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

Dinosaurs

[ladygeryon]

You've never seen fossils before? Not sure about the exact species names, but they're ancient creatures that are now extinct in this world.

[hardnosed]

I've seen bones.

[ rip zelos wilder forever in our hearts ]

Just not put together like this. [ Did some human somewhere really just find all of these and assemble them? How do they even know what they looked like? Also, Nira has crushed her dreams of finding whatever this thing is and hunting it down, so the next question has to be: ] How old is ancient to you lot, anyway?

[ It could be like 500 years! She doesn't know! ]

[ladygeryon]

Yeah, there are people whose job it is to figure out how they're supposed to go together, and assemble them. Though technically they're not bones anymore-they're mostly made of rock. Basically the bones get buried and over the years they slowly absorb minerals from the water that seeps into their pores, and that's how they actually get preserved.

[She waves a hand.] Oh, maybe thousands, millions of years? Different fossils come from different time periods, you can tell by the rock layers.

[hardnosed]

Huh.

[ Don't rocksplain to her, Mira, she's got Peridot for that! ]

And this beast?

[ladygeryon]

Can't tell just by looking at it. [She walks closer, circling the skeleton a bit.] Though I'm guessing there'll be an explanatory plaque somewhere.

[hardnosed]

You sure? He’s not much for giving us context.

[ But she’s looking! To be fair, her line of sight is kind of above where the average museum description would be, which makes the sheer size of this thing all the more impressive. ]

mods?

[ladygeryon]

The rock specimens are labeled with names, at least. It probably won't have a full biological description, but maybe one of the books in the library would have more information if you wanted to look it up.

[So, mods, are the skeletons labeled?]