FINAL INVESTIGATION

[killerwaves]

FINAL INVESTIGATION

No announcement, or gruesome discovery greets you today, but you probably don't need to be told that it's time to make a move given the ominous change in the atmosphere, and in the weather itself. Sometime in the night, the stormclouds have moved in, darkening the length and breadth of every island and blotting out both the sun and moon -- it seems your summer vacation has ended. What's worse, if you're looking carefully as the stormfront rolls in, you'll spot the telltale shimmer of the distortion; not just low down on the sea or landbound as it usually is, or even up in the heights as with the waterfall.

No, these seem intertwined with the clouds themselves, descending from the heavens like divine catastrophe. Louder than any thunder or lightning -- the telltale rumbling pitch of the dimensional warping is overlaid with the watery wailing you heard last week, but much closer. Multiple whirlpools have opened up around Sungem's Peak, while snaps and booming across the water belie the safety of the other islands.

Attempting to travel away from the main island will tell you the following: several of the railways have been beset and partially destroyed by both whirlpools and aerial distortions. If you manage to get far enough to see the other island destinations: the peak on Kingfisher's Retreat seems a lot lower than before. The planetarium has vanished from Dodo's Outlook. And there seems to be a small tornado cresting the back of Seagull's Playground. Is that a go-kart caught in the whorls???

Beneath the storm-driven sky, the haven of Sungem's Peak carries an audible din of future tidings as well: what whirlpools haven't set upon the ways off the island have shaved off at least some of the shoreline and, judging by how loud they are, the singing fish are not having a good time. The disturbances in the water are enough to have the tide itself receding from the shore, farther than it's ever gone: to the point where the continental shelf is exposed, baring parts of the sea floor and the island that haven't been accessible until now.

While the dead have provided you with a map, it's not a GPS; you'll still need to navigate your way into the inner workings on the island and confront whatever challenges you find, along with your two administrators.

Hopefully the encouragement of those beyond the grave will be enough to buoy you as you descend into the depths of the island, since it's just you, and the scream of the waves.

(( OOC: Welcome to your final investigation! While we will provide AREA CLEARS, the choices you make here will affect end game. Good luck!))

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[killerwaves]

[ They absolutely look tailored for a specific purpose (there's a lot of instruments in here that Baizhu would probably recognize, though they look to be more modern than what he's used to), and they're labeled:

REMOVAL KIT.

Notable, there's one vial in each of these as well. ]

[solutionary]

[Considering it was a sterile kit, are the vials empty? or are those potentially filled with disappointing fluids?]

[killerwaves]

[ The vial in each is full. ]

[solutionary]

[LOUD INTERNAL SIGHING. He's not putting any of them into the Lab Machines, even if the ghost of Zelkov might have approved.

Are they labeled?]

[killerwaves]

[ Is he opening the sealed kit? Cuz it's kinda hard to see from just mushing things around in the bag. ]

[solutionary]

[If all the kits are the same, he'll try opening one (1) of them.]

[killerwaves]

[ They are!

The vial has a label on it which reads:

CONTENTS: ONE DOSE OF TRACKER DYE.
USE: INJECT INTO SUBJECT TO LOCATE ANY IMPLANTED CHIPS. ]

[solutionary]

[Tracking dye... Is there any other information or specific tools or directions in the bag? Like what you're supposed to use the dye with?


I assume it gives contrast to the xray machine but h e l p I don't think genshin has xrays]

[killerwaves]

[ There isn't. And you have all the tools you'd need to extract something small from the human body.

phone a billy. ]

[solutionary]

Billy, Psyche, do you know what this machine is? I think it has something to do with what I found, but I haven't run across this before.

[chrysaline]

[ She'll come look, uselessly, just to frown at it. ]

I'm sorry... Vasilios doesn't have this kind of thing at all. We can ask Wang Lu or Magolor if Billy doesn't know.

[solutionary]

[This vacation is very lacking in tech bros.... Shigy did not want the competition]

It's alright, if Billy doesn't know we'll just have to hope someone else does. It's probably worth taking with us, either way.

[butcherspice]

Oh, that's for x-rays. You can use it to get a look at a bloke's bones and organs in case they fucked somethin' up. I'm guessing they wanted to get rid of any trackers someone might have in 'em.

[solutionary]

It must work with these kits then. They have vials in them that are labeled 'tracking dye'. Would they be for themselves though, or so we can't locate what was [is????] in the cages...?

[necrotiem]

Any hope that whatever they've been using on us could be found with such a method?

[solutionary]

Highly likely I would imagine, though Billy or someone else would have to show us how to use it. In the kits there are tools that would be useful for removing things from a body, which I could probably use them for, but I would need the help to locate whatever the tracker is.

[chrysaline]

[ She's absolutely trying not to be catty about this and look at Billy, but: ]

It would be alright to test it on me, if you wanted. If something goes awry I should be able to heal any minor reactions.

[ Since poison healing seemed a little non-standard. ]

[butcherspice]

Take it I ain't allowed near sharp objects for this one.

[He's just gonna say it! Why not! He grabs the scanner though]

I'll plug this thing in, you lot get prepped for bein' searched.

[Operation time!]

[solutionary]

Respectfully, Billy, I'll be the one handling the sharp objects. [ :) ] If you can handle the scanner, I would appreciate it.

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[butcherspice]

Fully respectful.

[Well, Billy is probably the one guy nearby who knows how to work this stuff anyway, so! Can we get this x-ray into something x-tra operational? ]

[killerwaves]

[ He can!

The interface boots up and as fortune would have it, it's already on CHIP SCAN mode. ]

[chrysaline]

[ Just. A little smile, because, yeah. What Baizhu said. ]

I think a more delicate approach wouldn't hurt here. I appreciate it.

[butcherspice]

Willin' to bet it'd be for what's in the cages. Or captives in general, if they got the chance to put anything in us.

[Billy remembers something specific.]

What d'ya the chance is that the buzzing noise from a couple days ago is from somethin' they planted in us, doc?

[Is it time to use some tracking dye on themselves and do a little scan? Perhaps.]

[solutionary]

Tracking the captives... It would make sense that we, as part of their experiment, were also tracked. ...I'm not sure about the buzzing however.

[solutionary]

[OKAY BILLY THE GUY OF ALL GUYS HAS SPOKEN. Is there anything else to be gleaned from the kits, the xray machine, or the work bench?]