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LAST INVESTIGATION

Week 8

Friday

Ten participants wake up in the participant staff rooms this morning. It's the first Friday in a while that there isn't a decrease in their numbers - though not without other costs: Two of the hostages have been lost. There's still that last motive hanging over their heads, an unconventional one. Can they handle the challenge?

It's quiet... too quiet...

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[They are made of a semitransparent whitish plastic. There is a seam in the middle where you can snap them open like a clamshell glasses case. The top side is coated in a variety of jets and nozzles - it's rather heavy, like a big metal tin. The bottom side has a carpet type layer of thick soft supportive plastic.

They are almost all empty. However. The third smallest of the pods contains some pieces of paper resting on the bottom surface.]

[He'll get it open eventually, this is...interesting. Heavy as fuck, but he'll deal, and he wants to get at those bits of paper.

...So the sheep is a sentient program run by the patron saint of the plague. That's what he got out of this.

(Jesus Christ, as far as he can tell it's not Total Recall, it's actually fucking Brazil. He is so mad that he did not get to make that reference at the sheep, maybe she would have understood it a little better than he'd thought.)

Okay. So. All of this is creepy, he's not entirely sure what all the jets and nozzles do and he's not exactly in a hurry to find out, so...he'll close the pod he was looking at. He's not going to go far, though; he'll be looking at the monitor screen on the outside of it like he's trying to work out what to do with it before...well, he's been given a large button with a word on it and hell if that doesn't look like temptation.

>STUDY >CALL YEAGER
>PRINT >LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE

Buttonpressing is go, let's see what the fuck that does.]

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[One of the medium sized pods is suddenly filled with a thick white cloud such that the exact events inside are difficult to see. Then the smoke clears.

A white cat is sitting in the pod.]

[ SUP CAPTAIN SHITSHOW you gained a small purple assistant. Who. Looks a little exasperated that he's just pushing random buttons but it's not like she expected otherwise, so.

And then--? ]

...a cat?

[ is it a friendly cat. can she touch it. ]

[She can touch the cat. It feels like a cat.

Is any cat friendly?]

[ FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS A CAT VYING FOR HER ATTENTION AS SHE TYPES THIS, YES, THEY CAN BE FRIENDLY!!!

She will try to pet the cat after giving it her hand to sniff, then....provided she does not get scratched she will just keep petting it while she looks around.

....it's cute, okay? ]

[The cat does not scratch her. It leans into her gentle touch very slightly but does not meow.]

[ Excellent. If kitty does not mind, she will pick it up and continue to pet it as she pokes around at the monitor controls.

Is there any way to change what prints in these things? ]

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[There is a command line like a text adventure game. The previous commands are all these distinct sequences of twenty-one numbers.

Typing in shorter sequences of numbers gets just a response of "INVALID INPUT".]

[ ....huh. Sakura looks around at the others for just a second before inputting a completely random string of 21 numbers. Does it print anything? She hopes it's something innocuous but also does not expect it, um. ]

[and then there's this asshole from across the room.]

...Hey, Sakura, if you're seeing a bunch of numbers - either remember that last one or do me a favor and create at least ten more cats before you move on. I'll catch 'em later.

[w h y]

[ oh my god ]

Um, sure...I'll write it down in the mail room.

[ She's not sure she wants to enable more cat-printing but he did ask nicely, so. What the hell. ]

[The new sequence prints out a scrabble competition trophy.]

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[...........AH. Ohhh noooo. He recognizes that cat!]

M-Murr?

[ANOTHER ONE???]

[Yes, it looks like Murr.]

[.......................................

is

is it alive]

[The cat looks at Top Dollar blankly. It appears to be breathing.]

[...he has created life and that is fucking terri- ...wait.]

...Oh, son of a bitch.

[He is going to go over to one of the other pods - the ones that seemed potentially person-sized from earlier.

>PRINT]

This had better be another goddamn cat in a stupidly big pod. Or maybe a huge fuckin' cat, I'd tolerate a huge fuckin' cat.

[Smoke fills the pod again. The object resembles the silhouette of a beautiful woman... a beautiful woman with very thick legs... okay wait no now it's obvious--

It's a large ballgown.]

[...Oh. Hey, Beato's dress. That is so much better than it had potential to be.

So the description up there said that you can input commands on this as well. What sort of commands are we looking at, or do you have to manually type them in?]

[ ...... what did he just walk in on. There's... a cat and a dress and lots of printers and he's still carrying a severed animatronic woman's head and honestly he didn't ask for this. ]

... did anything here print actual paper too?

[ He'll... show more interest in the rest later but he's so 100% done with the day already that it's 'one task first, rest later' mentality. ]

Oh, thank fuck you're here - I made a cat earlier.

[Vague...absent pointing in the direction of Sakura and Murr while he's still working out what to do with the controls over here.]

But yeah, before the cat happened I got some weirdass messages about how the sheep is some sort of - ...ah, hell, just look at it.

[He'll pass over what you inadvertently faxed to him earlier, Mikami, there you go.]

[Now that Top Dollar is free of the burden of paper he can examine the monitor. There is a command line like a text adventure game. He can type things. The previous commands are all these distinct sequences of twenty-three numbers after which it says "input loaded". You can type whatever you want on the keyboard. Pressing enter by itself yields another sequence.]

[Well, okay, then, let's just -

103019949348228

uh fuck um

8675309

...........

4

BECAUSE WHY NOT, I SUPPOSE

>PRINT]

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[ Cool, he has his documents. Great. He'll look the papers over and this is indeed what he wanted. ]

I printed this. The notes were opened at the computer over there.

[ ... stuffing the papers under the same arm as severed bot head now and--- ]

.... you made the cat?