★ WEEK TWO: FORWARD MOVEMENT ★

[modaphor]

[A lot has happened in a few short days.

Arche has grown a great deal from her interactions with the assembled agents of the facility; thanks to their influence, her chamber has taken on a few new additions, including a rapidly filling curio cabinet and, more recently, an orange and black Maine Coon kitten has come to stay in the facility as well. Thanks to Ginti's advice, he is no longer confined to his transparent tank in Arche's Chamber; in fact, you may see him wandering around during the week. Please be kind to the local wildlife!

On a more serious note, Arche has located one of her missing memory cores, which comes with some...vaguely unsettling information surrounding it. But, since the general consensus seemed to be "yes, we'll help", she is now hard at work securing the gateway to the pocket dimension; if asked, she will approximate that it will take her until late Thursday night to get everything up to scratch.

In the meantime, she's helpfully provided some recommendations for people to work on this week, in preparation for this week. If you need something to think about, you might try working on one of those?

Otherwise, the facility is still available to you, as is Arche. Have a good week, everyone!]


SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[OOC: As with last week, if you want to talk to Arche, please use the subheadered comments! Also, we had some agents looking around for clues last week, so as a way of encouraging and streamlining that —

If you intend to look for clues, please explicitly mention what sort of thing you're looking for and approximately where you are looking, and consider asking for mod attention in the comment header so I can find it easier! Thanks, everybody!]

Comments

[shuttermouse]

[ That is a good plan, Arche. Chie will try to supervise the cat if they happen to be in the same room until then -- if it dies she can't get anymore decent shots of it and that would suck. ]

By the way, do you want the photo? You can have it if you give me somewhere to put it.

[archetyping]

. . .

YES. I WOULD LIKE THE PHOTO.

QUESTION: DOES THE PHOTO REQUIRE A PROTECTIVE COVERING?

[shuttermouse]

Yes, absolutely. It'll keep it from deteriorating over time.

[archetyping]

ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE CORRECT SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE COVERING?

[shuttermouse]

Of course. [ She'll go ahead and provide those specifications. Size, some specific and probably stupidly expensive brand of anti-reflective framing glass that blocks like 99% of UV light, that sort of stuff. ]

[archetyping]

QUESTION: WHAT COLOR IS APPROPRIATE FOR THE FRAME OF THE COVERING?

[shuttermouse]

[ Hm. She could say a colour that would complement the photo... ]

Black will look good.

[ ...Or she could just say that because she doesn't want to think too much when it's just a picture of a cat. ]

[archetyping]

UNDERSTOOD. I WILL MAKE IT BLACK.

DISPENSING NOW. PLEASE INSERT THE PHOTO INTO THE DESIGNATED PROTECTIVE COVERING ONCE IT HAS FULLY DEPLOYED.

[And indeed, here comes a picture frame, precisely to specifications.]

[shuttermouse]

[ And as soon as it's been fully deployed, Chie wanders over to carefully place the photo inside, making sure she doesn't get any fingerprints on the glass. ]

[archetyping]

THANK YOU. :)

QUESTION: WILL YOU SECURE THE PROTECTIVE COVERING IN THE DESIGNATED HOLDING SPACE?

[...She probably means her curio.]

[shuttermouse]

Sure, I'll do that.

[ ...Is the bridge extended so she can walk over to the curio? ]

[archetyping]

[It is now! Go ahead, Chie.]

[shuttermouse]

[ The curio is now +1 photograph of a cat! She'll take a moment to study the dolls while at it, too - they're well made and cute.

Seeing the Shijima doll reminds her that there was something she was going to ask. ]

By the way, did you stock the prize machine in the cafeteria?

[archetyping]

YES. I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRIZE MACHINE AND ITS CONTENTS.

[shuttermouse]

Why is it there?

[ When they can just ask for stuff, it seems a little pointless... though she does like not knowing what kind of useless shit she gets. ]

[archetyping]

. . .

I AM RECEIVING ERRORS WHEN ATTEMPTING TO ACCESS THAT INFORMATION.

[shuttermouse]

[ She sighs. It's somewhat annoying, to be frank, but if she can't access the information... ]

Is it because of the missing memory cores?

[archetyping]

YES.

BECAUSE OF THE WAY MY MEMORY IS STORED, THERE ARE MANY FUNCTIONS I AM ABLE TO COMPLETE WITHOUT KNOWING WHY I AM COMPLETING THEM.

[shuttermouse]

Oh. [ ... ] How is your memory stored?

[ If she can't get deets on the machine she wants to get deets on something else instead :|a ]

[archetyping]

IT IS A COMPLEX SYSTEM WITH SEVERAL DIVISIONS AND MANY OVERLAPPING POINTS OF INTERFACE.