unknownseas | THE LAST WEEK

You wake up with Saturday gone, but... not entirely forgotten. In the same way things seem to be breaking down in the facility, things beyond what you know are starting to fail as well. You get flashes of an unfamiliar room, a groggy sense of timelessness... and then you're back to reality in your beds. It's Sunday.

There are no new locations to unlock this week. You actually find yourself down some - Area D has flooded completely, and the groaning on the doors to the other areas indicates that perhaps the flooding won't stop there. Someone, however, seems to have taken all the memorials (except for poor Zelos-David, god rest his soul) and moved them to the Lounge "overnight." There's a handwritten note on top of all of them, which simply reads "Thought you guys would rather have these than not. :)"

While you obviously won't run into Angel anywhere, use of the Ouija or pestering of the new Assistant are still more than permitted! Otherwise get your affairs in order, get ready, and brace for impact, because one way or another? The end is coming.

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[ ooc: Welcome to your final week! Make sure to check in and read up on endgame here, and don't forget to turn in any and all remaining threads you can over here! The final pull for regains will be conducted Wednesday night, and then... well, endgame approaches! Arms and legs inside the vehicle, we're near the end of the ride! You've all gotten so close and done so well! ]

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[ So hey here's a question, yall: do you guys have your devices in here with you? Because they're all letting out some static right now. ]

Execu- oh, I think I got it that time! Hello? Is this working?

[ Oh hey, that's Angel's voice. ]

[ ZEROES IN ON THIS. ]

An-- [ Della swallows back the name. ] Is that you?

In the flesh!

[ A beat. ]

Well... not really, but I can promise my flesh is doing fine down here.

—Wait, that's not flooded?

Nope! The trapdoors are... really watertight, I guess.

[ There's the sound of her knocking on something. ]

Makes the tunnels pretty good for moving stuff around.

Heh. Well. Guess we have you to thank for more than a few things. Think you'll find yourself a way out from there?

Yeah, I can.

That's actually kind of what I wanted to talk to you guys about. I think I have a way I can help you guys out tomorrow. You want to get into some information about this place you really shouldn't have?

Absolutely we do. Sticking our noses into this place's business is a given by now, I think.

Cool. So... if I can get all of you guys into my office, that should be a good place to start looking through some of the, you know. Behind the scenes stuff.

[ She takes a long breath. ]

There's just... you know, the obvious obstacle to that. But if you guys do something for me tomorrow, I think I can get the Failsafe out of your hair.

What do you need from us.

[ Her tone is... cautious, like she's choosing her words carefully. ]

If you guys can get her out of her office and into the common area, I can keep her busy long enough to get in there and lock the door behind you. Then you guys can investigate to your heart's content until The Professor calls the trial.

Hmm.

[ This is the face of a space alien who is absolutely pondering physically picking Cassandra up and throwing her out of the office, so like, if anyone else wants to come threadjack and start coming up with a game plan here... anyone at all... ]

Anywhere in the common area?

[ can she just toss her into the hallway ]

As long as it's outside of the meeting room, it's fine.

[ The actual plan here she will leave up to you guys, but it would be bad form to spring it on yall tomorrow morning! ]

She's dedicated to her job. It'd be a bad idea to break a rule when we don't have full access to our abilities... but as the Assistant, she's got certain duties we can use. Can't we.

Angel. The Assistant's supposed to help maintain the facility, right?

Yup. Especially with how the facility is, you know. Doing overall.

So if one of us... accidentally broke something...

[ ...Della looks towards the stalls... ]

Therion. Do it.

It'd be my pleasure.

It would be terrible if the bathroom flooded, too. We can't have that.

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Angel... [ Even though there’s no surveillance here, Della still lowers her voice, like someone may be watching. ] She’s under orders to kill you. Aren’t you putting yourself in more danger?

She is, but... look, what I'm planning to do is going to sound really stupid if I say it out loud right now, but I know how to get to her. If you trust me here, both she and I will be waiting for you at the end of all this.

I trust you, Angel. [Cassandra has done some Not So Great things but her getting hurt]

I have a question for you though. [She reaches into her blouse and pulls out the Cassandrium necklace.] Do you recognize this?

Hang on, I'm still getting the hang of my powers again... Do I have to do another phase shift, or...?

[ There's a pause. ]

I... think so? Something about... an element?

[ A pause. Cassandrium. ]

Where... did you even get that?

The vending machine gave it to me. [At this point she's not entirely convinced the vending machine doesn't have a will of it's own so yeah, she's considering it a gift.]

Cassandra said it had her name but she doesn't know why. She said she'd never seen it before. I was hoping you'd have a little insight.

Of course it did.

[ THAT FUCKING THING.... ]

I remember she had it. I think the vending machine gave it to her, too.

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