Event: Consolidation Theory, Part Four and Five

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Characters: red-marked characters and their new friends
Location: ???
Date: Morning 354, Morning and Day 355
Summary: A quiet morning and a confusing morning, or maybe they're both, or maybe they're neither.
Warnings: gore, psychological horror, warn for specifics in the subject lines

Part Four OOC Post
Part Five OOC Post

Comments

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

I didn't mean to imply it had anything to do with us specifically. [ He felt the need to clarify. Remembering what he'd told Hannibal, Will repeated it to Junpei. ]

A man in employ of an American company in charge of Norfinbury who has proven to be dangerous and uncaring of causing suffering to people trapped here. He is apparently human and vocal against Winter.

That is the description in the guide for Robert Miller. If Norfinbury was a ... project of a company, corporation that almost always means what is the bottomline. Whatever happened here, back in the beginning? That had to have been a PR nightmare.

If Miller is a representative for the company, it would be his job to fix things.

[fiftheclipse]

[... His memory's pretty great, but it's not much use with things he never bothered to read. Ugh.]

If the company's in charge of the whole town, it has to be a project.

His idea of fixing may have changed. After all, he said it himself that he wants to fix us. Maintenance and repairs on the environment itself are one thing, but what if he intends to control the results? We need to know whether the previous sessions failed because he sabotaged them, or if he's new to this and only interfering with ours.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

[ Will was forced to shrug, an action that pulled at aching muscles. ]

There is a lot of speculation and theories. I know I've got a laundry list of my own, but at the end of the day we don't have any concrete facts.

If anything we've got a lot of unreliable narrative; save what we were able to learn from the Data Collective.

[fiftheclipse]

... So we focus on finding some.

How did last night start? None of your group was with us during the morning or day. You weren't just sitting around passed out until it happened. Chances are if there's any answer to take away from all this, you guys were the ones who got it.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

[ Will's expression suggested that he strongly doubted those who were unmarked had any appreciable answers. However, he was willing to share what he could recall.

Maybe it might jog something in Junpei's memories. ]

It was nighttime, we were all asleep. Couldn't see any person clearly, just a sense of twisting static. Then I lost time, woke up chained by my neck to a wall. That's when I first remembering seeing, some of your first group. But it was like those of you around me couldn't see me.

The static ... whatever returned and I was injected with something. Next thing I knew all hell was breaking loose.

[fiftheclipse]

But no stylish bracelet as a souvenir, huh.

I wonder if the same way your group can't see the barriers at the ends of our cells, there may have been something keeping our group from seeing into your cells at all. When everything happened, they were obviously down. That may have been the first we saw of you.

... Could you tell who was who before the injection?

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

I wasn't really focusing on that at the time. [ He said with a regretful shake of his head. Hindsight is twenty twenty after all.

But Junpei brought up an interesting point. ]

Perception ... what do you see right now, Junpei?

[fiftheclipse]

A cell block, but you knew that much. Nicer than some of the places I've woken up trapped, before-- no triple bunk to make me hit my head on the ceiling, for one.

[He's going to be bitter about that forever.]

It's pretty clean. Walls and floor are white. There's a bed there.. A bathroom over there...

[Junpei motions to each place as he speaks, eventually bringing his hand up to touch the barrier locking him in.]

And this thing.. It's this blue wall of.. energy, I guess. But it feels like glass?

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

[ Junpei's response earned him a bemused blink and then a pensive frown. ]

Interesting. [ Will mused, stepping back and looking around for a moment, before letting his eyes come back to Junpei. ]

I see a molding cell block and it appears to me as if you're just standing in a cell with an open door. Here, let me show you.

[ Will walks towards the blue wall of energy and passes through it without pause. He stands there for a moment, shrugs and then walks right back out. ]

[fiftheclipse]

There's a door? ... What happens if you try closing it?

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

Err, sorry I misspoke. [ Will winced at his slip of phrase. He was more tired than he was allowing himself to believe. ]

It's just a doorway, no door in sight. Looks like you're sitting in an open cell and could walk out at any time.

[fiftheclipse]

So no extra clues, huh? I guess that would be too easy. Making things exclusive to each of our views take up the same space might've done something. I doubt you wanna try picking up that mold you mentioned.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

Not particularly. [ Will confirmed that suspicion, then lifted his bound hands. ] And even if I did...

[ It still wasn't happening. ]

[fiftheclipse]

What, you don't think it'd stick to the bandages?

[Not that he was serious. There's no way he's pushing the idea any further.]

Still, there's gotta be a way to figure it out. Why it's different, why we see what we do, what the point of it is...

What if you guys need access to something only we have, or the other way around? What if anyone with the lines could walk right out that door at the end of the hall if our cells weren't locked like this?

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

I think you're over thinking things at this point. [ Will suggested, keeping his comment deliberately low-key. ]

[fiftheclipse]

So you're saying there's no way to leave.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

Not at the moment, no.