WEEK 4

[bathymetric]

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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library

[thieviusraccoonus]

[Sly rises with normal hours like a normal raccoon man. And he still finds time to head down to the library for reasons only he really knows, coffee in hand because he's gotta break some kind of rule in here.]

Reading up about places you've never been to, huh?

[He scanned the international culture shelves himself, a couple weeks ago.]

There's some pretty good material in there.

[bolderfell]

Sort of. I'm looking for something on "Greek."

[And the book he already has tucked under his arm from the crime section is on confidence tricks. He pauses. There's one more thing he's hoping to find. He didn't know where to start looking, but with Sly here...]

Hey. Are you from Earth, too?

[thieviusraccoonus]

I'm from a Earth, if that's what you're asking.

[A earth for furries and furry crimes.]

And I actually don't think I've been to Greece. They've got nice things to steal, though. I'm sure.

[bolderfell]

Every place has nice things to steal, if you know where to look.

[Duh.]

I'm asking because of that... Pandora story. The one Della brought to the meeting last week. Nobody talked about it then, so... I thought it might be a tale most of you already know. Is it from Earth?

[thieviusraccoonus]

"Pandora story"?

[Well, there's only one really obvious thing that could be.]

You mean, Pandora's box? I've heard that story.

[bolderfell]

I haven't.

[Y'all need to check your Modern Earth privilege, seriously.]

[thieviusraccoonus]

[You're valid, Therion.]

Well... what do you want to know about it?

[bolderfell]

What kind of book would I find it in?

[thieviusraccoonus]

[Shrugs!]

Greek Mythology? [Actually... he'll join him at the shelves, peering at them.] They kind of had a lot of myths like Pandora's box. Of course, maybe they're not really as mythological as I thought.

[Multiple worlds and all that. Aha! He pulls out a book, Mythologies of the world and passes it over.]

But that still doesn't really answer why you're looking into this.

[bolderfell]

[Sly is a gentleman and a scholar of a thief. Therion takes it and immediately starts flipping through the pages.]

It was hidden for us to find--or for someone to find, anyway. Don't you think that means it's important?

[thieviusraccoonus]

[Nah, that's his ancestor, Thaddeus Winslow Cooper III. Sly's just the regular king of charming.]

Well... when Pandora's box opens, all the worst things come out of it.

[bolderfell]

[He pauses in his rifling.]

So... what. Should we look for a box like that?

[thieviusraccoonus]

....Uh, no. It's a metaphor, you know?

[...you know?]

Because hope is at the bottom of the box, under all of that terrible stuff.

[bolderfell]

So... we're supposed to hold onto hope while that "terrible stuff" happens to us. That's what you think the message means.

[Therion lets that stand a moment.]

I'll keep looking for a box.