FINAL INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

FINAL INVESTIGATION

[Well, your time, your anger, your losses have led up to this.

It's time to go, and that blue card will give access to the floors above. In particular, there is the floor Barbara mentioned before the throne room, which seems to be a good idea to check out beforehand.

Indeed, it's much like the previous floors the Strangers had lived in, only smaller.]



[There is another elevator in the area, but that is inaccessible. Even using Marie's card doesn't seem to work on it. Hm. No matter. Marie's card works on all of these rooms, so it's fine, right?

In any case, if there's answers to be found about just whose in charge - and what in the world is going on - this is the last chance of finding them. You've all gotten this far, and as your teams descend on the rooms, you can feel the end is near. Hopefully, that end is not that of the universe - or of Ivy.

Good hunting, Titled.]

Comments

[tiefleaf]

[ okay so are there any charts or strategic little model things or anything lying around, what kind of war room are we talking about here

Molly's gonna walk further in, in any case. ]

EVIDENCE relate to the clue above - they are one clue oops

[strangerpeople]

[There is a map - there's a copy on the massive table in the center of the room, and on a hologram on the wall.

Both show the same image.]

[tiefleaf]

[ Okay, that looks pretty ominous.

If he touches the hologram, what happens? ]

[strangerpeople]

[Depends on where you touch. If you touch one of the pinpoints, it will say either RED, WHITE, or NEUTRAL.]

[tiefleaf]

[let's see what touching the yellow one gets us.]

[strangerpeople]

[NEUTRAL.]

[tiefleaf]

[Alright, how about the blue one near the foot? ]

[strangerpeople]

[WHITE.]

[earietale]

[Barbara is going to poke the one at the top of the very top of her head. Any chance it won't be red?]

[strangerpeople]

[It is indeed RED.]

[tiefleaf]

[ Alright, you know what? He's gonna crack a shit-eating grin and touch every single damn pushpin on that map. ]

[strangerpeople]

[RED RED RED RED
RED RED
RED RED RED
WHITE
RED RED RED RED
REEEEEEEEEEEEED

and so on]

[tiefleaf]

[ are all the red ones red ]

[strangerpeople]

[yes

but, do you want to see what else is here in the room?]

[tiefleaf]

[ Sure, let's have a looksie-doodle. Any furniture, or are we just in a blank white space with a hologram and a piece of paper? ]

[strangerpeople]

[There are papers on the table aside from the map. Want to take a look?]

[tiefleaf]

[ ...fuck

okay I'm going to assume that there is text on those papers and do the reasonable thing: ]

...Barbara, take a look at this.

[strangerpeople]

[There are two stacks of papers in particular that seem Important.

So, whichever one Barbara wants to look at first is up to her - the more complicated on, or the less complicated one?]

[earietale]

Wh-oh, right.

[They need to teach him how to read still.

So, what's the more complicated one look like?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[It's a compilation of information on something called Project Diatron. A lot of it seems to be carefully written so that a layperson could eventually understand some of the very high-end concepts coming from this.

Project Diatron, in essence, involved nanometric resizing of volunteers - aka, shrinking - to allow for literal manual microsurgery of complicated diseases and problems that might affect someone physically that can't otherwise be cured traditionally. The volunteers thus become micronauts.

The doctor in charge of this project has found added benefits to also using mitochondrial conversion - aka, transforming the micronauts into human-antibody hybrids for the body they're going to be implanted into - which allows for the micronauts to adapt and survive much longer than just not converting them. The process is reversible, thankfully, but there has been a noted side effect of the procedure while hybridization is ongoing - unexpected and spontaneous immunological mutations in the micronauts during implantation and surgery.

In other words, the micronauts have been noted to gain abilities similar to those of known micro-organisms, even including viruses and fungi.]

[earietale]

[And this makes Barbara think one single thing.]

I'm going to punch whoever made me a...micronaunt.

[What does the other pile talk about?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[A group known as The Orders. A militia in the Neutral Zone split into two factions: the Order of the Sherry and the Order of the Crackle. They base their teachings on two mythical individuals who met and even more mythical figure the Orders revere - the Beyonder.

The document points out that the group have experience in guerrilla tactics, along with incredible technological and fighting skills that have grown over the centuries. The writer of this document has made overtaking these groups a priority.]

[earietale]

Sherry, Crackle, and the Beyonder.

[Sounds fake but okay.

She's just gonna grab those stacks and put them near the door so they hopefully don't forget to bring them later.

Anything else important in the room?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[The walls are lined with lots and lots of weaponry otherwise. Lots of spears, laser machine guns...]

[earietale]

[...okay, you know what

If they're going to fight germs and stuff

Better come prepared

BARBARA IS GRABBING A LASER MACHINE GUN

Anyway is that all? Or is there something else?]