WEEK 2

[umbralant]

WEEK 2

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The first week is over, and two of your number are gone. Everything related to the case has been cleaned up, with nary a knife left at the Main Square nor a trace of the mud shapes that once painted the clock tower walls, although some stray graffiti still dots some storefronts.

However you may feel about the entire debacle on Friday, there’s no doubt that something has changed about the atmosphere, although whether it’s something tangible or just a trick of the mind is hard to say. Maybe it’s nothing. Either way, there are more palpable changes to the city, with some of the fog retreating away from a few of the surrounding areas, uncovering new buildings and streets along the way. The night, however, remains unchanged as always save for the slow waxing of the moon, leaving it bright and full as early as Thursday night. Regardless of if you take it as an omen or not, at least that means the streets will be lit up fairly well for the week, provided some inconvenient cloud cover doesn’t slide right in.

[[Welcome to Week 2! Note that new areas have been added, and can be found under the Week 2 tab on our Locations page. Once again, feel free to make top levels at your discretion, and remember to note it in your header if you plan on investigating any locations. You can also privately contact The Lady or Rembrandt.]]

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SOMETHING HAPPENS!

[umbralant]

[Some have expressed interest in the Lady's castle, and even asked to be let in. Naturally, all that was met with a steadfast refusal!

Which is why that two people receiving invitations is both alarming and an opportunity. Mako and Noelle received from the hands of Rembrandt an elegant invitation:]

'The Lady invites you to Wawel Castle. You will be introduced to information that can only be found in the castle, information only you will be allowed to see. You are free to do anything you wish with it once you return.

Informing anyone else about this invitation will make it null and void. Meet Rembrandt at the tram station in two hours'

[It's a priceless opportunity. Of course both Mako and Noelle accepted! Noelle's invitation asked her to go to the station in three hours, ensuring the two wouldn't see each other. Just like the invitation said, Rembrandt received them, and soon they were escorted towards the castle.

Hours passed.

With this many people sleeping in the same building, it was to be expected someone would notice two of their group were missing. Where could they have gone? The answer comes later at night. Without warning, the Lady opens the door of the building and shouts inside. Rembrandt is standing behind her, doing his duty as bodyguard]

Darlings, I decided to play fair and inform you all Mako and Noelle are not coming back. They had an...unfortunate accident. [Although she's nonchalant about it, her face shows intense concentration, like she's thinking about a lot of things at once] Since I know you're all so insistent about proof, I brought some.

[She takes out of her pocket a couple photos, tossing them inside, freshly printed. In them you can see quite ghastly images: Mako and Noelle sprawled on a very expensive-looking couch, immobile and with their eyes wide open, staring at the empty air. They have clean stab wounds on their chests, clearly done by someone who knew exactly where and how to strike. The Lady could be seen with some kind of reading device, holding it against Noelle's head. There's no doubt: when this photo was taken, both were already dead]

Humans can be so fragile sometimes. I am not sorry, of course! But it'd be really nice if you all could be a little tougher, darlings. [She smirks] Theories fail, experiments don't reach the desired results, and you always learn something. This was very enlightening. But I cannot take all the credit! This was all thanks to a suggestion I received a few days ago. If you'd like to complain about this result, you should talk with the one who brought up this idea: Ango Sakaguchi. Too bad it didn't work, dear! I guess the fatality rate was actually a hundred percent!

[Without even a farewell, the Lady closes the door, leaving with Rembrandt. There are now two people less in Krakow, killed by the masterminds' hand.

In just one week since your arrival, four people have been lost. How many more will die before this game ends?]

[raventhaw]

[ welp. that sure happened, and raven sure seems unimpressed with the whole ordeal. she's unfazed when she sees the pictures of mako and noelle, because her interest is placed somewhere else.

she looks over at ango and isn't afraid to call him out in front of...well, everyone who's around. ]

So, Ango. Care to explain the role you played in the deaths of our comrades?

[pr159]

[ same reaction here, tbh. ]

I'd like to hear this myself.

[raventhaw]

[ squad up ]

[notbymyside]

[YEAH UH

He looks as shocked as anyone else to hear this.]

I...I simply asked if I could have my own power back, and when she said I was stuck with the one she gave me I asked if I could have both instead.

She said it had a 90% chance of killing me, so I decided against it.

[apothecares]

Are ya saying she stabbed them tryin' to give 'em your power?

[notbymyside]

I don't know, it wasn't like I was there to see any of this! I thought she would drop it when I said "No thank you".

[raventhaw]

[ hmmmmm. she tilts her chin up a little, raises her eyebrows. ]

So it was less a suggestion and more an idea you happened to plant in her head.

[notbymyside]

I won't deny that I asked if such a thing was possible, but I didn't expect her to take it this far.

[reanbeans]

So she's just trying to blame you for something you didn't do again.

[ Return of Rean "Not Impressed" Schwarzer, Electric Boogoloo. ]

[notbymyside]

The fact that you even had to say 'again' shows that I should have had the sense not to ask in the first place.

[ordealia]

...is she really pinning her own godforsaken experiments on you for bringing up an idea that she didn’t have to act on?

[galrarm]

Seems like it. "Suggestion" implies some sort of intentional responsibility.

[deadlygoals]

She's just hoping to paint a target on his back so someone will off him.

[notbymyside]

That, and she probably wants to make people dislike me. She wants us to kill one-another, remember?

[p_q]

... Survivors, then.

[That's apparently his only contribution to this; he hardly blinked at the somewhat grisly photographs and merely stared at Ango like he might start budding fruit from his head or perhaps his glasses, but all the same.

He doesn't seem entirely displeased.]

Did they ask too, I wonder.

[bawcock]

They must've, it's the only thing that makes sense.

[ Dammit, this was such a dirty trick. ]

[notbymyside]

Survivors...

[90% rate...wait...]

You don't think she means that we're the 'survivors' of her experiments, do you?

[bawcock]

Now I wish I'd said something sooner. I was waiting until we all gathered again, but...

[ This is a gathering so, might as well say it here. ] Last week Seteth said something that made a lot of sense to me. I decided to ask one of those two about it to see what they said and they actually answered.

Rembrandt told me that that thing we all survived—it was whatever they did to give us these powers.

[raventhaw]

...

[ that actually gets raven interested. ]

So we survived at least one of their experiments. Is that what you're saying?

[notbymyside]

...that would have been good information to have before I spoke to her, yes.

[pr159]

[ well now he feels dumb for not buying that explanation last week. and pissed off about being made to feel dumb!!! ugh. ]

[apothecares]

Do ya know if they picked which powers to give each person? Or was it just whichever of them showed up after... whatever they did?

[baitless]

...

[saint seiros how horrifying. he's trying not to look too concerned in Lysithea's direction, but he definitely visibly blanches...]

I... well, I suppose that's a small comfort when it comes to the state of our worlds, but it's...

[pr159]

Seriously?

[ That's it? ]

Unless your usual power involves stabbing, I don't see what this is even supposed to prove, besides the fact that we shouldn't trust any offers she makes us.