Non-Peace Weekend - Investigation

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[Two weeks have passed since your arrival. The Researcher has delivered a pair of motives, promising to reward some or punish others if rule 7 is not enacted by the end of the week.]

[Today is Friday, the deadline for your incentives. There is no morning announcement today.]

[Maybe It's nothing, but you might notice a faint, odd metallic scent in the air as you exit your bedrooms this morning.]

[Proceed with caution, Participants.]

Comments

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[Well, the file with Meredith's own name might be a little surprising, in that it almost certainly confirms her suspicions about her origins, but no really surprising names, per se.]

[Eventually, you've collected twenty-one complete profiles, or at least mostly complete, one for every person you've met... in person, in the last two weeks.]

[There are a few stray scraps left, looks like, near the android's body?]

[windowsexplorer]

[There's... a lot to unpack in her file, honestly. A certain Type: Green comes up a lot, and... wait, Meredith is the one investigating here.

So nobody's conspicuously missing or anything, then. That makes those scraps over by the body seem super extra interesting. Let's see if there's anything left to read there!]

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[It's all pretty much ash, but there's one corner of paper that has- not even really words, just a few visible letters left.]

N M Hod p

[windowsexplorer]

[Aha! They're dealing with a New Mexico hodgepodge!

...

No, actually she's got nothing. There are a few familiar letters in there, but there were only 26 to choose from to begin with, so... She just enters the scrap into evidence hoping something will make its meaning more clear.

Well, that's it for the folders she guesses. She goes to check on her password guesser, then has a sudden related thought...

She's still got the crystal on her. If she puts her thumb in the indent again, does anything different happen?]

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[My goodness, you've cracked the code.]

[But yeah, maybe something someone else found will make it clearer? And in the meantime, the crystal- does the same thing it did in the greenhouse, and when Neku checked it. No signal, for now.]

[windowsexplorer]

[And just to make sure, she doesn't herself now suddenly have a wi-fi signal, does she?]

[mockmods]

[Nope, sorry. And if she checks it, the password guesser is still having no luck.]

[windowsexplorer]

[What, so it isn't 1111111DGY5B? Shocking?

Well, she guesses she's done over here for now. She'll take the electronic ID with her so the guesser can keep trying or in case they find a hint, and take another look around the office area. Anything else interesting, or is she done over here?]

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[It actually isn't! There's also the small manner of this device not having the user name autofilled, so there's roughly double-infinity combinations to try.]

[And, well, looks like the man formerly known as Nameless Android 1 was making a run for something when he got Patches'd?]

[windowsexplorer]

[Alas! The password could have been 111111111111 but if the username wasn't aaaaaaaaaa it still wouldn't have worked...

Hm. Can we figure out more or less what direction he was going?]

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[Looks like he was headed in the general direction of the back of the room!]

[windowsexplorer]

[Hm. Anything look interesting in that direction?]

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[If you head that way, there's a large, circular pad of some kind that was once made of some kind of white-frosted glass material, but is now mostly made of melting and regret.]

[A large series of wires and tubes come off from the pad, leading to a small stand with some kind of glowing red screen on it, sort of like the one that let you into the room to begin with.]

[windowsexplorer]

[This is clearly the launch pad that the rocket lifted off from that was carrying the Researcher's opinion of himself.

Poking the screen seems like a good idea. Poke.]

[mockmods]

[Just poking at it yields no response, sorry. It actually sort of looks like the electronic locks on the dorms, if you look closer?]

[windowsexplorer]

[Oh really? Then maybe it'll respond to having a certain shiny not-phone waved in front of it!

She hopes it responds to waving. Password guesser is still only up to aaaaaaaaaa/1117!KH&8F.]

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[The pad blinks green for a second-]

[And then lets out a short, disgruntled tone, flashes an error message, and goes back to red.]

TRANSMAT SYSTEM OFFLINE

[windowsexplorer]

[Well that's anticlimactic. Still, it lets her make an educated guess about what he was trying to do...]

[mockmods]

[It probably does, yes! And in the interest of time, that's about when the Researcher's end of investigation announcement goes off.]