FINAL INVESTIGATION

[bathymetric]

Morning comes on Friday, just like any other.

Or not. You're all still alive. The walls have held. You all have held.

One way or another, this is the last day you're going to be in here. You've spent so long at the whims of the man who owns this place, so long playing along with this game...

Wouldn't it be nice to beat him?

Time to investigate.

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LIVING QUARTERS

[bathymetric]

[ Through the door in the back of Angel's office, you get to... basically a small apartment. Team 2, you're up. ]

[ladygeryon]

[Hm. So first of all, any papers of interest in here?]

[bathymetric]

[ Well, there's uh. Looks like Angel had some kind of conspiracy board set up on her wall that Cassandra didn't touch. ]

[ladygeryon]

[Oooh. What's stuck to it?]

[bathymetric]

[ A few things! The basis of it seems to be a world map of Earth, torn out of some poor atlas. On it, she's marked a bunch of points and connected them to articles about various robberies. ]

[ladygeryon]

[...are they art robberies.]

[bathymetric]

[ No, actually! They're robberies of a bunch of valuable and expensive technical equipment. And uh... an unmarked one off the east coast of Florida. ]

[ladygeryon]

[Well. Does it look like anything was stuck there and than removed? And is there anything else on this conspiracy wall other than thefts?]

[bathymetric]

[ Yes, actually, to both! There's a note off to the side that reads:

“Power sources, refractors, whatever it was he got from that boat - they must have all gone to the primary facility for something.” ]

[ladygeryon]

[Hm. If she takes a look at the whole thing, is there any pattern to the thefts? Does it look like they're limited to a specific range, or are they worldwide?]

[bathymetric]

[ They're worldwide, no real pattern. But some of them do include, in what looks suspiciously like cut-out clips from copies of confidential police documents, descriptions of the thieves. I'm not going to list them out here, but it's important that they're there! ]

[bogwife]

[Let's gooooo!!! Zerinda's got a pocket full of gun and a head full of empty.

Really though she's just happy to have a full party on a Friday and no bodies. What a novelty.

Looking around the apartment, how tidy is it?]

[bathymetric]

[ Well, it currently feels a little more lived-in than it used to, probably. The bed seems to have been slept in, which Angel mentioned to at least a few people that wasn't a concern for her.

Looks like someone left the dining table a little messy. ]

[bogwife]

[Hmmmm, alright, alright. So that's probably from Cassandra then...if Cassandra sleep, she mever thought to ask.

Let's have a look at the dining table.]

[bathymetric]

[ So! There's the remnants of a breakfast here, but that's not really important. What is important is that there are a couple scattered pieces of paper probably worth taking a look at. ]

[bogwife]

[Excuse you, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

But alright, she's collecting the papers and having a peek at them.]

[bathymetric]

[ The first one is a newspaper clipping that appears to have been torn off of a pin of some kind. ]

TEN YEARS LATER, CRUISE SHIP MYSTERY STILL CONFOUNDS

Crowds are gathering in Florida today for the tenth anniversary of what enthusiasts have come to call the “Atlantic Liner Incident,” just one of many mysteries here in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle.

It was just around twilight on the evening of that day ten years ago when an entire sinking ship appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the sea. Definitely not what you expect to see appear on sonar, that’s for sure. When the coast guard did arrive, they found absolutely no souls on board, just a manifest proving that the ship was the nearly-identical twin to a vessel that was currently under construction by the Paradise Liner cruise company, but from a non-existed Atlantic Liner brand. It is also a matter of public record just how damaged almost beyond recognition the ship was, a cause later termed by Coast Guard officials to be “catastrophic engine failure.”

Diving in the area is still prohibited, but it hasn’t stopped conspiracy and supernatural enthusiasts from all over the world from (Cont B6)

[ Page B6 is not there, but! ]

[bogwife]

[So, uh, this all feels very important. A mysteriously appearing boat, an identical boat being built at the same time, some kind of triangle? But really what jumps to her attention-]

What's Florida?

[What's the second one?]

[ladygeryon]

It's one of the regions in America, according to this map. [Nira taps Angel's conspiracy board.] Apparently the Professor did a robbery of some sort off the coast there.

[bogwife]

Weird. Sounds sort of Antivan. [She comes over to Nira and passes her the newspaper clipping.] Do you think he could have stolen a whole boat?

[ladygeryon]

Who knows? [She taps the note Angel wrote.] Though it definitely sounds like he got something from it.

[bathymetric]

[ This one is a handwritten note in Angel's handwriting. ]

Professor - member of council of five people?
Doctor _______ - Member, handled me when I arrived
Coach _______ - Member
????? - Member
????? - Member
Council runs training school
Top students become agents
Cover company?

[bogwife]

Professor, Doctor, Coach...oh, the Company! [She knows this a tiny bit!!!] Students becoming agents...hm.

[Is there a third page?]

[bathymetric]

[ There is, in fact, one more piece of paper!

It's a chart of the profits made by some kind of nondescript company from 2010-2020. The chart dips way down in 2018, then spikes up higher than ever before by end of year 2020. ]

AREA CLEAR

[bathymetric]