ROUND 5 WATCHING POST

[foundationmods]

Everyone who was there in some shape or form for the meeting on March 1st gets a notice that soon, the location where they'll have to go to watch what happened in the Winchester Incident will be made available for them. Frisk requests a list of those going to see what happened, but doesn't seem to discourage high numbers.

And shortly before the 30th, those that signed up will finally get a name and place - The Hayes Mansion, only a little bit away by drive from the Winchester House. As they drive, the more magically inclined might be able to sense a powerful barrier emanating from the direction the Winchester House is located, though they'll be unable to see anything.

Arriving there, they'll find that any and all other guests have been removed from the Hotel resort, and there's a sign on the door saying that it is Closed for major renovation and fumigation, which would explain the outfits you were given to be 'seen' walking into the place with, as well as all the vans and 'containers' you were told to put your belongings into.

Once inside, a helpful staff member directs you to put the costumes into a specific bin for collection- unless, of course, you would like to keep wearing them - and then another directs you to the front desk, where a pleasant, yet authoritative man is waiting.

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[foundationmods]

[The first thing he'll see is a sheet of paper, with a list...

....that's blank. It looks like there were names there once - you can just make out faint indentations - but the names there are gone.

Flipping that aside will reveal a fairly standard sheet by Foundation standards, one you'd see for an Agent...

Except it's blank, with the same faint impressions that something once was there. There's also what looks like a polaroid clipped to the pages, but it, too, is blanked out - with only the vaguest impression that a human used to be portrayed there.

Every single page is like that. All 28 of them.]

[improbablenotimpossible]

Seems like the tapes weren't the only thing that's been blocked - and I suspect using a blank sheet and a piece of charcoal won't bring any words up to the surface.

[excavated]

[ I hate that I have to ask this on mobile but I'm asking anyway: are there any magical/spiritual pings coming from the paper? ]

[foundationmods]

[HOLY SHIT ARE THERE EVER.]

[excavated]

[ okay follow up questions:

1) is it just one thing? (I.e is it just magic or is it just spiritual?) or both?

2) is the ping similar to the barrier ping or completely different? aka give me the deets on what it pings like bc lol clamp and its magic ]

[foundationmods]

[This is going to sound like bullshit but literally yes to most of it.

The only thing I can specify is that It's similar to the barrier.

[excavated]

[ I can't even call bullshit on it tbh but okay, cool, that's a huge concern.

More stupid follow up questions:

1) if Syaoran tries to write on the paper does it do anything?

2) also a magic attempt on it, starting with a light wind spell ]

[literalidiotball]

What the?!

[ He pulls one of the pages out from the stack and stares at it. ]

How did this happen?!?

[duskhound]

[...Hm. Let me see if I can sense anything magical being involved here that is causing the blankness.]

[foundationmods]

[DEAR GOD IS THERE EVER.

It's like you can practically feel the invisible hand of whoever did this.]

[duskhound]

[Well, that's concerning. Is it one extremely strong impression, then?

Well, either way, she's going to be doing her best to memorize this "scent". This is her job, after all.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Karen examines a sheet carefully, squinting to try to pick up on the shapes of words, which of course she can't because OOCly the information doesn't exist yet.]

It's like it's been un-written.

[foundationmods]

Yes....There actually truly used to be nothing there, but it's been slowly coming back into existence lately.

This must also be why that barrier can actually be seen now.

[odasaku]

So someone tried to write everything about this out of existence, but it didn’t stick.

[ this seems ridiculously sketchy for oda tbh. ]

Has anyone tried to approach it?

[foundationmods]

No, I don't think so.

[A pause.]

Actually, I...don't think anyone realized the House was gone. None of my guests mentioned the Winchester House until after 15 years had passed since the barrier went up.

...Even I forgot it existed.

[justonezero]

-Eh?!

[improbablenotimpossible]

That... is highly unusual.

[To put it very mildly]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

It what?!

[EXCUSE?!!]

But- the Foundation must have remembered what happened, right? There was an O5 lost there, after all.

[odasaku]

It’s not an easy house to miss.

[ he’s really confused, but at least he keeps it behind a stoic face. ]

Could it be that it was “removed”? Like... the text?

[duskhound]

Hm? That's strange...

[This incident reshaped Foundation politics for 6350's, didn't it? Yet people forgot it even happened until five years ago? Something doesn't add up here...]

[dereban]

Oh, great, the more I learn the more I feel this is just like home.

[ dry laughter ]

[iblistriggered]

Wait, I have another question! The Winchester House... is it a House like you and Hotel Cali...?

[iblistriggered]

Huh... I wonder what changed?

[oceanicbutterfly]

Something's changed recently, then. There was some kind of common cause to the two, maybe an information anomaly of some kind, and it's suddenly weakening. Like...

[...oh fuck.]

Like whatever was creating it suddenly stopped, and the effects are fading away.

[odasaku]

Frisk said that it had Tages’ magic or something didn’t it?

[ haha he’s not liking this ]