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?



SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[ 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

[bathymetric]

[ Nope! Some of them don't even seem to be on Earth. ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Any noticeable similarities between them? Length, starting or ending letter...? She'll even check area, if she can find the cities on the Various Maps around the room. ]

[bathymetric]

[ There aren't a lot of similarities in the names... and the locations are actually all over the maps, at different longitudes and latitudes.

... actually, all the maps here appear to have been drawn on the same map grid, just with standard longitude and latitude lines. Huh. ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ ...Okay, maybe it's time to try this from a different angle. Those letters at the top of the blank map. Can she get a look at those? If need be she'll steal the ladder from the library. ]

[bathymetric]

[ Sure! They go in order from A to Z, making a sort of... letter and number grid! ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Sooo if she were to, say, match up where those cities would go onto this blank map, and take down the letters they'd correspond to... What would she get? ]

[bathymetric]

[ Clever!

You get... S-A-N-C-T-U-A-R-Y ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ That sure is the opposite of this place! But, uh, okay, she'll take down some notes on this.

Is there anything else that looks like it need some investigating? ]

[bathymetric]

[ Well, "Sanctuary" is marked on that map of Pandora! And it's... a little weirdly raised? ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ That one that Angel knows... Weirdly raised like it's on a mountain, or... ]

[bathymetric]

[ Well, it could indicate a mountain if any of the rest of the map was topographical! As it is it just looks out of place. ]

[nothingcanstop]

...Don't automatically jump to flying city, don't automatically jump to flying city, don't automatically jump to flying city...

[ SHE MIGHT BE JUMPING TO FLYING CITY

Alright, uhhh... Anything else to note about Sanctuary? ]

[bathymetric]

[ well

i wasnt going to say it, but looking at it this closely, that raise might just look uh

button-like? ]

[nothingcanstop]

[






she's gonna push the button ]

[bathymetric]

[ there's a "click" from the ship above, and the sound of something falling to the floor. ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Oh, hey! What fell to the floor? Not the sound of the whole ship, hopefully, that'd be bad! ]

[bathymetric]

[ Nope, not the whole ship! Just the bottom of... a rope?

How's your grappling hook climbing practice, Della? ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Pshh! Like you even need to ask?

(It's a little rusty but well enough, let's do this thing, UP THE SHIP). ]

[bathymetric]

[ Welcome to the ship! It's neat up here. Looks like there might be something near the back? ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ First thing's first, it's alright up here, okay, it's no airplane, after all.

...But, uh, alright yeah, she's drawn to the nearest Important Looking thing up here, let's go. ]

[bathymetric]

[ Looks like you've got another Weird Document to contend with. Care to read it? ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Oh, boy! Weird documents? My favorite way to be upset! ]

[bathymetric]

[ It appears to be a letter, written on slightly different letterhead than the first one Birkin found way back when. There's a coffee stain on it. ]

Dear [REDACTED],

I assume you want some kind of update on this, so I’ll go ahead and stop the passive-aggressive talk at the next [REDACTED] meeting now. Extractions have been completed for our first run at [REDACTED], Subject Delta is being a great help at constructing [REDACTED], and the whole project is running on schedule. If I had known it would be this easy to stop interference from [REDACTED], I would have voted we do it long ago.

I am finalizing the rules for the experiment now - please do not worry, I will take care to ensure the windows are not breached. I’m a big boy, [REDACTED], I can handle my own highly immoral and deeply illegal ventures.

Please find attached psychological profiles I’ve collected on the batch of subjects - wouldn’t you know it, we’ve even managed to collect a rock star. For simplicity’s sake, I move that we refer to them as Test Subjects and then by numbers, the Greek alphabet can only hold so much of the load.

It really is refreshing to have a project we make money on even if it fails, isn’t it?

Professor [REDACTED]

[ There are not, sadly, any attached profiles. But you've found your evidence! Better take it with you. ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ ...Golly, this sure isn't worrying or anything! ]

[bathymetric]

[ Not at all!

That's all up here, but it's worth noting that whenever Della does go down, the rope detaches from the boat once she's on the ground. Looks like any return trips to The Boat will have to be done the hard way. ]