antumbrac | WEEK 6

WEEK 6

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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[ He's... going to give the pizza a critical stare. Very critical. In the end, he decides against eating it. Irrational as it may be, eating pizza just feels weird now. (Also he doesn't even like pizza in the first place, but that's a different matter.) Tea, however, is happily accepted. ]

I looked through the hotel's lower floor and found nearly nothing, except some tourism magazines that were lying out as if someone had recently looked at them. Those have stuck out to me before because they have the pages about the main square removed.

I also looked over the football field, which yielded... more tourism brochures. This was crumpled up under the otherwise remarkably clean bleachers. [ He will take out the brochure for perusal here. ] It's about the crypts below the city. Their public entrance is not available to us, but they are said to span under most of the town and be partially unexplored.

If they come to be relevant, we might find an entrance via the subway system.

Wonder what is it about the main square...didn't someone else find them missing from books as well?

[ Also this means more pizza for him, so he's just going to grab another slice. ]

The crypts? I wonder if they are connected to the salt mines.

It seems like every trail in this city leads us back underground one way or another, that much is sure.

I am not fond of the idea of going down there, but we may have to.

[ And he's judging the pizza eating. There is no particular reason to even judge it, he just does. ]

[ Pizza would probably want them to appreciate his food?

And also Dazai isn't a lizard. So it's all good. ]

I'm pretty sure it had a lot of foot traffic before the split between Day and Night. It might be safe to traverse once we reach it.

[ Just... reaching it. ]