unknownseas | GRADUATION

[ 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! ]

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[OH HECK, SO STYLISH...]

What Della said. Our first priority needs to be helping our friends.

We'll get your friends back. And I'm not the expert, but if what Player said is right, we can make a way to get the people from the first round back, too.

Really? You've got their backups?

It wasn't exactly my doing, but yup. Pretty sure we have them all.

Oh thank god that was really unsettling to think about.

Yeah, we... honestly, we'll probably put Angel and Cassandra in charge of doing it, but we're fairly sure we have a way. We better - I gotta use it to get my crew back.

You can? Really? [Part of her says not to get her hopes up but fuck it, hopes are SKY HIGH.] Then I vote for the first option. Maelstrom deserves to be punished but it's more important to take down VILE so they can't try this again.

Also- hi, nice to meet you both face-to-face finally.

Nice to meet you too! Well, I never ended up having to do the talking, but... same difference, really.

That's a lot of votes in favor of Option 1.

What can I say? We're a pragmatic bunch...a little bloodthirsty but ultimately pragmatic.

Hey, who wouldn't be at least a little on edge after being stuck in a virtual reality murder prison for two months?

Guess we can go ahead and get this show on the road, unless there are any dissenters out there?