WEEK SIX

[killerwaves]

WEEK SIX

16 Vacationers

Throughout your time on the island, there's been a steady rhythm; the murders, the trials, the executions, the clean-up afterwards that leave just up remnants for you to remember what was lost. This Monday morning though, things are different. The debris and any biohazards are cleared, but no effort has been made to repair the games at the arcade, or to restock the chemicals and damaged equipment at the laboratory.

Odd.

If you cast your eyes to the sky, you'll also notice that the distortion is also lingering—there's certainly less of it at least, a haze still lingering over the go-karts, one whirlpool lingering out in the sea. It could be worse, surely.

Though there's no new locations for you to take your mind off of all these oddities either. In fact, looking at your device to access the resort map area and scrolling past Kakapo's Nest triggers an error.

There’s one more, slightly more eclectic change: the kittybots, instead of having cute kitty ears and faces, are now without exception round-headed. This would make them look like ordinary robots, but their heads actually now look like a bowl of fish swimming, which occasionally form up into expressions. A change of pace for everything, it seems.

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WEATHER ALERT:

Bulletin:
The current barometric pressure is 29.90 inHg, and is expected to steadily decline over the coming days. Rain and storms are likely in the latter half of the week.

(( OOC: Welcome to endgame week everyone. We'll be running an endgame investigation Friday during our typical investigation timeslot, and Saturday will be endgame proper.

This week your admins can be contacted Monday and Tuesday only, after that they'll be incommunicado. ))

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[chrysaline]

That would make sense, I think? They've been keeping our powers limited, and I don't know that it would be possible for them to be drugging us all the time.

If that's it, I wonder if it's really the drug that gave Wei Wuxian his powers back for a bit, or if the administrators just... gave them back to test it.

[chosenwang]

It does sound more likely that they removed or even lowered the block to see what it'll do. We could always ask the rat among the mice if he knows that's the case.

[chrysaline]

If you think it would help. [ yeah, ]

[chosenwang]

[ Holding out his hand to her ]

It likely won't be of much help. He is likely missing a number of cards in his deck anyways.

[chrysaline]

[ Ah. She's not too mad to reach over and squeeze his hand. ]

It doesn't matter. I just mean we should expect to be lied to, if they even told him the truth.

[chosenwang]

[ Giving her hand a squeeze. ]

That's a fair point. [ He'll leave it at that ]

[necrotiem]

They've had a great chunk of time.

On Thursdays.

[chrysaline]

[ Oh. Oh...

She feels so stupid right now. ]

Of course... that would be so easy, wouldn't it?

[diabolizes]

Ah… they certainly have, haven’t they?

[microtransactions]

Well, there's an easy way to check for that, isn't there? If they've had to keep drugging us every Thursday then that means it's something that wears off.

But there's certain parties who stay awake then, aren't there? Not as easy to get at them.

[ so, killers in the crowd: did you feel any more powerful than normal when you skipped sleeping for a night? ]

[finalmix]

... I'm less inclined to think it's drugging and more like. Flipping a switch?

... how else would you get everyone except a select few to fall asleep at the exact same time? Same thing with the barrier thing we kept testing, it's like they have to keep us in a certain place and contained.

[chosenwang]

It's probably flipping a switch. Knocking us out so their show can happen without interruption.

[dancing_flames]

I'm not so sure about that. The very first time a death happened, the barrier was only around our cabana. And no one fell asleep that time, did they?

[microtransactions]

... Are we sure those are the same? You said the barrier was a certain color, right?

[dancing_flames]

Purple.

[...]

... so maybe it really was Merlin himself that time. Wonder if that was what gave our captors the idea in the first place.

[finalmix]

Hm. He probably didn't want to put your cabana in danger.

The barriers in subsequent weeks were transparent, like glass.

[dancing_flames]

I'd thought it could have been him at first, but when it happened the next week I simply assumed they'd refined their ability to make the barriers. It may be that the simplest answer was the right one all along.

[chrysaline]

I think it was. Merlin told me... all he could do was lead us to his body. So that might have been part of whatever his last spell was.

[diabolizes]

[ ... ]

Idiot.

[ Yes, he's still mad. ]

[chosenwang]

[ Giving a nod at that cause yeah... he agrees ]

[chrysaline]

I might have said as much. Um, it was a little longer, though.

[ She's glad someone else is still as mad as she is. Or at least, mad. ]

[diabolizes]

[ He laughs. ]

I haven't given him a proper scolding, but when I summon him as my own personal ghost, I will.

[ He's not serious about the ghost bit.

Or is he? ]

[chosenwang]

That would be pretty funny. [ For a couple of reasons ] If you do, give him another scolding for me.

[dancing_flames]

Then we all owe him thanks for that.

[chrysaline]

We do. He really did everything he could, for all of us.