Week 6

[bathymetric]

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.



SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[ 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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[sastruga]

...Hmmm.

[she's doing a think!]

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

[inaclearing]

......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.]

[bathymetric]

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

[inaclearing]

[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?]

[bathymetric]

[ 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. ]

[inaclearing]

[What's it look like?]

[bathymetric]

[ It's an official-looking building - the quality isn't high enough to tell exactly what, especially with the light as low as it is - but that's honestly not the notable part? The notable part is who - or rather, what - is cleaning it.

They're small - the size of a short adult or so? But there's a lot of them, and they move quickly, erratically. They're cleaning as they go, picking up rubble and scrubbing the walls. Meet the Sparrows. ]

[inaclearing]

Oh. There’s creepy robot guys.

[Sure, of course there are! Brett's no artist, but he’s gonna attempt a quick sketch of one in his notebook.

So, this is just a security monitor? Not a computer one could poke around on?]

[bathymetric]

[ Seems that way, yep. ]

[sastruga]

[from over in the bedroom:] Of course there are.

[honeyedtea]

Mafuyu. Let's check the bedroom.

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

[sastruga]

Mm, alright.

[time to check out a gross dead man's bedroom!

what do we got in here?]

[bathymetric]

[ So! The room is... dusty. Even counting the visible area, this is the worst of it. But there's a track through the dust, leading from the door to a pneumo tube in the wall, and something at the bedside table, if you two want things to look at. ]

[sastruga]

[...Sure, okay. Do we got anything in the tube, or...?]

[bathymetric]

[ Not in the tube itself, but... the area definitely sees some use. There's no dust on the tube, and while individual ones are hard to make out, there's footprint tracks, leading from a foot or so away from the pneumo towards the screen room. Non-human footprints. ]

[sastruga]

[...A quick check at the screen Brett's looking at. And a look at the tracks.

Any chance it matches up with the freaky birdbots? Like, roughly, shapewise.]

[bathymetric]

[ Nope! Also, it would be absolutely wild for someone with feet this big to fit in the pneumo tube. ]

[sastruga]

[Because things can't ever be normal around here!

Does it look like anything they've seen so far, or is this just brand new? It's freaky either way...]

[honeyedtea]

Oh... someone really is living here...

[ If Mafuyu's got the tube, she'll check out the bedside table. ]

[bathymetric]

[ There's a photograph- or, well, there was. The frame still has the title of it, anyway: Fontaine and the 25 Founders, Opening Day. ]

[honeyedtea]

[ hehe more things to steal from the apartment...!!!

Is there anything in the frame itself that's useful or interesting? Or should she just pilfer this. ]

[sastruga]

[time to take everything not nailed down]

[hotpaprika]

[He nods in agreement.]

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

[honeyedtea]

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

[bathymetric]

[ There's a couple options! ]