thefoundation | Round 4 TDM

0. Calm Before the Storm

All of you have been given notice within the last week: new duties, ones that require you to temporarily relocate to a remote site in California. The actual Foundation site is about what you would expect from the Foundation: functional, but not exactly comfortable. For the week or two it takes for all the Agents to be relocated, you are at that site, waiting for further instructions. Nothing too terrible happens during that time, as this site is primarily for the containment of one large SCP, and any other SCPs at the site are Safe. There is plenty of time to enjoy the nearby forest or lake if you like, the local Agents don't seem to mind if you go outside so long as you're back by dinnertime. There are no towns nearby, though. The site is the only bit of civilization for miles.

Once the final Agents arrive the real work can begin. Until then, just relax and get to know the area, and possibly each other.

1. Meet and greet/ general info

All of the Agents involved in the 'final cut' are brought into a meeting room, where an Agent that may be familiar to some is waiting. He goes over the basics of SCP-6593 and how it operates. A couple dozen Agents will enter the house and live there for a few weeks, completing challenges and living out life in that strange house. He is quick to explain that not everyone present will be participants in the 'game' itself: those not picked as participants from the people at the meeting will be support staff working in the background, making sure everything runs smoothly and ready on standby should anything go wrong. But given the years that it has been since any fatal accidents have occurred, he doubts that this will be anything other than a rather boring containment procedure.

Everyone will have a couple hours to do a 'meet and greet' before heading out to the site to explore it. Say hi to your co-workers, everyone! You're going to be working in close quarters with them for pretty much the whole summer.

2. Site Exploration

The containment site, a short 20 minutes away by truck, consists of two buildings: a house and a large, enclosed studio. The studio is currently closed off- the Agent in charge will explain that final preparations are still being made there- but the house is open for exploration.

Feel free to check out the layout of the house and inspect anything you wish! Be careful though, as the mental effects of the house itself (as listed on the SCP page) will start to slowly affect characters as soon as they set foot inside the house itself.

3. Game Time!

As part of the final testing to see who will be the participants, on-site Agents have set up a trial game. For this game, characters are paired off and each given a small buzzer that attaches to their arm. One half is given a card with a 'password' on it, as well as five-ish related words that cannot be said. The Agent with the card needs to get the other Agent to say the 'password', but cannot say the word itself, nor any of the other listed words. If the Agent with the card says any of those words, their partner will receive a mild electric shock. If their partner guesses incorrectly, then the Agent with the card will receive an electric shock. Once the correct word is said by the partner, the roles will reverse and they will go again. When both sides have done both roles, the game ends.

The shocks are automatically set to be annoying, but not high enough voltage to injure someone. That said, this IS an SCP, and sometimes accidents can happen...

4. A Criminal is Loose

You're only exploring the site, and yet someone has already made a mess of things. Maybe someone destroyed the kitchen trying to make a milkshake. Or maybe they dropped some sensitive equipment into the pool. Or hell, maybe they took all the booze out of the rec room. Whatever the case, someone has committed a heinous crime, and you're tasked with finding out who did it. Someone's going to get reprimanded for the slip-up, and you really don't want it to be you. Not when the lead Agent is known for being a hardass on people.

Track down the booze-thief/kitchen-destroyer/criminal mastermind and make sure they take responsibility for what they have done.

5. Gacha Fun

There is a strange machine in the house. It looks like a vending machine, maybe? But when you put in a dollar, Weird Shit comes out. Sometimes it's booze, sometimes it's a shirt or sandals, sometimes it's pool floaties. Hell, sometimes you even get weapons! And there's these weird fortune cookies in there too.

What does your character get? And are they sharing their strange loot with any acquaintances?

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Threads from this TDM can be counted as canon for the game if you choose. ICly, these threads (except for prompt 0) will all take place on June 7th, 2019.

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Well, that's only if whoever did this really did overdo it on the alcohol.

[It was admittedly a kneejerk reaction from her.]

Still, I like to have rice with my meals, so I would rather we didn't lose the rice cooker... I'm not even sure if they'll replace it for us. [She hopes so?? But she's definitely not certain.]

There are splash marks on one side of the pool, but I wouldn't know enough to tell much from them.

If we have to hand cook rice, I can do it, but I'd rather we not—

[ She does sigh, though. ]

I can try checking them. It might not help much but it's better than nothing.

[ Let's walk towards that side and see what these splash marks are about! ]

Rice cookers are probably one of my favorite inventions in this time.

[They're so convenient... She really does look put out by this.

Anyway, to the splash marks! It definitely looks like the result of the rice cooker being tossed into the pool.]

If the marks are on this side, that means the rice cooker landed closer to this side. [Hmmm.] So whoever did this threw it from the other side? Unless they dropped it from right here.

They're pretty useful.

[ She likes rice cookers, actually? They're nice and convenient. ]

How heavy is the thing, anyway?

[ Let's go around and try picking up the rice cooker. Is it actually empty? Or is there rice in it? Is it light or heavy because Inaba is a ween. ]

[She'll follow curiously. It's a pretty big rice pot, so reasonably hefty, but there wasn't any rice in it, so in theory most people here could probably lift it.]

I think the only one who would have had trouble is Silver due to the size, but with his abilities, that doesn't mean he couldn't.

[ Thankfully she can carry it, then. ]

Yeah. I can probably do it myself, but throwing it is another question entirely.

It's really bulky. Our culprit might have just dropped it.

[Hmm...]

So the next clue is probably... wet clothes, right? If you dropped it in, you'd get splashed, too.

Unless they were naked when they threw it in.

[ oh my god ]

[...Slight frown??]

Do you think someone would go through the trouble of doing that?

[ a pause

war flashbacks to Reangumo ]

Yes.

[...She has many questions, but they're pretty much all covered by:]

Why?

Just trust me. I have experience with this.

[................]

I trust you. But I'd still like to know why anyone would do something like that.

[Like???]

So they can easily put the blame onto someone else for their actions. Or hide evidence.

...All of this over a rice cooker?

[That's?? So much???]

People have done more for less.

[This vagueness is driving her nuts.]

Such as?

That's classified information.

[ She beams at the other girl, pressing an index finger towards her lips. ]

[She just gives a sigh, her head dipping a little.]

I don't really like to hear that about a situation like this, but... Okay.

[Can't do anything about it if it's classified, even if it's annoying.]

I think we should still check clothes, just in case. We don't have many other leads.

I don't make the rules.

[ There's a bit of dryness in her words there. ]

I think so, too. Sometimes you find things in clothes.

If it's classified, it can't be helped.

[As frustrating as it is, but she's gotten pretty good at hiding that. But with a small nod, she begins walking in the direction of the house.]

I suppose to be fair we'll both have to examine the clothes together.

Yeah, of course — fair's fair, after all. And we might as well be thorough.

Then let's start- maybe with the bravery room?

[That sounds like the place troublemakers might gather.]

[ There's a bit of a pause, confused for a moment before nodding. ]

Yeah. Let's go and do this.

[Saki notices, and as they head up:]

Did I say something strange?

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