unknownseas | WEEK 4

Another trial, another week, and still you're probably running lower on answers than you'd like. And on people - you lost three since last Sunday. By the end of this week, you'll have been here for nearly a full month, yet still the days crawl on.

You wake up Sunday, again with no memory of Saturday, but this time with a simple message on your devices: You may resume requesting items, if you like. Enjoy. Guess it really was just a stealth motive after all, but at least it's being communicated that it's over! That's something, at least.

And when you leave your rooms on Sunday, there's another new area to explore! This one is... certainly more ambitious in its construction than the last one, to say the least. But hey, you have a pretty neat place to host parties, if you feel so inclined! That's... fun...

Hey, you gotta find the fun in situations like this where you can! Silver linings, right?

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[ ooc: Welcome to Week 4! Remember to turn in AC here, threads for regain coins here, and if you feel so inclined you can visit Angel's office hours over here! ]

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[SIGH.]

"If you don't want to be alone tonight, come to the bar tonight. We'll have snacks and liquor."

Probably.

...Thank you, Therion.

... Oh! So it does. Astute as always, Therion.

Listen, you pea-brained pervert. It sounds like this was from a previous set. One of those gatherings after a trial. We knew we weren't the first to be brought, but it sounds like we weren't the first to be in a full version of this... exercise, either.

...That's a good point. We don't.

[ Della's glancing at Anna and looking down--at one of her notes.

Angel doesn't know of any other experiments he's run like this
But we can't rule them out considering

Huh. ]

We'll need to search, then. [She touches her arm and sighs.] At least something's turned up.

Doing a deep search of the facility's helped so far... Maybe I'll go back through other rooms. Who knows if these things have been here the whole time, or... [ Something occurs to her. She stops and starts tapping with her pencil again.

If someone on staff put the notes around the facility ]

We don't know yet. All we know is they're evidence that this place was used before, or at least parts of it were.

...So I wonder what it was built for. If it was...you know, this or something else. Like... Who would put a water park in an underwater facility?

Eccentrics with more money than priorities. Maybe this is how he ended up beholden to his superiors. He's in debt for his stupid pursuits.

Huh... That's as good a theory as any. Wonder if he did it just because he could.

Or he thought it'd be amusing to see us react to all that nonsense.

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nothingcanstop - 2020-04-29 06:07 (UTC) - Expand

emberserker - 2020-04-29 15:55 (UTC) - Expand

nothingcanstop - 2020-04-30 00:22 (UTC) - Expand

Pea-brained?!

[not dignifying that with a response]

...

[Therion's not astute enough to figure out whether or not Zelos is making fun of him, so he says nothing.]

So... it's an invite?

Didn't you guys do the same thing a week ago? After we killed Lif?

Wasn't me specifically. But, yeah.

There was a gathering after the last trial, too.

Sure. Whatever.

[Therion very clearly did not go to either of those.]

[He noticed.]

...Thanks for the help.

Just saying. Looks like we're not the only ones who've had to cling to food, drink, and company down here. And we're not the first.

Looks like that's how it is, if that note really means anything. [Signs point to yes.]

Not sure how I feel about accepting the idea that our professor's been through this game more than once.

We don't know that for sure. It could have been something else--and it could have been someone else.

Something else? Like that?

bolderfell - 2020-04-30 15:39 (UTC) - Expand

To something like the gatherings that keep happening after the trials. We've been talking about "if" this happened before, haven't we? If this is what it looks like, there's no question anymore.