TEAM ETHANOL LOG

[recollecters]

TEAM ETHANOL

After that strange Retrospec post, you may be wondering how to contact this "technician". Luckily, your phone or whatever device you have handy to check the network chooses that exact second to go haywire... Team Ethanol roster: Almedha, Augustine Sycamore, Chuuya Nakahara, Heine Rammsteiner, Izumi Sena, Kazuma Kiryu, Nui Harime, Peko Pekoyama, Rosalind Lutece, Weiss Schnee, Yukiko Amagi, Zaveid. On whatever device you use to view the retrospec application, you may note the following scrolling on the screen instead of the usual options: ALERT: CRITICAL TIME-SPACE ANOMALY ACTIVE. SEARCHING FOR ADMIN... SEARCHING FOR ADMIN... DESIGNATED ADMIN CANDIDATE: EMPLOYEE #91962 M. MAHONEY PLEASE INPUT AUTHORIZATION CODE. The prompt does not seem to be for you, however, as the text prompts continue to scroll, this time with some input. > ********************** ACCEPT ADMIN STATUS Y/N? > y DESIGNATE PROGRAM TO RUN. PLEASE BE ADVISED WE ARE SYSTEM CRITICAL. > run subroutine designation echolocation-alpha CONFIRMED. EMPLOYEES ACTIVE IN AREA: 2 > list employees EMPLOYEES ACTIVE: M. FITZWILLIAM LEVEL 0 ACCESS, INTERN M. MAHONEY FULL SYSTEM ACCESS, ADMIN > search for alternative assets CONFIRMED. SENDING ALTERNATIVE ASSET LIST. Names scroll by on the screen. and look, there goes yours! It seems like someone is manually picking and choosing from a list of every Retrospec user who didn't disappear into the void, and several names queue up. > initialize support team CONFIRMED. TEAM DESIGNATION? > ethanol CONFIRMED. TEAM ETHANOL MISSION PARAMETERS? PLEASE BE ADVISED SYSTEM ENERGY LEVELS ARE CRITICALLY LOW. > make contact with sysadmin > contact point entrance 6 > temporary access level 1 granted CONFIRMED. MISSION PARAMETERS SET. TEMPORARY ACCESS LEVEL 1 GRANTED. The screen clears itself, and instead of the familiar retrospec logo, there is simply TEAM ETHANOL as a designation. the application will refuse to show anything other than a map, with one point highlighted in red. it is, of course, up to team members to decide whether or not they approach the access point. Team Ethanol's access point is in the Recollé Graveyard. Team members will find the grave of "G. Mahoney" will move aside to reveal catacombs so long as they approach it in groups of two or more team members. Only Team Ethanol team members can see or enter the catacombs at this time. Please see the Objective 1 toplevel for more information on what they can see when they travel further down the tunnels. This is the Team Ethanol Event Log. You are free to toplevel and thread as you choose on this log, but only team members may utilize this log. Important links to mod toplevels are: Mod Questions & Participation Reporting. Please be aware you are responsible for reporting your own participation & objective completion efforts with links; the moderators will try to keep up with threads, but as we are currently running several teams with participation, we require you to keep us up to date! Please read each of the toplevels and instructions! The schedule for Team Ethanol is as follows: WEEK 1: Objective 1; CLEAR: M. Mahoney WEEK 2: Objective 2; IC mission briefing; CLEAR: W. Guo WEEK 3: Objective 3; IC mission briefing 24th: Objective 3 closes (8PM EST), Final city-wide log posted (9PM EST) Objectives will be given in mod toplevels to this post with instructions; please check the log currently for Objective 1 to see how this will work. NPC interactions will be rnged from your team roster once per week, and toplevels for those will also be posted, although all team members can hear/see these interactions!

Comments

[doublesmall]

if they were to like, shake it a little, does anything maybe fragile seem to be inside?

basically what I'm asking is whether there's any indication they should not have someone weigh this thing to make it very heavy and drop it from the second floor to try to pop it open

#problemsolvingwithethanol

[recollecters]

PLEASE DON'T BREAK THE THING, ETHANOL. Sena's device should alert him that's a puzzle piece inside, and also it seems to be pretty fragile.

Don't blow it up or drop it????

[doublesmall]

I'M GLAD WE ASKED

but I feel compelled to say you did literally name us ethanol so honestly we're just true to form here (I'm sorry about us)

[recollecters]

BLOW UP THE MONSTERS!! Also yes I named you well...

[eyestitch]

They have chosen the room with the red star!

[recollecters]

Inside the red star room is a variety of bones! On a platform is half a human skeleton, missing several key pieces.

[doublesmall]

one day we'll stop having so many questions but-- is it a mixed up kind of half with pieces gone wherever, or this is a left skeleton situation where a specific half is gone?

also do these all appear to be person bones or do we have a mix here

[recollecters]

Don't worry about it! It's a mixed up kind of half with specific bones missing!

And these are all person bones! Incidentally, checking them over very carefully may reveal a "made in china" mark on them. They probably need to fix their poor skeletal friend here.

[eyestitch]

Okay while the boys phone a friend over there, Nui's just going to examine the other doors in the room. She's (probably) not going to go barging in, but are they riddle-locked? Open? A large copy of gray's anatomy?

[recollecters]

There isn't a green star door at all! But there is a chest set into the ground and she may notice that there's a slot for an orb at the entrance area, so she shouldn't go past without putting one in. The chest can't be removed from this area.

Are the orange star area there is a riddle, which reads:

"The more there is, the less you see."

[doublesmall]

ok so we discussed and in the interests of getting it done + giving group 3 more ins on this we want to go phone a friend for anatomy help-- just double checking that they aren't stuck and can get out to go to where there's reception!

and for threading purposes: when you say specific bones do you have particular ones in mind, or just 'certain ones have been taken out' and we can just roll with which ones they are?

(one day I'll learn to refresh the page but it's different questions SO)

[recollecters]

They can phone a friend! And you can roll with whichever ones they are, your call.

[doublesmall]

ruins this comment stacking even further

so our good friend bernie is back together now! does this complete your bone puzzle or do we still need to do a thing?

[recollecters]

Bernie does a little dance and hands them a key! It should open the chest Sena is holding, which has an orb in it! :)

[doublesmall]

bernie is so cute.... bless...

and i'm going to go ahead and ask since nui already offered an answer ic to the other two and they're about to go try the riddle door: when they try 'darkness' as an answer is that what it will be looking for?

[recollecters]

It works! Inside they will find Bernie's friend the skeleton lady, and they have to put her back together in the same way for her to do a dance + key giving combo (that key will work on the chest in the room that needs the orb to defuse the traps).

[doublesmall]

very important follow up: can bernie come

[recollecters]

If they want to kidnap him, they can! He stops moving entirely after the dance and is now just a regular made-in-china skeleton, though.

[doublesmall]

can't believe Bernie broke our hearts like this

BUT ANYWAY we have the orb where it goes and the key to that chest!! what are they going to find this time?

[recollecters]

A second orb! ...they can now remove the first orb and take both over to that weird doorway, if they like! Once they've put the orbs in place lmk, and there may be a little delay since I'm doing lunch atm but then they will get a mod tag at that point.

[eyestitch]

Did we do good, mom?