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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[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.]

[pr159]

[ Eyes narrow a bit at that... He is absolutely not lacking in determination, thank you. It's not his damn fault his power literally requires him to be holding a specific watch to use it. ]

Looks like this is the very first one. Not every day you see someone get this excited by failure.

[ Yes, that's part of the scientific process and all, but this is particularly "Hm." ]

Did you find something?

[deadlygoals]

[ Time to just sit on the edge of the bed and get cozy then. ]

The World Has a Secret and I'm About to Plunder It!

[ Tilting it towards him so he can see.

Then he's going to open it up. What do we have inside this folder. ]

[umbralant]

[It's a saucy romance novel featuring Seteth and the Lady.

Okay, no, it isn't.

Once the folder is open something heavy falls from it: a tablet. It's turned off right now -- but it can be turned on! Give it a try, yup.

There are also two pages inside this folder. The first one has 1/4 in a corner, and seems to be an empty report repurposed for writing these things down. Give it a read!]

[pr159]

...I don't know why I'm even surprised.

[ Just... sitting down next to him on the bed to read along, I guess, why is this happening.

And he'll catch the tablet and turn it on, assuming it's still got a charge. ]

[deadlygoals]

It's almost cute if it wasn't for it being Lady.

[ He means the title.

The contents are... interesting. Since Rideaux is checking the tablet, Dazai is going to flip to the second page to read it. ]

[umbralant]

[The page is marked 2/4 on the upper corner. The folder doesn't have anything else in it -- the last two pages are missing. Welp!

Still, the second page has this!]

[pr159]

[ Keeps reading in the meantime while waiting for the tablet to boot up... ]

Hm. I'm curious as to exactly what "extending it indefinitely" is supposed to mean when it's an alternate world rather than a time.

[ Unless the clock had something to do with it... ]

And theoretically, wouldn't that just make the electricity problem worse, if going back and forth between Day and Night was what allowed her to keep operating in the Night before?

[deadlygoals]

Our friends in Twilight mentioned something has been going on for a hundred years.

[ He was confused about what they meant before but... ]

Maybe that's why she started using souls.

[umbralant]

[Yup, it has charge! The tablet turns on, looks like it stillhas half of its battery available. No signs of the charger anywhere, though.

There are two files. One is a text file, interrupted like the person writing for fed up with the clumsiness of writing with a device. The note says:]

"I once asked Rembrandt if the energy looks delicious. It turns out this, not being souls, is of no interest to him, despite coming from living human beings. That's one problem less for me! I think I"

[There's also a video file. The video is...well, it's quite something.]

[pr159]

[ Oh. Well.




Hm. Yes, that is something. ]

...Well, I suppose that answers some questions.

[ And raises one or two.

...Might as well take this tablet with them too, he guesses. ]

[deadlygoals]

Let me see.

[ And welp... That's Rean. That's Rean probably getting mauled by some lizards before everything happened.

They now know the procedure of how they got their new powers, but... it pisses him off to see it done to Rean like that. ]

Maybe we should burn this place down.

[ Okay, time to go. He's definitely stealing the pillows though. ]

[pr159]

Let's get some use out of the spa first, but after that, I won't stop you.

[deadlygoals]

It's actually pretty nice in there.

[ The only thing nice tbh. He'll wait until after people enjoy it then before deciding to throw something at the windows. ]