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mockweek[And yet, routine seems to have returned. The Researcher makes morning and evening announcements as if nothing has happened. Meals are served in the dining hall. The copies of Oregon Trail in the computer lab now have a text-only mode for some reason? Penny has not been seen since Friday, and attempts to access the Security Room have been fruitless.]
[But overall, life in the Facility has remained unchanged. But the atmosphere is getting tenser - sooner or later something is going to break.]
Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday Thursday
Sunday
Date: 2018-12-02 03:09 am (UTC)Breakfast: Billybob's Barnbuster Breakfast Buffet
Lunch: Souper Man Sandwiches and Salad Selection
Dinner: Winner Winner Country Chicken Dinner
Monday
Date: 2018-12-02 03:09 am (UTC)Breakfast: Beans on Toast
Lunch: Roasted Beast Sandwiches
Dinner: Grub
Tuesday
Date: 2018-12-02 03:10 am (UTC)Breakfast: Egg and Potato Scramble
Lunch: Asian Inspired Chicken and Rice
Dinner: Soft Taco Tuesday Night
Wednesday
Date: 2018-12-02 03:10 am (UTC)Breakfast: Chicken N' Waffles
Lunch: "Fish" Sticks?
Dinner: Beef Stu
Thursday
Date: 2018-12-02 03:10 am (UTC)Breakfast: Make Your Own Pancake Bar
Lunch: Nacho Bar
Dinner: Surf N' Turf Steak with Imitation Lobster
GROUP CHALLENGE
Date: 2018-12-02 03:10 am (UTC)[The announcement goes out an hour or so after lunch; it’s the first time any of the participants has heard from Penny since Friday morning. As they arrive, the Assistant is waiting there patiently for all of them, looking much more chipper than when she fled into the Security office days ago.]
[The cafeteria tables have been rearranged a bit, with a variety of what looks to be baking supplies, up to and including miniature ovens hauled out from who knows where. There are six stations total, three on each side of the room. Banners hang over each side, declaring themselves A and B.]
“Sal-u-tations! Thank you all so much for coming, this is our first Team Challenge!”
[Penny actually claps a little, excited at the prospect.]
“What you’re going to do is separate by teams- that’s the A dorms on one side and B on the other- and then separate into three teamed groups. Each station has a little card-”
[She holds one up to demonstrate. It’s a fairly large, hand-written index card.]
“These all have a simple recipe on them, and directions! Each station is going to make the dessert on their card! There’s no time limit, but the time you take WILL factor in to whichever team wins. Teams will be judged based on all three station groups on their side, so try not to worry too much, work together, and have fun!”
[And after that- the Participants are largely left to their own designs. The setup is more or less exactly as Penny describes it- but it quickly becomes apparent that what she didn’t say was that each station seems to be missing one or more ingredients or tools necessary for their recipe.]
[Better try to borrow that from another station on your team’s side, or find it in the kitchen. Or try to steal it from the other team’s side, if you want to risk it.]
MOTIVE: Bread and Circuses
Date: 2018-12-02 03:11 am (UTC)[Penny's announcement comes earlier in the day this time, just after breakfast. But she's looking just as chipper as yesterday, maybe more so, when everyone arrives in common room.]
"Salutations, everyone! Our team challenge went SENSATIONALLY yesterday, and I want to thank everyone for contributing the way they did."
[She scrolls through her phone a little, checking some notes.]
"I want to especially mention Mister Midoriya for stepping up and taking a leadership role on Team A, Mister Shiego for reaching across team boundaries, and- Misters King Rool and Spy for. Um. Being so creative with their pasta dish."
[Guys. Guys. Just. There wasn't even any pasta at the cooking stations. How.]
"Since everyone did so well, we're going to-"
If I may, Assistant.
"Mister Researcher-?"
[Penny looks up, a little confused, and slightly worried.]
"....Y-es? I mean. I don't see why not?"
Thank you.
[The Researcher's tones are the same as always, but one might reasonably suspect that he is not actually thankful at all, if one were sufficiently paranoid.]
The Assistant is... largely correct, regarding your performance on the challenge. And I have deliberated, and decided that as a result, some modifications should be made to Rule 7 on a temporary trial basis.
[Penny actually perks up a little, at that.]
TEAM B. You performed in a- satisfactory manner. I believe a small reward is in order.
[And one of the walls of the common room lights up, revealing itself as a display screen, showcasing a basket of food.]
If any member of Team B enacts Rule 7 before the end of the week, they will receive a free lifetime supply of groceries. Am I not generous?
"MISTER RESEARCHER THAT'S- wait, what."
TEAM A, your performance was relatively lacking. I believe incentive to improve in the future is needed.
[The screen blinks, switching from the cornucopia of groceries to- a collage of photos, from Team A's collective childhoods or general pasts. None of them are flattering, and most are frankly embarassing moments, the kind you forget about until you're awake in bed at 2am five years later.]
If no one on Team A enacts Rule 7 by the end of the week, these photos will be broadcast or otherwise distributed across your home worlds. That is all.
[The screens go blank, clicking back to normal white wall, and the loudspeakers grow dark. Penny shifts a little uncomfortably.]
"There's- um. ...I was going to host a movie night in the media room this evening. If. If anyone wanted to come... There will be popcorn and drinks."
investigation?
Date: 2018-12-02 10:02 am (UTC)That in and of itself is cause for alarm. A Spy's job is to keep a level head- strike fear in the opposition, not the other way around.
But a week is a long time to be trapped in this place. He honestly expected his fellow mercenaries to storm this prison, by now. The fact that they haven't, and that he's no closer to finding a way out- it's worrisome.
He's spent a week keeping out of people's way, sticking to the sidelines, scoping out the area; it hasn't helped. Someone's dead, and any one of them could die next.
Spy needs to actually work together with these people if he wants to survive.
But first? He's gonna complain.]
Who even named these dishes, anyway? Good Lord...
[He's looking at the breakfast menu with something approaching disgust.
Much later, Spy will be hanging around the security room. He's not foolish enough to try the door himself, but he is going to snoop around for any hint of the Researcher- or Penny, for that matter.]
Meeting time!
Date: 2018-12-02 11:14 pm (UTC)Neku didn't think of it this way, but it was time for him to live up to his title. Early in the day Neku approaches everyone remaining in the compound, telling them to meet up in the dining room before dinner.
After lunch, once everyone has cleared out, Neku sets to work- pushing all tables and chairs together. After that he hits his dorm and the craft room, hauling armfuls of blankets, pillows and cloth in.
...that sure is a giant blanket fort, isn't it?
It would be understandable for just about anyone to balk at coming inside, and it's a close fit for more than a few people at a time. But throughout the evening Neku drags people in- and as soon as they're settled holds up a notebook with writing on it for them to read:]
don't say anything out loud. this is so the camera can't see or hear us. if you've learned anything about this place, Penny, or the Researcher write it down so we can spread info to everyone. you can talk about other stuff out loud tho so they don't get as suspicious
[He then pulls out one of the game books from the common room, hold it out to the right page for people to see]
i found this. the Researcher went quiet at me mentioning 'fleshbags' but i'm not sure if that means anything yet.
no subject
Date: 2018-12-02 11:36 pm (UTC)He'll sit nearish to across from where Neku is sitting, writing in his own notebook before handing off a book that he found in the library earlier in the week.]
I've been holding onto this book I found at the library. It's mostly information about the technological advances of elevators. That's not the interesting part, though.
Whoever had this book last has been writing in it, and I think it was written in before we all got here.
investigating
Date: 2018-12-02 11:49 pm (UTC)looks like the original writer was someone learning about the modern world for the first time and planning on taking what they learned back with them? all of us seem to be from really different places too. thinking there was another experiment before ours? maybe even more than one, with these added notes.
[Neku returns to the circled part 'seen through a lens'. Are they talking about something like glasses or a camera?]
no subject
Date: 2018-12-02 11:55 pm (UTC)[There's no further explanation, looks like the writer assumed anyone reading would already know.]
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Date: 2018-12-02 11:56 pm (UTC)He wouldn't have thought of writing everything down because of the cameras, either, and that makes him even more impressed.]
The researcher is a robot. He said he once was, but a body can't contain him anymore and he hates the idea of being compared to Penny. I told him he was the same as everyone else and he kept refusing, telling me he was superior to everyone and everything around him.
But he's not. He's a robot made by a human named Miller. There has to be an off switch for him somewhere.
Security Room
Date: 2018-12-02 11:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-03 12:01 am (UTC)All right. First order of business: Penny. Isn't she the cutest?
[You can practically hear the :D :D :D in her voice. Meanwhile she writes very quickly:]
Got files from her phone. More detailed profiles, app to watch the cameras, personal notes. Nothing big. She likes most of us.
Researcher is "HDP" in Oregon Trail. Game was also played by a "MHS."
Found a cool crystal buried in the greenhouse that seemed to want to connect to something but couldn't find a signal.
no subject
Date: 2018-12-03 12:02 am (UTC)Cosmo... like a telescope?
[He pulls his book over and compares the handwriting between his homebrew class and the added notes to L.M's book]
no subject
Date: 2018-12-03 12:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-03 12:15 am (UTC)[He holds them out for everyone to see.]
no subject
Date: 2018-12-03 12:17 am (UTC)And yeah, if he is an AI there has to be a way to turn him off. means he probably won't be moved by emotion either.
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Date: 2018-12-03 12:19 am (UTC)[Is Neku blushing?]
MHS? maybe that's 'Miller'? do you have the crystal with you?
no subject
Date: 2018-12-03 12:22 am (UTC)Besides selfishness.
But maybe the locked room is where the off button is? I think it'd have to have something important inside if they killed someone for trying to break in.
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Date: 2018-12-03 12:23 am (UTC)[
SHE SAW HER FIRST]Could be.
[Meredith pulls the crystal out of... idk her sleeve. Yes she's just been carrying it around. It's neat, okay? At least she seems to have cleaned the dirt off of it.]
TEAM A
Date: 2018-12-03 01:17 am (UTC)[All threads taking place on Team A's side go here! Split up as you will and have fun!]
TEAM B
Date: 2018-12-03 01:18 am (UTC)[All threads taking place on Team B's side go here! Split up as you will and have fun!]
no subject
Date: 2018-12-03 02:23 am (UTC)Sonia looks at her teammates.
She hasn't cooked anything in 50 years.]