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

[didntgetdadslooks]

I... don't follow. What other kind of power would you be talking about?

[mouflon]

[ mmm >:I ]

Maybe I was wrong, then. I thought... there might be something circulating through the walls that's keeping our abilities suppressed.

[didntgetdadslooks]

Oh. No, that was done through a procedure when you were taken in.

[mouflon]

So it was one procedure for everything, not just...

[ She makes a vague hand motion, but she's talking about Alice and the gems. ]

[didntgetdadslooks]

Yeah, one of The Professor's coworkers handled it. I don't know the particulars of how it works, but I do know it's reversible.

[mouflon]

It better be. It won't do me any good to put me back where I was if my magic circuits don't work.

Okay, one more thing. [ At this point, Rin sounds closer to resigned. ] You're keeping track of all this stuff, but can you actually do anything to fix it if something goes wrong?

[didntgetdadslooks]

Your circuits will be just fine.

[ Angel nods. ]

That's a perfectly reasonable concern. I have access to some controls - I can put the facility into lockdown, or cycle generators, things like that - but if things get really bad I can call the cleaning staff to handle most bigger maintenance.

[mouflon]

[ The noise that escapes Rin is — a snort? ]

Wow, they must be pissed. An engineering degree and they're mopping floors while they wait for some valve to break...

[didntgetdadslooks]

I'm told they get paid more than your average janitor, at least. But yeah, I wonder about that sometimes too.

[mouflon]

I doubt they'd take the job if they weren't being paid at least the same amount they'd make elsewhere.

[ So, like, she might take the offer in their shoes? But at the same time, what an insult. ]

Anyway, that's all I wanted to know. You're free to go find a book or whatever now.