WEEK 6

[umbralant]

WEEK 6

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Five weeks. It's been five weeks, and twenty-seven has now dwindled down to eleven. And while only two passed this week, this trial may have been the most devastating in its own way, as threads of patience frayed and fragments of trust fractured. Nevertheless, if The Lady is to be believed, that may very well have been the final set of sacrifices that she was waiting for, so perhaps the end is in sight.

Of course, the fact that everyone is still stuck in Krakow means that it's not over yet, and who even knows what's happening over in the Twilight?

And so, some more changes are in store for this week, even if it may not be the same ones that you've gotten used to. For one thing, the fog stays put and no new areas of the city are revealed under the light of the lampposts. Secondly, The Lady is nowhere to be found in the city, with her bookstore office vacated and abandoned with nary a trace as to where she went. And third, the clock tower will no longer operate, which-- well. Actually that's not new at all, but it certainly may make it difficult to keep up with the facade of passing days. At least the moon still serves as a reminder of that, gibbous phase waxing into something fuller over the course of the week even if the color looks a bit off.

It may not be a fresh new start, but it's not time to give up yet, is it? After all, you are all Survivors.

[[Welcome to Week 6! Note that there are no new locations this week, but feel free to make top levels at your discretion, and remember to note it in your header if you plan on investigating any locations. As alluded above, The Lady will be unavailable, while Rembrandt will still be around on Monday and Tuesday before disappearing for the rest of the week.]]

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Investigation

[drydrown]

[Well! We're all going to die and that's fucking great.

That said, he's gotten some information from Shin and he's more than willing to pass out receipts to anyone that wants one, should you run into him; he's claimed the first one for himself, however, and his first stop is that red mailbox for the sake of investigation - is retrieving the key going to be as easy as it sounds, is the box full of snakes, what is he looking at.

That said, if you want a task and don't run into him out in the wild or in his natural goddamn habitat of the botanical garden later, he'll be near the entrance to clergy housing, shoving slips of paper at anyone who happens to be in his immediate vicinity.]

Go be useful.

clergy housing

[baitless]

[wait a sec.... HE'S the sidequest guy, how is this happening!!]

I... will, I suppose...

[drydrown]

Make sure nobody breaks the lamp posts while we're at it. I know nobody was showing any signs of doing so, but I wouldn't put it past us to start now.

[baitless]

...right, of course. I’ll check and see if there is anything amiss with them on our end, as well.

[sidequest accepted!!]

[drydrown]

...The lights in them might be people. Be careful.

[baitless]

...

[why on earth is this place like this.]

Understood. I don’t intend to do anything outside of observing them unless strictly necessary.

[drydrown]

Good. That's what I told the deceased, we won't break them unless we have to.

They think they're important for the Lady's plans. But if they contain the dead we can't exactly smash them and call it a day.

[baitless]

Precisely. We need more information, even in that case... if there is no way to return the dead to some sort of body, releasing them may be their only option for any sort of peace.

Obviously, that would be the worst case scenario, and I am not sure if it would apply to our dead as much as the previous victims here. I just...

[sigh.]

Well, I’m hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.

[drydrown]

Thankfully it won't be solely on us. They think they've found a way to save themselves.

[Which is good news because like. Look at us.

For a moment it doesn't look like he's inclined to say much else; that would certainly be par for the course. But, well.]

...I don't believe I've thanked you properly. For everything you've done for us.

It's...appreciated, Seteth.

[baitless]

There is that, at least. Well, I will have faith in them, since it seems as though they have accomplished much already.

[he’s proud of you, graveyard. except shin, but he will admit to personal bias there.]

...and you’re welcome, Cumore. Though I have been somewhat short with you in the past, I hope you know that I appreciate your work here as well.

[umbralant]

[ It really is as simple as it sounds for once. Cumore will be able to reach inside the unlocked mailbox and find a silver key taped to the inside. What kind of weirdo would do this, but you probably know the answer by now. ]

[drydrown]

[...look he wouldn't put it past this thing to be full of horrible reptiles or little slimes that hit you in the face and then give you a weapon like you're supposed to be grateful

so weird keys taped to the inside of mailboxes doesn't seem all that bad.

Let's go off to the botanical gardens, then, now that we're +1 weird silver key. Assuming everything is more or less as he left it? He was here a lot this weekend.]

[umbralant]

[ It is, yes! But there is the matter of that locked green house that you hold the answer to now, literally. From the outside you can tell the temperature inside is fairly humid, given the condensation beading on the windows. ]

[drydrown]

[...THIS IS GOING TO RUIN HIS HAIR AGAIN, ISN'T IT...

All right, let's go check out that greenhouse, even if the beading condensation is getting a bit of a sigh before he unlocks the thing. Let's go do this shit.]

[umbralant]

[ Sorry Cumore. As soon as he steps inside he's hit with the climate of the tropics, balmy and humid, which might be a nice respite from outside if humidity wasn't the pain of hair everywhere. Regardless! The fauna in here is bright and colorful, so regardless of your familiarity with earth species it's nice to look at.

Speaking of that, how familiar is Cumore with flora? ]

[drydrown]

[I mean...it could be worse. The fog is already ensuring his hair is less than great...

Anyway.

He's not a botanist or anything, but he's actually really well-traveled and a lot of the plant life in Terca Lumireis is similar to earth species, if not the same. He isn't familiar with desert species because he refuses to go out to the Sands of Kogorh or the ruins at Yormgen or Mt Temza, but other than that it depends on what's in here, he might be able to take a bash at it.]

[umbralant]

[...Is he very familiar with poisonous plants, because there's like. A whole section of them and they're not labelled nearly as nicely as the one in the other greenhouse, mostly because it looks like this isn't designed to be a visitor's area.]

[drydrown]

[Just to clarify, stuff like hemlock and belladonnas/nightshades? Because those are a definite yes.]

[umbralant]

[Definitely stuff like that, yep! But there's also some more non-European/North American species like hog's fennel, mintolla and gifblaar. At least they're more or less crowded around the same place so he won't like, randomly get a rash or worse from bumping into just any plant, but yeah...]

[drydrown]

[For reference, he's also wearing something from the opera house today so he's not just wandering around here like TITS OUT FOR THE TWILIGHT, and he's got gloves on because he pretty much always does. So even if he does happen to connect with anything, it shouldn't hit him too badly.

That said, he is definitely not putting anything from this area in his face because it does not look good for consumption, and he'll tie his hair back so it won't snag on anything because that sounds like a bad time. Okay. There is some poisonous shit in here. Good to know.

Does all of it seem to be there, or are there things conspicuously missing? Is this place as well-kept as the other greenhouse? More/less?]

[umbralant]

[All of it does seem to be there, yeah! Ditto as far as maintenance goes too, because we can't possibly have any part of Krakow be anything less than immaculate apparently (unless one of the Survivors mess it up, then all bets are off).

There is one other small thing that does stand out amongst the rest of the poisonous species though, and it's that there's a small patch of white roses approximately in the center of the greenhouse. There's nothing weird about them otherwise, beyond the fact that they don't really fit the theme of this greenhouse.]

[drydrown]

[...Huh. Genuine roses, and not something that's superficially similar? That's...odd.]

Is there anything else that's off about then, other than the fact that they're here? Because he'll go take a closer look at them either way.]

[umbralant]

[Genuine roses indeed. They're not some secret man-eating and/or poisonous species of rose or anything, so Cumore is free to mess with them as much as he likes; there really isn't anything else that's off about them and they're just as well cared for as the rest of the plants in here.]

[drydrown]

[...Hm. Well, they are pretty... Perhaps he'll come back for some of them later.

Okay. So we've got roses, and we've got a fucking poison emporium in here. Since he's already checking out the roses, he'll verify that they're all intact - none of them seem crushed or like they've been moved around, no...I don't know, signs the thorns have gored anyone recently - before getting up and going to check out the poisonous things and seeing if there's anything immediately amiss over there.]

[umbralant]

[They are indeed all intact! Like, there are points where the bushes have been pruned, but within normal limits, not "imma gonna remove a big portion of this because it was used for a murder". They are very normal, or at least as normal as they can be in a dark greenhouse in the middle of a murder-themed Krakow.

There's nothing off about the poisonous plants either! They simply exist and what labels he does find does correspond to the correct plants so it's not like things got moved around or anything either. A lot of them are also labelled only by their scientific name too, so it's definitely not meant for laymen.]