WEEK THREE - MINGLE

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WEEK THREE - MINGLE

SURVIVORS: 12

Last week might've been the worst week some of you have ever had. From the hallucinations to losing five of your number yet again, things are looking rather bleak -- and yet, perhaps optimistic, given that you're so close to ending the game. Is it worth sacrificing one more person to end it, though? ... Only one way to find out.

You have time until then, though, to regroup and recollect yourself if you choose to. From Monday morning, after the rain that fell on Sunday, the weather, continues to be more overcast and stormy throughout the week - gray clouds swirl around the sky ominously, and the pleasantly balmy weather that you've come to expect gives way to passing showers with ominous thunder. Perhaps it's not a good time to go for a swim in the pool, but no one's stopping you if that's what you decide on doing. Your locations, likewise, have changed.

The end is almost here. There are only slightly over half your number still remaining. Do your best to survive.

PHOTOGRAPHS | THE MANAGER | BULLETIN BOARD
SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY
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OOC: Welcome to your Week 3 log! There are a couple of new locations you should check out, and any other changes or small events will be marked out in the top-levels below. Murder proposals for this week are due by 12PM EST Monday, don't forget that this is the last week you have to do a murder! We will also be running a mini-exploration event this week - please see the link for more details!

Don't forget that Activity Check is due by Tuesday at 6PM EST!

Any questions, please contact your mods here or on Discord!

Comments

[egeiro]

[ lucas follows because alan is the only one with the flashlight right now. he's not bothered by all the red, but the oppressive feeling leaves him irritated. all this is just a show of power, he tells himself, and he's not going to be cowed by any of it.

there's a moment where he casts a glance behind them, to see - or rather, sense if the presence will follow them out. or perhaps it's gone ahead somehow. ]

[vinsangeros]

[Alcina and Lucas are of the same mind in this regard. She presses on, unafraid and spite-driven. Whatever the ominously-named disposal room has in store, she's prepared for it. Especially if the Manager potentially doesn't want them seeing whatever is inside.

In they go.]

[mayoiga]

[ Glancing back, it seems like the presence has disappeared, although Lucas will now feel like he is constantly being watched now. Ominous.

When the door to the disposal room is open, thankfully, there are no threats at all. Unfortunately. Fortunately?

There's something about the red glow that obscures the details of whatever is in the room, but Alan's flashlight manages to cut through the glow. It's not a huge beam, but whatever can be seen in the beam of the light re a couple of metallic surfaces that seem to reflect off the light, and venturing a little further and casting the beam a little wider makes it seem like the room is a medical room of some sort, akin to a morgue.

Venture forward? ]

[reshape_destiny]

[Does he want to? No. Is he going to? Yes, because this place could hold a great deal of answers and possibly equal dangers. There's a decent likelihood that there could be traps in this place - or other unwelcome visitors - and in a closed, dark environment like this, they'd be sitting ducks.

He'll pause for a moment to get a couple of pictures with his camera just to document all of this. If they make it out alive, it's evidence to show the others.]

[egeiro]

[ there's no point in keeping quiet since they're very clearly being watched. she? it? knows they're here. ]

Is this where the bodies are kept? Do you see them?

[ the bodies? her extra bodies? the deceased guests' bodies? same thing, probably. ]

[vinsangeros]

I should have figured. [Every good spooky building needs a room stuffed with corpses. Even she knows this!] At least her intention for the dead couldn't be any more clear.

[Disposal.

Alcina follows Alan's light to see if she can find lockers for bodies, or anything else of import.]

[mayoiga]

[ All Lucas will hear is just the sound of wind, ominously, in his ear. That's not really an answer, but he's free to read into it however he wants.

Certain points of interest will show up under the glare of Alan's flashlight - the large examination table in the middle of the room, similar to the gurneys they've seen at the trial weekly and probably the source of the biggest reflective surface so far; the line of surgical tools against the wall which are chained down (so no stealing!); and of course, what Alcina is looking for--

The far end of the wall has a number of square doors - 23 of them, arranged in a 6 rows by 4 columns grid, with 3 doors on the lowest row, if they deign to count it. There are a few makeshift labels on some of them, most pointing to those who have died. Not all are labeled, however.

Would they like to look at any particular row or column? They'll find something... interesting, regardless. ]

[reshape_destiny]

[... well. Alan is just going to be looking for any sign of Kaeya, Zena or Iria's names on any of the labels and heading straight in that direction.

He has... reasons for this.]

[mayoiga]

[ Kaeya and Zena's names happen to be on the same row. Interesting. There is one blank door, and the last door is filled with SWEETHEART's name.

He can look closer at any one of these doors. ]

[reshape_destiny]

[Yeah, he'll be going for Kaeya's (sorry, Kaeya).

What will he find when he opens it...?]

CW tagging for gore just in case. :worry:

[mayoiga]

[ The flat bed holding Kaeya's body slides out, and--

His face is missing. ]

[reshape_destiny]

[MISSING... HOW...

What sort of horror movie visual are we talking here...]

CW tagging for gore again............

[mayoiga]

[ ... well, it looks like someone has carved his face off - there's blood at the edges of where his face kind of meets an empty black void. ]

[egeiro]

[ he wonders if there should actually be 24 doors here - but maybe the manager's body doesn't need one anymore or something. whatever rows the other two choose to look through, lucas will split from them and look at what's in the back: the lowest row with the three doors.

there are a couple of people... bodies... he wants to see, but. hm. ]

[mayoiga]

[ The lowest row belongs to Arthur, a blank, and strangely enough, there's a blurred out label on the very last door. ]

[egeiro]

[ ... he's tempted to check out the blurred label first, but he figures arthur's door is more important. if his spirit is still trapped here, he would want to know and maybe lucas would be able to communicate this to him somehow.

strange, though. isn't what's left of arthur's body in his pocket right now? if that's the case, what's behind this door...? he attempts to open it. ]

[mayoiga]

[ It's a spring type door, so putting a bit of pressure on the door causes it to open easily. A flat bed then slides out on a track, presumably like typical morgues. Cold smoke billows lightly into the room but dissipates soon after.

Considering that most of Arthur's corpse has turned into a magic rock that's currently sitting in Lucas's pocket, what shows when the flat bed slides out, predictably, is...

A couple of pieces of stone. They're lined up very neatly though, with most of the similar sized pieces grouped together. ]

[egeiro]

[ ???????

he picks a couple up to examine them. are these the stones arthur crumbled into a couple of days ago? there's no way he got lucky and these are more mana stones. UNLESS? ]

[mayoiga]

[ Nope, just regular stones! They're duller and look closer to regular stones than the mana stone in his pocket, that's for sure. ]

[vinsangeros]

[That's an oddly specific number of doors that Alcina isn't very fond of! They certainly planned for a trial failure, didn't they?

She'll poke around for any unique labels, or doors without labels. Do they have anything in them?]

[mayoiga]

[ Alcina can reasonably assume that the doors without labels belong to the people still on the living side, since the doors don't have hers, Alan's or Lucas's name.

However, that last row... ]

[vinsangeros]

[Assuming she can squeeze in by Lucas, she's giving that blurred label door a shot while he goes for Arthur's. It's easily the most conspicuous one!]

[mayoiga]

[ Plenty of space, considering that each square door has enough room for a flat bed like a morgue.

The name on the blurred label is YU(blurred out)INS(blurred out)G.

... That doesn't seem to be close to anyone's name here, huh.

Is she going to open the door? ]

[vinsangeros]

[It sure doesn't...

That makes her even more curious to see what's behind door #[blurred]. She'll open it.]

[mayoiga]

[ The flat bed slides open in that same billowing cold smoke, and--

The corpse laying in it sure does look like the manager.

However, when Alcina touches the corpse (if she... wants to..), her hand will just go through it, like it's incorporeal. ]