15strangers | FINAL INVESTIGATION

FINAL INVESTIGATION

[Its apparent when everyone wakes up that something isn't entirely right: Loewe's profile is gone.

It becomes incredibly apparent why, when people search: the bookshelf in Cafe MYJL has been destroyed, revealing the elevator behind it. Unlike the bookshelf itself, the elevator is not rigged with any kind of scanner; the Titled can get on the elevator without any problem. And, it goes down to the basement.

But. A thought occurs to everyone before they step on the elevator. They don't want to go down unprepared. Once they get on that elevator, they may not be allowed to come back up until they have finished what they started. If they are able to come back up at all.

So. Bring your supplies, your weapons, your notes on all of the information you've thus far gathered, your pets ~~or whoever you want to steal from the cat cafe~~, and prepare.

And one you are prepared, you will find yourselves...going...

down.]

[There is a smell of burnt wire permeating the air around the elevator, and as everyone gets closer to the set of double doors at the end of the hall, the smell of bleach. A giant sword is stuck into the floor next to the double doors, with a very hastily-scrawled, blood-speckled note pinned by the sword: BOSS IS THIS WAY. -L

Loewe clearly knew he wasn't getting beyond the double doors alive - and, at the least, he had a sense of humor about it. In any case, at the moment, there is no real means of opening it from the outside anyways. Not yet, at least.

In the meantime, though, the entire basement is now ready to be explored. Some of the doors - Rooms 1, 2, and 6 - are locked with special locks that will need to be figured out, but otherwise?

Welcome to The Hall of Liberation.

And good luck, teams.]

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Okay. Starting with the simple puzzles, I guess. It's five letters and must be significant to the boss somehow. Do we have any words like that?

[Or...not exactly words.]

I... I don't know.

[ She frowns. ]

It feels like something we'd have heard before, though...

[Heard before. Maybe. Unless it was Ren who discovered it, and--]

Wait a sec, there was something Ren found way back a couple weeks ago...

[>Enter "T R E P H"]

[DING.

The door unlocks.]

Want me to go in first?

[You know, in case something bad is inside and ready to pounce on them. At least he'd have a chance to fight physically]

How good are you at dodging?

Let me go in.

[ She is much better at dodging then both of you. ]

I'm more agile.

[AND CHARIOT WILL FIND---

an unassuming girl's bedroom. Under the trundle bed is a futon.

...

Speaking of, Ursula, where is Antares?]

[ ... That is a HELLA cute bedroom, um.

Antares is in the Cat Cafe, she was hoping she would be safe and sound there while they descended into hell. Didn't want the poor baby to get hurt. ]

[...Really?

Because that sure looks like Antares' tail coiling on the futon beneath the bed.]

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[ . . .

Going to pause and look under the bed... are you here, kitty? ]

... Antares? How did you get down here...?

[The cat's tail slinks under the futon, eyes shining in the darkness to stare at Chariot.]

Mraow?

[She...because...it is a she...looks very happy to be snuggling into the futon.]

Huh. Kinda pink for my taste, but I like the split-level thing.

[Wait how did that cat get down here? Any sign of weird secret passages or unrealistic ventilation shafts or something?]

[Nope. Just the kitty purring.]

Polaris, I think your cat is magic.

[Let's check that wardrobe-looking thing, maybe? Is that actually there or just in the stock photo?]

... I think she might be, too, Princess.

[ A small laugh. ]

[It is.

And there is clothing that is clearly meant to belong to one person, as opposed to two people. In spite of there clearly being evidence of two people sleeping in the tiny room.]

Huh. Two beds, but the clothes are all the same...

[What style of clothes? Pink and frilly like the bedroom?]

[Yes, but also with some blues, and yellows, and a bit of purple...like someone Joey has personally seen in the Mall.]

Oh man, this is Coco's room.

...who's been crashing in Coco's room?

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[ ... Going to give her a small pet and shake head, otherwise leaving her be. ]

I think we found the owner of the cat's bedroom. I did get Antares out of the weird machine.

[ Okay, so, anything else in this room stick out? Time to look. ]

[There seems to be something sticking out underneath the pillow on the trundle bed.]

[ ... What's this? Let's take a look. Sorry if she disturbs you, kitty. ]

[It's someone's diary.

...

>Read?]

[ ... Definitely reading this, she's nosy. Sorry, whoever you are, they're on a search for truth.

What's in here? ]

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