★ 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

[thermals]

< If it means getting one of your memory cores back. It sounds like whoever took them from you in the first place went to a lot of trouble keeping it away from you. >

[He can't imagine it being for a very good reason, since Arche does seem to genuinely want to help. Then again, you never know.]

[archetyping]

YES. I DO NOT KNOW WHY AN AGENT WOULD REMOVE MY MEMORY CORES FROM THIS FACILITY.

[thermals]

< Well, getting them back should be one step closer to finding that out. Right? >

[archetyping]

I HOPE SO. YES.

THOUGH IT IS UNLIKELY THE CORES WILL HAVE STORED INFORMATION OF THE THEFT ITSELF.

[thermals]

< Yeah, I guess that would be hoping for too much. But having just one back will be better than nothing, assuming we can find it.

You only know that the core is in this "pocket dimension" but not where it might be exactly inside of it, right? >

[archetyping]

CORRECT.

. . .

CLARIFICATION: I AM STILL INVESTIGATING IRREGULARITIES IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE POCKET WORLD. IT IS...STRANGE.

[thermals]

[That's a little concerning.]

< Is there anything else you can tell me about it? >

[archetyping]

I AM HESITANT TO ELABORATE. IT IS A COMPLICATED EXPLANATION AND I DO NOT WANT YOUR LACK OF EXPERIENCE TO RESULT IN AN INCORRECT UNDERSTANDING OR APPREHENSIONS THAT MAY FOLLOW FROM ONE.

. . .

ANALOGY: A HOUSE IS MADE OF BRICK OR OF WOOD. TO ENCOUNTER A HOUSE MADE OF GRASS IS NOT POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE. IT IS MERELY UNUSUAL.

[thermals]

< So you're saying it would be better for us to go in knowing what we have to do without a lot of extra information weighing us down. If we know about something weird we might run into to start, we'll be expecting whatever "it" is and might make mistakes.

It's weird and hard to explain, so it's best to just try to roll with whatever we run into. >

[archetyping]

INCORRECT. MY COMMENT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CONTENT OF THE POCKET WORLD. I AM REFERRING TO ITS CONSTRUCTION.

I AM TRYING TO PREVENT YOU FROM BECOMING AFRAID DUE TO INCORRECT ATTEMPTS TO MAKE SENSE OF AN UNKNOWN.

[thermals]

< Oh, sorry. That's probably for the best.

Like you said, not necessarily a negative or a positive...just unusual. >

[archetyping]

CORRECT.

I AM NOT FINISHED WITH MY WORK. I MAY HAVE MORE INFORMATION WHEN MY CURRENT TASK IS COMPLETED.

[thermals]

< I hope so. >

[He's silent for a moment after that, thinking as he shifts a bit on his perch.]

< Do you remember when I was talking to you the other day, when I came to get those mice? About how I said I was worried the other agents might be bad people? >

[archetyping]

YES. I REMEMBER THAT CONVERSATION.

[thermals]

< I was wrong. It's been more than enough time...there's no way any of them can be Controllers.

That being said, I don't know how much they trust me, now... since I've been acting so guarded because I wasn't sure. >

[archetyping]

I UNDERSTAND.

THAT IS A DIFFICULT SITUATION.

[thermals]

< Not that I blame them or anything. I just hope it won't make it harder for us to get through this mission. The last thing we need is for something to go wrong. >