I wanted to ask you guys what you found, too, but we didn't have a lot of time. I'm... fine, just kind of worried about what happened back there. It sounded like the bridge exploded?
[ all you ye oldes would drive him to drink if he were old enough ]
We don't know if that's a good thing, is the problem. [ shakes his head. ] She doesn't really talk to me. I assume she - or Aiba-san, anyway, I have no clue why Date was crawling around like that - was looking for more information on the ship's route, like what she mentioned Thursday night. No idea if she found it, though.
Huh. We should have gone in with more of a gameplan, but given how the room reacted, can't even be sure how much that would have helped.
[ squinting at nothing in particular. brain slowly grinding away at the information ]
Under Keys, I saw two past crew replacing a ceiling panel. Also the face of someone I know, but--I think that was the ship acting out. I can't say if either of those will give us much to go off of. But when I fell into the chair, it was like these tendrils were coiling around me. Did you see anything?
[ he would have tried to corral them into a plan but then they both barged right in and they all just had to deal with that. ]
...I didn't see anything. But when I went to get you, I felt something hit my hand, like it was trying to slap me away from you and the chair.
I'm wondering if there was something under that panel, but I didn't get a chance to look before we had to leave. It'd be worth checking out if we could, just in case. There has to be a reason that's what you saw.
The whole place was like that. It reminded me of a heartbeat.
...It was probably flesh, then. [ and mizuki was just crawling all over that? gross. ] Do you think it's safe to try looking again after that explosion?
It's already been getting more and more hostile every day this goes on. I even got this feeling while we were looking around that something thought we were intruding.
A ladder shouldn't be too hard to find. Or, like - a grappling hook? I feel like Adra- Yelan-san would be able to find one of those.
Yeah. I'm not even suggesting I'm the best person to have on the team, but would be good to have someone who can see through illusions to some degree. Yelan with the hook and Lucien with the eyes?
[ shrug. nodd isn't a great plotter. this is his finest work. ]
I would say maybe Shoma or Pearce-san, too... or Viktor-san, but I don't know if climbing is good for him. Just - someone who'd be more familiar with mechanics and stuff.
...What's with your "keys," anyway? It looked like it did a number on you.
[ nodd is admittedly loathe to send shoma in after all that kid has dealt with recently. luke might be the best option. ]
When powers started coming back, they did for our home items as well--even less reliably. At full strength, Keys is a connection point. It lets me see the spiritual plane at the same time as I see the material. It's also a hallucinogenic--
[ thanks, inquisitor ]
--but usually what you're seeing has intention, it's not all nonsense. When used by a Spire monk. Which I am.
Ah. It sounds... confusing, but as long as you can make sense of it... But it kind of sounds like we aren't quite there yet with whatever you saw in the bridge.
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[ just assumes he's talking about the dead, it's fine ]
How're you feeling?
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[ the question surprises him but then it doesn't. kazuki's an empathetic person, isn't he? ]
Still have a headache but I've been thinking about shooting myself in the head to fix it.
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[ ...frowns. ]
Maybe not the best joke on a ship that gets people killed every week, Nodd-san.
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[ probably. nodd really does think a healing gun to the noggin might be just what the doctor (not artemy, but nodd) ordered. ]
What about you? I didn't get a chance to check in on what you were looking at out there.
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[ anyway ]
I wanted to ask you guys what you found, too, but we didn't have a lot of time. I'm... fine, just kind of worried about what happened back there. It sounded like the bridge exploded?
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Yeah. It... at least it shut down somehow. Can't say what caused it to freak out like that. Do you know what Mizuki was after?
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We don't know if that's a good thing, is the problem. [ shakes his head. ] She doesn't really talk to me. I assume she - or Aiba-san, anyway, I have no clue why Date was crawling around like that - was looking for more information on the ship's route, like what she mentioned Thursday night. No idea if she found it, though.
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[ squinting at nothing in particular. brain slowly grinding away at the information ]
Under Keys, I saw two past crew replacing a ceiling panel. Also the face of someone I know, but--I think that was the ship acting out. I can't say if either of those will give us much to go off of. But when I fell into the chair, it was like these tendrils were coiling around me. Did you see anything?
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[ he would have tried to corral them into a plan but then they both barged right in and they all just had to deal with that. ]
...I didn't see anything. But when I went to get you, I felt something hit my hand, like it was trying to slap me away from you and the chair.
I'm wondering if there was something under that panel, but I didn't get a chance to look before we had to leave. It'd be worth checking out if we could, just in case. There has to be a reason that's what you saw.
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The ceiling was pulsing? The light there. Reddish.
[ perhaps if he shuts his eyes altogether? touches his temple ]
And the floor felt... melty? Soft. Sometimes. Maybe there's another way into the room from either above or below.
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...It was probably flesh, then. [ and mizuki was just crawling all over that? gross. ] Do you think it's safe to try looking again after that explosion?
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[ a dear companion's face pressing through the mush floor. help me. ]
We'd want to go straight for the panel, so we need a ladder or my powers fully back or some other plan to get to the ceiling in a hurry.
[ so. sunday. not that he knows. ]
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A ladder shouldn't be too hard to find. Or, like - a grappling hook? I feel like Adra- Yelan-san would be able to find one of those.
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[ shrug. nodd isn't a great plotter. this is his finest work. ]
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...What's with your "keys," anyway? It looked like it did a number on you.
[ or was that all on the bridge itself ]
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When powers started coming back, they did for our home items as well--even less reliably. At full strength, Keys is a connection point. It lets me see the spiritual plane at the same time as I see the material. It's also a hallucinogenic--
[ thanks, inquisitor ]
--but usually what you're seeing has intention, it's not all nonsense. When used by a Spire monk. Which I am.
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