[ kazuki casts bardic inspiration. but sure he'll trade over the multitool, no problem. ]
Sure. A little damage goes a long way for stuff like this, doesn't it? Technology relies on everyone using it not trying to break it down, but otherwise it pretty fragile. Back on Earth, anyway.
[ rip to everyone whose iphone screens crack from looking at it wrong. ]
[ hands kazuki the crowbar. he can be their cheerleader, but he can also shove that in there if they can get a gap. ]
Automatons back home are fairly sturdy, as our most advanced but common technology in Teyvat, but there's always a weak spot that you can find. I imagine the same would go here. All else fails, we can cause property damage.
[ she crouches down while shu goes high, flipping out the blade on the multitool to try and slip it in there. becks give me a 1d20 and add 2 to the result. ]
[ shu's goddamn dirty 20 nicks something that causes a pneumonic sigh to release in the door, but it doesn't immediately open. it takes adrastea a bit of finagling, a little longer because my rolls were balls at first, before she manages to slide the multitool blade in. the arrow goes after, with more success, and - ]
Kazuki, try putting the crowbar in. Once you do, we'll use all three of us as a lever against the door - I think you cut something in the lock, Shu.
[ everybody roll a d20 for str. becks, add +3. ray, add +2. i add 0 because this is not her forte. ]
[ snya 🔧 work order Request: [1d20] Roll: [17] Result: 17
so our average came out to 15, rounded up, which is. the dc. badadada da da dadaaaaa. the door lets out a metal-on-metal grinding noise, and then it's open, baby. adrastea is a little surprised that worked, and flips the multitool closed before reaching for where she left the bow. ]
Go figure it actually worked.
[ but the lights are completely out in the room, and no light comes from the customizable window you two are so used to. it's silent, and still, and dark - only the light in the hall and the light of adrastea's eyes shine in, and the darkness seems to absorb it in such a way that it's hard to make out distinct shapes of this vacant room. the air is stale, with a strange undertone to it, but neither of you can put your finger on what it is. ]
[ well. realistically they got lucky. does the IRIS have a torch setting? i cannot remember if we ever asked this, but if it does, he'll flick it on to get a look around the room. ]
...
Feels like this place has been closed off for a long time.
[ why was that so easy. kazuki isn't entering the room yet, though; he's just wrinkling his nose at the smell and stepping back with the crowbar to let shu and adrastea check things over first. ]
[ your I.R.I.S. has a white screen that acts as a torch mode, since it's. a projection, instead of a physical thing, so shu can enable that if he'd like. adrastea is just lifting her bow and nocking the arrow in a bow's version of setting her finger on a gun's trigger guard. ]
We tried a few different things, back during the first week, but no one's asked about it since then and we officers have had our hands full with other things.
[ crinkling her nose though ]
It does smell like it's been closed for more than six weeks.
[ there's the usual furniture in here, though - or, at least, the faint outlines that can be made out without the flashlight mode being on indicates that there are furniture shapes maybe? ]
It was a topic of conversation for a bit. But-- yeah, it's been showing errors since the beginning so it must've been closed since before then. Who used this room, do you know?
[ can he have a little snoop around now there's some projection light going on? he has his knife ready, just in case it's needed. does this look like any other room? ]
[ are there light switches in their rooms? i don't think we ever asked. if there are, kazuki's gonna look for it, as well as he can while sticking behind the other two, and also use his iris to add a little extra light. ]
I wonder what changed. Or did you guys just not give prying it open a shot yet? I guess you probably would've been against property damage then, wouldn't you.
[ those two probably have it handled if something jumps out, but he'll use the crowbar like a bat if he has to. gotta be ready! ]
[ there are lightswitches! the kind that you can slide up and down, on a dimmer? but kazuki will find that the lights don't engage in here, no matter how many times he pushes it up and down.
at a glance, things do seem like just any other room? the bed is made but with very boring, bland sheets. two pillows. two desks with a seat each. two closets. the screen for watching things and the panel to change the window are there. all the cabinets and shelves are intact. about what you would expect, after living on board the eudora for so long. there's just something not quite Right about it, though... ]
We were, yes. Now, I wouldn't be against just dumping the whole ship into a volcano and being done with it. [ ... ] I can't say I remember. We had to share rooms like you all did, before our promotions, but I don't think any of the eight of us were in this one.
Lightswitch won't work, either... Guess this place really did error out. There's got to be somewhere on the ship with details on that, right? Security or life support or something?
[ he'll just look over the desks for now, see if there's anything of note on top or in any drawers. ]
We should check the closets, see if anything's in there.
Mm, I don't really like the feeling in here. Could just be that it was completely knocked off the grid... [ her eyes do a sweep, but they're not bright enough to illuminate the whole space. just to tell where she's looking.
everything is kind of off kilter, a little... uncanny? shu may check the closets - the first one doesn't have anything hanging in it, just the lone bar for sliding hangers on, although it feels a little more claustrophobic, more so than your normal closet. even if he's not stepping into it. he can take a closer look to try and discern why if he wants.
kazuki will find that the first drawer he opens doesn't have anything in it, but there's something weird about the texture of the handle he pulls on. like it has a little more give than it should. the next drawer doesn't have this same sensation, but even if it's empty, too, it has the same cramped feeling as shu's closet over there does. the first drawer does not have this feeling. ]
[ hm. meanwhile kazuki is going to prod at that handle to see if he can figure out what's up with the texture. does it feel more like fabric than metal or something else...
why does a drawer feel cramped. can he reach in and poke at it to see if that'll enlighten them? ]
you both realize that they're. fleshy. that is the texture. it's fleshy, and shaped in an attempt to emulate a closet wall, a drawer handle, a drawer interior. where something is meant to be wood, the flesh whorls in an attempt to replicate the grain. the corners of the closet, the one drawer, twitch a little.
the closet wall moves, just the slightest bit, as if it's breathing. ]
[ i didn't get the notifs for this i'm losing my mind ]
It's - what? [ she goes from looking at the bed, although she hadn't approached anything yet, to look at shu. and then pivots afterwards to point her nocked arrow in the direction kazuki comes scampering from. ] Gods, what, are you alright Kazuki?
[ the pole for hangers in the closet twitches, a few fleshy tendrils pulsing before pressing back together to resume its mimicry attempt. ]
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Sure. A little damage goes a long way for stuff like this, doesn't it? Technology relies on everyone using it not trying to break it down, but otherwise it pretty fragile. Back on Earth, anyway.
[ rip to everyone whose iphone screens crack from looking at it wrong. ]
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Automatons back home are fairly sturdy, as our most advanced but common technology in Teyvat, but there's always a weak spot that you can find. I imagine the same would go here. All else fails, we can cause property damage.
[ she crouches down while shu goes high, flipping out the blade on the multitool to try and slip it in there. becks give me a 1d20 and add 2 to the result. ]
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beckneck 🚬 shubeta Request: [1d20 + 2] Roll: [18] Result: 20
eat shit, door. ]
Normally. Pretty sure that goes for programming too. Some part where the function isn't up to scratch or someone cut corners -- and if you juuust...
[ he wedges the knife in a little further. ]
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Yeah, so if you find anything at all, we should be able to get in. In theory.
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[ shu's goddamn dirty 20 nicks something that causes a pneumonic sigh to release in the door, but it doesn't immediately open. it takes adrastea a bit of finagling, a little longer because my rolls were balls at first, before she manages to slide the multitool blade in. the arrow goes after, with more success, and - ]
Kazuki, try putting the crowbar in. Once you do, we'll use all three of us as a lever against the door - I think you cut something in the lock, Shu.
[ everybody roll a d20 for str. becks, add +3. ray, add +2. i add 0 because this is not her forte. ]
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not a 20, but not too bad.
he will wait for kazuki to crowbar the shit out of this door before joining in on the “shoving this hell door open” thing. ]
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so with +2 we get 12. not the best but oh well. he'll fit the crowbar right in so they can get straight to work. open! that! door! ]
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so our average came out to 15, rounded up, which is. the dc. badadada da da dadaaaaa. the door lets out a metal-on-metal grinding noise, and then it's open, baby. adrastea is a little surprised that worked, and flips the multitool closed before reaching for where she left the bow. ]
Go figure it actually worked.
[ but the lights are completely out in the room, and no light comes from the customizable window you two are so used to. it's silent, and still, and dark - only the light in the hall and the light of adrastea's eyes shine in, and the darkness seems to absorb it in such a way that it's hard to make out distinct shapes of this vacant room. the air is stale, with a strange undertone to it, but neither of you can put your finger on what it is. ]
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We really didn't think to do this weeks ago, huh.
[ well. realistically they got lucky. does the IRIS have a torch setting? i cannot remember if we ever asked this, but if it does, he'll flick it on to get a look around the room. ]
...
Feels like this place has been closed off for a long time.
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[ why was that so easy. kazuki isn't entering the room yet, though; he's just wrinkling his nose at the smell and stepping back with the crowbar to let shu and adrastea check things over first. ]
Maybe we should've brought an air purifier, too.
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We tried a few different things, back during the first week, but no one's asked about it since then and we officers have had our hands full with other things.
[ crinkling her nose though ]
It does smell like it's been closed for more than six weeks.
[ there's the usual furniture in here, though - or, at least, the faint outlines that can be made out without the flashlight mode being on indicates that there are furniture shapes maybe? ]
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It was a topic of conversation for a bit. But-- yeah, it's been showing errors since the beginning so it must've been closed since before then. Who used this room, do you know?
[ can he have a little snoop around now there's some projection light going on? he has his knife ready, just in case it's needed. does this look like any other room? ]
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I wonder what changed. Or did you guys just not give prying it open a shot yet? I guess you probably would've been against property damage then, wouldn't you.
[ those two probably have it handled if something jumps out, but he'll use the crowbar like a bat if he has to. gotta be ready! ]
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at a glance, things do seem like just any other room? the bed is made but with very boring, bland sheets. two pillows. two desks with a seat each. two closets. the screen for watching things and the panel to change the window are there. all the cabinets and shelves are intact. about what you would expect, after living on board the eudora for so long. there's just something not quite Right about it, though... ]
We were, yes. Now, I wouldn't be against just dumping the whole ship into a volcano and being done with it. [ ... ] I can't say I remember. We had to share rooms like you all did, before our promotions, but I don't think any of the eight of us were in this one.
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We're in here now, either way. Not that... there's anything major to find in here. It just feels off.
[ like everything's a little off kilter? can he snoop through the closets? see if there's anything in there of note? ]
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[ he'll just look over the desks for now, see if there's anything of note on top or in any drawers. ]
We should check the closets, see if anything's in there.
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everything is kind of off kilter, a little... uncanny? shu may check the closets - the first one doesn't have anything hanging in it, just the lone bar for sliding hangers on, although it feels a little more claustrophobic, more so than your normal closet. even if he's not stepping into it. he can take a closer look to try and discern why if he wants.
kazuki will find that the first drawer he opens doesn't have anything in it, but there's something weird about the texture of the handle he pulls on. like it has a little more give than it should. the next drawer doesn't have this same sensation, but even if it's empty, too, it has the same cramped feeling as shu's closet over there does. the first drawer does not have this feeling. ]
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why does a drawer feel cramped. can he reach in and poke at it to see if that'll enlighten them? ]
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you both realize that they're. fleshy. that is the texture. it's fleshy, and shaped in an attempt to emulate a closet wall, a drawer handle, a drawer interior. where something is meant to be wood, the flesh whorls in an attempt to replicate the grain. the corners of the closet, the one drawer, twitch a little.
the closet wall moves, just the slightest bit, as if it's breathing. ]
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ew. ]
... The closet is breathing.
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What the fuck! Why is it like that?! What the hell is with this place?!
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It's - what? [ she goes from looking at the bed, although she hadn't approached anything yet, to look at shu. and then pivots afterwards to point her nocked arrow in the direction kazuki comes scampering from. ] Gods, what, are you alright Kazuki?
[ the pole for hangers in the closet twitches, a few fleshy tendrils pulsing before pressing back together to resume its mimicry attempt. ]
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Breathing.
[ he’s just watching the closet walls move in and out slightly, until kazuki freaks out and draws his attention. ]
It’s mimicking a normal room, but — it feels fleshy.
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What he said. The desk is... [ he really doesn't want to say it, it's so gross. ] Please tell me we weren't eaten alive somehow.
[ wtf!! ]
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