DAY NINE

[judgejudy]

DAY 9 Complex Population: 18 It's 8AM, and you wake from that deep, dreamless sleep that enforces curfew as always. There's breakfast available in the cafeteria if you want it, as well as meals from 11AM-12PM and 7PM-8PM, but otherwise? The day is yours. Take your time to explore the complex, relax, and enjoy each others' company, as who knows what the next day has in store? Though as you explore, you may notice that there's a few new doors unlocked and a new place for you to spend the day. Behind one door, you'll find a neat, tidy classroom. Like the Media Lab, none of the textbooks seem to cover anything past the 1940s, but if you'd like to do arts and crafts, the supply closet may be your place to spend the day. Across the walkway, there's also a small garden for growing fresh vegetables, so maybe you can finally be somewhat free of canned food. For once, there's nothing amiss about the Complex. — This post is for the first day as defined in the schedule. This post is for general mingling and CR buidling, and will not include significant plot interaction. ic rulebook character statuses character profiles private conversations graveyard

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TALK TO JUDY

[judgejudy]

[selfsufficiency]

judy, i have a question

[Well, obviously, which is why she's lingering at a terminal...]

is the terminal we've all been voting from the only place to cast a vote?
because there were only nineteen of us around last trial and twenty votes were cast

[judgejudy]

I am surprised that you noticed.

It is not, no. There is one other location where a vote can be submitted.

[selfsufficiency]

Atrium - Early Morning;
[After talking to Judy at one of the terminals, Alice figures she should probably share what she's learned with the others, so she'll linger in the atrium where she can see people coming and going and will clap her hands to get people's attention as they walk by.]

Hey, did you notice anything unusual about the voting results yesterday?

Classroom - Morning;
[And now, time to explore! Alice is feeling much better today than she has since coming into contact with the fountain water - it looks like enough time has passed that whatever caused it has cleared up. She's fine with that. She'll just avoid the fountain water as best she can from on...

It's with renewed vigor that she heads up the stairs to check out what doors might have unlocked! ...and, hey, it's a classroom. She doesn't seem all that surprised at the setup - one-room classrooms are pretty common where she comes from - and she'll start poking around, thumbing through the textbooks and then raiding the supply closet for paper and pencils.

If you happen upon her while she's stockpiling them, she'll gather them into her arms and shoot you a suspicious look.]

What are you looking at?

Indoor Garden - Afternoon;
[FRESH FOOD, PARTY TIME.

...which is to say, Alice is harvesting vegetables, because there's no way she's going to pass up getting to eat something that doesn't come from a can. She has a feeling that if she comes back tomorrow, someone else will have emptied the garden first.

She won't take everything - on the off-chance she's wrong, she'd like to be able to come back and get more in the future. But she is going for enough to make a decent meal. When she hears footsteps, she speaks without bothering to look from where she's pulling up a carrot.]

If you help me gather these, I'll cook dinner tonight.

Community Kitchen - Evening;
[Anyone coming into the kitchen around dinnertime will find Alice tending to a pair of pots on the stove. They're both simmering nicely, though the one on the left certainly smells a lot better. On the counter there's a half-empty can of evaporated milk, an empty tin of canned beef, and the remains of chopped and peeled vegetables which are most likely the ones she harvested from the garden earlier that afternoon.

The pot on the left seems to have some kind of a creamy vegetable stew - the one on the right is the canned meat, cooking in a vegetable broth for flavor. She doesn't really want to combine them in a single pot in case the canned meat's flavor throws off the flavor of the fresh vegetables, but it can be added to individual bowls to try it, and then left out if it turns out bad.

To anyone who comes in, she'll say the same thing initially - ]

The food's almost ready.

[Then she'll turn away from the stove to face her company. If it's someone who helped her harvest vegetables, one of her apartmentmates, or Elizabeth or Angel, they'll be treated to a smile.]

Grab a bowl and help yourself once it's done.

[If it's anyone else, though - ]

You can have some if you do the dishes so I don't have to.

indoor garden!

[modissty]

Are we certain that these are even safe to eat...?

[THE REAL QS. Though he supposes that murder here does tend to follow certain protocols...

He'll stoop down in any case, peering over the rows of vegetables before digging in to root up another carrot. Fresh food is really tempting okay IT'S REALLY TEMPTING.]

[selfsufficiency]

If you're worried about it, we can feed them to someone we don't like first to check out.

[But with such a wealth of other ways to kill people in this place, Alice sort of doubts they're going to have to rely on poisoning a bunch of plants which haven't even been harvested yet to kill them off.]

[selfdenying]

Inner Garden - Morning

[Well, here's a face that hasn't been seen around for a while. Or, rather, a personality that hasn't been seen around for a while (just so you know, his face, fortunately, is still the same). He's just standing in place, just basking in the UV lights and enjoying the tranquility that the place has to offer. Step up to him, though, and he'll let out a little yelp of surprise.]

Oh, goodness! Oh, you scared me, don't sneak up on me like that. [He says, clutching his chest, though he winces in pain when he does so - he's pressed his injured hand against himself by accident. Alfendi blinks awkwardly, unsure what to say next, except:]

Uh. Well, long time no see, I suppose...

Library - Afternoon

[If you thought Alfendi's Jekyll side was here to stay, well, you're wrong. Bad Alfendi's back, and he's here in the library poring through the titles - sometimes he takes one of them, flips through it, then tosses it behind him with a displeased noise.]

Ugh, none of this stuff is even worth reading...

[He might...accidentally toss a book back and hit you by accident if you're standing behind him. Sorry in advance???]

inner garden because when else is she going to get to talk to the nice one, honestly

[selfsufficiency]

[Alice narrows her eyes.]

"Long time no see" is one way of putting it. But don't you have something else to say to me?

[Like, "Gee Alice, I'm sure sorry I tried to beat you up!" or something along those lines... she watches him expectantly and sort of warily, but it doesn't look like she really thinks he'll say sorry.]

[selfdenying]

[He just looks very uncomfortable, like a kid dozing off in class who's suddenly been called on to give an answer to a question he hasn't learned.]

Alice, I... [He presses his fingers against each other, avoiding her gaze.] Wasn't myself...the last time I was awake. I didn't mean it, I swear.

Inner Garden

[becauseimacoward]

[It has been a while, non-angry Alfendi. Dojima approaches]

Are you aware of everything that has happened since last time you were...hmm..."awake"?

[Complete with finger quotation marks]

[selfdenying]

[He's angry too, he just smiles constantly so no one thinks he is.]

Well...I'm sure it'll be in my notebook. [He has it tucked under an arm.] It looks like he didn't throw it out yet, so one would hope he had the foresight to fill me in.

[betraitor]

Indoor Garden, Morning;

[it's pretty obligatory to see what's behind newly unlocked doors at this point, isn't it? but honestly, this is probably one of the better surprises they've stumbled across.]

Look at that, we may be able to eat something other than canned slop for once. [the man is tired and injured for stupid bullshit reasons (thanks, rhys), so it's a little sad he's kind of excited about this. whoops.]

Recreation Room, Afternoon;

[alvin doesn't exactly cope well with high stress situations that well, he's not into the heavy atmosphere that hangs in the air. it's been getting to him for a couple of days, so he's looking to lighten things up without any really digging for much else.

so he's sitting in one of the chairs, perched on it in a way to not lean on his stab wound. he's shuffling a deck of cards, and he'll just casually ask whoever passes:]

Up for a game? [or just a chat; he doesn't usually play too many card games, but it's the easiest thing for him to do right now.]

Bar & Lounge, Evening;

[of course, the atmosphere is still pretty shitty. so before he heads back to his now-quiet as hell room, he'll stop by the bar for a drink. he won't mind company, though he's not really expecting it either.]

rec room

[selfsufficiency]

Sure, why not.

[Alice flops into a chair not too far away, looking bored.]

What did you have in mind?

[betraitor]

Poker, Blackjack... game of your choice?

[he's obviously just trying to kill some time and stave off the boredness too.]

I'm a pretty open guy. [hah.]

rec room!

[modissty]

[He's gonna be a card game pro by the end of this game, honestly... That said, since he could use the distraction too, there isn't much of a pause before he nods.]

Alright. I only know one game, though...

VTBBS

[judgejudy]

[ If you choose to check out once of the terminals today, you'll see a new option in the menu: ]

> VTBBS

[ When you open it, it's an old-style BBS message board, and there's a message waiting for you... ]

VTBBS

—

So raise your hand if you really thought this would be the last you heard of me. Adam tried to warn most of you. I don't know if anybody else has bothered reaching out to some of you guys. I also don't really care.

Listen up. We can see…pretty much everything. Fun trial by the way, real classy. Thing is? It's pretty quiet here. Getting a little bored, you know? So I'm making an offer to you.

Spoke to Judy, got permission to open a little thing to talk to you guys more than once a day. I'm sure you're dying for answers about the complex and about where the rest of us are. So ask. Ask anything you want about where we are, what's happening in the complex, the people killing you...you were right by the way, you really should have kept me alive a little longer for questioning! It's fine, it worked out because let me tell you, there's something really funny about watching this play out when there are things right under your noses you're all missing.

Anyway, inbox is open. Give us something to do okay? Could be...interesting.


—

OOC Note: Thanks to some work in the graveyard, there's now a BBS system where you guys can talk to the dead a little more frequently, as well as each other if you're so inclined. A VTBBS toplevel will be posted each IC day, and replies from the graveyard will come from the mod account, since Judy might be filtering for content. :)

If you'd like to make a general "topic" as if it were a new topic on the board, just add a note in your subject line!

topic: AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD YOU MORONS

[selfdenying]

[mad world plays quietly on kazoo in the bg because what is life, alfendi doesn't know anymore]

[Okay, but he'll post that....very nice topic title above and start typing away.]

Who is this??? You can't honestly make us believe we're talking to people who used to be DEAD but are now ALIVE like what kind of idiots do you think we are?!

Prove you are who you say you are. I'm not going to waste time on staff members thinking they can mess around with all of us as they like.

topic: TOLD YOU SO

[jackhole]

SEE

SEE!!!!!!!! THEY'RE NOT DEAD

I TOLD YOU SO

DEATH IS BETTER

WHY DOESN'T ANYONE EVER BELIEVE ME

Re: VTBBS

[selfsufficiency]

okay, say we DO believe you're talking to us from beyond the grave or whatever

are ciel, minatsuki, and jade with you?

Re: VTBBS

[becauseimacoward]

Was this approved by the Overseer?

[Seriously, guys]

[tearable]

Why can only five leave? What's waiting for us outside of this complex? Do you know?

topic: so what

[liven]

this place probably isn't reality. i already said that was an option. the loss of abilities intrinsic to our persons and the very specific memory holes do not seem like they can be directly the work of drugs. that leaves magic and ninjutsu and other forms of illusion.

but who really cares at this point? we die or we don't, it doesn't seem it makes a difference in the long run since everyone can still bother one another regardless of which side of the equation they're on.

honestly the only thing making suicide not the prime option to avoid any of this is that apparently we still have to deal with this idiocy no matter how dead we are so why even bother. unless you can do something to get us more bedding and bandages i'm not particularly interested in entertaining any of this any longer.

cue purposefully enigmatic remark about how little i know and whatnot. honestly, mysterious doesn't look as good on humans as it does on cats.

Re: VTBBS

[injectors]

Not yet a question, but I am glad to see you're all still with us.
In a sense, that is. Though I doubt that's comforting.

Re: VTBBS

[karachan]

[ Here's Ookurikara, typing as slow as ever but there's (1) thing he has to get across if this whole talking to the dead via this terminal is actually real? He has more of a reason to believe they can then others but he's not about to share why. ]

mitsutada
i got it

i know you told me not to be but i'm sorry i'll figure things out as much as i can on my side so you do the same over there where that is

[ u think that's the end of it BUT THEN ] tell kei he's a baby

Re: VTBBS

[adlucem]

[Sooner or later (let's be real, it's later, it's slow going when you're single-footed) Leo manages to make it to a terminal. Just like in the beginning, he's managed to figure out the basics by watching and poking around, but he's still a Ye Olde--and now he has to attempt to type while balancing, so his messages may be a little messy. HE'LL DO HIS BEST THOUGH.]

adam are you there it's leo. [No point in holding a conversation if the person he wants to talk to isn't even available!] i saw it. can everyone read these messages