His hand has moved under his chin, pensive. ]

Have you found any other areas that look similar?

[pairtner]

Nothing. Every time I have attempted to find a new location we haven't accessed or tried to figure anything out, either there's nothing to find or the Mayor has taken measures to stop me -- but none of it is like this machine.

[The benefits of she being really small is that she can sneak into things like ventilation ducts and stuff but she won't be getting any spoilers of things to come, hah!]

[buriedstar]

Out of all the things to anti-vision... though it's possible he's letting you see this one as a tease. Anything actually worth seeing might be behind better protection than you're able to get through right now.

[ Sigh. ]

Normally I'd be able to help you, even if my methods aren't as specialized like assassins or treasure hunters.

[pairtner]

Help by using more MMO mechanics?

[Even though Aiba sounded skeptical with that question, she...has to accept maybe other worlds have their own logic and rules somehow, rules beyond her comprehension right now. Joy's anecdotes have helped a lot to understand that.

But geez it still is hard to believe, especially for someone like Aiba, who is a staunch realist]

[buriedstar]

[ Huff. ]

Class mechanics, yes. Though with mages, our specialty is more on hiding things than revealing them. That being said in a situation like this one, brute force would probably do the trick.

[ Your security doesn't matter if he just drops meteors everywhere. ]

[pairtner]

I do like to use brute force when the opportunity arises. [Nothing like hitting objects and people and some casual destruction in Somniums] Unfortunately I won't be able to make that work with this vending machine.

[buriedstar]

Luckily I didn't expect you to. [ Does he need to say it like that? No. ]