Week 8

[bathymetric]

Good morning, New Rapture. The long night is ending.

Your number is as low as it's going to go. You may not know it for sure yet, but there's something in the cold New Rapture recycled air that suggests maybe things are about to change. An act of defiance against the Mayor actually panned out, and now... the mysteries of the underwater city are beginning to finally reveal themselves to you. How much has been just smoke and mirrors, like the execution room? How much has been real? And how much longer can your captor continue to avoid granting you answers?

No new wing of the city, this week. There are still offices to explore in city hall, if you'd like, but in general you get the feeling that it's going to take a change to make the next new information available. And make no mistake: change is coming, my friends. Stay strong. Stay together. Get any last coins in before the end.



SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY

[ ooc: Welcome to the final week of Unknown Seas Round 3! Please make sure to mark any investigation toplevels accordingly, reply to the endgame planning post, and you can reach either the Mayor or Eleanor for conversations! ]

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SUNDAY

[bathymetric]

INVESTIGATION

[inaclearing]

[Brett finally emerges from Suite Five again well after noon on Sunday, looking sort of groggy and disheveled. The reason for him coming out now is pretty obvious: he's being followed by a small herd. Blake Bortles is here, of course, and also The Great Papyrus (recently renamed) riding Cruger the dog like a horse. Which is probably fine? Look, it's definitely better than Cruger trying to eat him.

Brett takes the entire troop out to the lake, where Blake can swim and catch fish, Cruger can do his dog thing, and Papyrus can...run around with a stick. That's probably fine.

For his own part, Brett is stretched out beneath a tree near the edge of the lake. It's a spot where he isn't really visible from the main path, unless you venture closer. Seems like he's sort of trying to avoid people. That's not to say he's being particularly wary; actually, it kinda looks like he's starting to doze off.

So much so, in fact, that later in the afternoon he appears several feet above the pool and falls in! He flails for a minute before hauling himself out, and sits on the side spluttering. Great. Perfect. Exactly what he wanted.

After that...well, there's nothing to do. He doesn't really want to talk to anyone, and he doesn't exactly have any useful hobbies to work on. So he finally slinks off to city hall to see what he can find with that indigo key. The first office he'd come to that it fits is #7, so let's start there!

Pretty late at night, he finally breaks down and goes to the restaurant for some food. He won't be lingering here long, as when it finally arrives he's definitely gonna just take it back to his suite, but you can still catch him while he's flipping listlessly through the menu or lying down in one of the booths waiting.]

INVESTIGATION

[bathymetric]

[ There's a very clean and organized desk with some kind of massive... Logo? painted onto the wall behind it. The rest of the room is immaculately clean, so there's not much to find... maybe the closet?

There's a portrait of the guy too, at least. ]

[inaclearing]

[.......well that's visibly evil.

Yeah, let's see what this dead creep had in his desk first.]

restaurant

[howveryglib]

[...he sees him lying down and like. uh.]

...Brett, I know you are not doing particularly well, but this is not the best place to take a rest...

[inaclearing]

[Brett sits up sharply at the sound of a voice.]

I'm fine. And I already got dumped in the pool once today, anyway.

investigation

[howveryglib]

[Alright. Even if he's definitely in his feelings, Gaius is... going to try and get back to his routine. At least the gym. He kind of slacked off last week... there's just... a lot going on... at least he doesn't seem particularly off his game.

well. anyway. Today is a good day to investigate! Brett gave him the yellow key, so he's going to head over to city hall and start poking through Room #4! Why not go in numerical order. Let's see what cursed shit he finds while investigating.

Once he has done his duties for the day, he is going to go to the library and... steal some fucking books. Sure. Why not. It feels like they're getting somewhere, so he'll go ahead and see if he can find anything his kids might like...]

investigation

[bathymetric]

[ This is... a surprisingly normal looking office. There's a desk with a little nameplate that reads Reeve Tuesti, a modest couch, some blueprints, and a closet, along with the portrait of its occupant! ]

librarby

[honeyedtea]

[ ... okay well she's not gonna stop him but she IS gonna give him a slightly judgey look about it. ]

... Reduced as our numbers might be, there are still some of us who might enjoy reading those, you know.

Investigation!

[capreelcious]

[ Floyd... seems to be in a pretty decent mood today! He's got way less hard feelings about what went on in the trial, due to Forrest seemingly escaping with his life intact? Dang!

Since Floyd has the green key, he's going to take a little look at Room #5 in City Hall first, if that's not been checked out!

Later on, you can catch him taking a dip in the pool, swimming around and just vibing. Funko Pop Azul is also vibing nearby the edge of the pool too.

When he's no longer vibing with the pool, Floyd is going to try his luck in a few games at the bowling alley! He looks pretty focused with his tongue sticking out!


Afterwards, you can find him wandering around, munching on a plate of octopus carpaccio. ]

Investigation!

[bathymetric]

[ Oh man this one's a little weird, okay. So there's no... furniture, exactly, for a person to sit down or anything? The walls are lined with glass cases that feature a number of figures of... humanoid monsters? There's an empty closet, the only thing of note in the room at all is the computer at the desk at one end of the room, and the super normal portrait at the other. ]

pool

[inaclearing]

[Brett drops out of the fucking sky and falls into the pool!

He doesn't even have time to yell or anything, he must have been asleep-asleep. He does flail around a bit in the water though, so he's not like dead!]

MONDAY

[bathymetric]

investigation!

[onemillion]

[That nervous energy has worked its way out of Rossiu's system by now and he's more or less back to how he usually is. Well. Sort of! While he's not searching for hidden rooms this time, he is going to be going back over all the rooms we have available to investigate them. He's not going to find anything new, but he feels it's important to make sure we didn't miss anything! Feel free to find him anywhere poking through things and searching for any more clues we may have missed.

Of course, during the course of his search he's going to end up investigating the violet key rooms - starting with #9, unless I've gotten my colors mixed up! What's going on in here?

After all of that, you can find him in the restaurant. He's actually working on notes instead of you know. Eating. But he'll look up when he notices your character's presence.]

Good evening. [He's pretty sure it's evening, anyway??] How are you holding up?

investigation!

[bathymetric]

[ This is a surprisingly normal room! There's a desk, some bookshelves, a closet, a big carpet on the ground... one could easily mistake this for the room of someone who isn't uh. Well, the person who the portrait suggests this room belonged to.

Bold text indicates points of interest, knock urself out buddy! ]

restaurant

[capreelcious]

Eh? Evening. Doin' alright, I guess. ...'S kinda quiet. Bluh.

[ Today he's going to make his own food just to mix it up! Floyd props the kitchen door open so he can converse with Rossiu. ]

You?

restaurant

[howveryglib]

[He brought nachos to the fancy restaurant because fuck it. He feels like Eats Children guy is probably not one of the founders you've kind of got to hand it to so he feels kind of like eating nachos in the fancy restaurant...]

Well enough by current standards, I suppose.

[he'll sit down with Rossiu, because why not.]

I imagine you have been investigating, then?

restaurant

[inaclearing]

...fine.

[Brett picks up a menu and wanders over to the card machine. He seems disinclined to elaborate! Also he's just openly lying!]

TUESDAY

[bathymetric]

?????

[bathymetric]

[ It’s the Mayor’s voice that calls out this week, instead of the gentle female voice she has on hand. ]

All right. Meeting room, thirty minutes.

[ Once you’ve all filed into the now-familiar empty room, the screens flick on. The Mayor sounds… slightly exasperated, but just slightly. She’s holding it together pretty well. ]

So. My execution room is broken. My assistant disobeyed me and broke one of you out. You already have all of your areas. I have rats in the walls. There’s a pattern here, and I’m going to stay a step ahead of the writing on the wall. I’m going to go ahead and cut off this chaos at the pass before something worse happens. Pack your bags, everyone. We’re ending this tomorrow. You’re all going to come down to the trial room at noon and we’re gonna have it out. Like a big old final exam.

[ As she speaks, her usual confidence comes back to her, and you get the strong sense there’s something she’s not telling you. ]

As the late Franz Kafka said: "There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe… but not for us."

[ And with that, you’re alone. 24 hours remain. ]

1/2

[specialyellthing]

...Bitch has a lotta nerve, complainin' like she's actually got problems. [ a pause, then--]

[capreelcious]

...So who wants to have a party before we absolutely trash this place tomorrow? I'm thinking a bowling party.

[ YAY VANDALISM!!! ]

[honeyedtea]

So she spends all this time tormenting us and the instant she faces any hardship, she throws a tantrum and shuts it all down. How pathetic.

[ MIELLE YOU HAVE NO ROOM TO TALK... ]

[inaclearing]

[Brett's on a bit of an odd tear today!

After that announcement, he can be found sitting in the library. He's not reading anything; rather, he's carefully tearing large sheafs of paper out of the journal he's been keeping this whole time. He still doesn't react quite in his normal manner if someone joins him - he looks a tad bit wary of everyone, truth be told - but he does ask:]

If you could leave something behind for the next people who come here, what would it be?

[First, he goes to the arboretum, where he walks in an odd measured pattern between several trees before crouching down and digging in the dirt. He buries one of the boxes here, stamping the dirt down when it's finished.

He goes to the church next, pries up a floorboard, and sticks the other box in there. Then he spends a little while jumbling up all the holy symbols on the wall. Look, the puzzles have a point, probably!

Finally, he wanders over to the vending machine. He doesn't have any coins right at the moment, but he does have something else he picked up. Brett spends a minute or two checking the machine over: peering into the coin slot, crouching down to try and look up into the dispenser. He even pokes his arm inside a little, though he draws it out before he risks getting stuck.

There don't seem to be a lot of great options. In the end, he wanders off to the art room and returns with a roll of tape. He picks a spot on the machine's hull and tapes a strip of photo-booth pictures there - pictures of Valerie and Alice having fun together.

Mission accomplished, he pats the machine lightly.]

There you go. It wasn't doing any good where it was...though I guess I'm just assuming you can see it...

[Signs point to probably??? She seems to have some kind of sensory something, anyway???]

Well. Thanks for being here.

Investigation!

[capreelcious]

[ It's Chewsday!!! Time to investigate some more before the ultimate showdown happens tomorrow.

With the red key in hand, Floyd is going to check out Door #2!

Later on, the eel is going to be found wandering around! Mostly between the kitchen and the bowling alley setting things up for the bowling party! He wouldn't mind the help, but also don't get in his way either because he's tall and strong and will accidentally barrel you down. ]