Week 5

[bathymetric]

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

Another week, another motive, another trial. Even without a literal time loop, it's easy to start to feel stuck in something of a rut. Though vandalism parties and the like can help shake the feeling somewhat, it's only natural to start going a little... stir-crazy, don't you think?

Fortunately for you, another week brings another new section of New Rapture to investigate. This one is the biggest yet! And look at that fun theme park. And a bar!

Seven of you are dead, but eighteen of you remain. What you do to try to escape is up to you, but at least following :)'s advice gets you coins for stuff, you know?



SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[ ooc: Welcome to the fifth 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

[sastruga]

I think we're all well aware of how... long...

[Mafuyu's words die in her throat as she watches the screens. She sees home, first. Her parents. Well, she's been worrying, of course she has, but the things she's seeing here--]

Mom...?

[She hardly has time to process it before the screen flickers to something different. She sees the SEKAI, falling apart without her -- leaving Miku worse than merely alone. And then the rest of N25...

Kanade...]

That... No, that's... K wouldn't...

[When the wall flickers, she looks over at the cases. She spots hers easily. There's what looks like just a piece of geometry, a jagged grey shape that... looks like it's crumbling. Mafuyu is walking backwards, slowly, on shaky legs, as if being too close to the glass is physically hurting her.]

Ah...

[honeyedtea]

[ It takes a moment but – of course it would be Mafuyu in a state that gets Mielle out of her own head. She hesitates, but then she reaches out to gently catch Mafuyu's hand in her own. ]

... Mafuyu. [ Her voice is surprisingly firm. ] Can you walk?

[sastruga]

Ah... I...

[She tries to force the words out, to just say she's fine. She has to be fine. She has to keep it together. Why is she acting like this now, when this isn't anything she couldn't have imagined herself already?

Was she just trying not to think about it, all this time?]

M-Mm...

[She nods a little, quietly.]

[honeyedtea]

... I see. [ Then, raising her voice just enough to get her attention: ] Miss Zinda? Would you mind helping me take Mafuyu back to the suite? I don't think being here right now is a very good idea.

[specialyellthing]

Huh? [SHES IN MOURNING Y'ALL WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM HER--- oh.

It's Mafuyu. Well. As much as Aerie Two is her baby, and as much as she's panicking a little about what Oracle and the other girls may look like if this is what her plane looks like-- Mafuyu's a living human being. So Zinda lets out a half-effort laugh, and rises back up to her feet.]

Ah, sure Sis. Come on Sparkles, let's go get some air. You wanna get some ice cream on the way? ... A beer?

[sastruga]

[Everything feels a little static-y right now. Her brain is yelling a dozen different things at her and simultaneously blocking it all out.

It's that last part, of all things, that gets her to respond.]

I'm a minor.

[She can't just BREAK THE LAW in this MURDERGAME.]

[specialyellthing]

I won't tell if you two don't. [She winks. It is literally impossible to tell if this woman is serious or not.]

[honeyedtea]

I think tea will do just fine. For all of us.

[ She's kind of... gently herding them both out... ]

[sastruga]

Mom would kill me if I drank, anyway.

[She'll let herself be ushered out, though. She would, in fact, love to not be here right now!]