WEEK 3 MINGLE

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i don't want to set the world on fire

Week 3

The dreams are back, of course. They never left. But they’re different. In the dream, you wake up back at home at last. It’s so close now or… maybe everything else was just one great big nightmare. Your loved ones hug you tightly, and you can feel it so vividly that this has to be real. Things are going well for you, somehow. Maybe you won that fight. Maybe you found your freedom. Maybe you got that promotion. There’s something hopeful in the air as you breathe it, so so vividly. So much more vividly than the dank corners of the vault.

And then someone in your dream, a friend, an enemy, a loved one, family, they turn to you. They open their mouth, and through it, almost like a speaker, a song begins to play. Have you heard it before? You have now.

Coincidentally, they seem to freeze. Ice creeps up their skin, and if you take the chance to look around you, you’ll see it all start to crumble. It all goes up in a cloud of fire. A mushroom cloud, more specifically. Every single morning, on every single day of this week, you’ll be forced out of the real world and placed back in your body. Horrible, isn’t it?

Of course, just like the last two times, The Overseer speaks up over the intercom.

“I said at the end of the last execution that we’d have a new area prepared for you. A new week awaits you. I look forward to watching you take a stab at it.”

Poor choice of words, maybe, but the routine continues and the elevator has unlocked another stop. The third floor is now available to you.

As ever, the Overseer and her significantly more pleasant assistant are available for contact.

NAVIGATION

Vault 113: a short-run murdergame

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MONDAY

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[magician_0f_words]

[It's a brand new day, a brand new week, and Keiichi greets it by entering his responsible citizen era. In the morning, you'd be able to find him in the medbay looking bored out of his mind as takes careful note of their medicine supply. Someone has to take over for Klaasje, and as the lanyard hanging from his belt declares, he is indeed the other assistant.

It would only take a moment for Keiichi to notice your presence, at which point he'll speak up.]

Need something? I'm gonna have to keep track of that, if you do.

[Later, you might come across him on the newly unlocked floor, poking at the plants in the greenhouse! He's mostly looking at the flowerbeds with a particular appraising gaze peculiar mostly to canny merchants or pawn brokers, and completely fails to notice your character's presence. It seems like you'll have to get his attention somehow.

And lastly, when it's late, Keiichi will inevitably find himself dragged back to one room in particular. It's the clubroom, it's the place it all started, it's the schoolhouse! He's sat on that desk, and staring at that spot. But uncharacteristically, he'll speak up. Quietly. Carefully. As if speaking right now is somehow something profane.]

Who do you think... will die next?

[The question is asked in a way that makes it unclear if he's talking to you, the empty spot, or the sword clenched in his hands.]

schoolhouse

[namelesslancer]

[ sigma had arrived at the schoolhouse with the intention of watching a movie. but when he saw keiichi occupying the place, he figured it would be best to leave unnoticed.

but when keiichi speaks up, sigma can’t help but feel obligated to reply. ]

Anyone could.

[ even if it’s a cold comfort at most. ]

Greenhouse

[justlikemob]

[Mob is about to say something, but notices how intensely Keiichi is observing the plants and doesn’t want to disturb him. So he just crouches down next to him and also looks at the plants.]

…do you know a lot about flowers, Maebara-kun?

Schoolhouse

[underinworld]

Not me.

[Right away she's certain she won't. After all, Erin doesn't plan to put herself in danger]

...but are you sure that's what you want to talk about at a time like this? It's not going to make you feel better at all.

schoolhouse

[idecidethetruth]

Speculating seems like bad luck, don't you think?

[ Goro sits on the next desk over, crossing his legs at the knee and somehow managing to look proper even through this silly little act of rebellion. ]

If either of us guessed correctly, that would make us obvious suspects.

[sourtime]

[ Well, they finally got access to the archives, and it only took half of the archivists dying to get there! Deena pulls herself together on Monday morning and forces herself to get out of bed at a normal time, which is easier than it would be usually. Depression napping loses its savor when sleep is synonymous with seeing all the remaining people she loves annihilated in front of her.

She goes to the new floor, finds the computer lab, and just kind of cracks her knuckles as she stares at the terminals, hoping against hope that somehow yelling at her brother to get off the internet will have osmosized enough basic computer competence into her to let her accomplish something here! ]

God, Josh would love this.

[ Annnnnnd she's looking for any terminal that might be specifically marked for archivists or that just looks particularly important! If that doesn't pan out, just like Sigma before (if chronologically after) her, she's going to simply boot up any given one.

After that, you can find her in the arts and crafts room, initially looking over all the potential murder implements. She frowns at a chisel. ]

Two weeks ago we didn't even have kitchen knives. It's like, the more people die, the easier they're making it for us to off each other. What kind of stupid logic is that?

[ Later, she's got some paper and colored pencils, and she's trying to draw something -- you can tell, probably, that it's supposed to be a portrait, like the memorials in the chapel. You can also tell by the bright red she's using who she's attempting to render! But Deena also can't draw for shit, so that's the only indicator.

At a certain point, she starts scribbling over her efforts angrily... but then she stops. It feels wrong to do. Eventually, her attempts downgrade into her just halfheartedly drawing band logos and the cool S over and over. ]

investigation

[vault_tech]

[It seems like all the terminals here are for Archivists, but the one in the far right corner looks a little more recently used based on the customized chair and some stickers on it? Hard to say.]

Arts and crafts room

[anarchia]

[He feels…awkward to weigh in on the subject of killing people, considering, but he doesn’t just leave Deena hanging.]

I think it would be asking too much to expect this place to make much sense.

[He gives it some more thought.]

If they’re worried we’d lose our motivation for it, that could be a reason to make it easier.

computer lab

[idecidethetruth]

[ Also with the sense that he should probably try and see what the Archivists are actually meant to be doing, Goro shows up in the computer lab at some point too, sitting down in the rather uncomfortable chair next to Deena's decked out one. ]

Find anything interesting?

[ —Said while attempting to boot up the terminal he's sat at. Does it do anything different? ]

TUESDAY

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[namelesslancer]

computer lab (investigation)

[ alright, let's take a look at the computers. he's no ruby or any of the archivists, but that doesn't mean that he can't try to become hackerman, no?

he'll sit down in front of the computer, staring at the desktop. what does he see? ]

common room

[ later in the afternoon, sigma looks to be in the common room... but this time not sleeping.

he appears to have a deck of cards in his hand, playing something that appears to be... solitaire? either way, he seems approachable, if you ignore the pistol in its holster. ]

[vault_tech]

[You boot up a computer (really a shockingly low tech terminal) and are met with a screen prompting you to identify yourself as...

->M.L
->J.C (DECEASED)
->A.O (DECEASED)
->C.C (DECEASED)
->B.V (DECEASED)
->A.L (DECEASED)
->P.A (DECEASED).]

common room

[idecidethetruth]

[ Goro watches Sigma for a while – specifically, he looks at the pistol for a while, and at Sigma's hands for a while long, and then finally at his face before deciding to slip into the seat opposite him. ]

Do you know any two-player games?

WEDNESDAY

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EVENT: The Spooktacular Specters Arrive!

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[There's no call from Ianthe this time, nor from Kanon. In fact, both are radio silent.

What there is however, is a loud blaring from the PA system. After the initial chock, the song becomes more recognizable, but there's parts that are stutter, the words missing.

"Get out of here - ... Why don't you do right? Like some other men do? - ... You let all the women make a fool of you ... - ... Get out of here."

Of course, anyone on the third floor might see something else that's particularly odd. The Morgue is wide open. And some of the spaces containing the corpses of other Vault-Dwellers appear to be completely empty. In fact, exactly 8 corpses are gone.

"SOONER OR LATER, GOD'LL CUT YOU DOWN."

Uh, seems maybe you might want to go looking.]

Church

[picnicked]

[Well if this is ghosts, checking the places they died makes sense? Anything weird in here?]

ballroom

[dharmicrevelation]

[ Arjuna might have wandered into this place!

Any strange, paranormal activity or whathaveyou? ]

Morgue

[underinworld]

There better not be zombies.

[Better make sure of something first. Do the cabinets that used to host corpses look forced open or broken in any way?]

Garden

[justlikemob]

[Well, now Mob is kind of missing the ability to interact with ghosts. He’s going to start with the room across from the morgue, the garden. Anything buried in here?]

Classroom

[idecidethetruth]

[ Armed with his new sword from last week, Goro's going to check out the (clubroom?) classroom. Is anything – or anyone – out of place here? ]

Diner?

[bethorns]

[ ...OKAY? BODY HUNTING? ]

baseball field

[moodwinks]

[Honestly Belphegor isn't looking for anything in particular, he just happened to be passing this way and blinks for a long moment at the PA, nonplussed.]

... Doesn't sound like anybody we want to meet.

[modularized]

[ sopmod is, as of late, maybe surprisingly quiet. earlier in the day on wednesday she can be found lingering around some of the common areas on floor 1, entertaining herself a somewhat distractedly— more of her attention seems to be devoted to banana, who alternatively scampers around with no real aim or is perched on the table or seat next to her.

eventually, she'll ask softly, the words offered up to no one apparent in particular: ]

Maybe I should have torn your core out...? Put it in Banana like I did before? Then you'd be here, at least. I don't know if that'd be better or worse but at least we'd be together ... what's the point of being a team if we keep getting split up?

... Are you stuck in there right now, and I forgot? You're better than me at all this electronic warfare stuff...

[ fun things when your dreams (?) have you revisiting the idea that this is an extremely messed up virtual simulation. and how would they know? how would any of them know?

uuuughhhhhhh. wondering about it isn't going to get her anywhere, and she's going stir crazy. later on she can be found in the greenhouse, going through it in search of anything worth noting and making a face at the mutated flora, especially the one covering the one wall. ]

What's the point of hiding them down here so they don't get affected by the radiation when they're just going to experiment on them and turn them into messed up weird plants anyway...

[ and even later, after the, hm, interesting hauntings and announcement, sopmod can be found back in the armory, staring up at the damaged walls and ceiling with an investigative, speculative eye. ]

They were mutant, right...? Way too big and gross. That means they had to get in from somewhere...?

THURSDAY

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