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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2020-05-03 02:44 am
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WEEK 5

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! ]
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[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-05-05 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd think it was to keep you lot away when his people are doing maintenance, but there's no guarantee you'll actually be asleep at night. And at least three of us don't sleep at all.

So what's it for? We already know he's got no investment in us fighting fair.
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[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-05-05 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Therion starts to answer, then pauses and backtracks.]

Three?
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[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-05-05 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
... when we first got here. Not anymore.

[ mmmmmmmmMMMMMMM ]
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[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-05-05 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jasper...]

...Right. [Therion will remember that.] Anyway, I don't know. Whoever does--maintenance, or cleaning or whatever--somehow, they can get around without waking us, too. Something must happen to us in our rooms while we're unaware.
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[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-05-06 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
But the only time we're aware of missing is the day after each trial.

[ Oh, hey, a loose dandelion! She's just going to lift one foot and step down on it, hard. ]

Ugh. It's been a month, and all we've got out of it are questions nobody's gonna answer.
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[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-05-06 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe.

[He glances down idly at her smooshed dandelion. RIP.]

Can't say I'm missing more time, but... I know I missed something last night.
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[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-05-06 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, that gets her attention. ]

And what's that supposed to mean?
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[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-05-06 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Before I turned in last night, I set a few... well, I wouldn't call them traps. Threw five buckets of those tiny... bricks? Whatever those are. I have a lot of them, so I spread them over the floor. Put a tripwire across the door. [Okay, that one's a trap.] And I rigged the grates to the air passages so I could see if anyone disturbed them.

Something still got in to put those coins on the windowsill. The bricks were moved and so was the paper in the grates. They didn't trip my wire. And I didn't hear a sound.
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[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-05-07 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, she hates it! ]

So they used the floor, but the vents were disturbed too.

I’ve watched those grates for hours, trying to wait them out, but it’s pointless. [ By hours, she means an entire night. ] They’ve got to have some level of surveillance. Maybe that’s how they knew to avoid the wire.
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[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-05-07 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
...If that's how they came in. I mean, if the paper fell from the grates...

[He trails off, shakes his head, and sighs.]

The door makes more sense, but I can't do the same trick with the paper, the way it slides open and shut. Maybe if I had something sticky...
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[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-05-07 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Were the only signs of disturbance around your window? There's probably no way to know for sure how they entered without doing it again, with better tools, but it could still mean something.
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[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-05-07 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I think they walked around. And the paper was moved from all the grates, even the one in the bathroom. So... ugh. I don't know. Those passages are too small for any of us to fit through, but that doesn't mean something smaller couldn't.

I'll figure something out for the door.
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[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-05-10 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Something sticky, you said. [ hmmMMMMmmmmm ] Maybe there's something in the art room.

But if they're moving everything, the goal's probably to make it impossible to figure out their entrance point. They'll just trigger whatever they find.
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[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-05-10 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. [He rubs his chin.] Now that I've got some idea what to look for, I can try something more elaborate next time.