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parasomniacs) wrote in parasomnic2017-01-02 01:24 am
Week 6
Week 6
Monday - Thursday
[ There is a particularly somber atmosphere in the quiet hotel. The day before ended with a terrible miscalculation and an innocent life lost in the name of the “experiment”. Emotions certainly ran high and it would not be strange for those effects to linger into the dawn of the new week. Until now they had successfully determined and executed three other murderers. But the fourth got away. They may not want to face the future yet—but the experiment stops for nothing.
The opening of a new wing would probably be of little solace to them. But it's not long before they are granted a small distraction.
Early Monday morning -- before they’ve even had a chance to properly examine the new floor and it’s rooms -- a text announcement arrives, following a small jingle. The sound is new; different from the announcement tones used during the investigation last week. It’s just as loud and persistent, but there’s an annoying set of four repeated notes in a pattern that lazily imitates a song assigned to this notification.]
Hello participants.
I hope you are doing well this morning and are well rested for the day ahead. There will be a meeting held in the lobby fifteen minutes from now. You will all be required to attend. Any person who is absent will be appropriately hunted down and brought to the meeting place by whatever means necessary. An important change has been made to the experimental proceedings, of which you must all now be made well aware.
See you all in fifteen minutes.
The opening of a new wing would probably be of little solace to them. But it's not long before they are granted a small distraction.
Early Monday morning -- before they’ve even had a chance to properly examine the new floor and it’s rooms -- a text announcement arrives, following a small jingle. The sound is new; different from the announcement tones used during the investigation last week. It’s just as loud and persistent, but there’s an annoying set of four repeated notes in a pattern that lazily imitates a song assigned to this notification.]
Hello participants.
I hope you are doing well this morning and are well rested for the day ahead. There will be a meeting held in the lobby fifteen minutes from now. You will all be required to attend. Any person who is absent will be appropriately hunted down and brought to the meeting place by whatever means necessary. An important change has been made to the experimental proceedings, of which you must all now be made well aware.
See you all in fifteen minutes.
» Dream World «
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Okay, uh. Apparently these are... records of some sort? Except they're obviously not made of vinyl. Rean's looking them over and shooting them a most baffled look. ]
So... what, are these records or something?
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Huh, that so? Guess we'll be tagging along to your room, then. [They found it, so they deserve to come along, right!!]
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[ Though while we're here, might as well find one way to get the message across, right? He'll press the same buttons he did earlier, R1 and S4. ]
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As long as you stay on the goddamn couch and don't touch my shit, then I don't give a fuck. Come on.
[Let's just go do that, then; thankfully Darren has taught him how to work a stupid DVD player - because he's got one in his room, as he said. ...Also a bunch of DVDs on the coffee table, and ad...mittedly not much else because it looks like he's keeping all his stuff in the bedroom proper.]
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[Well okay Top Dollar. It's nice to see your room isn't full of dead bodies and random weapons lying around, that's a good sign!! ...Man, they really need some popcorn for this, don't they. But yeah time to let the only guy who knows what the hell they're doing do their thing. Although admittedly he'll be paying attention to what he does with the disc in case this kind of shit ever comes up again.]
Got any ideas what it might be?
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[ At least one of them realizes they're kind of barging in! Rean will be stepping back and letting Top Dollar do his thing because... he obviously knows what he's doing here. Though he's also keeping an eye on how the machine's being operated, just in case. You know, they'll need it. ]
Anyway, it can't be more music, right?
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[That said, he'll actually manage to insert it without fucking it up and he'll just...let it play beyond that; he won't be joining you guys on the damn couch, where your asses had better be, but he'll be pacing behind it, in the threshold between the sitting room and the bedroom, because jesus christ this is a DVD that was supposedly handed to them by a bunch of ghosts and who knows, maybe he'll need to get his guns and shoot Samara or something.]
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--ank you, Todd. Now back to the emerging CSU case.
[An external pan over a college campus from high up.]
CSU is a school with a long history and several recent accomplishments. For the past three days, those accomplishments have been tarnished by the rash actions of the CSU seven.
[Blurry CCTV footage plays.]
Seven unidentified students rolled out a tower from the university's supercomputer.
[Pan over an apartment building from high up.]
Eyewitness reports tracked the septet on their way to campus-affiliated housing. When police investigated the apartment the following day, one was taken hostage, while the other members were turned away by unknown means.
[Shakier cell phone footage, from just across the street, of a third story apartment balcony. A person runs out onto the balcony with her left hand raised. Sound of gunfire. The person has been hit in the forehead and falls to a sitting position.]
Today, an unidentified group neutralized five of the students. Mia Moscovitz was the one depicted in this video.
[Over plain background, a still graphic of five student ID photographs with names underneath, Moscovitz largest in the center and four others in the corners.]
The policeman was unharmed and within the hour acquired backup from the rest of the police force. The investigation is ongoing, and prosecution is imprecise. Weapons and drugs were present as well as the contraband computer. The computer’s memory is currently empty, leaving the group's motivations unclear. Forensic Systems Analyst Dr. Ian Anderson here with us from Britain.
[Cut to a man in a different room, some academic at a desk in an office with a whiteboard nearby.]
There are two points of interest in this case. First, it must have been very important that their application get run on this specific type of computer, as the timespan was too short to write a completely new program experimentally.
Second, running the application on the school's own network did not meet their needs. They probably did not want to be monitored. Therefore, the predominant theory is that they ran the program offline as long as they could before being apprehended, then uploaded a proof of concept over an independent network.
Finally, they cleared the computer, because a separate copy of their program already existed and all that remained on the computer was undesired evidence of their activities. Owners of supercomputers should react more quickly in future, because members of similar groups may just download this group's programs and execute them immediately.
[The anchorwoman in the newsroom:]
Thank you, Dr. Anderson.
[An even broader pan of the urban area surrounding the apartment building.]
The other two surviving students followed the police officer to the police station. They accepted a plea deal; their identities will remain private. One of them corroborated Moscovitz as the ringleader of both programming and weapon acquisition.
[Back in the newsroom.] We promise to keep you updated, as always on Channe--
[Like before, it closes mid-sentence.]
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It reminds him a little of that magazine article he found in the manga café a week ago. He'll turn to Top Dollar, though.]
So, uh... Any of that ring a bell to you? [Because he sure as hell doesn't recognize any of these places or events.]
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...The most non-self-explanatory shit that I got from it is that we're definitely in something like the world I came from. I know where Britain is, anyway. And CSU, uh...that's either in Cleveland - which is a hellhole - or it's in Colorado. ...Or California, I guess. Bunch of places I've never been, outside of Cleveland maybe once or twice.
Other than that, I probably got about as much out of that as you guys did.
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Yeah, I've got nothing here. [ sigh. ] There might be someone else in here who might know what this is about, I don't know.
[ sigh. being a jrpg character is suffering, but at least Rean's trying to make heads and tails of it. ]
I mean, it has to have something to do with what's going on in here. Why go through all the trouble to hide it, otherwise? That's not even getting into what might be on those other things we got.
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Maybe. Think we should actually go public with the fact that we found these things? [They were definitely hidden, but from whom he's not entirely sure.]
But now's probably a good time to check that stuff out too, then. If they were bunched together, then maybe they're all records relating to the same incident.
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If you don't want to go completely public with this shit, Mikami'd probably get it better than we do. Seems like the sort of thing he'd be aware of, at least.
[He's never hated making a suggestion this much in his life and it kind of makes him want to goddamn spit nails, but here we are.]
But yeah, checking out that other shit's probably a good idea, if nothing else.
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Isn't there something we could use in the, uh... library? [ comic book library??? ] I think I remember seeing something like those things we just found in there. Wouldn't hurt to check.
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[Although they may need to barge in here again since Crow doesn't know if there's anything else around here that plays those records. Welp! That's Mikami's problem.
But the comic book library, huh. He only has horrible, horrible memories of that place, but he'll take one for the team here.]
Yeah, it's worth a shot. [SIGH.] We'll be taking that thing back now, though. [Not that... he knows how to eject a friggin' DVD um.]
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[Just...let him go deal with it and get it back from the DVD player. And not completely bumblefuck it onto the floor or something. Here. Take it.]
Might as well check the other shit in the library, though, yeah.
[Let's go, guys. Out. Leave.]
I'LL JUST DO THIS NOW THEN....
“Pose Pellet”
That Pose Pellet? Eh, its history is… so interesting! For our makeup line, we were testing the ultimate in foundation. A radiant, gorgeous foundation that would last for days without smudging or clogging the pores. Well, it sort of did those but unfortunately it also glued the test subject’s entire faces shut.
Oh my, wait, Dressing is a very animal friendly company. We prefer to test on human volunteers that are already more difficult to look at. Of course this way shows the most difference if we succeed, and less beauty is lost from our cold world if we must move on!
...As we did that time, I’m afraid. But the formula lead to more innovations and now it’s become a clear liquid. We use the stuff to help models who have difficulty holding a complicated pose. Just throw the capsule, and stick! Now we just have to make sure we don’t mistake them for a mannequin!
“Dokidoki Watch”
This item is sure to be wildly popular with young people who are customers of our brand. It’s usually a regular if stylish watch, until you push the secret button. Then when you touch hands with the person before you, a subtle electric pulse makes their heart skip a beat… then they can look at you with the feeling of love~! That’s right. This fashion accessory just might change your life.
You want to feel it… with me? Oh, you!
But, sorry, you can’t try it yet. It’s still in development since the pulse is too strong… for now, I hope that admiring its look will satisfy you. Otherwise it might give you the feeling of cardiac arrest. Just a joke, of course!
“Cupcakes”
Why are supermodels eating cupcakes? I understand why you would ask that. In fact, these are no simple treats. Each different flavor is packed with a stimulant for emotions. Lately I’ve done research into these ingredients in order to motivate our latest models and make them feel passionate. I met an exceptional confectioner who was already working them into her recipes… after just one bite, I was so enraptured that I ordered enough to feed the whole company for months. …… Ah. If I say it like that, you may think I was fooled… but that isn’t true. They really have induced these emotional responses in the new models, so it’s good for the photos for our magazine. There are even some that improve muscle and hair quality, though we’re still puzzled that the latter can mend wounds. Pity we’re not a medical company, eh?
“The Macrocosmetic System”
When you work for a fashion company, it’s important to know what customers like. So important, in fact, that we should know that even better than they do. That was the inspiration behind this program - Using this amazing machine, we were able to scan the customers in our stores throughout Japan and the US, generating and printing out the perfect outfits.
You might think that this would be satisfying enough, but… the problem was that stores alone didn’t make enough money for the CEO’s many ambitious projects. Even so, we didn’t dare to question when the CEO deigned to counteract this with even more projects… which lead our scientists to work long and hard to make the machine even better.
It was called the Macrocosmetic System, because now, it would scan for miles - constantly helping us design for a greater audience. Sometime after this began, the strangest thing happened. During its scans, the system came into contact with the signal from another strange machine. Ever since then, we started to receive data from seemingly random sources… printing not just outfits, but even objects and people! It was then that we realized that we had found people from far outside of our known universe. Looking at the numerous strings of code, I wondered if our programmers had been typing with the hand of God…
With this new Macrocosmetic System, it wasn’t long until we discovered the means to bring people here directly instead. If we want to make up all the money we wasted on that, we’ll need to use both of those machines wisely. So… what if we got some aliens together for a little contest? There's surely a lot more beauty beyond the reach of our universe!!
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Really. Instead of killing the fashion business, we're killing for the fashion business.
[ there isn't enough words in the world for this ]
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It's a good thing he didn't bring his fire poker along though, because man. But he might kick the jukebox one more time.]
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[...he was around when this was literally just a song and not a meme; I mean, it's annoying, but no moreso than any other crap that's out there.]
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Rean's going to punch in two more buttons: S4 once again and finally A9. Finally, something different! ]