THE FINAL INVESTIGATION

[foundationmods]

[A new day comes - and with all of you rested and well, it's time to go back to that door -

back to the alleyway in Waterfall, where the door lies.

Going through it will reveal the room there was before, but...

This time, there's an elevator in the middle, with only one button.

Down.

Hitting it and getting on will eventually take you...

To a dimly lit place, lit only by the thin strips of light from the floor. You can see three ways to go from the elevator - North, East, and West.

It's quiet here, just like everything else.

But...

Finally, you feel as if answers are in reach.

Here...in this hidden, True Lab.]

((OOC: 3 MAXIMUM TO A THREAD, please!))

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[le_mat]

[Ren summons Horus to cast ambient light, turns on his Third Eye and goes into the dark

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[romancekiller]

[clarke is just going to follow along here!! time to investigate what is in this hallway]

[accessorytomurder]

[Hitoka is here and ready to be the invulnerable shield or guineapig if she needs to be.]

[foundationmods]

[Heading down the hallway, you eventually run into a monitor built into the wall.

It's off, but it looks like it can turn on with a touch.]

[le_mat]

[boop]

[romancekiller]

[clarke is a bit wary but at this point, she figures it's probably okay to touch the monitor to see what happens]

[accessorytomurder]

[Well... nothing ventured, nothing gained?]

[foundationmods]

[The monitor turns on.]

ENTRY NUMBER 11

THIS NEW WAY OF SEEING HAS ALLOWED ME TO REALIZE THE TRUE POWER THE CRYSTALS WE USED ONLY FOR GLASSMAKING IN THE PAST. THE CRYSTALS GLOW WITH THE SAME COLORS AS THE BARRIER DOES, WHEN LIGHT HITS IT THE CORRECT WAY.

THIS, ALONG WITH LEARNING THAT IT APPEARS IN AREAS CLOSE TO OUR HABITATION, LEADS ME TO BELIEVE IT IS THE COLLECTED MAGICAL RUNOFF FROM THE BARRIER, AS WELL AS ANY LINGERING MAGIC LEFT BEHIND WHEN THE CONQUEROR HOLLOWED OUT THE MOUNTAIN.

WITH THIS IN MIND, I WILL BE DOING TESTS ON THE CRYSTALS. WITH SUCH A POTENT SOURCE OF UNTAPPED MAGICAL ENERGY, I CAN MOST LIKELY USE THIS TO CORRECT OUR POWER ISSUES...AS WELL AS POTENTIALLY FIGURE OUT A WAY TO BREAK THE BARRIER.

[le_mat]

About what we theorized...

[is there more?]

[foundationmods]

[No, that's all on this monitor.]

[accessorytomurder]

Well... Better magic radiation than melted SOULs...

[What else lies this way?]

[le_mat]

...what if it's the other way around...

[accessorytomurder]

How do you mean?

[le_mat]

Later, once we have everything... there's something I wanna check.

[romancekiller]

Yeah, it seems like that's all the information this monitor has too.

[is there much else around or is there anything up further ahead?]

[foundationmods]

[There's more ahead - another monitor, at least.]

[romancekiller]

Alright, let's see what we have on this one... [okay moving on ahead clarke spots the other monitor, time to take a look, if this similarly turns on by touch she will do the same to see what other information they can get]

[accessorytomurder]

Yeah...

[Please don’t be another creepy date-murder memoir.]

[le_mat]

[rens mind is elsewhere, but he nods. go for it]

[foundationmods]

[The monitor turns on.]

ENTRY NUMBER 12

CONSTRUCTION OF A MACHINE TO HANDLE LIQUID SPECTRA AND TURN IT INTO ENERGY FOR THE UNDERGROUND IS UNDERWAY. I HAVE MANAGED TO BUILD A WORKING PROTOTYPE, THANKFULLY.

AS FOR CONTAINMENT, SPECTRA DOES NOT SEEM TO CORRODE MOST METALS, SO USING A METAL CONTAINMENT AND PIPES SHOULD BE THE BEST TO HANDLE IT. METALS THAT CAN HANDLE UP TO 200-300 DEGREES AND REMAIN SOLID WOULD BE THE BEST CHOICE FOR THIS.

IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME, BUT ONCE IT IS DONE, THE CORE SHOULD BE FUNCTIONAL AND ONLY NEED OCCASIONAL MAINTENANCE.

OF COURSE, IT WILL HAVE TO BE AFTER MY HANDS HAVE HEALED FROM THE ACCIDENT THAT OCCURRED DURING PRODUCTION OF THE PROTOTYPE. THOUGH THERE HAS BEEN HEALING DONE, I NOW HAVE SOME PERMANENT DAMAGE TO MY SOUL.

I DO NOT MIND.

THE SLIGHT EMPTINESS I FEEL IS PREFERABLE TO THE GRIEF THAT THREATENS TO OVERWHELM ME IF I STOP WORKING.

[accessorytomurder]

Oh. I... I suppose they can’t all be knots of pure malice born of murder, can they?

[She sounds so sad. But her stride is steady as she heads for wherever the next screen is, for boop the third.]

[le_mat]

Starting to see how things went wrong...

[any more monitors down the way?]

[romancekiller]

Yeah me too— [from reading it over, she finds herself frowning looking a bit sad.

clarke just steps back from the monitor and looks around to see if there is anything else around for them to find?]

[foundationmods]

[There is one more monitor, but it's in the area where it's the darkest...as well as a door.

The door has black goop on it.]

[accessorytomurder]

...I’ll transform into a tarp, after we read. We don’t know what that stuff is, so it’s better to have an invincible layer between you and it. Just, uh... be ready to throw me in the water ASAP after.