GRADUATION

[descentinto]

[ There’s a spark in the darkness outside the dome, somewhere. The pale rainbow of some kind of bio-luminescent jellyfish. Then another. Then two more. Then ten more.

Within moments, the seafloor around you is illuminated by jellyfish, shining brighter than nature should allow, and you find your surroundings changed. Statues, piles of gold, paintings, all of them lie scattered around for as far as the eye can see in any direction. Just a disgusting amount of wealth.

The frosted glass box in front of all of you just… vanishes. And standing at a podium that doesn’t at all match the previous silhouette, you finally get to see The Professor, in all his slightly ghoulish glory.

Honestly? This might be exactly the kind of man you pictured he would be. ]

Allow me to introduce myself properly, boys and girls. I am Professor Gunnar Maelstrom, one of the five sitting members of the Faculty here at VILE. I suppose, one way or another, this is where it ends.

[ You’re getting close, gumshoes! Don’t give up! ]

Comments

[philoxenia]

Administrative privileges. He has more control than any of us here, I assume.

[bolderfell]

...Maybe more than any of us here.

[Ah. He's next to her, so he notices her hands now. After a pause, he takes his hand off the hilt of the sword he has buckled on and carefully rests it on her arm instead.]

But maybe not more than the facility itself.

[philoxenia]

[ It helps, at least somewhat, and she puts her hand over his with the smallest--but most grateful--of smiles. ]

The-- ah. You're right.

[bolderfell]

[o-oh no he trapped]

[philoxenia]

[ listen if he gets too uncomf

she'll absolutely pull her hand away. muffin for your thoughts?? ]

[bolderfell]

[NO IT'S FINE SHE CAN KEEP HER HAND THERE IT'S WHATEVER HE'S COOL HE'S CHILL he's still working on that first muffin. Just munching on it in his left hand, right hand's, you know, hers. Or whatever.]

[philoxenia]

[ the tsundere strikes back....... ]

[bolderfell]

[There's probably a reason he was put on Team Tsunderrorist in this last investigation.]