WEEK 3

[petoskeymods]

WEEK 3

Another Sunday, another day to rest and recover after trial. The weather is now uncomfortably hot and humid after all the rain - perfect swimming weather, if what happened during the execution didn't put you off from swimming for a good long while.

As before, The RV's have changed, but it might not be the best idea to go and bother them after last week's...well, mistake. Maybe give it a week to rest. Additionally, if anyone tries to play the Wii, they will find that Chloe, Talcott, and Sayama's Miis have disappeared - as well that the machine itself is spitting out some strange music at the home screen and the Mii channel. The games seem unaffected by the musical change, at least - and there's now a copy of Mario Party 9 ready to be played alongside Wii Sports. Try not to murder each other or fling the wiimotes into the tv, alright?

The rest of the camp is the same as always, though now fishing equipment is always left out near the lake and beach, and there's a taped on sign on the slope railing declaring 'DO NOT LEAN ON.' Looks like they finally noticed the hazard that thing could potentially be. The kitchen has been fully scrubbed, the faint scent of lemon wafting in the air. Hm.

Two weeks have gone by, and with it, 6 of your fellow campers are gone. There are only six weeks left - six long weeks, and your chances of making it out dwindle all the time.

Knowing that, what will you do?

23 CAMPERS REMAIN.

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Comments

[particlebarrier]

[....DID HIS EYES REALLY BLEED FOR THIS KNOWLEDGE.

God. He's earned his weird alien porn, so gdit ALL of you guys have to look now as he goes through the other folders. All of you. Except the little kids. Cover your eyes or something.]

[love_seriously]

[ ...Lance. ]

[particlebarrier]

[...Nope, too busy looking at the weird alien porn. You're gonna have to actually touch him or yell if you want him to stop, Floe. He can't hear too well right now.....]

[love_seriously]

[ Quietly leans in reeeeeal close. ]

...found something good, huh?

[particlebarrier]

[SLAMMING THAT LAPTOP SHUT.]

Well now that you're here, yeah! It was just.. weird before.

[sdjkhl;; Floe, bby it's not like thaaaaaat.]

[love_seriously]

[ ]

Uh-huh, I'll bet it was.

[ While she's giving him shit, though, she's gonna carefully reach up and wipe his eyes to make sure all the blood is gone. ]

[particlebarrier]

I'm serious!!

[Look, he'd flail to prove just how serious he is about this, but Floe is dabbing at his eyes and he does't want more eye trauma today.]

It's not like I could leave the rest of the files unchecked.

[love_seriously]

I think you've checked them enough by now.

[ BUT WHAT IF THERE'S CRITICAL INFORMATION HIDDEN IN THE TENTACLES- no. Probably not. Her expression does shift from annoyed to slightly concerned. ]

...does it hurt?

[particlebarrier]

[BUT WHAT IF THERE IS FLOE??? Not that he's going to argue this right now or ever, but he sighs at the question.]

I was more startled than anything else. I didn't think laptops could do that.

[But it can't have been too bad because he grins mischievously.]

Wanna kiss to make it better?

[love_seriously]

Hmph. As if ANYTHING in this camp works the way it's supposed to.

[ She smiles right back, pinching his cheek lightly. ]

You wanna see the raccoon again that badly, huh~?

[particlebarrier]

[His expression just FALLS.]

...can't you let a man pretend that was a bad dream?

[soylentprotag]

[Hands him a dishtowel for his eyebleeding, I guess, that looks kind of concerning?

He really didn't need to see any of the alien porn, though, now even aliens want him to know their canoodling ideas.]

[particlebarrier]

[You're a real bro, Lenka. Lance will take the dishtowel with a grateful smile.]

Thanks. That was a lot to take in, huh.

[He legitimately means the info here, not the porn, but a lack of clarity is a funny thing sometimes.]

[soylentprotag]

I've never seen technology do... any of the things -- any of these things that it's doing.

[He's biting his lip and carefully not looking at the laptop because the last time he saw that amount of tentacles they were literally slapping him halfway across a field. Aragami don't fuck around but also, they come in all shapes and sizes. They also don't fuck, hopefully. You know there's porn of those somewhere.

Anyway, Lenka is very carefully not thinking any of that. He's also carefully not mentioning the fact that they have possible-disc-related rocks inside them that may also possibly be making technology screw them over. Because that's terrifying.]

[particlebarrier]

[After trying to decipher Lenka's expression for a moment, Lance decides this "thinking" thing will go a lot better if he wiped the rest of the blood out of his eyes. He dabs at his face carefully.]

Yeah, I've never seen a laptop that could make you bleed just by looking at a specific text file....

[He sighs.[

I don't think Altean or Okari tech can do that and I've seen their technology do some pretty incredible things before.

[soylentprotag]

[It's definitely a lot easier to talk when one of you isn't bleeding from the eyes! Lenka glances over after a moment now that the coast is clear.]

There are -- issues -- with some of the other files, too.

[The flash drive and all. It's really great to get more headaches on top of the headaches everyone already has from today.]

... What kind of tech would those be? Those two you mentioned.

[particlebarrier]

....What issues?

[He looks at Lenka with some genuine alarm there, which probably just betrays how much this particular incident spooked him despite his attempted nonchalance.]

Uh, you go first. The tech thing is a long story... and I've been meaning to ask you about it too.

[soylentprotag]

It's hard to... figure out how many files there are. It hurts.

[He probably tried pretty hard, and he's a little paler for it, because losing your sense of touch apparently doesn't mean losing eldritch techno-deterrents. Just a PSA for the road.]

What were you going to ask about?

[particlebarrier]

[Lance looks down for a moment. Well at least his instincts about leaving that flash drive the hell alone were right, even if he's still a little sorry that it caused other people pain.]

....Sounds like the epitome of this camp. Too many questions. It hurts.

[He looks back up with a wry smile.]

Anyway, it's about that stone you guys found in Soma's head. Have you guys tried cracking it open? There may be some tech inside it. The Olkari have technology that's designed to integrate directly with living creatures and I'm wondering if that's what's going on there. For all we know, that stone could be acting like a biocompatible flash drive or something.

[soylentprotag]

[Everything here causes pain or terror, it's starting to become a theme. Next the trees are going to come alive and-- well, let's not give ourselves (or the mods) too many ideas.

Lenka nods back at him, equally a little wry, but he quiets down in a moment to think over the question. And maybe he'll have to... bring up their suspicions after all.]

... No. We haven't tried cracking it yet. I was thinking about comparing it to the video discs we keep getting -- the ones with Red in them. I think they're the same material, so...

[So, it's not all that far off from what Lance is suggesting. It's just terrible to think about, given what they've learned lately.]

[particlebarrier]

[Lance nods.]

Right. I was telling Eddie about this... [Pause.[ trying to tell Eddie about this, but it looks like they're using some tech similar to what we had on the Castle of Lions that allowed us to extract memories and information from people's brain and turn it into computerized data that can be manipulated.

[A sigh.]

I don't want to think that's what's going on though.

[contrarianism]

...... you have interesting TASTES.

[ it's vaguely teasing even as natsume peers over his shoulder ]

[particlebarrier]

[Considering Natsume's proximity, Lance has no problem hearing that one at least.]

They're not my tastes!! I don't own this laptop, remember??

[contrarianism]

... You're still watching IT.

[ suuuuure. ]

[particlebarrier]

Because I'm trying to make sure we get all the information we can off this thing! You can thank me if there's more info on here than ends up saving our butts down the line, Natsume.