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

[emberserker]

Aren't you a scientist? I would have thought that line of work would be all about consistent patterns.

[snackooed]

Usually I'm all about finding the patterns, not making them with my hands...

[ In her fervor to cover up her mistakes, she's just making it worse-- ]

I'm really not much, in the way of dexterity...

[emberserker]

Oh, stop before you hurt yourself. If you've made a mistake on a row, go back and undo it, don't just cover it up.

[snackooed]

[ Lectured by a teenager...something about that totally hurts her pride-- ]

It sounds like you have a lot more experience with this than I do...

[emberserker]

I used to like that sort of thing. That's all.

[snackooed]

"Used to"? Not anymore?

[ Surely not because she was bad at it, from the way she's instructing her... ]

[emberserker]

I wanted to focus on other things, that's all. Though I know your opinion on balance and downtime.

[snackooed]

Did you not think that crochet would help you at all as a mage?

[ It's a little easier to focus on that than it is her disaster of a panda bear-- ]

[emberserker]

Would you? Of course, constructing anything has some elements in common, but beyond that...

[snackooed]

Well, I'm not exactly an expert on either of them, so I'm probably not the right person to ask, but if I had to guess, maybe I'd say that it hones your concentration? Maybe there's a muscle memory component to it, as well...

[emberserker]

True enough, and constructing complicated spells takes a good deal of time and concentration on top of the power needed. My ARMANOX has a high level of energy output, of course, so I was usually able to construct a larger spell or two even before...