WEEK 7

[bathymetric]

Another Saturday gone and just like that you wake on Sunday, down five of your number. The largest dent taken out of you at once so far - it's surely noticeable, the head count being cut by a third. Almost enough to make you wonder how many of you will even be left by the next motive or two. Surely this isn't a sustainable rate for body counts to increase... right?

There's a new and, it looks like, final wing of the building to explore, bringing everything full circle. Maybe you'll get some more answers to some of the questions and mysteries of this place there - or at least, you can certainly hope for them. Time to turn your investigative eyes towards one last batch of rooms, who knows what you might find?

Angel remains around at night, her appearances much more common now that... well, she's certainly seen a downtick in necessary surveillance work, hasn't she? The app giving you a line to The Professor remains open, and well... whatever's going on with that ouija in the library continues to happen! You're not suffering from a shortage of leads, at least, even as things get more bizarre.

Something's going to have to give here, eventually. Right?



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[ ooc: Welcome to your last player case week! AC is over here, regains as always are over here, and... well, enjoy! After this we get to take our big turn towards the Serious. ]

Comments

[fivestagegod]

...I got the door behind the crime exhibit open. It used to be a chemistry lab, though it looks like someone made it into their personal darkroom at some point. There were pictures there of a girl that I don't recognize, though in one of the pictures she's with another girl that we definitely do recognize. She appears to be from an earlier iteration of the experiment; the living area we just got unlocked was apparently opened a lot earlier for them, and it was before the...incident with the wall occurred, seeing as those plates aren't there in the pictures.

[He has the...selfies? With him; one involves the girl from the execution, one involves the intact living area, one involves...]

I assume that we were right about the bedrooms being designed to isolate us a bit more; apparently in whatever version of things this girl was going through, they had to stay together, four to a room.

As for the intact living area, I also found what probably happened there - someone was constructing explosives in the chem lab itself. Seeing as all the equipment to make those explosives was still out, I assume they went and set it off immediately. The darkroom portion was sectioned off with a blanket, and it looked like things weren't properly put away in there; these pictures were also just left out like they were drying. I assume what happened is whoever made the explosives didn't realize this girl was in the room, set the bomb off in the living area and things got unfortunate for everyone.

There's another area behind the lab, through an airlock of some sort. The airlock itself is broken, so it's not going to save anybody from any horrible biohazard outbreaks that may happen to occur in here, but that's not much of a concern with what's behind the airlock itself. It was some weird diorama room, with holographic figures in different locations. One showed them looking over a map, with major cities marked with words like "power cell" or "additional blueprints." There was a location marked in the Atlantic with no label, and one in the Pacific noting that it's a facility site.

One involved the Professor by himself at a desk, drafting notes and rules. It mentioned that "for the second time around, we need someone on-site to cut aggression", and "we can't have a repeat of hostage motive week", which is when I assume the wall got blown up in an attempt to take out everyone.

The last thing in there involved the Professor talking to some woman. I spent a lot of time in there walking around them like an idiot so I could transcribe what they were talking about. You're welcome.

[He's got a loose sheet with the transcription on it, for your reading pleasure.]

[mouflon]

...So, like I was saying. Subjects Alpha through Delta weren't brought in as part of an experiment, but as a way to help build one. Maybe they have some kind of ability that makes the more outlandish bits possible...?

[bolderfell]

...There's four of them. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. Alpha's the one we haven't heard about before; with what Vincent found, maybe...

[He rubs his chin.]

They lose Alpha first. Beta... does whatever they do. Sets off the explosion that damaged the other living area we found. That leaves Gamma and Delta for the Professor to use. To build this... and to maintain it.

[fivestagegod]

...It makes more sense to assume that they were here before any actual experimentation happened. They were a separate set. Given that the pictures show an experiment like this one running, one where the building was intact, I'm pretty sure the last group blew up the wall as opposed to any of the people who built the place.