WEEK 6

[bathymetric]

Another week, another three lost - and this time all to one murder case. And that's to say nothing of the execution, or whatever went on with that ouija board that still sits in the library... strange things are afoot in the facility, and some of them not even your captor seems fully equipped to explain.

The other of the two doors in the main living area finally opens after another lost Saturday, and what lies beyond is... strange, to say the least. Looks like there's no shortage of changes, even in the architecture. It certainly seems like you should have gotten something like this before the water park at the very least, don't you think?

Angel's still out and about at night, if you want to be found. And who knows what else you might find if you're out alone? Apparently, you might have a ghost on your hands.



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[ooc: Welcome to Week 6! If you want Angel or to try your hand at the ouija, please make sure to note in your toplevel, same as an investigation! AC is over here, regains are here, and, well...

You've all got a new app on your devices! Use it wisely. ]

Comments

[bathymetric]

[ It's all connected! You might have to hook the arms on, and the stand will need some assembly, but this friend seems to be in good condition!

There's a piece of paper taped to one of the hands! ]

[fivestagegod]

[Oh, excellent, that is a good place to look, then. Is it the return of our friend, Red Writing, or...?]

[bathymetric]

[ It sure seems to be!

:) <-- gOOD
:( <-- BAD

... this is a good time to note that someone has gone and made small marks on all the bones in pencil. ]

[fivestagegod]

[...Oh my god.

Some part of him is, not gonna lie, hoping that he gets to jigsaw together another monstrosity, but he'll actually be patient and check out what he's looking at before attempting that. Okay. What kind of marks are we looking at? Is there a specific pattern to them, are they the same kind of marks as the note? If so, where are the... :) ones concentrated, if anywhere?]

[bathymetric]

[ No jigsawing needed, but... every bone seems to be labelled with one or the other! The :)s are the torso, it looks like, ribs and spine. ]

[fivestagegod]

[...That's...

Well, now that we've verified that someone has labelled this skeleton with A Bunch Of Very Good Bones To Stab Between, does it seem like there's anything else noteworthy about these? Do they move strangely, do they do things bones should not do. ...Should he come back to this later before he drives himself mildly insane trying to figure out what he should do with this.]

[bathymetric]

[ They appear to be a slightly different color from the other bones, upon very close inspection! Perhaps if they were exposed to something? ]

[fivestagegod]

[...lyndon i'm going to cry

are we going to give our buddy a chest x-ray because holy shit that is what he's about to go do]

[bathymetric]

[ this has turned somewhat silly but you know what

go ahead and check that plate, buddy ]

[fivestagegod]

[i just want it known that this man went to med school

he has a ph.d

he is giving a fake skeleton a chest x-ray because this is his life now

but okay let's. let's check the. plate. how is that looking. is it looking like "why the fuck did you do that, birkin" because he wouldn't be surprised if it is.]

[bathymetric]

[ listen it is possible whatever force set up the puzzles in this place doesn't, or has a phd in something very different

it looks like an x-ray of... a real torso! not a skeleton at all! like there is a skeleton, but there's also some funky metal parts on its back, integrated with the spine.

There's also a message! What's the best way to get through a bad day? ]

[fivestagegod]

[...THAT IS. SOMETHING oh god right now the best way to get through the day he's currently having is to find someone who's gotten a gun from the machine

"good to see you too, birkin"
"machine's haunted"
"what?"
/takes shotgun, leaves "machine's haunted"

Okay, so this is happening. He assumes the answer to this is neither "sadism" nor "heroin." He is otherwise the worst person to ask this question of. He is going to take a moment and try to do this without asking Della because frankly he is not sure he's going to like whatever answer she may have to give him.

Judging from the room, his first thoughts are honestly "sleep it off" or "I don't fucking know, did they give us Prozac?", so...checking the beds is at least a start.]

[bathymetric]

[ you know what that's a valid response

to the first thing, anyway, the rest is Concerning But Seems Right For Him.

The beds don't give up much of anything! They're nice enough beds, but that's about it. ]

[fivestagegod]

[...Okay, look, he's going to leave that alone for the time being and go back to looking at the film because ignoring that and focusing on the rest of the weird here seems prudent. I assume the metal bits aren't visible from the outside?

...swear to fuck lyndon if the answer to this stupid riddle is "turn it around" he's going to be irritated]

[bathymetric]

[ The metal bits are pretty much just here for "something is real fucky with this x-ray, which is super not of the thing you put in," there's nowhere else they're viewable except the plate.

Turning the film around is a suitably dumb answer, but it's not the suitably dumb answer this riddle requires. Try taking another look around the room, Birkin! I have faith in you. ]

[fivestagegod]

[MACHINE'S HAUNTED.

Okay, we've got this really fucked up x-ray machine that he kind of wants nothing else to do with, medicine cabinets, blood-

...do you ever just have that moment when something clicks in your head and you don't like it because that's the reaction he's having right now. what kind of setup are we looking at for the blood.]

[bathymetric]

[ IT MIGHT BE

Well, it's organized by type, if that's your concern. ]

[fivestagegod]

[he's going to sigh very deeply

hate himself a little

and go see what the situation with B+ is looking like.]

[bathymetric]

[ Well

There's a little :) in sharpie on the label for the frontmost bag, so.

Looks like you solved this terrible riddle, Birkin, well done. ]

[fivestagegod]

[hhhhhhhhate

Okay! Awesome, that sure is blood. He'll take that one with the marking on it, though. Is there anything going on with it in particular? Other than, like...the general feeling that wow it sure would have been nice to have this when Alice was here.]

[bathymetric]

[ Wouldn't it just have been?

I'm going to go ahead and assume that Birkin's familiar with how heavy blood should be - this feels a little lighter, and the color is just a little off, same as the bones. ]

[fivestagegod]

[...he's. he's familiar, yeah. like, super-familiar. how's the consistency on it? like, if you tilt the bag to let it shift a bit, blood tends to be pretty thick - is it thinner than blood should be/is it closer to water or some kind of oil?

...is there anything in it is the next question.]

[bathymetric]

[ It's much more consistent with an oil? There does seem to be something in it, though... is that a bone? ]

[fivestagegod]

[...fuck the machine, ENTIRE INFIRMARY'S HAUNTED.

Okay, this is about to be cursed, but he's going to...take one of the Letter Openers that he's gotten and just cut this open beneath the port. He could pierce and drain it so he can get a better look at it like a reasonable person, but he doesn't precisely want to do that without knowing what the substance in here actually is. (Somehow he thinks no one here would appreciate him dumping a potentially clogging agent down a sink? Just as a guess.) So just...gonna cut that open and preserve as much of the liquid as possible in the bag itself, and...not put his hand in there but use the damn knife to try to fish out the. bone(?). that's in there.]

[bathymetric]

[ It, uh. Seems to be a plastic bone, if that helps? There's a little :) on it. ]