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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[diabolizes]

got some files

[ he inserts a picture of them ]

[finalmix]

... is the first one the ugly grape monster

[diabolizes]

[ looking at wang lu and ibuki's reactions... ]

probably

[divector]

please don't remind me
one of the balls touched my arm :(

[microtransactions]

oh that first one looks like the one haruka grabbed from the other lab

so yeah that's probably grape???

[diabolizes]

judging by wang lu and ibuki's faces

it definitely is lol

[solutionary]

the second matches one we [billy, billy found it and is pulling a lot of weight here] found in here.

Goes with a cage Psyche and Waltaquin have been examining.

[diabolizes]

at least we now know without a doubt what was in those cages

[solutionary]

what was in one or two cages. there are eight here, seven still closed

[diabolizes]

eight??? kind of over the top if you ask me

[chrysaline]

Then, should I leave the other cages closed...?

[ Troubling. ]

[diabolizes]

can you see inside them at all? if not, press your ear up and try to listen for movement

[chrysaline]

There's no way to see inside, and it's completely quiet. I would feel a little bad leaving even a monster locked up here, but what if it's another test subject?

[diabolizes]

could whoever you're with help you take on whatever comes out?

will all of them open at once?

[chrysaline]

I'm with Waltaquin and Billy. From what Wang Lu described before, I think we should be able to manage.

[ No disrespect to Baizhu, but he's not fighting. ]

[diabolizes]

i’ll trust your judgement on this

follow your instinct

[chrysaline]

Don't worry. I'll be fine. ❤️

[dancing_flames]

Be careful. If that Nomu that we fought was in one of the cages at some point, there's a good chance there might be more in the others.

[microtransactions]

if anything I think it would be whoever's data was used to MAKE the Nomu ...

but it's a valid concern, you guys aren't hearing any banging or anything, right?

[chrysaline]

No, it's silent. But that's what I'm worried about, that it might be some person in there...

[microtransactions]

if it's a person...

[ ha ha how do you say you hope it's not just like, some starved half to mostly dead body in there ]

just take care, okay?

[chrysaline]

[ "Hey Psyche, how do you feel about more horrors"? ]

I will. You be careful too, Magolor.