06 - week six

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WEEK SIX

Sunday starts with more aches and pains than you might be used to. Florence patched people up after Saturday’s lesson, sure, but it’s not a complete cure - not to mention it doesn’t ease the sting of betrayal. Some classmates that you thought would cooperate wound up breaking your trust in the end, and this week will be interesting with the fallout.

It’s hard to say what this week will have in store otherwise. Things are changing, and it’s not clear what this means for all of you. On the bright side, however, the creatures and places you once knew from home have suddenly disappeared, so that's less that you need to worry about. There are new areas for you to look at as well.

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FLORENCE / LORELEI

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[undertakings]

[Truly, he will be a phone connoisseur at this rate. But sure he'll steal that one too. Equal opportunity theft!!

As for the package... huh. Is that where Florence has been hanging out when they're not at the university...? Well, he'll bring the package along with him. If there's nothing else, then he will check out the mailboxes in the lobby to see if there are any other recognizable names before going up to inspect the units.]

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[Nobody else is allowed to have phones with the PCs around.

That's it in the mailroom, and the only recognizable name on the wall is Florence. He can't even find Kyle here, which is probably fortunate for Kyle even if Shin was just along for the ride during that whole thing.

Where's he going to start with the units? Florence's first, or is he just going to pick one at random?]

[undertakings]

[Be at peace Kyle, they'll loot your apartment another time if enough fog lifts.

Anyway, it's probably easier to just go for Florence's first unless anything about the other units stands out. However, on the way there he'll test the doors to check if most of them are locked or not. Regardless of the state of the doors, he'll just leave them for now even if he might look into a couple of those later.

But anyways, let's see what we can get from Florence's first. Is it locked?]

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[:worry:

Most of the doors are locked! There's a few that aren't, though, so he can check them out later if he wants.

Florence's door is... actually unlocked! So he doesn't have to try to break the door down, thankfully. The first room of the apartment is the kitchen, and there's a closet to the left of the entryway. There's also a larger open room beyond the kitchen, but it looks pretty empty on account of there not being any furniture that Shin can see from the entryway.]

[undertakings]

[Okay, he'll also drop the yarn package at the front too because he ain't carrying that around the whole time. Does the kitchen look used at all? It'd make sense for it not to be but who knows, maybe Florence gets guests. He'll also just go through the fridge to see if there's actually anything there at all. If nothing stands out, then he'll move on to the closet!]

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[Doesn't seem like Florence gets gets, as there's no food in the kitchen at all - or even anything to cook or serve with.

The closet has a washing machine and dryer in it, with a shelf running above them housing detergent. There's also a box where it seems like Florence has been sticking partnerless socks, but there's not much else there. Probably best to move deeper into the apartment.]

[undertakings]

[Deeper into the apartment it is! What is this mysteriously empty room beyond the kitchen. Should he get the hatchet ready.]

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[There's nothing to hatchet (yet), but it's always good to be prepared.

The room is very empty, but it has a small balcony for looking out into the courtyard, and... a lot of wires running across the floor. It seems like someone needs to outlets in this room, and all of the wires are running to a room on the left side of the closet where the laundry machines are.]

[undertakings]

[Is this where Florence charges their batteries... I guess he's going to just follow the wires then. What have they got!!]

[afflictionmods]

[It very well could be! The room they lead to is open and spacious - and was probably intended to be a bedroom, if this apartment was rented to someone who actually needed to sleep. Instead there’s a mess of wires, screens, and sleek but nondescript boxes. Definitely some robot nonsense here.]

[undertakings]

[Hm. Might need someone good with tech for this one, but he'll check out the screens anyway. Are they currently operational, or is the power off?]

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[Might be a good idea, yeah. Everything also currently off, but he can chance finding the power button or come back later with reinforcements.

Or he can look at the rest of the room.]

[undertakings]

[I am assuming that turning the thing on isn’t going to trigger some kind of self-destruct device so!! He’ll find the power button and see what he can make of it first. It would be kind of silly to just leave it without checking.]

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[He's safe from any sort of self-destruct! It might take a bit of searching, but he will find a button with the universal, circular symbol for power on it. The button itself is also circular, which is nice, but it's just a button. It's on the largest of the Vague Box Of Electrical Components, and none of the rest have any so it seems like there's just the one button for this entire... Situation.]

[undertakings]

[me writing that tag while still waking up and not ever realizing I didn’t mention he would press the button fml

Anyway he’s pressing it! Let’s see what this machine will do when it’s turned on!!]

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[it's ok maybe shin is just being Extra Cautious with mysterious florence buttons

The machine turns on, with a lot of buzzing and flashing lights, and surprisingly this machine doesn't seem to require a password!

Of course, that doesn't make what's on the screens any more recognizable. One of the screens is a list of words in the Estelline language - with the last four lines greyed out. Shin can probably piece together that these are names. The names of the students enrolled in the course specifically.

One of the monitors is a standard desktop background, with program icons for a browser, recycle bin, and what seems to be games. The rest of the screens are dark, but in the "background image is black but the screens are still on" kind of way. It doesn't seem like there's any sort of mouse, tablet, or anything else that could be used to interact with the computer, though.]

[undertakings]

[Just going to tap on the screen with one of those greyed names in case this is a touchscreen or something. If that doesn't work though, are there any ports on the side of the monitors or whatnot so they can plug a mouse in? Also just to be clear, but are all of the wires connected to one of the other screens or are there some that are free on one end?]

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[The tapping does nothing, but there are ports! Most of the wires are connected to the screens or power sources, except for one. It's a relatively thick wire compared to all the rest, and it's coming out of the main tower and ends in what looks more like a needle than any standard sort of connection.]

[undertakings]

[Hm. He'll memorize the types of ports available, and he can come back later with or without someone else. Anyway, he'll power everything down for now.

Alright, checking out the rest of the room now!! Is there anything else that stands out besides all the electronics and the balcony? Any other furniture or cabinets or whatnot?]

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[Florence doesn't seem to have much in the way of furniture, but they do have a collection of yarn, knitting needles, and crochet hooks around in their bedroom, carefully stored in boxes. These seem to be their in-progress projects.

But besides the plants on the balcony, that's it! If he wants to take a look at them, he's welcome to, otherwise the apartment is cleared.]

[undertakings]

[Huh... well, they have to do something while the rest of them are sleeping, probably. But okay he'll be back with a mouse or something at some point and maybe someone else... who knows!!

But now it's back to being outside and checking out some of the other units. Anyways, just doing this in broad strokes for everyone's sanity, but for the unlocked apartments, are there signs that people evacuated (so, necessities being taken, maybe some stuff left in disarray)? Also, are there any signs that there were other Camellia employees living in some of these units?]

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[Godspeed, Shin.

There are quite a few apartments where it seems the residents evacuated, yes! But there are just as many where it seems like people simply stepped outside and never returned, with everything as it should be.

There are no signs of any Camellia employees in these complexes, though, so with that the apartment units are cleared entirely!]