FINAL INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

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.]

Comments

[scienceofmagic]

[ I mean, like, a bag or something she can shove the pins in to take with her tbh so that they're on-hand for everyone. Also can she check the effects? ]

[strangerpeople]

[Oh, yeah, sure! Knock yourself out, Croix, though there's no way to check the effects of the pins she can't use, as of now.

Feel free to check the desk one more time too while you're at it.]

[scienceofmagic]

[ She'll grab that bag and shove the pins in, then look around the desk one last time. ]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[There is one final pin unlike all of the others. This one is an hourglass...]

[scienceofmagic]

An hourglass, huh...?

[ Going to pick it up to examine. Can she glean anything about it or...? ]

[strangerpeople]

[Her phone suddenly pings.]

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[scienceofmagic]

[ CHECKING THAT. ]

[strangerpeople]

[Three figures stand before the mosaic near the elevator in the food court.

Two are familiar to Croix - one is an older lady with a stylish vintage hair net, the other a man with a metal arm. The third is unfamiliar- and a white cat.

All three have their hands pressed against the mosaic, which is glowing in an unearthly light. And.

All three have a pair of black wings on their back, much like the Life Coach.]

[scienceofmagic]

[ ...Okay uh. That sure is interesting. Wings??? Wings. Wings. ]

...That mural...

[ ...White cat tho???? What??? Uuuuh, anything else? ]

[strangerpeople]

[Not on the desk, or seemingly anywhere else.

However, it has become smoky. As if someone is...well, smoking even as they search.]

[scienceofmagic]

[ UM. SCANNING NOW. IS SOMEONE THERE? ]

[strangerpeople]

[Yes.]

[.............]

[scienceofmagic]

[ Tuning in on that thought immediately!!!! ]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Croix finds herself plunged into an almost medieval darkness...]

[scienceofmagic]

[ She blinks, narrowing her eyes. ]

...You must really hate me, then. All of us.

[ She's not expecting an answer, just speaking into the air. ]