[CONTINUE + 3] Week 1 || Act: mingle

[foundationmods]

Monday comes onto the snowy town once more, though it still looks as if it's 'night' as ever.

Then again, you are underground. That's just to be expected, considering no natural light can get down here in the first place. The Monsters around you are just as friendly as ever, despite this being your fourth 'time' trying this monday.

There doesn't seem to be many Monsters here...or at least, you think there was more before? Huh.

Well, whatever.

You still have a mission - And with three trials under your belt, you're now a little closer to figuring things out.

...How much longer will this repeat?

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[foundationmods]

[Well. Hopefully last week's failure helps make today a success.

How are they getting in? With the key card? And will they be using the front entrance?]

[accessorytomurder]

...Do we just... walk in? There isn't a backdoor, right?

[improbablenotimpossible]

Not that I know of, it's best just to go with the keycard - it'll register that someone came in, but long as we don't trip any alarms we should have enough time to take a look around.

[oceanicbutterfly]

The card is the whole reason we came here now, right? It would be strange not to just use it.

[unlike SOME PEOPLE who would probably try to POKE A HOLE IN REALITY or something!]

[foundationmods]

[That is definitely a justified callout right there.

But yes, the key card will make the scanner beep, and the door opens.

The first room of the lab is a large open room, one with some lab equipment against some of the walls. It looks a bit chaotic in here, but in the 'there's a method to the madness' kind of way.

Care to investigate closer? or move on to the next room?]

[accessorytomurder]

[She carefully begins to survey the area.]

Let's go room by room, okay? But, um... maybe don't... touch anything.

[improbablenotimpossible]

[He does a sweep of the room... organized chaos - ah, this is his natural environment.

What sort of equipment are we looking at here?]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[This doesn't look like a room that would be known for its cleaning supplies, but Karen will look around anyway, while also keeping an eye on the other two.]

[foundationmods]

[There are indeed no cleaning products here. No, the majority of what is here is robot parts. It seems like someone was building a robot?

...actually, it looks pretty similar to Mettaton's second form...

...

Yeah, it's probably best to leave those things here.

From here, there are two doorways to go through. One is closer, and one is further away. Also, when they came in, did they leave the front door open, or did they shut it?]

[accessorytomurder]

[Yachi would never shut a door behind her during an exploration. Yachi actively left her inert skateboard in the doorway to prevent any sudden door closing.

Winchester leaves many marks, but this was the first and the deepest trauma.]

...Make a note of that for later. Um, I... vaguely... remember we wanted to try putting the spider in a robot.

[Because... ghosts? ...Ghosts. She thinks of the spider as a ghost, for some reason, and clutches at that thought protectively.]

Which door should we try first? O-Or, um... did we... want to try splitting up?

[Her dubiousness at that second option is palpable but. Well. You know.

Winchester.]

[improbablenotimpossible]

[He breathes out slowly at that, giving a quiet nod]

Yes - I think that... was our thought? I am not sure if splitting up is wise, even if it means taking more time.

[He'll be inspecting the doors - do either one look more secure, is a draft coming from one? which looks to be used more often?]

[oceanicbutterfly]

Splitting up would leave at least one of us alone. That seems like a bad idea.

[Teamwork is important.

Karen has an idea of what would be the correct door to try first under typical video game logic, but she's holding out hope that the real world logic of Sherlock's examination will tell them something useful.]

You don't suppose this is Mettaton-san's home?

[foundationmods]

[Actually, both doors are open! One has a lot of natural light streaming into it, and is probably the room the others saw last week. In fact, from Sherlock's glance, he will be able to see some sort of anime poster on the wall near the doorway. The other doorway seems darker, and they will need to go in to see it.

Also, the door is propped open with the skateboard. No worries about it shutting on all of you.]

[accessorytomurder]

No, this is just where that vessel was manufactured, I think. He's like me, but a ghost monster in a robot rather than a dead girl in a gigai.

[She says that absentmindedly, peering from one room to the other uncertainly.]

...does anybody have a flashlight on them? I'm not sure I want to start pressing buttons hoping for a light switch.

[improbablenotimpossible]

That would explain his reaction to your reason for using the ghost fruit.

I'm afraid I don't have one on me. If it's like most rooms, the switch should be on the inside near the door...

[oceanicbutterfly]

I have my phone.

[Which isn't a perfect flashlight, but Karen can use it to light up a patch of wall such as the one where a light switch might be.]

[improbablenotimpossible]

Right... there is the flashlight function on the phone.

[accessorytomurder]

Right. So, let's clear the dark room first, but, um... again, be careful with what you touch. You never know what's electrified or about to spew acid.

[foundationmods]

[The cell phone light provides plenty of light to illuminate the dark room!

This room appears to be a storage room of some sort. Just like with the previous room, there is a kind of ordered chaos to it. Whoever lives here, this clusterfuck must make sense to them.

Most of what can be found here are spare parts, but there are cleaning chemicals in here too.]

[accessorytomurder]

...um, is there a stick we can use to poke around?

[...Yachi. Honey.]

[improbablenotimpossible]

This is a storage room, with the arrangement - I highly doubt our otaku scientist is going to be booby-trapping everything.

[He does take a look over at the spare parts and carefully works his way through if he were the mess maker... the important things would only be partial - not completely buried]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Karen, meanwhile, will be taking a closer look at those chemicals. She doubts they're an intentional trap, but before she tries to use them she wants to make sure they don't give off poisonous fumes or anything.]

[foundationmods]

[How dare you call out [REDACTED] on her love of anime :(

And I mean. Nothing in here is intentionally trapped, but those are some industrial-strength cleaners. It's the kind of stuff you want to wear gloves and goggles while using. So a degree of caution is a good idea.

And indeed, the important chemicals are pretty much right on top of the pile. As are spare parts that seem to match up with the robot parts in the other room.]

[accessorytomurder]

It's never the trap you're expecting that gets you.

[She says that with a jarring grimness, and goes to properly investigate the roboparts, and anything else of note that gets unearthed along the way.]

So... um, I'm thinking we should take these, and the partly-finished part out there, too. Maybe Mr. Spider will be able to get an upgrade, if we're lucky. ...and, um, just in case, we should lock it all up before Thursday night, if it doesn't work.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Good thinking. ...and good thinking.

[Karen will casually stash a bottle or two in her inventory (oh, so she likes video game logic when it's convenient!) and take a quick look around for such safety equipment, focusing mostly on goggles since she's pretty sure she can get gloves at the store if needed.]