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! ]

Comments

[bathymetric]

[ They're not fresh, exactly, but with the amount of actual dirt here? Yeah, there are some. ]

[inaclearing]

[Cool great love it.....

Can he follow them to anything interesting?]

[bathymetric]

[ They seem to be, in particular, around the recently trimmed and cleaned areas. ]

[inaclearing]

[Yeah, that makes sense.

If there's nothing else going on with that, he'll pick a path and proceed down it - one that takes him further into the ramble. The woods are still there; he's been deep in them for weeks. This is just...literalism.]

[bathymetric]

[ Welcome to the woods! These are hardly like. A full ecosystem - lots of curated different kinds of trees from different areas. So a little bit like all of you, basically!

Each variety of tree comes with a plaque noting what it is and what it's like. ]

[inaclearing]

[Oh no.

Alright, anything unusual on the plaques? If nothing stands out, he may just start looking for weird alien trees.]

[bathymetric]

[ Inspecting the plaques will reveal a single, seemingly random word carved into each. ]

[inaclearing]

[Okay, what are we looking at here?]

[bathymetric]

[ The words seem to be random - you catch fifty, from, and paces near you. Might have to look around for something to tie everything together? ]

[inaclearing]

[Yeah, okay, he'll search around for anything else that seems weird!]

PUZZLE 6: LOST IN THE WOODS

[bathymetric]

[ There's a map in the middle of the Arboretum! It features where to find all the different species of tree in here.

Acacia
Alexandra Palm
Ash
Aspen
Balsa
Black Mangrove
Bottle Palm
California Bay Laurel
Cedar
Cork
Cottonwood
Dogwood
Ebony
Elm
Eucalyptus
Fan Palm
Gumtree
Giant Sequoia
Hemlock
Hickory
Incense Cedar
Ivory Palm
Jacaranda
Juniper
Kentia Palm
Koyamaki
Larch
Locust
Magnolia
Mahogany
Maple
Needle Palm
Oleander
Pine
Poplar
Queen Palm
Quiver Tree
Redwood
Royal Poinciana
Sourwood
Spruce
Sugar Palm
Tamarisk
Trumpet Trees
Tulipwood
Umbrella
Vibernum
Vitex
Willow
Witch-Hazel
Yew
Yucca

And, carved into the corner:

I am not lost, I am ]

[inaclearing]

"I'm not lost, I'm Peter James Howland, and I know everything about the woods because I'm a werewolf."

[He mutters to himself as he reads all this over and jots some stuff down. Of course he's doing this now. This seems so normal and reasonable!

Notes taken to his satisfaction, he sets off to locate the fan palm, whistling to himself as he goes.]

[bathymetric]

[ It's not hard to find! TEN is carved into its plaque. ]

[inaclearing]

[As I have just realized this was a weird way to format that response, his next stops are Oleander, Umbrella, Needle Palm, and Dogwood.]

[bathymetric]

[ PACES
SOUTH
FROM
WITCH-HAZEL ]

[inaclearing]

Okay...

[Brett returns to the map, starts heading towards the witch-hazel...realizes he does not know which way is south and goes back to the map to figure that out...and then goes to the witch-hazel. He can count out ten paces south! Hopefully his steps are roughly the right size!]

[bathymetric]

[ There is a small pile of rocks here! ]

[inaclearing]

[He will crouch down and dig into that!]

[bathymetric]

[ Congrats, Brett, you've found a metal box! ]

[inaclearing]

[Is it unlocked?]

[bathymetric]

[ Sure is! Inside you'll find an indigo key and a number of burned DVDs labeled "Camp Pining Hearts S1D1," "Camp Pining Hearts S1D2," and so on. The first four seasons, at least. ]

[inaclearing]

[MODS THIS IS SO IMPORTANT DO WE HAVE A DVD PLAYER]

[bathymetric]

[ there's a bluray player in the theater that can play dvds!! Enjoy :)

(Yes it is the actual show, no there are no secrets or anything on the discs. Just camp vibes.) ]