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

[mouflon]

Hey, sometimes we have places called "badlands", you know. We're just not always so on the nose.

[bolderfell]

Well... if the world Pandora is named after the story.

[He shrugs.]

Maybe the places on it are all the terrible things supposedly covering up hope at the bottom.

[mouflon]

Yeah... Now that the idea is out there, I can't help but wonder why people would have chosen that name. There are a few ideas I can come up with, and none of them are very comforting.

[bolderfell]

Too discomforting to share? I don't come from the same context, remember. I don't know what the story means to anyone besides what's literally on the page.

[mouflon]

No, nothing like that, but...

Someone told you the story, right? Think about it. Pandora unlocked every disaster, pain, and cruelty in the world... At best, the implication of naming a world after her is that you know there's a chance it'll let something loose, and you won't be able to stuff it back in its box once it's free.

[bolderfell]

[He nods. Sly gave him a little more insight into it, at least.]

...Or the evils were already let loose, and they were desperate to find something there to redeem such bleak living.

[mouflon]

Then why even settle there in the first place? Unless... They knew there was something there, and they just had to deal with it to find it? Like a reserve of some important resource, or something like that...

[bolderfell]

Maybe they didn't have a choice. Empires fall in the blink of an eye.

[mouflon]

I guess so. I'll take your word for it, since it's not something I've had the pleasure to witness firsthand.

[ ONE DAY, LEO...!! ]