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15strangers2023-07-16 09:57 pm
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WEEK 6
[Fifteen X-Passes. You've finally done it. You can now go free. However, the price has been steep. Too steep.
True, you can leave. Anyone can, now. But simply leaving may be a bad idea. After all, who knows what else Zero has up its sleeve? Who knows what's outside of the HMHS Gigantic? How will they survive? How will they eat? And those are the easy questions that need to be answered. After all, the mystery of Zero, the mystery of Zack, the mystery of who is the cause of all of this and why-those things are also seemingly impossible to answer without some preparation. There's also the new area that's opened up that may yet yield more for the survivors to mull over.
Rushing is surely a bad idea. It's time to prepare. Take the time to get ready for whatever is outside. Stock up on supplies. Write what needs to be written. Say what needs to be said. Get ready for the possibility that whatever is out there, whatever the answers are-they will not be easy, and they will not be quick.
More than that, but-where are all these cuts coming from on your body? Hm. Maybe you keep bumping into things or scratching too hard. Did everyone save Roland get super clumsy or something all of a sudden?
Well. Maybe the answers to all that are just around the corner. So. Let's get ready. The end is near.
There are
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WEEK 6 INVESTIGATION THREAD
Captain's Quarters Investigation
Though.. he isn't expecting how nice it looks in here compared to the pod room, but considering it's spacious nature? Going to spread out a bit to check things out. ]
...This is quite nice... can't say I was expecting that.
[ Okay. Time to start looking around!! ]
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Alchemy lab
And after all, technology had not helped. Maybe magic can. He starts taking down the books and sets to work trying to figure out the language they are written in and going through the supplies to see what options he has. He's brewed his fair share of Vulenaries and other curatives after all]
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Dorm Investigation!!!
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Well, for the most part, what comes up is just stuff left over by those who have died in the empty rooms. Boooooo.]
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Training Room
So, is there anything out of place on this fine Tuesday?]
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As he prepares to caress one side of the leg press machine, to know that the metal is cold from disuse and thus he is still alive*, he notices something on the wall that, perhaps, missed his gaze-missed everyone's gaze-throughout all of the horrors and revelations that have weighed upon the strangers as of late, during their sojourn here.
Interesting.
*Well, in this narrator's narration, at least, it'd more than likely the narrator is simply making up this part about the leg press, as she, like the Gear, does not know how to handwave things. Maybe he's doing something completely unrelated to the press. Maybe he's sitting in a chair contemplating cleaning his nails off the hospital room floor. Maybe he's picking up a dumbbell. Maybe he's licking the door.
It is a mystery.]
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Powers investigation
Which means...]
All right. Both of you come at me at once.
[Let's go for broke right out of the gate here, in other words.]
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Trusting Gai in this because he didn't want to end up hurting him. ]
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SUNDAY (SK. 26)
So early Sunday it's still practically the afterparty
What to even say? How to explain when even HE doesn't know what happened?]
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A second passes. Then another.
Any injuries be damned, Roland just pushes himself to his feet and rushes over, eyes wide. Was he imagining this? He'd... He'd... ]
Hubert?? Is that... really you? I... I thought I'd..
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Hi, Hubert!
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MONDAY (SK. 27)
Your Regularly Scheduled Infodump
Once people have arrived, Alastor tosses a pile of papers on the table to pass around. They're mostly unpaid bills for a business called Devil May Cry, but also include several check stubs, a birth certificate for a girl named Ayame, and a photograph with "Sub Rosa" written on the back.]
Roland and I spent yesterday checking out the captain's deck, and these were all in the desk up there. They're...Devil May Cry is the name of a devil hunting operation, owned and run by Dante. My master, and owner of one of those corpses up in the pod room that's covered in runes. His official accounts, at least the ones I saw stuff from before Dante got around to tossing me into storage, are under the name Tony Redgrave, and he has a professional informant by the name of James Morrison. Ayame...is the name of Aoi's kidnapped niece. For those who aren't familiar with the idiom, 'Sub Rosa' is an old saying that basically means something is to be done in secret. It actually goes back to an old Roman story, about Cupid bribing someone to help cover up Venus' infidelity.
That's all from the main room. When we went into the bedroom, we saw...a figment of Zack, covered in glowing blood. He said he...let something in, that it was in his mind and now it's in the blood. We tried to ask him what it was that he let in, but the figment was stolen away by the ship's vines before he could finish. That's not all, either. We went to talk to Charon after that, and he communicated that Zack's soul is missing. He didn't make it to the underworld, and I don't think Charon ever even saw him...he just seemed confused.
[He takes a breath, eyes closed for a moment, before sitting down and looking around the room. There's a scotch glass next to him, and he cracks open a bottle of the same chocolate liqueur from the first meeting he hosted. He doesn't pour it yet, though, seemingly having it more in anticipation of wanting it after what he has left to say.]
...And if anyone has anything to say to me about what I pulled at the trial? Go ahead, but try not to forget the real reason we're here.
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[The door to the room Hermes is staying in is locked.]
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TUESDAY (SK. 28)
POWER INVESTIGATION
With the conversation Hermes had with Akane yesterday, there's been a lot of thoughts about control on his mind. And his life so far? He's suffered from a massive lack of it. He had learned to sit back and watch the world unfold before him, to play it safe, due to him trying to control the fate of his friend. He grew miserable and paranoid because he felt he had no control over the time of his death, which lead to him nearly killing his friend for good and getting infected wit clockwork...
He felt as if he had no control over his aggressive fits lately...
Control.
...It's upsetting to think about all the bad things that happened to him that he bought on himself because a lack of control. Hermes gets angry... but he also wants control. In the incinerator, he tries to focus on those two things... Fury and control.]
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Once he's finished? He's going on a hunt for those of them who were still left on the ship with a paper clutched in hand and an earnest look on his face. ]
I have something for you!!
Rec Room
[ Sometime after he's done his original tasks, closer to the evening? The door to the Rec Room is wide open, inviting and the sound of... various movies can be heard, playing out softly for any to hear.
Inside, nestled comfortably with a blanket and some snacks, is Roland. He's sitting in front of the large TV, using it to watch some movies quite happily. He's got a plate in front of him with some Tiramisu on it, and he's sipping from a mug that reads 'Tired & Gay'.
He infact is VERY much tired because he'd had to wrangle a shark earlier and handle that before it caused anyone harm. So clearly it's time to relax because things were gonna be hectic tomorrow. ]
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WEDNESDAY (SK. 29)
There are 15 X-Passes. The X-Door awaits.
It is time.]
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cw animal related creepiness
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Anyway so yeah she's late but present and brought the animals, snacks, and a car.]
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