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

[adoringpast]

Nope, no mirrors. The books are just filled with dates... Can't read most of them though, since they're in some kinda weird language.

[ BUT YEAH, RECONSTRUCTING WHAT-NOW... ARE THEY DEADASS DEALING WITH NECROMANCY HERE

and uh, that sure is a huge tarantula on you, vera

so while she hasn't noticed it yet, sena's just gonna pick up a book from the shelf, slooooowly approach her from behind and - well, if she's not turning around in time he might just SMACK THAT SPIDER OFF HER HAND REALLY HARD and pretty much hitting her in the process

whoops ]

[heiroglyphs]

[Okay, so its just a drawer full of brushes and junk, and apparently whoever owned this place likes purple.]

Any languages you recognize? I speak five languages so I should be able to understand at least--

[And then she feels something... fuzzy? crawling on her hand. At which point, there are no more words. There are only screams. Screams, until the book comes down on her hand.]

What the fuck is that?! Kill it! Kill it kill it kill it!

[She'll just jump up on the desk, pulling her legs up to make sure that wherever the spider lands, it wont end up back on her.]

[recollecters]

[ nope! the reconstruction things are like, what a paleontologist might use. you know, someone super into bones, and putting them back together.

also, the languages don't appear to be recognizable to vera either if she checks later.

the spider skitters away into the dark under the desk, fleeing for safety. ]

[adoringpast]

[ oh, that's much better. thought they're dealing with the occult here, which would be even more fucked up.

but the spider has retreated for now, and yet sena's still raising the book as if ready to attack at any time. seems it's gone for real, though. ]

It's just a spider? Don't be such a scaredy-cat; we've dealt with scarier shit out there and yet you're screaming your ass off from a spider?

[ SENA IT'S STILL A VALID REACTION TO A CREEPY CRAWLIE ]

And get off from there, will you? You're destroying the evidence.

[heiroglyphs]

Just because there's actual monsters outside doesn't mean the spider isn't creepy!

[But she takes a deep breath before slowly lowering herself back to the ground.]

Ugh, there's not even anything important on the desk. I took a map, but it doesn't really line up with what we've seen so far. Maybe there's other crypts like this in other places?

[After taking a quick look under the desk to make sure the spider is gone, she'll retreat, slowly, to the back of the room towards the bed.]

[recollecters]

[ i mean, sena may not want to go into the other rooms his teammates are exploring with skeleton monsters and zombies and dragons, then??? just saying.

also, the spider has truly retreated. the bed, for the record, is neatly made. ]

[adoringpast]

[ HE DOESN'T KNOW THAT MODS, gosh, give him some slack here. he watches her go towards the bed, scratching the back of his head. ]

Anything in there? [ like a human skeleton? ] Oh, go try checking for monsters under the bed like a kid.

[ starts snickering under his breath because sena you're more of a kid in this situation??? ]

[heiroglyphs]

If I find a second spider, I'm a hundred percent done.

[Still, she'll check under the pillow and examine the sheets. Yep. That's a bed.]

Nothing in it, but whoever lives here is pretty orderly.

[recollecters]

[ super orderly! because under the bed, it looks like someone has dusted fairly regularly? how tidy of them. no dust bunnies live here at all.

monsters under the bed fail to occur. so far, they might have picked the safest room overall to investigate. ]

[adoringpast]

That's the thing, though... It really looks as if someone's been keeping this room clean, like they're expecting us? But who?

[ he turns to the chest at the corner of the room and sighs. right, they're saving the last piece of evidence for last, aren't they? ]

Come on, help me open this chest. Since it might be locked or something.

[heiroglyphs]

You're really interested in this chest.

[What if its filled with spiders? Sigh. Might as well get this over with.]

Fine.

[recollecters]

[ the chest, upon further inspection, is indeed locked! it looks like they'll need to open it with a key.

there may be a key somewhere else in the room? ]

[adoringpast]

What the hell? Ugh.

[ tsk. locked, so that means something very important is inside. ]

Are there any more places we haven't looked yet? What if the bed has the key hidden under the pillow?

[heiroglyphs]

Wasn't there when I looked, why not try to break it or something?

[Meanwhile, she'll look around the room.]

Those notes wouldn't shut up about mirrors, but I don't see... [It looks like there's a portrait on the wall next to the bookshelf. Vera steps over to examine it.]

What about this? It's a figurative reflection, right?

[recollecters]

[ the portrait is of a man with an absolutely STUNNING moustache. like, it's amazing.

but it doesn't seem to have a key or anything. maybe they need to think creepier? ]

[adoringpast]

[ it's not that amazing imo

creepier, huh? all sena can think of is the bottom of the bed? let's see. ]

Well, we're dealing with an absolute neatfreak weirdo here, from what we can gather from this room - where else would they be hiding a key?

[heiroglyphs]

Well, it's not in the portrait, then what else could be a "mirror"?

[Nothing else really looks reflective, or even looks like a person. Nothing, except...]

Oh god, please don't tell me it's in one of the skulls.

[recollecters]

[ :) :) :)

who wants to reach into a skull? ]

[adoringpast]

[ ............ ]

You do it.

[heiroglyphs]

What the hell, you're the guy! Be a gentleman and get the girl her key.

[recollecters]

[ the skulls wait patiently for a decision to be reached, being skulls. ]

[adoringpast]

What? Ugh, so annoying!

[ But.... FINE. FINE. throws up his hands before approaching the desk and.

oh. god. just gonna extend a hesitating hand for a random skull and... shakes it real hard? is there something inside? ]

[heiroglyphs]

[And Vera is just going to back away slowly.]

[recollecters]

[ there is definitely a key inside the skull, good job! it seems to be rattling around inside the cranium? ]

[adoringpast]

[ OH GOD DOES HE REALLY HAVE TO STICK HIS HAND IN THERE, HE HATES THIS SO MUCH HE WANTS TO DIE

but enough overreaction. taking a deep breath, sena reaches his hand inside and... okay, got the key, and he's throwing the skull across the room as if it's one of his bombs. ]

Here! Go open it quick! [ just slams the key into vera's hands ] Oh god, oh god, did I even bring a hand sanitizer?

[ give him a moment to look through his leather fannypack because EW EW GERMS ]