TEAM BRANDYWINE LOG

[recollecters]

TEAM BRANDYWINE

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 Brandywine roster: Ann Takamaki, Chiyo Sakura, Elda Marker, Fynn Rygdea, Goro Majima, Jiroutachi, Kurama, May, Shouta Aizawa, Sora, Sorey, Souji Okia (PM). 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? > brandywine CONFIRMED. TEAM BRANDYWINE MISSION PARAMETERS? PLEASE BE ADVISED SYSTEM ENERGY LEVELS ARE CRITICALLY LOW. > make contact with sysadmin > contact point entrance 2 > 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 BRANDYWINE 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 Brandywine's access point is in the Recollé University Basement. Team members will find a door in a hallway they've never seen before so long as they approach it in a group of two or more team members. Only Team Brandywine team members can see or enter the basement sublevels at this time. Please see the Objective 1 toplevel for more information on what they can see when they enter the door! The door looks like an ordinary key-card locked door, although it will open without need of a card for Team Brandywine members so long as the entry requirements are met. This is the Team Brandywine 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 Brandywine is as follows: WEEK 1: Objective 1; CLEAR: M. Mahoney; Maurice WEEK 2: Objective 2; IC mission briefing 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!

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[admiringly]

[ If there's one thing being an artist is good for, it's done wonders for Chiyo's dexterity. She swipes the key with precision, and she holds it up triumphantly. ]

Got it!! Yay!! Soujirou, do you see the other one anywhere?

[me_matey]

-Unfortunately, the platform May landed on was red, and just like the orange one before, this one started to phase out of existence beneath May's feet.-

Need it quick! I'm runnin out of places to jump!

[spes_phthisica]

[A part of Soujirou's mind sees the joke just then, because this is exactly like a video game, isn't it? As in, he's not actually doing the work, he's just trying to get someone else to move the way he wants them. But he doesn't exactly have time to laugh.]

Left, left, there's another pink one further down. [He hurriedly scans the flock of fairies.] The other one is hiding under that yellow platform close to the wall.

[admiringly]

[ Soujirou, if you're the player, give them buffs??

Chiyo looks around, following his words. She sees it. ]

Jump onto that purple one! That'll bring us closer!

[ Unless the fairy decides to toss it to another fairy. What's their luck stat? ]

[me_matey]

-Yellow meant certain collapse... but if the faerie was under it...-

Got it! Hold on tight, girly! -May bounced from the red platform just as it disappeared, right to the pink, and just as it attempted to zoom out from beneath her feat, she sprung off of that one towards the purple, and with one final push off...-

That yellow one is gonna disappear immediately. Be ready to grab the key on the way down!

[spes_phthisica]

[He's pretty short on magical buffing powers, so encouragement will have to do.]

There's a blue one underneath to the right! Try to reach while falling!

[That's really all he can do, apart from hoping that if they miss they really won't die. Trying to get over there to catch them is out of the question, his breathing is already becoming labored.]

[admiringly]

[ Chiyo stretches and reaches with all her might but misses!

Because her luck stat is terribad, the fairy tosses the key to its friend five feet up. ]

Ahhhh! I'm sooooooo sorry! I'll get it next go around! I promise!

[ Please let May land on a safe platform next. ]

[me_matey]

-May did find a safe platform, a nice blue one, to land on, but she felt quite a distance to do so, slamming hard onto the surface and having to squat down as she did so, hissing as the impact sent a huge jolt through her.-

Ow... Okay... Try number two... Where is it now?

[spes_phthisica]

[Soujirou is already scanning the flock for the key, having lost it a moment when the one holding it had tossed it to another mid-air.]

It's... over on the other side, about thirty feet above the door. [He's already moving in that direction, with the vague hope that maybe he can catch the damn thing if it tries to escape downwards. But it's a bit of an uphill struggle.] Are you both okay?

[admiringly]

Yes, I'm fine! I'm more disappointed I couldn't get it for us before it threw it. How are you doing down there?

[ She points to help direct May in the vicinity that Soujirou observed. ]

[me_matey]

My knees are okay... Alright, let's get to it! -May started leaping in the direction Soujirou was directing them, bouncing from platform to platform, some of them disappearing, some of them zooming off, but she never spent more than a split second on each one.-

Can't get away from me, you little punk!

[spes_phthisica]

Fine, just... bit out of breath.

[There's a terrifying moment of questionable balance as he manages to land on a pinks tile and it starts to move, but actually it turns out to be a good thing. It shunts him along the way at a much more linear path than he'd manage on his own, and he manages to fling himself onto a green platform before it changes direction or something, ending up practically by the door.]

It's still here! [He'll just slide his hoodie off his shoulders just in case.]

[admiringly]

Ah...! We're so close I can almost taste it....!! I just need to reach a little more—

[ Thankfully, they're on a green platform, which means it's stationary. The key is also just slightly out of her arm's reach. She sticks her tongue out as she strains to grab it but fails. ]

Here, May. Take this just in case.

[ Before May figures out what she's doing and protests it, she unties one of her ribbons from her hands, wraps the key she got earlier in it and knots it, and then ties it to May's arm. She boosts herself up on May's back, launches herself, and snatches the key.

It's a success, but she's off balances and slips off May and the platform completely.

It's a straight plunge, but the last logical thought she has before she her fall is: ]

Soujirou, catch!

[ She pitches the second key as hard as she can at him and then screams for her bloody life. ]

[me_matey]

-Oh shit. Oh shit oh shit oh shit! Hopefully Soujirou could indeed catch, because May wasn't about to let Chiyo fall alone. May wasn't one for rational thoughts often either, and with the other key secured to her arm, she quickly dove after Chiyo, straightening herself out as she did so to lower her air resistance. Hopefully she'd catch up to her, but...-

[spes_phthisica]

[Everything happens far too quickly to properly take it in before it's too late. There's even a horrible moment when his self-protective instincts almost overrule common sense, in which case he would've absolutely smacked the key coming right at his face into the void. But thankfully his reflexes are good, and he manages to catch that key out of the air before rushing to the edge of his platform.

Yeah, there's no way he can actually catch any of the falling girls; even if he'd managed to get there on time, physics don't work like that. And while he can be reckless when fighting... no. Plunging into a gaping, bottomless void without any plan for how to save them? Not today.]

May? Chiyo? [He grips the edge of the platform anxiously, praying the intern had been right.] Are you alright? Please say you're alright...

[admiringly]

[ There's only bloodcurdling screams until there isn't.

She's warped outside the university, and Chiyo falls abruptly over. It takes her a a full moment to learn to breathe again after she hits the ground.

She thought she would die even despite what Soujirou said the intern said.

She breathes deeply and coughs, immediately reaching for her phone to text both Souirou and May. She doesn't look around to see if May is with her or not. Her attention is so scattered, she feels nauseous, and she doesn't want anyone to worry because she was stupid. ]

im ok!!!
im somehow outside but im ok!!!
im sorry!!!

[ Apostrophes are for people who have time to think and didn't just fall for what felt like forever. ]

[me_matey]

-Not like May had any room to criticize anyone's typing. But she'd worry about that later, since given she'd dove after Chiyo, she'd be popping up soon herself, nearly crashing into Chiyo in the process.-

Look out! -Was about as much warning as she could manage before she collided with the other girl, her cap flying off as she did so, itself catching a breeze to drift slowly down to the floor. Lucky hat.-

[spes_phthisica]

[He hears his phone buzz, and at first it doesn't really register, as he continues to stare in horror into the silent void. This wasn't supposed to happen.

But then it buzzes again, and he belatedly reaches for it, staring in disbelief at the name on the screen. Then there's a moment when he practically crumples to the floor in relief, still clutching the phone and trying to breathe properly through his tightening throat.]

oh tahnk god
I eas so scared for a minute theer
are you outside the building hold on I'm comjng to fetch you
is may okay too

*there are, not there isn't. i can do grammar

[admiringly]

[ There's a delay in this response because Chiyo tries to avoid being crushed by May but fails. Her breath is knocked out of her, and she groans in pain. ]

May... are you okay?

[ She's absolutely a millennial, though, so she manages a reply asap: ]

may's with me now! see you soon!

[me_matey]

-May groaned before rolling off of Chiyo and clutching at her head. Her very naked head. Her other hand groped about blindly for her cap. She so rarely went without it, it felt down right weird not to have it on. She only seemed to be vaguely aware of where she was...-


The hell... just happened? Where are we? -It was a little grassy to be the bottom of a death pit.-

[spes_phthisica]

be there asap

[He crams the key into his pocket, making sure it's secure there. Then he jumps back onto proper solid ground, tosses his hoodie onto the ground and picks up his backpack again, and he's off. He can run on adrenaline for a while longer and deal with his breathing once he can actually see that the girls are really safe.]

[admiringly]

I don't know what happened, but at least... we didn't die?

[ That's a plus, isn't it? It's also a sign that Maurice was telling the truth and kind of helpful, which makes him better than Jim in her mind.

If she knew video games better, she'd think they were somehow at a respawn point, but she doesn't, so she isn't.

She turns her head and squints. She's too worn to get up yet. ]

Is that Soujirou.....?

[me_matey]

He didn't bring my anchor... -The one May had left by the door. Not that Soujirou COULD have brought it, the thing weighed a ton, but May was still visibly loopy, still rubbing at her temple.-

[spes_phthisica]

[Yes, that is Soujirou, and they're just going to have to excuse him as he drops on his knees and gives both of them a big hug each, worn out and/or loopy as they are. He looks suspiciously red around the eyes, but he's laughing now, because they're both really okay and not smeared on the bottom of some horrible abyss.]

I was... really worried there... for a moment. [He's also kind of wheezing a bit, because sprinting up stairs right after Platform Hell wasn't the best decision.]

[admiringly]

[ It grounds her when he hugs her. Everything settles down. The cacophony between her ears quiets down. Outside of the earth beneath her, Soujirou is solid. May was solid when she fell, but she'd still been in shock.

Her shoulders shake. She's alive. She could've died. She really could've died. She could be dead, but she's not.

A laugh bubbles up in her throat, a sharp puff of air. ]

Ha...! Yeah. Me, too. I"m really sorry for worrying you. I wanted to —Oh.

[ Her cheeks are wet, and she laughs a little more. Is she happy? Is she relieved? Is she losing it? She doesn't know. She wipes at her tears. ]

—Sorry! I'm sory! I don't mean to— Do you want to go back for your anchor, May? Are you really okay, Souirou? You don't— You sound like you ran really fast. I'm really sorry.