★ 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

[nekromanteia]

...I'm sure that there's nothing strange about it at all.

[jade. jade, just ask.]

[thermals]

[Use your words, Jade]

< Well, it's...working fine, so I'd say there isn't. >

[nekromanteia]

...

. . .

So how does it work, exactly?

['i mean. i know. i just wanted to see if you did.']

[thermals]

[See, was that so hard.

Tobias lifts his head a little, keeping one eye on Jade and the other on the television set.]

< The VCR runs in connection with the television set, there. You put casette tapes into the slot at the front, and whatever is on the film can be shown using the TV. VCR is just an abbreviation for "video casette recorder", anyway. The whole thing is plugged into the wall back there somewhere, running on electricity.

The only tape we have is Space Jam, but if you look at it you can probably see where the film is rolled up inside. >

[nekromanteia]

...I see. [If nothing else, that did manage to make sense.] We don't exactly have these things where I'm from, I'm afraid.

[thermals]

< It's a pretty popular invention where I'm from. You'd think that some people wouldn't be able to survive without having TV to watch. >

[nekromanteia]

We get by well enough, I think.

[thermals]

< That's for sure. It's not like there's really a lack of things to do here, though. >

[nekromanteia]

That's true enough. This facility is...interesting, to say the bare minimum.

[thermals]

[He pauses a moment, eyeing the TV as he responds.]

< All the places we can actually get to are pretty straightforward. But I'm still wondering about those locked doors. >

[nekromanteia]

...Are you suggesting a way to satisfy one's curiosity?

[thermals]

< I'm not saying we should go try breaking into them or anything, but...it's just something to think about. You know? >