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.

Comments

[bolderfell]

[Hmm! Is this the kind of class photo where everyone's smiling? And is there anything on the back of the photo?]

[bathymetric]

[ They are! Well, most of them. There's one blond guy who mostly looks really uncomfortable in his suit? But that's just Details. Nothing on the back of the photo, though. ]

[bolderfell]

[Blond dude is valid and relatable. What else can we find in the desk?]

[bathymetric]

[ Looks like there are a couple memos in here? ]

[bolderfell]

[Let's have a look!]

[bathymetric]

TO: All Staff
FROM: Professor [REDACTED]

Please keep in mind at all times while within the test facility that we must do everything possible to ensure it has the appearance of being manually maintained. While the facility is easily capable of more, we must do things the old-fashioned way until such time as we can run one of these exercises absent the presence of Subject Delta.

[ Huh. The second one seems to be an addendum to that memo! ]

[bolderfell]

[...Huh.

Yeah, what's this other one say.]

[bathymetric]

ADDENDUM: There is some sort of decidedly uninvited presence within the test facility providing access to classified files and materials to the test subjects. While it has not yet provided them with anything that fully ruins the integrity of the experiment, there is a significant raise in order for anyone who manages to catch or otherwise remove this Red Text entity.

[bolderfell]

[Cool, cool, very cool, very chill. Anything else of note here? He's not going to let Rin gallivant off by herself into the dark, dark tunnels.]

[bathymetric]

[ There's something in here that looks like a journal? But that's the last thing. ]

[bolderfell]

[Does he get to read Cassandra's diary. Does the inside cover say what this is, or whose?]

[bathymetric]

[ There's a single C written on the inside cover! ]

[bolderfell]

[Hot damn, time to snoop all up in this thing. Let's play Cassandra Explains It All!]

[bathymetric]

[ Well... it's Something, at least? ]

[bolderfell]

[...HhmmmmMMMMmm. Therion makes a mental note to remember page fourteen and gathers up everything he's found.]

Hey, Rin. There's something I want to try. [He grins.] Think we can get into that hidden room from down here?

[mouflon]

Hey, there has to be some way to access it, right? Angel even left her keycard in here, so I guess we'll find out whether or not it still works after all.

[bolderfell]

Great. From here, it should be...

[Therion thinks for a moment, then nods.]

This way.

[And he tries to lead the way to the hidden closet off the vending machine room through the Wings. You know, the one that's supposed to be a janitorial closet.]

[bathymetric]

[ Ooh, interesting!

So if you head to the rough location of the secret room, you'll find that there isn't a trapdoor, but uh.

What there is, instead, is a regular door in the wall of the tunnel. ]

[bolderfell]

Huh.

[Well! Is it unlocked?]

[bathymetric]

[ partially? ]

[mouflon]

[ ... so

does it open with a keycard? ]

[bathymetric]

[ The keycard is part of it.

Then the alphabet keyboard lights up. ]

INSERT CHOSEN PASSWORD, FAILSAFE

[ ... looks like it wants something Cass might have used as a password. ]

[mouflon]

[ oh boy ]

Did you find any scraps of paper or anything in that desk, Therion?

[bolderfell]

Some messages from the Professor and a journal. Nothing that looked like a password, but...

[He rubs his chin.]

"Angel"?

[mouflon]

[ gay if true

Rin tries Angel. ]