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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[umbralant]

[ Not quite a holy grail, but its about 20 keys on a keyring. They're all shapes and sizes, some of them are modern and some of them are antique. No indication to where they go, but you might be able to make some headway matching key style to doorknobs. ]

[p_q]

[Once again: that is so many goddamn keys. Some kind of jackpot was had here and anyone else would be more keyed up; Ulquiorra's expression barely twitches. He does finish closely examining the keyring and then slip the whole thing into his pocket, along with the pocket Aizen and whatever else he's managed to squirrel away from the rest of backstage. Hmmm.

There's still a few prominent doors that come to mind right away. He might as well take a stroll; that's all he's been doing lately. To the opera's restaurant kitchen we go -- it's more or less useless to him, but he'll have a go at matching up a key.

Anything?]

[umbralant]

[ Someone really was keyed up.

Strolling onward we will go. The kitchen door here is modern which eliminates a little over half the keys! What Ulquiorra is left with are modern keys with different colored handles, and after discounting the keys that clearly wouldn't fit the only possible matches are blue, green, red, yellow, and black keys. This won't be a long affair probably, but what key is he trying first? ]

[p_q]

[What is this, Blue's Clues??

Fine, he'll start by trying the brightly colored ones. Green, then red and yellow if that one doesn't go. Black and blue can be saved for last since that's what the door would look like if he had his powers and didn't have to worry about actual locks. SMH.]

[umbralant]

[ Blues Clues, blues clues~

Green is a nada. But red works, it's the color of the opera house interior and apparently the key follows the same motif. You now have access to the opera house kitchen... which Ulquiorra probably won't use but hey, you did it!

[p_q]

[... Locks it back up and throws away the key because he really doesn't care about feeding these peasants--

OK no, he's not going to bother either way, it doesn't matter that much. And he'll take a moment to look around the kitchen, too -- presumably it's more well-stocked than the other kitchens and possibly has more knives?? Are there bodies in the fridge or anything fresh or like. Signs of recent use. Blue's Clues all the way to town, bitch.]

[umbralant]

[ Yes, and since the electricity works in the Opera House now, it has an actual working freezer! There's also more serviceable appliances and a waffle maker, yum. You can't make waffles without delicious toppings, and looking in the fridge will produce a small amount of.. well produce including strawberries.

There's no clear signs of blatant ransacking, but the bunch of tomatoes does have spaces where a few were torn off from the vine. Other produce also indicate similar use. ]

[p_q]

[He looks over the food with a completely neutral expression because he's literally just a statue I guess; but taking stock of the kitchen itself is useful. Even if he has no use for this stuff, there are people -- and possibly things -- in this city that do. Hmm.

Important other question, there are totally more knives here, right.

And since it happened in the other kitchens, is there any sort of writing or menus or orders or whatever in evidence here, or is it just a very empty kitchen with some signs of wear and tear?]

[umbralant]

[ Hmm indeed.

Yes, there are more knives and they're of much higher quality than those in clergy housing or the milk bar. There's even a sharpening stone, neat. No menus on the wall because that's likely a healthcode violation even in poland, but there is a lone cookbook to be found on the prepspace next to an empty wine rack. Notably, this is in English as opposed to everything else here that's been in Polish, and it's also earmarked to a certain page. ]

[p_q]

[You know what, don't mind if he just goes ahead and borrows one of these higher-quality knives. It's no sword and not much of a weapon, but given all the incidences and happenings in the city recently (and how messy everything is, on the whole), it'll at least be a useful tool.

First come first serve, after all. Speaking of which, who stole the wine, y'all. Is the Lady just literally drinking her way through the city here. Oi.

For the most part, cookbooks and alcohol are both equally useless to him at the moment, but he takes a moment to look into it, anyway. The uniqueness of the book is noted; it's flipped through for anything else that might catch the eye, but otherwise he'll just take it with him for later perusal. Given he really, really doesn't need a cookbook, it might be returned, but later.]

[umbralant]

[ Too bad it's not a tuna knife. And maybe she is, someone should totally ask!

+1 cookbook added to inventory. There's nothing else to see here, but hey you did score some loot. ]