unknownseas | Week 6

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

Another week at the bottom of the sea. You may start to mark the passage of time by the increasing number of people you seem to be bleeding each week - look how few of you there are now. Nearly half your number gone, and for what? The shadowy machinations of some madman? You've met some others, but they seem unable or unwilling to solve this problem for you. Time marches onwards.

In the abyss, New Rapture starts to wake. It's small things, for now - the lights of a building here and there, the flicker of a neon sign for some small business. The restoration of this city continues.

Speaking of this city, there's a new branch of your little slice of it to explore. It's certainly the most picturesque of the branches you've seen.

There's more to see and do, citizens of New Rapture. And hey, there's coins to get, too.

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[ ooc: Welcome to the sixth 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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[The thunk made Zinda clamber through the window, and Mielle's hiss made her hurry.

Oh-- shit. She's just gonna. Cover Mielle's eyes.]

... I didn' do that. [JUST MAKING IT CLEAR SINCE SHES GOT GUNS ON HER---]

None of us did. Look at him.

[Brett's voice is hollow, shocked - but Fontaine looks like he's been dead a lot longer than this has been going on.]

[Well, something is going on here, so here's the last member of our crew to check this out.]

What's everyone making so much noise ab--

[. . .]

...Oh.

I... I suppose that explains why he did not have a reaction to his apartment getting vandalized...?

It explains why he even has an apartment just accessible here to begin with.

[Mafuyu has shifted right into rational mode. No need to get flustered by yet another dead body, after all, several weeks in, even if this is definitely

an experience.]

I knew it seemed too weird. Too easy.

[He should've stuck to that initial conclusion, maybe.]

[You know what that's fair especially since it's the body of someone they hate.]

But... who is behind all of this, if Fontaine is...?

Someone else...

Why lie about it? I don't get it. There's no point in fooling us, after all.

Unless it is to ruin Fontaine's reputation? But I cannot fathom why they would go through such an effort.

... Or... I suppose the mastermind could have been among us this whole time.

...Hmmm.

[she's doing a think!]

We should stop theorizing about it here. Out loud, at least.

......right. That's a good point.

[......]

I can, um. Finish here.

[There's probably one or two other things to look at in this zone! Brett looks a little green around the gills, but the preserved body of someone he didn't know - has never known, after all this - isn't quite as visceral as the fresh corpse of a friend. He can manage.]

[ Sure! So as far as this area goes, there are the screens that were illuminating the body, as well as a bedroom behind it. ]

[Brett is gonna...just. Pick up the wrench again and use it to wheel Fontaine away from the screens, well away, so that he can get to them without drawing too close to All of That.

What's on the screens?]

[ The screens show security footage of New Rapture. All the areas you've been in, including this week's, get cycled through.

However, there is one image of an area you haven't seen. ]

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Mafuyu. Let's check the bedroom.

[ it's their first date! they need alone time! ]

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[He nods in agreement.]

Certainly. We mustn't point fingers when we haven't the faintest idea what is happening.

Mm. At least for now, we can investigate this space a bit more freely.

[ There's a couple options! ]

[ Is it clinging to Mafuyu time??? Yes, of course it is. ]

This... is Fontaine, isn't it? But how could that be?

Most likely... our Mayor has been lying about who he is?

[There's other fantastical explanations for it, which might have just as much merit, but. This is the most straightforward explanation.]

We never did see him. And we know some of those recordings were digitally altered. They could've gotten recordings of him just like we did, mimicked the voice...

Maybe...?

[...That's a question, actually. She's heard their Mayor's voice plenty. She may not have thought anything of it, what with it maybe just being a matter of audio quality, but.

Did it sound digitally altered...?]

[ Now that you have reason to suspect, thinking back on it? Yeah, that might have been a Frank Fontaine utau. ]

[son of a bitchaloid]

Ah.

[she is deciding to take the course of shutting the fuck up until they can have a meeting, but she sure LOOKS like she just put some stuff together]

... certainly, if you were going to lie about your identity, you would pick anybody else.

[ LIKE... THEY'VE ALL SEEN FONTAINE... ]