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

[ladygeryon]

...that's weird. Some Pokemon don't evolve at all, but a whole world like that...? Anyways, as I mentioned, some Pokemon evolve upon naturally growing stronger, but for others they require the specific energies of an evolutionary stone to actually reach their next form.

[bolderfell]

...

[He mutters to himself:] Could that have been what it's for...?

[ladygeryon]

What what's for? [A curious headtilt.]

[bolderfell]

I saw a stone, once, that a madman made out of blood. Something like one of your "scientists," I guess. [Therion is not entirely sure what science is, still, but he hangs out enough with the STEM fanatics of their group.] Even the scholar in our party couldn't figure out what he meant to do with it, but it was obviously for something big.

[ladygeryon]

[Oh Yikes.] That does make sense, much as I wish it didn't. What did you and your party do with it in the end?

[bolderfell]

Cyrus took care of it. Him and one of his brainy friends. Think whatever it was, though, it wasn't the finished product. Three of the "specimens" that guy was using to make the stones were still alive.

[ladygeryon]

[Bigger Yikes.]

Like he was saving them for further experiments?

[bolderfell]

Yeah. Or at least more stones. Seems like at least some of his work was done on commission.

[ladygeryon]

[An angry sigh.] Don't know why I'm surprised. Wealth and doing terrible things for your own benefit seem to go together quite well.

[bolderfell]

Don't I know it.

[ladygeryon]

Did you figure out some of the identities of that guy's "patrons," at least?

[bolderfell]

[He shakes his head.]

The only lead Cyrus came up with was a book put together in Stonegard. Since we were already in the Cliftlands, the others agreed that our next stop would be Bolderfall so I could wrap up some business. After that, we'll have to decide whose errand's most urgent. My money's on H'aanit's.

[ladygeryon]

Makes sense. Who knows, you might pick up more leads about that on the way. [It's how adventures always seem to go, in the end.]

[bolderfell]

Yeah. At any rate, it's more Cyrus's problem than mine. Just makes me think. What if that purple stone Ema found was meant to serve a similar purpose to your... energy stones?

[ladygeryon]

...huh. That's certainly a possibility. I couldn't feel anything from it when I was holding it, but that might be because my usual sense for that is dulled. And it makes me wonder what exactly it was made to work on. Every evolutionary stone only works for certain species of Pokemon, after all...

[bolderfell]

...Guess we'd need to know more about how it was made to understand why.

[ladygeryon]

...I actually know a little about how evolution stones can be made from gem shards. So if we figure out the process, I can probably tell if it's analogous.