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unknownseas2020-05-29 12:59 am
bathymetric) wrote in unknownseas2020-05-29 12:59 am
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FINAL INVESTIGATION
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.
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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> E1 Participants
> E1 Case Notes
> E1 Postmortem
> E2 Interviews ]
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Luna - Luna
Angel - Guardian Angel
Azura - Grey Wave
Cassandra - Night Owl
Eizen - Fifty-Fifty
Eric - The Ice Cream Man
Evan Hansen - The Window
Henry Cheng - Stinger
Haru Okumura - Beauty Thief
Jason Dean - Asteroid
Jasper - Tactician
Jeremy Heere - Puck
Kaia - Weed Killer
Kristoff - The Iceman
Liquid Snake - Liquid Snake
Mamimi Samejima - Firestarter
Maxine Caulfield - Shutterfly
Natalie Adams - Envy
Nico Yazawa - Center Stage
Red - Muse
Redd - The Fox
Somnus Lucis Caelum - Sleeper
Wigglytuff | Wiggles
William Schuester - n/a (LET GO)
Zidane Tribal - Monkey Business
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—another one? Tch.
[ Also, how come he gets to be Tactician, harrumph harrumph. "LET GO" is a lot more interesting in the long run, though. After futilely trying to reveal the redacted information, she's going to click back and open E1 Case Notes. ]
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INCIDENT
Day One of Experiment: Kaia uses poisonous spores to attempt to kill Luna, Angel, Maxine, Azura, and Natalie. She doesn’t account for the physiology of all involved, and is foiled. Good initiative, resourceful and skilled, but short-sighted on the followthrough.
CASE ONE
End of first week - Redd accidentally kills Red in a freak accident in the Workshop. Had this not been the first true killing here, I might have almost let it slide due to the sheer unpredictability. But both victim and murderer were aware enough of events that it shouldn’t prove a problem.
CASE TWO
End of second week - Jason Dean tricks Jeremy Heere into poisoning Nico Yazawa while her senses are dampened by a cold. No real analysis of Heere, he had no part in this other than being killer on a technicality. Jason Dean, however, is one to watch for, even if he has now joined Kaia in the “imprisoned until further notice” club they have going. He’s clever to have thought of this way to get away with murder without being executed, but I fear he may prove too volatile for his own good in the long run.
CASE THREE
End of third week - See previous note regarding Jason Dean, as he decided to kill three people and blow a hole in the wall of the facility in the process. The hole was easy enough to fix borrowing some of Subject Delta’s power, but this has proven the end of an incredibly tiring week. We will not be taking hostages again. And now that this is all settled, I have a concern regarding the rest of the group, but only time will tell.
CASE FOUR
Middle of fifth week - I had really hoped not to have to scrub this exercise, but if they’ve come together so far as to be this resistant to my motives I had little other option. Activated Subject Delta to kill Luna, which provided them next to no evidence to go on. Dear Cassandra avoided the mass execution to attempt to protect her, which was annoying. Perhaps she’ll replace that damned do-nothing Failsafe next time around. Wouldn’t that be something?
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Now that I have completed the first round of this procedure, I might as well collect my thoughts. I’ll have to write several reports to the other Faculty members in the coming days, might as well have one place to put it all.
First and foremost, the position I am going to refer to as The Assistant. My distance from the exercise makes me too easy a target to rally against - while they do tend to obey me, I need to make sure they actually listen to me, and a contrasting presence should work nicely. Once Angel has been scrubbed, we’ll re-train her and put her into that position. She should absorb enough distrust to keep them from meaningfully organizing and rallying against me as the last group did, and so long as the memory wipe can last for at least a few damn months, there should be no issue there. If all else fails, I’ll make sure she has an earpiece in just in case I need to issue commands. If I need her powers to run this place, I can at least make sure she’s too busy to notice. She’ll also need an earpiece, in case I have to issue commands.
Speaking of potential failure, Cassandra has already been scrubbed and retrained, she’ll do nicely as the Failsafe. There’s something amusing about them working side by side without knowing the other is there, isn’t there? Ah, young love. Such a burdensome thing.
Other sundry changes I have already gone over, the rules of this exercise are complex and I will need to shape them trial by trial accordingly. Trial as in a full experiment, not as in a trial like they… Ugh, language. Note to ask my dear star pupil for titles on the next... go-round.
Honestly I don’t know whether to qualify this first run as a success or not. Mostly it seems to me a collection of data - we’ve no real answer to the hypothesis put forward until I run at least a few more rounds of this. I wonder if it will have any toll on my mental state - this is certainly a step above my usual work, and theoretical though much of this is it has quickly become apparent that even some of my colleagues don’t have a taste for the process, much preferring I focus on the end result. But morality is a funny thing, and much like jokes I have little patience for it in my work. I press on.
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[ E2 Interviews, here we come! ]
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Okay, so! This one's gonna have fewer specifics for reasons you'll see in a bit, but the bottom line is you've got 25 folders here - one for each of the participants in this round. ]
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>W1
>W2
>W3
>W4
>W5 ]
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Each one shows Rose Quartz sitting in a dimly-lit room, which is some creepypasta shit but you know what we're committed. A voice immediately recognizable as The Professor is conducting a very similar interview each time, starting with a "Welcome back, Rose Quartz." and going through a series of simple questions about how she feels about the events of the week and, at the end, "Is there anything I could offer you to convince you to take me up on Rule 7?" ]
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After silently reacting to, you know, all of that, she's going to go for Anna and Rhea's final interviews before reviewing her own folder. Do Jasper's videos end at W7? ]
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As for that... yep! ]
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The last one seems pretty in line with the rest - you've learned most all you can from this.
Upon exiting, though, there appears to be one more file at the bottom of the interviews folder. ]
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What did you do to me?
[ And, well! Let's click on that.
(Also, did the dimly lit room look anything like the memories of that unfamiliar room they all had on Sunday morning, or is it too vague to really determine anything?) ]
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This one is labeled "VMTEST," and is an extensive text file of... apparently, tests of the vending machine. Apparently The Professor and co. have no idea why it's here, where it came from, or why it keeps giving them coins to hand out. They seem to sort of settle on "Eh, it's not hurting anybody."
... you know it occurs to you that the vending machine was too big to fit through the door to that room. Wild.
Anyway, congrats! That's all the evidence here! ]
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