WEEK 5

[bathymetric]

That's three murders now - and this last trial got more than slightly out of hand. It looks like you might be in for another tough week... or at least, maybe that's just the refusal of this place to change too much. You lose Saturday again, but maybe six-day weeks are starting to feel normal by now. Who knows? The cycle of day and night continues apace, changing so little.

Speaking of change, though, there's a new area to look through, the biggest and most complex yet. And the end of one wing of the facility, from the looks of it - though you can probably guess where more areas might start to open up.

And speaking of opening up (segues!), this week if you're out particularly late, you might sometimes see Angel out and about! So hey, maybe change is on the horizon.

Just gotta hope it's a change for the better, don't you?



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[ ooc: Welcome to Week 5! 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! Or, if you want Angel to come to you, that's now an option! Simply put a prompt after lights-out into your toplevel and indicate you want Angel in the subject line, same as investigations! ]

Comments

[fivestagegod]

[Excellent. Where is it located, exactly, and what does it say assuming it can be made out?]

[bathymetric]

[ Written around one edge of the first tank is the word Sepioteuthis! ]

[fivestagegod]

[What, the...squid? There are informational plaques, presumably they said something about the damn squid-

...Is he going to have to go back and look at the damn squid because god help us he will do that.]

[bathymetric]

[ Medical knowledge comes into play without even having to look at the other tanks! There's nothing off with the squid itself, a lovely specimen of S. lessoniana, but maybe the plaque about it? ]

[fivestagegod]

[...I like to think the other tanks say lessoniana and (it's the fucking squid) but he will verify what those say if anything for completion's sake before going to go check out our friend again.

Nothing weird with the squid, but let's look at the plaque, sure.]

[bathymetric]

[ The middle one has no writing and the far one says lessoniana, but god if only!

It seems, upon inspection, that you might have found another loose tile - of sorts, anyway. ]

[fivestagegod]

[...Okay, letter opener is going to make another appearance here. Can we pry the plaque off, is that what he's doing today.]

[bathymetric]

[ It does pop off! there's a little alcove in it with some rolled-up paper in it. ]

[fivestagegod]

[...Huh. Okay, let's see what the scroll of truth has to say today, sure.]

[bathymetric]

[ "Scroll" isn't the right word for it, "dense academic paper" is closer once it's out! At least Birkin's probably the best person who could have gotten this?

Care to try to get through it? ]

[fivestagegod]

[Look, thankfully he's not like all the do-gooders where he came from, for whom reading is a matter of IS THERE A GIANT UMBRELLA LOGO ON IT? NO? THEN FUCK READING.

We don't pay the Redfields to think,

Since Birkin, however, is in fact paid to think, he'll give it a shot, sure.]

[bathymetric]

[ So it's probably not exactly your field of expertise, Birkin, but it's not something no one outside of the field has ever thought of before, so you can get a decent amount of it.

The author of the paper is blacked out (naturally), and it looks like some chunks of it are missing, but what you can still get is that this is an analysis of the effects of what's described as a cross-language interpretation field, a device created to equalize naturally-spoken language between multiple people. Basically it induces understanding between people who aren't thinking too hard about the language they're using! Apparently it's very early in the trial stages at this point, but the publication year does seem to be 2008. ]

[fivestagegod]

[............................

did he just get infodumped about translation microbes]

[bathymetric]

[ ... it's possible that you did, yes

but at least you know about them??? ]

[fivestagegod]

[HE ABSOLUTELY DOES, MY DUDE

is that all that's in here for now?]

[bathymetric]

[ yup! the only other thing worth noting about the paper is that the section marked Practical Applications in the table of contents is Completely Missing.

Other than that, Area Clear!! ]