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

[honeyedtea]

To... confuse us, perhaps? Or upset us?

[ But even as she says it, she's gradually shaking her head. ]

No... there are plenty of ways for him to do that that don't involve playing around with the days of the week. But surely we can't have just missed a day.

[inaclearing]

I honestly think he can do a lot better.

[What does he care if it's Saturday or Sunday? The days are meaningless around here, and he can tell he didn't actually miss one.

You know. Probably.]

I would think we could tell, if we had. We'd have had to be drugged or something like that, but I feel totally normal.

[honeyedtea]

As do I. And... it certainly isn't possible for us to have simply slept for so long. One or two of us, perhaps, but certainly not all of us. And certainly not without noticing.

[ She'd sounded puzzled before, but now she's starting to sound troubled. ]

Could something have happened...? On Saturday, I mean?

[inaclearing]

...maybe. We know he can pull people through time and space - maybe if there was something he wanted us to forget...

[What that would be, Brett isn't quite sure. But that'd be the point, huh?]

[honeyedtea]

Time and space...

[ She thinks on that for a moment - then perks up as if with an idea. ]

Then is it possible... we skipped Saturday? Rather than forgetting it – we went directly from Friday to Sunday?

[inaclearing]

...interesting. Maybe we did.

[He still doesn't quite know why, but...that's certainly an interesting theory.]

Like, he wanted us to...hurry up and get to the next week, or something?

[honeyedtea]

Perhaps... or–!

[ Oh, now she feels like she's on some sort of a roll. ]

Could it be that something occurs in the city on Saturdays that's... inconvenient to him, somehow? Or it would allow for our escape? After all, many of the city's functions are automated – such as the restaurant? Could it be there's something about the city that functions outside of his control?

[inaclearing]

That's a thought.

[Oh, Brett likes that!]

Say they were going to have a...break day, or something like that, where the employees and everyone could go up to the surface and see people there. Saturday makes sense.

[honeyedtea]

Exactly...! It's possible that if we were left to our own devices on a Saturday, we'd have an easier time of engineering our escape.

[ not that they have any way of confirming that, but... ]

So perhaps we need to ensure one of us stays awake into Saturday this week.

[inaclearing]

I've got Jason and Misfire in my suite, I'm sure they can come up with something.

[lol, the most disruptive roommates]

Maybe we could all try to sit up together.

[honeyedtea]

Yes, I think that would work. The more of you there are, the more successful you'll be at making sure at least one of you stays awake to see the day turn over. Just take care not to put yourselves at risk of breaking the rules.

[inaclearing]

Yeah, yeah, of course. We can all squeeze into one of our rooms, just in case.

[It seems like it shouldn't count under that rule, if the Mayor does something to knock them out, but no reason to chance it.]

[honeyedtea]

Will you have enough room to be comfortable? The suites we've been provided here are quite small as it is...

[ small. those fancy suites are small to her. we gotta do something about rich people, y'all ]

[inaclearing]

[Yeah uh these are pretty nice and fancy suites.....Brett doesn't say that, though, just shrugs.]

It's only one night, and we won't even be sleeping. We can manage.