WEEK 2

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 2

[A week has passed. There's been no body, no investigation, no trial. No deaths. Congratulations!

Now the question is, will it last? At the moment, the Commander seems content with forcing people to do petty and mean-spirited errands in return for a mere shower. On the one hand, it's just for showers. On the other hand, what if the demands start to get more extreme? Would caving in encourage her? Is anyone willing to try and find out?

Honesty, with all the strange dates and information floating around from what's been uncovered, the only one in this place who's probably not worried as the time slips into its next movement is Sir Riprazor McRockfang. That's right, he's a sir. A grumpy sir, yes, but still a sir. No one's going to mess with him, regardless of what his true origins may be. And if they do, beware - he bites. Omnom. Good luck, everyone.


There are fifteen strangers - and one alligator - in this place.]

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SUNDAY

[strangerpeople]

[illusionarymelody]

[Vita is in the mess hall eating some of the spaghetti as neatly as she possibly can so it doesn't get on her or what she has with her. She's got a couple of books with her. The hair band is in her hair and the fan is actually hidden away in her outfit made from a bedsheet, but one may notice there is some blue glitter on her hands and outfit.

And no, it's totally not a figment of your imagination that one of those books is glowing a pale blue color. She's looking at it to make sure otherwise it's not harmed or changed in any way.]

[theserpentsmiles]

[It's the glowing book that catches Nagisa's eye, but the larger one that takes his attention. That....looks like...]

Excuse me, may I... May I look at that book...?

[illusionarymelody]

Feel free. It's definitely not a place I'm familiar with.

[She'll carefully slide it over so Nagisa can get a better look.]

[crouching_sin]

[It's Naoya's turn to sit in the mess hall with a few items. There's a leg - the nuts and bolts have been stowed away. The stun gun has similarly been stowed. A pair of cat-ear shaped headphones are hooked around his neck, the wire tucked into his spacesuit.]

[There's also a very large fluffy cat who is sitting on his head as he's working on drawing something. Perhaps more importantly, there's a cougar sitting near his feet, looking at anyone who approaches.]

[fashionfever]

Oh, those are cute. Very "Cool Japan".

[She's openly pointing at the headphones. A tray of food is in her other hand as she hustles over to sit right across from him at the table.

That's when she notices the cougar and the smile on her face freezes.]

[crouching_sin]

They're my cousin's.

[He glances down at the cougar, and then back up.]

The cougar's fine for right now, I think. It's not hungry.

[beguiledcard]

[ There's no hesitation to approach, of course, when he notices the cat that's sitting on Naoya's head...

When he notices the cougar at his roommate's feet, however, his steps... almost pause. He blinks a couple of times before resuming his steps, and then stops a few feet away. ]

Soooo... are we opening a zoo together, now?

[ He gestures to what should be familiar to Naoya, at this point, as Akira's familiar. Morgana's currently arching his back and moving so he's behind Akira's feet.

Needless to say, he does not appreciate Big Cat, whoops.

There's a small smile as he looks down at his familiar, and then takes a sip of the coffee in his hand. After a pause, he gestures a tiny bit with the cup, tilting his head a little at Naoya. ]

Apparently, the only way to get decent coffee around here, is to hope it drops out of that machine. [ a beat, and then a small, slightly sheepish grin ] It's, uh... much stronger than what I'm used to, though. I have no idea how long it's going to take me to finish it all.

[crouching_sin]

Possibly. I don't really mind - the cougar is relatively relaxed... for now.

[Who the fuck knows in this place. But he perks up a bit at the possibility of good coffee.]

Well, then. If you're offering... it might be a little difficult to brew things properly here, but we can give it a shot.

[toushiro]

[ he walks into the mess hall for a cup of tea, and he's not about to say anything to naoya until he sees the cougar.

he's mentally dragging his hands down his face; physically, he just sighs and runs a hand through his hair. ]

What is with this place and all of the wild animals?

[crouching_sin]

[He looks up and shrugs, grinning.]

No idea. But it's amusing, at least.

[leftthelighton]

It's not that Passepartout hasn't been out of his room. it's that he's been like a ninja, doing so when you haven't been looking. But here he is now, in the computer room. He's managed to poke and prod at a computer enough to make it print off random nonsense. A lot of random nonsense. In fact, it's been printing for about ten minutes.

He looks quite alarmed at this fact.

[earietale]

[So Barbara has got a bunch tapes she doesn’t know what to do with and figured that it might help if she goes to the computer room.

Then she sees this mess.]

What the-

[She shoves the tapes in her pockets for now as she grabs one of the papers to try reading it.]

Why are you printing all of this?

[leftthelighton]

I am not! I think!

[ He attempts stuffing the papers back into the printer, and the printer starts making an alarming noise at this fact. It does not like this move. ]

I fully believe this machine is possessed.

[ The papers really don't make sense. It's all in this font. ]

[fashionfever]

[Angela is over here not seeing Passe at first. She's just close to one of the printers and carefully tidying up the printouts into a pile.]

[leftthelighton]

[ Passepartout notices her after a little while of his confusion and approaches her. He looks a little hopeful, as she is the one that solved his technological problems last time they met. ]

Do you know how to stop this?

[crouching_sin]

[Naoya steps into the computer room, where he spends a lot of time.]

[This? This was not what he expected. Someone who clearly doesn't know what they're doing. He sighs and walks over to the computer, nudging the nervous Frenchman out of the way if he has to.]

I've got it, I've got it...

[leftthelighton]

[ Passepartout allows himself to be nudged, breathing a sigh of relief at someone who seems to know what they are doing. ]

Do you? You know how to calm this beast?

[beguiledcard]

[ Have a genuine look of concern, buddy. ]

Having... trouble?

[leftthelighton]

Yes! Yes, I am!

[ Passepartout expresses this with a look of utter stress. ]

more check-in than meeting!

[beguiledcard]

[ Unlike last time, he has Angela helping with this one. In this case, he needed someone to help set up so that he could put the messages on everyone's doors (or hand them out in person, possibly, in some cases). Like last time, there are notes on the doors! They're free of customized pictures, but they instruct everyone to "meowt up" in the Mess Hall at 2PM/1400 with a... picture of a cat wearing yellow bandanna beneath said message.

And, speaking of wearing things? When people arrive, they might notice that Akira is wearing a toga and petting a cat that's wearing a yellow collar.

This time, there are pieces of paper set onto the table, along with pens of various colors, though namely the 'normal' kind (though there's a pink one and some yellow). As he waits for people to settle in, he takes the moment to slowly sip at the coffee that came from the vending machine.

Not the ammonia kind, obviously; it's a kind that he's having to drink very slowly, because it's already giving him a boost, and he isn't even a fourth of the way through the cup...

He will wave to people as they approach, and offer the occasional smile and nod to go with the gesture. ]

AND A SUGGESTION

[beguiledcard]

So... I figure, this time around, it would be a good idea for people to take turns writing down anything that seems suspicious, or even like some kind of clue about the situation.

It might be a good idea to keep everything limited to one or two pieces of paper, so is everyone okay with starting clockwise and working our way around the room?

[ And he'll start by writing at the top:

"- For those of you who didn't hear about it at the last meeting, there was a spy in our group in the mall. They messed with the evidence of every crime scene and listened in on every meeting.

- They're able to store live animals in the machine that spits out 'rewards' ... but how are these things kept alive, and how were they fit inside that thing?"


And... then he proceeds to casually pass the paper to the next person, his expression calm and casual as he makes a point of watching each person's face when it gets to them. ]




(( OOC: so basically you guys are welcome to comment here with what, if anything, they contributed to The List! ))

[toushiro]

[ he's in a significantly better mood this time around because of the lack of a customized picture, thank god. however, after akira speaks, toushiro leaves the room while the paper starts being passed around. it might seem like he's not coming back because he doesn't really say anything when he walks out, but...

lo and behold, he does come back with the same piece of paper he posted up on the door to the computer room on saturday. he uses the tape to re-stick the note on to whatever's being passed around. ]

[backuphero]

[Jonathan frowns at the paper, though it's not clear which point bothers him more. But he's got information to contribute, just like he'd said...

Going to figure a spy would know all this already.

-the camera robots:
*can fight back if we try to go after them. "level one" response was shooting laser beams. one of the lenses on the "face" rotated before it did that. it mentioned a level two before I backed off, I don't know what that might be.
*they can either play tapes or something like talk.
*they're WAY heavier + sturdier than they look.
*I think maybe the "don't damage them" was bait.

-far as I know nobody found a radio, even just a receiver. Do we have the right stuff to build one? I can't really remember how but I know you don't need vacuum tubes or anything fancy, mostly wire. Could help figuring out where we are.]

[fashionfever]

[By the time people walk in, Angela is sitting at the table. There are already empty cups at each seat. As she pushes pens across the table to empty seats for arriving members and greets them warmly by name, it seems that she has some vague scheme in mind to spread out the titled away from just roommates and other established alliances. All she's talking about for now is the cups though.]

You know, for when you need something totally not suspicious to pass around!