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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[microtransactions]

We can't predict that everything and everyone will go where we need them to, either, so it might be a good idea to make sure not to put all our computer people in one place, all our escape artists in another, and so forth.

Just in case our computer people run into the Nomu and the combat crew is halfway across the secret base, or something.

[divector]

[ he nods because yeah ^this ]

Yeah, you're right. And I wouldn't rely on us being able to use the U-PINIONs to keep coordinating for much longer, so that makes placement more important.

[microtransactions]

If we need coordination ... I guess it'd be a nice bonus to get into whatever systems they use for all the announcements and stuff.

Assuming they have a similar setup down there, anyway. Maybe not the highest priority, but still, a nice bonus?

[divector]

Yeah, that'd be nifty for an emergency, so it can't hurt to try as long as it doesn't impact our search much.

[microtransactions]

Honestly, what I personally would be trying to look for first is if there's an off switch to whatever they did to us, then whatever's most like, critical at the moment. Opening up passages and access and whatever. Whatever else we end up finding in the computers that needs dealing with.

After than ... I don't know. The usual priorities? Make sure we have a way out and that they don't manage to lock everything down? Stop them from making any more Nomu or whatever if needed?

Deal with them directly? Are people going out with the plan of dealing with them directly, or is that just a 'well if it happens- and it probably will- it happens'?

[divector]

Sounds like a logical priority list to me. Not too rigid, with enough room for whatever unknown variables will happen. Just don't forget to look up and down.

[ as for the rest of that he shrugs and looks towards the rest of the room ]

[microtransactions]

We suuuure have a lot of unknown variables to deal with, don't we?

Just imagine if we'd missed the fact that there was some giant monster on the ceiling because we forgot to look up...

[divector]

Hm, true, that would be bad. [ no nothing like that happened what are you talking about ] I'd highly recommend looking up, down, and side to side before entering a room.

[microtransactions]

Oh yeah, definitely gotta remember to do all that. It's just like in the horror games over in the arcade before it got all busted up. Not looking around's a great way to get jump-scared.

[divector]

Jump-scared... [ a new term... ] Haha, yeah, that's one way to put it. Though maybe I could stand to jump more when something surprising happens.

[chosenwang]

We do have another option.

[ He's just going to fold up one of their post-it notes into a tiny bird. Then he'll imbue it with power. ]

Give me a message and a target here.

[divector]

[ give him a moment to think ]

How about giving Magolor a message that says Overhaul is in fact secretly an ostrich?

[chosenwang]

[ Pfft.

He'll repeat the words to the bird and then sends it off. It'll flap it's little paper wings and away it goes to Magolor! ]

[microtransactions]

[ hello what's this— oh

oh is this 'TWEETER' in action. ]

Huh. Nifty! Can we send anything back, or is it just one way?

Also, if that's true then maybe we can put him up in the old birds' home ... We've got an aviary and everything here, after all. ★

[chosenwang]

It's one way here. I can make a few of these if we need to send something out as an emergency.

As tempting as it would be to house him in there, he might decide to take out the emus after he eradicated the other ostriches.

[microtransactions]

Hmmm. Seems like you'd be most useful hanging out somewhere as mission control, but that assumes you're somewhere where you can watch everyone ...

[ siiiigh. ]

Sounds useful in an emergency, but maybe I'll nudge 'get into the sound systems' up a notch on my priority list.

[ watch magolor end up nowhere near any computers tomorrow ]