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! ]

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[bathymetric]

[ There is! The counter features 26 different ice cream flavors, then the toppings, then an old-timey register!

There's a large envelope under the register, but nothing of note in it. ]

[dullshooter]

[Does it say anything on the front?]

[bathymetric]

[ let's pretend gmail absolutely made the fact that you had tagged this back super easy to see-

New Posters For Winter ]

[dullshooter]

[But...there's nothing in there, right?]

Oh God, it's a riddle, isn't it? This better not be a bloody riddle.

[He's going to desperately check the walls for posters to deconfirm his riddle fears.]

[bathymetric]

[ Pronouns...... there is in fact a small stack of posters in the envelope. And seven posters around the room! ]

[dullshooter]

[Oh boy I totally misread that. Call it method RPing.

At least it's not a riddle. Maybe. Not yet.]

Seven posters, seven letters...I'm connecting the dots.

[What resemblence do the small stack hold to the ones around the room, if any?]

[bathymetric]

[ They appear to be the same slightly creepy images of kids enjoying ice cream, but with different clothes and different flavors! ]

[dullshooter]

[Between this and the murders, human children are terrifying.

What differences in clothes and flavors are we looking at here. Maybe this is some kind of clue. Connection. We can only hope.]

[bathymetric]

[ In the... fall posters, let's call them, the kids are wearing light jackets! In the winter posters they're wearing parkas, which... is sort of a moot point underwater but sure?

Each poster advertises a different flavor! The fall posters advertise Butter Pecan, Arctic Rush, English Toffee, Huckleberry, Tutti Frutti, Jelly + Peanut Butter, and Orange Sherbet!

The corresponding winter posters advertise Rocky Road, Zabaglione, X-Tra Dark Chocolate, Whiskey Raisin, Ube, Very Cherry, and Rocky Road.

The complete list of flavors available in the front, for reference, is as follows:

Arctic Rush
Butter Pecan
Chocolate
Dreamsicle
English Toffee
French Vanilla
Googleberry
Huckleberry
Irish Coffee
Jelly + Peanut Butter
Kona Coffee Chip
Lemon Sherbert
Mint Chip
Neapolitan
Orange Sherbert
Pistachio
Quince Delight
Rocky Road
Spumoni
Tutti Frutti
Ube
Very Cherry
Whiskey Raisin
X-Tra Dark Chocolate
Yuzu
Zabaglione ]

[dullshooter]

[OOCly, I’m convinced this involves complicated word math and was starting to go Pepe Silvia on this.

ICly, this will not cross misfire’s mind. He’s going to try BAEHTJO and RZXWUVR.]

[bathymetric]

[ No dice. Tragically, it looks like you're doing.... Word Math. ]

[dullshooter]

[let's go word math!!!!

let's try...PYSOALK?]

[bathymetric]

[ Not... quite, but something about those letters seems to work. ]

[dullshooter]

[A very silly mistake was made here.

PYSOALC?]

[bathymetric]

[ Even closer! Maybe they need to be in a different order? ]

[dullshooter]

[a try in alphabetical order… ACLOPSY

second attempt is CALYPSO and if it’s the other anagram COSPLAY a shoe will be eaten.]

[bathymetric]

[ CALYPSO works! The box clicks open! ]

[dullshooter]

Score.

[What’s in the box?]

[bathymetric]

[ There's an orange key, a CD, and a small notebook. ]

[dullshooter]

[He’s pinching all of those. The CD can be listened to later, but he’ll flick through the notebook now. Anything interesting in there?]

[bathymetric]

[ It's a bunch of nonsense. ... That or heavily encoded notes. ]

[dullshooter]

[So he’s gonna offload that onto someone who likes dealing with that sort of thing... Are there any CD players in this joint?]

[bathymetric]

[ Not this week! However, it does have a cover - it's a copy of The Clash at Demonhead's self-titled LP! ]

[dullshooter]

[This EP looks like a transformative experience that will simply have to wait. Any more information he can get from first-glancing at all this stuff?]

[bathymetric]

[ Nope!

And if he does listen to it, it's a pretty neat album but nothing like. Plot-wise special. ]