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

[mouflon]

Not exactly, but the idea of some technology capable of suppressing it doesn't seem like a big leap to me. Especially given the rest of this place...

If it were just a case of my magic circuits being rusty, though, I would still be able to feel them. That's what makes me think things are being blocked altogether. To use your comparison, even without muscle memory, you can still feel that your arm is there.

[reallyhatesharks]

So something about this place is just keeping everyone from being able to use magic. [Weird. About what she expected, but weird.] Or maybe it doesn't exist here? Would that affect if you could use it or not?

[mouflon]

Even if there isn't any mana in this world, all magi from mine produce a little bit inside their own bodies. The kind of magecraft I specialize in is specifically adapted to work in low-mana environments, anyway.

My working theory is that there's something being circulated through this facility, or maybe in the plateau underneath us, that's dampening all our abilities.

[reallyhatesharks]

That makes sense. There's reasons to build a facility at the bottom of the ocean for privacy reasons, but if there was some energy here that was useful I'd understand it more.

[mouflon]

Or it might just be that it's more convenient to hollow out the rock here than most places above sea level. It could even be a combination of all of the above. Somewhere that provides secrecy, an energy source, and a convenient place to house a generator is pretty ideal, don't you think?

[reallyhatesharks]

Yeah, if it were on land. I used to work in top-secret locations like this and we didn't build them underwater because it's stupid difficult and not worth the effort. Abandoned warehouse? Same deal and you don't have to make sure the whole thing won't crush under a slightly pressure change.

[Magic obviously makes that easier, but probably not so easy it would be a first choice. In her opinion, at least.]

[mouflon]

Fair enough. Okay, how about we add in a fourth factor, then. I can't imagine any sort of land facility would achieve the same degree of isolation that we have here.

[reallyhatesharks]

Not unless you're underground or in a cave, which. Same issues with having building issues so. Yeah, I'd go for underwater.

[mouflon]

Right. Plus, there's stuff built into the rock underneath us... Even underwater, it might be easier to build into the wall of a rock plateau than to dig past a certain depth underground.