WEEK 6

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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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[umbralant]

[They do look spaced enough to be that, indeed. No way to know from looking at the marks, but it's indeed a possibility.

There's a few objects more in the ballroom, but none that are related to the investigation, really. Looks like you have cleared the first area!

So, this is how the rest of the hotel goes: there's the second floor, the third floor, the fourth floor, and a suite in the fifth floor. Good thing there are two people here to check everything!]

[pr159]

I would have expected those experiments to have been done in the individual rooms, but this would be a much more efficient way to monitor everything, if that's what was going on.

[ A quick sweep of the room to make sure there's nothing else notable here... all right. ]

Let's check out the rooms on this floor as long as we're here, and we can go from there.

[ Into the hall we go! ]

[deadlygoals]

This could have also been a makeshift hospital. Earlier, I found a notebook with a mention of people falling into comas.

[ Hallway to hell~ Hallway to hell. Once they are out there, he will be looking to see if there's any kind of map of fire exits or something on the wall. ]

[umbralant]

[There indeed is a map of fire exits! Well, more like it's a map of absolutely everything. All fire exists are on the first floor, though, so...yeah, this must break some sort of regulation.

The map does show that most of the floors are full of rooms. More than three hundred in total, counting all five floors. There's also a big suite on the fifth floor. Nice!

Oh, careful while walking, Rideaux. While Dazai is checking that map, you may stumble upon a gurney, placed to a side of the hallway]

[pr159]

Like on that note or whatever it was on the bridge? Where did you find that?

[ Thankfully, he is watching his step very closely, so no gurney surprises today. But okay, that might give credence to the hospital theory. Is there anything on it? ]

...Actually, I'm a little surprised we haven't found a real hospital here yet. The gardens are supposed to be part of some university, right?

[deadlygoals]

In the spa room down stairs. Rean had the key so we went checking it out this morning.

[ He'll take the map. Oh there's a gurney. ]

I can push you if you get on~

[ Is he serious? Who knows. ]

Yeah, it's supposed to be. The fog may have cut access off from it and the actual hospital.

[ So either they are at Fog City Hospital or Experiments R Us. What do we have on the rest of the third floor? ]

[umbralant]

[The gurney is empty! And...very neatly made, it seems, but on the frame, on a few places, there are very notable friction marks. So much friction the metal is full of scratches, the outer layer of ceramic gone. That was a lot of friction or a lot of strength. Or both.

So, Dazai, the rest of the third floor has a couple other gurneys around, in a state similar to the one Rideaux is examining. One of them has a short piece of rope on it, very frazzled and useless now.

Looks like that's all on the hallway. The hotel rooms themselves seem to be the last thing left around]

[pr159]

I don't think so.

[ Frowns... ]

Well, something did a number on these.

[ They can probably hazard a guess...

Anyway, all right, let's... approach a door. Anything notable from the outside? ]

[deadlygoals]

[ I could make a joke about rough sex but

Yeah it was probably lizards or something struggling against them.

He'll just follow behind Rideaux, keeping an eye out. ]

[umbralant]

[You guys have no idea how many BDSM jokes about the masterminds have been said, let me tell you.

Be careful, Rideaux, this room is real full of traps. From the red-tinted light outside, the very, very faint outline of tripwires can be seen on a very small section of the floor. There have to be a lot more in the darkness -- looks like the person who set this stuff engineered it so the tripwires would be invisible in the dark.

Stepping inside is unwise, really.

Not too far from the door there's a clipboard stuck to the wall. It's reachable from the doorway, but...you're going to have to extend your arm so much there's a risk of losing your balance. Careful if you want to retrieve that, guys]

[pr159]

[ If he opens up that cut again, can he just like... extend a blood tendril around the door frame and hook it through that hole in the clip part of the clipboard... ]

[deadlygoals]

Whoa~ Looks like she really didn't want anyone coming through the windows.

[ If he uses a glow stick, can he see a way to even disconnect any of the traps? Not that he's going in there further. Just sticking to the door to let Rideaux do his thing . ]

[umbralant]

[Totally! Who'd have thought blood was so useful?

Ah, looks like it's a report. Seems like it was written by someone with a lot of biology knowledge, with a lot of detail. The descriptions of tissues, things growing, and changes on this subject's body are...grisly. Augh.

The first page has what may be considered a summary about the content, and thankfully it's easily understood!

Hey, Dazai, the map you have would mention the floor you're on right now covers #72-150. The number on the door and the number on the summary match, by the way!

Also, about the traps, looks like they extend towards some dangerous-looking contraptions not only on the windows, but on the corners of the room too. The cables even go into the adjacent room -- like the contraptions in each room form a wide, wide net of danger. Geez]

[pr159]

[ Blood is great. And thankfully he can understand the complicated stuff too. Clearly he was the right man for this job!!

Holding it over so Dazai can check out the summary, and using his GHS flashlight to light things up better than a glow light. ]

Hm... I wonder if this is the one who carved that message into the tram.

[deadlygoals]

Might help if we find the first room on this floor... seems a bit overkill.

[ Musing out loud as he sees the wire goes through the wall. ]

Let's grab all the reports on this floor. There should be about seventy seven rooms to check.

[ How many reports can two people hold? Dazai is scanning the page to get it memorized. ]

This one of any of them really. That was probably their dumping ground.

[umbralant]

[The reports on the floor seem to show a progression: the #72 starts with a musing on possibly using copper and zinc framing on bones to strengthen the body in preparation for powers. A few reports later, a different modification is done. All in all, there's a series of wild procedures that seem to be directed towards increasing the odds of survival, with varying results.

Oh! Now this is fun! Looks like there are a few familiar names here, most of them close to the #150 number! Sorely lacking with useful information, sadly -- it lists information they already know, such as powers and anything about skills and theories about how the new powers impact them -- but they're there. Teru Mikami, Dist, Shin, Raven Branwen...

...there's one that may be of interest, though, because it marks the start of you all's plight by showing the first subject. Thankfully this report says there were no physical modifications on anyone to increase the odds of survival, so at least everyone in Antumbra can rest easy on that regard.

Report #089]

[pr159]

[ ...Well. Dazai can hold onto that one.

It's not at all surprising at this point that they were among the subjects here -- the 300 rooms match up with their estimate of what their original group size must have been, even -- but it's still unnerving.

And he's definitely frowning at those modifications, even if those particular things weren't done to him. There's not any question that she knows about him, and it's not out of the realm of possibility to think that she could have figured out the codes just like that grunt at Spirius had managed to.

...So. Moving on. ]

[deadlygoals]

[ Lol. That's... funny. It's funny he's the first success considering everything. He's reading through it and he'll just laugh as he folds it up and puts it into his pocket. WOW. ]

Wonder how long we've been here then?

[ Also she wasn't nice enough to patch up any of his wounds. Rude.

Okay time to hit up the next floor then. Fourth Floor next. ]

[umbralant]

[Welcome to the fourth floor. According to Dazai's map, this floor is full of...very, very, very small rooms and most likely inexpensive rooms, meant only for sleeping instead of a long stay. Not that this would stop the masterminds from shunting people in there for weeks or months!

The numbers go from #151 to #300. Let's see what there is to find!

Looks like the rest of the names of the group are here. Hey, Rideaux, your report is here! #209! The report shows a lot of...well this is a lot of information about internal stuff you may want to keep away from prying eyes, really.

Most of the reports seem to be partial failures, product of the Lady experimenting in order to understand the creatures' effects better. It's almost excessive, and far beyond uncaring towards life.

From this floor there's one of some interest: #294. You may move on to another!]

[pr159]

Longer than we'd thought, apparently.

[ Did she just dump them all out on the lawn when it was time for them to wake up then...

Also, wow, thanks for the comparatively crappy room?? And yes, he's just. Going to keep his to himself.

This is definitely interesting, though. A clearer confirmation that the powers are derived from the creatures here, and... ]

I wonder why this was the one she decided to stop on. That girl was an outlier in several ways, it seems.

[deadlygoals]

[ Reading through the report twice. ]

There was probably enough of us for her to get what she wants. Ulquiorra suspects she needs us for something more than just batteries.

[ Tapping the paper before he puts it with the rest. Where is Rean's because he might just stash that one, too. ]

If Rembrandt is right, it means we do have a way to beat her with our original powers.

[ Okay okay. Since we're done here... time to go up to Fifth floor? ]

[umbralant]

[Welcome to the fifth floor!

Let's see...map says this is a very luxurious floor, with really large rooms. There's barely a dozen, and the biggest is marked as a suite. There doesn't seem to be anything of interest in the hotel rooms' reports, but...the suite, hm?

There's no clipboard on the wall here! But it's far better furnished than everything else. A teapot, a very orderly pile of scrap pieces, and what seems to be a toolbox that hasn't been touched in quite some time are pretty good indications of who stayed here once. Welcome! Come in, no traps anywhere!]

[pr159]

For those of us who can get those back, anyway.

[ He feels like his watch is probably in the lottery, but there's no guarantee of that, and no guarantee that he'll actually get it even if it is. Though to be fair, he has mixed feelings about getting his powers back in the first place. He's not as bad as Julius, but he definitely has a limited number of uses remaining.

But yes, arriving at the suite... STILL GOING TO BE VERY CAUTIOUS because he does not have the luxury of reading these brackets and being reassured about the absence of traps.

Are there more papers in here? Going to check the nightstands if those are a thing, and the desk... ]

[deadlygoals]

Or those of us with determination.

[ Sounds like something Rean or Shiro can do.

Also he's just going to carefully check for drawers and stuff. TIME TO LOOT is there anything interesting besides the tools? What kind of tools do we have anyways? ]

[umbralant]

[Checking the nightstand seems to have been a good idea, Rideaux! There's one report there. Perhaps the Lady had read it again before she decided to leave the hotel? It's the report #001.

The toolbox seems to have a lot of surgical tools. They all look heavily used. Well that sure doesn't say anything good about the two hundred seventy something unknown people, huh.

In a drawer there's a folder, and inside the folder...hm, you may want to sit down with this to take a look alongside Rideaux, Dazai. The title on the cover of the folder is quite promising: This World Has a Secret and I'm About to Plunder It!'.

Subtle.]