FINAL INVESTIGATION

[umbralant]

FINAL INVESTIGATION

Time continues to pass. And before long, it's the end of the week once again. Maybe it feels strange to call it that when there's such little sense of time besides the changing phases of the moon, and maybe the exact day doesn't even matter to you anymore. But regardless of the day, regardless of the month, regardless of the year, one thing is certain:

The time for preparations is over.

Because as the moon in the sky shines blood red, it becomes clear that all of the fog and the tremors were nothing but omens for what was to come.

And so, on Friday morning, Survivors will find themselves waking up to the sensation of energy practically buzzing through the air, prickling and tingling on skin like static electricity. Those who venture outside will also find that the fog that's creeped up in the recent days has been dispelled entirely, which includes the impassable kind that once hid a number of the buildings. Despite this, the tremors themselves do not lessen, and in fact, the earth itself seems to be vibrating with this energy as well.

The feeling will only get worse as the day progresses, and those who have been marked by the manifestations may feel more restless than normal.

The clock is ticking and there are some new areas to explore. No one's coming to save you, so there's nothing to do but to save yourselves, right?

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[umbralant]

[The sculptures and the like are free to be perused at Seteth's leisure and at least he won't need to run down a hall chasing down the rest of these whippersnappers. Or something.

Anyways, unlike the sculptures and works in the hall leading to the chapel, these ones... well, some of them look like some of those blue-eyed blobs that were in the audience during the trials, actually.]

[baitless]

[huh, okay. he's going to examine those sculptures specifically a little more carefully, then! do they look out of place beyond just being blue-eyed blobs?]

[umbralant]

[Well, that's the thing. A large proportion of the sculptures here are of the blue-eyed blobs, although there's nothing too odd about them in and of themselves. So you could say the few non-blob sculptures here actually stick out like a sore thumb, and looking around there are also reptilian-like figures and some human-like ones too.]

[baitless]

[that about tracks given... about everything else he's seen here, to be honest.

does anything stick out in the sense that it looks like... i don't know... you could press it and find a secret passage or something?]

[umbralant]

[Nothing like that! Although it's notable that of the human-like figures, most of them don't have facial features outside of red-painted eyes save for one.

There's also some of the reliefs on the walls if he wants to look at that, though.]

[baitless]

[Well, he'll check out the human-like figure that has facial figures first, then he'll go for the reliefs!]

[umbralant]

[It isn't anyone Seteth would recognize unfortunately(?), but it's a rather androgynous sculpture of someone looking over at the crowd of blobs and other figures. Their expression is rather cold and there's what looks to be a stone halo behind their head and a swirling ball of energy in their right hand.

Huh.

Meanwhile, it looks like there's a series of 4 scenes depicted by the reliefs, although there's one pretty close to the sculpture that Seteth's looking at, so that one's pretty hard to miss. That relief depicts a figure that, while stylized, stands with a cold expression and a shining halo behind their head.]

[baitless]

[...that doesn't seem like Christianity, but he's not sure enough about the wider iconography to be sure. It's probably connected more to the blobs though!

Let's look at the rest of the scenes, then!]

[umbralant]

[One scene runs beside the congregation of blobs, and appropriately it shows one person getting attacked by them and some lizard-like creatures. The person looks pretty freaked out and distressed!

The next scene a little away from the rest of the sculptures shows a person standing before an arch with a circle overhead, showing their back to the viewer.

And the last scene is also a bit of a distance from the other sculptures; it shows a person standing in front of a open door with their arms spread out wide, and a lot of light streaming out from the entrance.

Hm!]

[baitless]

[...he'll, uh, write all this down in his notebook. descriptions. don't ask him to draw that shit he's not an artist it would look bad. maybe he'll ask rideaux to come back and take pictures...

Anyway, anything else about the reliefs to note?]

[umbralant]

[Nothing else, sadly! No secret passages here and this area is more or less done unless Seteth has something specific he wants to reexamine the sculptures or reliefs for!]

[baitless]

[nope! he'll head over to where Rideaux and Erik are, unless there are any other directions he can go.]

[umbralant]

[Nope, that's pretty much it! Rendezvous and then maybe visit the souvenir shop or something, you guys deserve it.]

[pr159]

[ He will take pictures!! ]