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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[ 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! ]

Comments

[snackooed]

I mean, yes, but that's exactly why it's kind of...well, boring!

[ She's sorry, but her stance seems firm on this one..! ]

Like you said, it's just like it's breaking rules, you know? At least until we have the chance to analyze it and see how it works for ourselves, of course. But something about the idea of this, like, super-incredible piece of technology that manages to completely warp our understanding of how things travel through space...

[ What she's trying to say is, it breaks Knox's 4th. ]

I don't know, it just feels like a big old cop-out!

[mouflon]

Unfortunately, I think the ship has already sailed there. Unless you have some other explanation for how we're all here in the first place...?

[snackooed]

Just because I can roll with all of that doesn't mean I have to like it, Rin...

[ She can't help but huff a little..! This isn't important at all, but she's dying on this hill!

...Okay, hopefully not dying, but--! ]

I mean, is it too much to ask for one explanation for something that makes sense with my understanding of science? I like sci-fi as much as the next girl, but I can't get intellectually stimulated when I have to stop thinking about things too hard because the answer is just Unexplained Technology Y...

[mouflon]

Well, this is a parallel world. I said it wouldn't be possible with the underlying rules of my world, but that doesn't mean the underlying rules of this one are the same, and I'd never notice the difference on my own because it's the stuff that makes travel between parallel worlds work without the use of magic and not, like, how gravity works.

[snackooed]

I know what you mean, but as a scientist by trade, it's a frustrating problem! I know in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter all too much, but...

[ She wants to know how things work, darn it! ]

[mouflon]

Would you understand how it works even if it did use conventional physics, though? Like, no offense, but you're a forensic investigator, not a quantum physicist.

[snackooed]

Actually, physics are an important consideration in my field! Of course, chemistry is where my passion lies, but physics play a pretty major role when it comes to, say, determining the trajectory of a bullet, or through blood splatter analysis...

It's not my field of choice, but I do have some degree of an understanding. And there isn't a shortage of reference material in the library that I could use to reacquaint myself. Of course, quantum mechanics can be a whole other can of worms...

[mouflon]

Isn't there, though? I remember the range of topics in there being really skewed...

[ Rin is... not much of a reader either way, so. She hasn't spent much time figuring out what the less extensively covered subjects consist of. ]