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TEAM ETHANOL LOG
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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. MahoneyObjectives 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! |
Room 17 | Augustine and Orion
Orion knows the drill and well, by this point; he moves to touch the door, waits for it to open, and then gets ready to head inside first just in case.]
Sorry I'm late!
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"Each morning I appear to lie at your feet,
All day I will follow no matter how fast you run,
Yet I nearly perish in the midday sun." ]
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Great.
Riddles.
He sideeyes Augustine, since he clearly doesn't have a clue, motioning a hand to give him the go-ahead.]
This one's all you, dude.
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Hmmm...
Judging by this, I think it might be talking about something that stalks you, yet it disappears into the light.
Maybe like a shadow?
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"I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball."
"I go around in circles,
But always straight ahead
Never complain,
No matter where I am led."
"Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it." ]
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Orion can't help but squint disapprovingly, and Augustine might hear a slew of swears under Orion's breath. Why did this room have to throw him something he's no good at? Thanks for making him feel useless, room.
He almost prefers the undead monsters to this shit.
Almost.]
Your guess is better than mine, and I don't want to set off a trap by saying the wrong thing.
[Not that he had any guesses, anyway.]
Looks like it's all on you.
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"To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball," huh?
[He then takes a few minutes contemplating on the riddles until he gasps in realization.]
For the first riddle, I think it may refer that there may be a future. So I think it refers to tomorrow. For the second riddle, the answer might obviously be a wheel, because it's shaped like a circle and it always rolls a lot.
As for the third one, that might be a little tough. But from what I can tell on the " neither see nor feel it" part, it might refer to the feeling of death and "Who buys it, has no use for it" might mean it has only one use.
So maybe... A coffin?
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He looks at the coin hesitantly, uncertain if he's supposed to take it.]
What exactly are these for?
[He's only fought monsters thus far. And taking coins from a tomb... isn't there something-something-bad-omen mixed in with that?]
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As for the coins, he is also uncertain about them as he taps on one of them out of curiosity.]
Maybe it has something to do with the weapon protocol. And since the tablets disappeared thanks to my answers, I doubt we can set off any traps here.
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[Still, though. He trusts Augustine a fair amount by this point. Way more than Amelia, anyway. And he's probably right about not setting off any further traps.
So Orion reaches out and grabs one of the coins and looks it over before glancing around the room, half-expecting a secret door to drop open and pour monsters out. His other hand tightens around the gun he's holding.]
Do you think that's it for this room, then?
[Seemed rather... anti-climactic for what the lady was talking about earlier.]
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Maybe. But just in case, let's try one last sweep around the room before we go.
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So, that dragon you have, the one outside the door; did you get it from Retrospec? [Just what are the rules on these gifts exactly? Cleo hated her ears, but Augustine seems to get along great with his.]
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Yes. She somehow understands what I said and gets along with me, but she somehow suffers from amnesia. I thought my memories should help her regain what she lost and discover her origins.
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[Does it talk, too? Perhaps that should be the least surprising thing to Orion right now, all things considered, but his eyebrows still raise up uncomfortably at the thought of a talking dragon.]
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Ever since she didn't leave my side and always follows my orders without any hesitation or anger.
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[Orion takes a look at the gun in his hand for a moment. He had found both of them in the catacombs. He's never seen them before, or... at least he's pretty sure he hasn't. But he feels an odd pull with them that tell him he never wants to depart from them.
Or maybe that's just the paranoia talking.
It sure will be difficult to explain to your boss that you suddenly don't want to leave your guns at home.
Actually...]
You said she follows you everywhere? How do you get it past your boss?
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[He doesn't like showing this to anyone, but he'll make an exception with Orion as he takes out red and white ball to show.]
I usually let her stay in my apartment, but whenever I go out during weekends, I used this to store her inside.
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Don't you think it's a little, I don't know, cramped for a dragon to stay inside of?
You gotta be shitting me if you think I'll believe that [he points to the Garchomp.] can fit in that. [He points to the Poke-ball.]
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I think that answered your question.
To be honest, she doesn't complain about the ball's space, though she prefers staying by my side outside of my work.
CW: Mentions of Schizophrenia
[Did Orion just pale a few shades? He sure did. He really should stop asking questions. They borderline into things that rival his hallucinations and he's so not prepared for this shit.
It's almost enough to make him take his meds, if it would just make this Retrospec bullshit go away.
Too bad Retrospec is real, in some fucked up way or another.]
Yea, okay, sorry I asked.
[He sounds every bit perturbed as he looks. He's just going to nope out of this.]
Look, maybe we should get going, I don't see anything else here.
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Thankfully, he is relieved when Orion suggests that they should go since there's nothing unusual.]
Good idea. Let's go.
[Augustine and Modeste then leave the room with the room on his hand with his hopes that Orion will follow suit.]