Final Investigation.

[trustfellows]

Friday morning dawns like the rest of the week before it, with the chiming of the clock and the doors to the kitchen unlocking; once again, there's no announcement from Jericho, and everything seems to be largely quiet. Noticeably quiet, really, given that there are only eight of you left. However, quiet tends to be a good thing around here, overall; it means you're free to go about your business like you usually would. There are a couple of things to note, however, as your morning proceeds onward and begins to creep into afternoon. The first is that Rin's unlockable box has started making a strange mechanical whirring sound. The second is that sometime slightly after noon, the power to the building suddenly and abruptly goes out, casting everything into darkness. Interesting.

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[perpend]

[......That's. Weird. And a little creepy.

He'll pause for a couple minutes when it comes to poking at random on the console, long enough to see if the weird person-shaped flickering continues.]

[trustfellows]

[It does! It doesn't seem like anything you've done has changed the flickering.

There's also the right and left consoles you can check out.]

[perpend]

[Time to look these over! Do either of them have keyboards?]

[trustfellows]

[Nope, neither of them do! The right console has a small monitor set up and a single button beneath it, if you want to start there.]

[perpend]

[Alas! Time to poke that button, though.]

[trustfellows]

[That gets the monitor on the right console to turn on! You can now see outside - but it's basically the same view you've already seen. The large city, the snow, etc. Move on to the left console?]

[perpend]

[....Interesting.

Onto the left console it is!]

[trustfellows]

[This console just has a bunch of buttons! No monitor over here. Do you want to try pressing a button?]

[perpend]

[Boop boop boop.

Time to press random buttons!]

[trustfellows]

[Are you having fun, Cabanela...

Well, the first button press will get the images of the rooms up on the screen to change. It looks like a building similar to the one you're currently in, but the rooms are slightly different. There are still dorm rooms though, and none of them belong to you guys. They're just the standard, sparsely-furnished dorm rooms you guys woke up in. That's a little weird...]

[perpend]

[...Well. That's weird.

And alarming, considering the fact that the game with Jowd has been on his mind for a long time now. He's going to try and cycle through the rooms like he did before, does anything change when he presses the other buttons?]

[trustfellows]

[Yes! You'll cycle through some other buildings like these, all without any people in them. Eventually you'll come to one that's familiar, though. It looks like the background of those hostage pictures.

Do you want to try some more buttons?]

[perpend]

[...He's going to kill Jericho.

Yes, he'll be pressing some more buttons.]

[trustfellows]

[It's worth noting that the building that looks familiar didn't have any people in it.

But now that you've pressed some buttons, suddenly there are people there. They're your hostages! They don't seem to be doing anything, they're just standing around.]

[perpend]

[.....

Okay. That's. What.

He's not really a computer guy, but if they're just standing around not doing anything, what happens if he keeps poking at buttons?]

[trustfellows]

[Well, you can switch back to looking at the other rooms again? Otherwise pressing buttons doesn't really seem to do anything.]

[perpend]

[Hmm.

He's going to take a look around. Does he seem to be missing something?]

[trustfellows]

[Nope, you're all good! You've found everything here!]