[network] @donner; the walls have eyes; evening 156 [open]

[imgonnatouchit]

[The video opens with Hange's face: dirty (though that's not anything unusual) and a little scraped up from a few days ago. But all in all, they seem to be in good spirits. There's an almost feverish light in those eyes.]

Hello Norfinbury! I already agreed to share any findings with Natasha, but this seemed important enough to share with the whole town instead.

[The camera turns to face a wall- a wall covered in black paint eyes- but is then suddenly jerked back around.]

Oh, for those of you who I haven't met yet, I'm Squad Leader Hange Zoe, and this- [more motion-sickness-inducing camera movement-] is Captain Levi. [The man in question looks perhaps even a little more displeased than he usually does, but he's only on screen for a second before the feed goes back to Hange.] He's upset right now because he couldn't clean the bathtub.

[And with that cryptic statement, the camera finally settles onto the walls again. Hange slowly pans across, then shows off the ceiling, floor, and other surfaces of the room. They're all equally covered with those messily-painted eyes.]

I've heard that these have been seen in other parts of the town as well, but they seem to be fairly concentrated here in this tenement area. I'm sure they'll make it onto the guide soon, but I wanted to get some input from the general populace. Trying to re-create the eye symbol on an untouched wall produced no reaction, but I can't help but wonder if there isn't something we're meant to do with these.

[The video comes back around to Hange.] In slightly worse news, we've come to a dead end here. There's a southern branch to these tunnels, but it doesn't lead to anything but snow. Oh! But we did find a couple of undiscovered buildings- rooms, really, but nothing looks like it could be a way through. I've marked it on the map that everyone's using- the dead end branch, that is. Oh, and I've got videos of the things we found. If anyone has any input, that would be great!

[It sounds like they actually mean that. As the message ends, Hange sends along several files: an addendum to House's map showing the area with the dead end, and several videos of the various eyes they've encountered and new apartments they've entered, as well as one of the dead end itself.]

[OOC: Responses may come from Hange and/or Levi!]

Comments

@totheark; text

[0thingsonmymind]

the E Y E S donot do any thing if you
alter change draw on over
them ei ther

@donner; audio

[imgonnatouchit]

[Oh, it's the friendly neighborhood guy-who-types-weird!]

Hmm. Well that is helpful to know, thank you. [Disappointing, but helpful.]

Have you tried anything else on them?

[0thingsonmymind]

ihave not
ido not know if any one
else
has

@levi; audio

[dirtdevil]

I'm assuming the rest of them are permanent, too?

[ not that he's assmad about that or anything. ]

[0thingsonmymind]

ido not know
i havenot tried

@ketximq; video

[mightyratslayer]

[Whoa, freaky. That is like, a bunch of eyes. Where the heck even is this? Definitely somewhere Charlie hasn't been yet.]

Hey, where's that like, eye made of rocks or whatever that is? Did you go check that out because you totally should've if you didn't.

@levi; video

[dirtdevil]

It's by the apartments, not far from where we are now. There was no safe way down there.

[ he obviously doesn't know how few fucks Charlie gives about safety yet. ]

[mightyratslayer]

[Don't worry, Levi. You are about to find out!!] Dude, Hange said it was just three stories. I could get down three stories in my sleep. Just throw some shit out the window so you can stack it and then climb back up. Easy.

@donner; video

[imgonnatouchit]

Oh, well. It was pretty far down, I'd say about three stories. But if we had some rope, maybe we could try it. Who knows, there might even be other places to get to from inside that courtyard.

[mightyratslayer]

Wait, like, three stories down from ground level? What the hell? [That's super weird and even more reason for Charlie to stay the hell away from those crazy tunnels. No thank you.] You should make a ladder out of some mattresses. Me and Mac did that once and it work pretty well. Or, maybe one of those like, ropes made outta bedsheets, like in the movies.

@zd; voice

[swatsflies]

Oh it's Levi! Yo, Levi!

[ That's very important. And now to get to the rest. ]

We saw some eyes downtown painted on the walls. They are pretty creepy. I have footage if you want to see.

@levi; audio

[dirtdevil]

[ wait, what? who's talking to him? ah yes: ]

Zell.

[ that's his way of saying hello. sorry, man. ]

Do they look the same as the ones in here?

[swatsflies]

Yeah, I think so!

[ He's going to send some video footage of each place with eyes. ]

The book store, Inn, and the Jewelry store had them. [ His voice lowers when he mentions the last place. ]

@donner; video

[imgonnatouchit]

Oh, yes! I'd definitely like to see.

[swatsflies]

[ Here have some drawings ofeyes too!]

They were behind locked doors and traps. It was pretty crazy!

@Spoiler ; video

[spoileralert]

Okay, this may sound weird, but... there's a video game, and in it there are these rock things with a single eye carved into them. And you're supposed to hit them to make them talk.

I'm like, 99% sure that's not what this is. But I'm throwing it out there.

@donner; video

[imgonnatouchit]

[Hange squints thoughtfully.]

Some of them aren't in places we can easily reach, and some places have quite a few of them, but I guess we could test this on a single instance of the symbol?

Did the... "rock things" in the game say anything important?

[spoileralert]

They would give tips, sometimes.

@levi; video

[dirtdevil]

[ ...squint. ]

What? A video game?

[ what is this mythical fun activity of which you speak?? ]

@LELRIC; audio

[armoured]

[That is interesting, also incredibly creepy.]

Maybe it's a message, maybe the admin are watching more closely there? Can you look around, see any cameras?

@donner; video

[imgonnatouchit]

Oh, that's a good idea! I didn't see any cameras, but I can look for them in the morning, or next time we see any symbols.

[Or overnight, since Hange doesn't really... sleep much...]

@levi; audio

[dirtdevil]

Could be. I don't see anything, but I'll keep a closer eye out.

[ ...pun not intended, shit. ]

@jwilson; audio

[oh_negative]

Hi there, Hange. House and I found a snow wall similar to the one you've recorded up in the northern section of Hsiaoke Pass. Here, I've attached our recording for you.

[And he does.]

@donner; video

[imgonnatouchit]

Ah, well that's a little disappointing. I guess that means that the only way through is probably through that wall of debris that the others found inside the museum. We're headed there now, in fact.

@levi; audio

[dirtdevil]

[ there's a sigh as he finishes watching the recording. ]

Pain in the ass. For a second I thought we might have found something.