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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[bathymetric]

[ There are five video files in here.

>W1
>W2
>W3
>W4
>W5 ]

[hardnosed]

[ W1, baybee! And then she'll almost certainly skip to W5, and then do two through four. ]

[bathymetric]

[ So! Each of these are certainly video files, but I am not going to give you transcriptions since, well.

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?" ]

[hardnosed]

[ WELL!! LOVE THIS!!

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? ]

[bathymetric]

[ I can't speak for what's in them, but they sure do only have five each!

As for that... yep! ]

[hardnosed]

[ Is there anything different about the last interview, compared to the other six? And speaking of different — what's her behavior like in these videos? Just compared to, you know, being a rude and obstinate dumbass. ]

[bathymetric]

[ Weirdly? Her behavior is a little subdued from usual - not like. Totally out of it or anything, but actually giving answers to questions.

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. ]

[hardnosed]

[ Under her breath, she growls: ]

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?) ]

[bathymetric]

[ It very well could have been that same room.

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! ]

[hardnosed]

[ Well, that was informative and raised a thousand questions Jasper cannot ever hope to answer! She hates it! Time to grab the stupid laptop to bring along to the trial, I guess. ]