april mini-event

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04/11 23:56

Is anyone up at this time? If so, you'll notice the power flickers—sorry if you were working on anything and hadn't saved in a while. This goes for the entire school, but it only lasts a few minutes... It's probably nothing to worry about.

04/12 06:00

The sun breaks on another beautiful day at Yogen High School. The birds are singing, the weather is clear, and several rooms seem to be a little messed up. While there isn't any immediate smell of blood when one steps into the entrance-way—a relief for those who might remember October's terrible killings—something is definitely... off.

Those who live in Star 4 or who make it their business to visit the cooking room before school starts will probably be the first to know:

It's going to be a long morning.

OOC

✽ Please use the sign-ups toplevel below to begin investigating. A mod reply will link to the corresponding section below, organizing investigation by location and body.
✽ Don't be intimidated by the number of hot spots and clues! This was just... very thoroughly planned.

Location

Clues

Cooking Room (✓)

(9/9)

Clock Tower (✓)

(1/1)

Workshop (✓)

(2/2)

Star 4 (✓)

(5/5)

Basement: Hallway (✓)

(3/3)

Basement: Generator Room (✓)

(2/2)

Basement: Summoning Room (✓)

(5/5)

Forest: Basement Exit (✓)

(7/7)

Forest: Further In (✓)

(4/4)

Body: Add (✓)

(10/10)

Body: Komaeda (✓)

(11/11)

Comments

[rearranger]

Oh fr last thing, I see there's one more clue for the forest int he basement exit - Ranger's going to be heading out that way, so I'll go ahead and ask if anything can be found approaching it from that angle, or if it'd be further out? crying my brain is empty so I apologize if that's weird wording.

[adsum]

1. Please help the dynamos, he'll notice they're the same size as the dents in the generator but also please help them. You have to roll to fix them but I believe in Ranger he can do it.

2. What hasn't been checked yet is technically that hole in the tree by the bodies! If Ranger would like to check it out, he'll find it's a tiny hole with a revolver bullet in it; it matches Sara's gun, which is not found anywhere in the area. There's traces of (red, normal) blood on the bullet, too.

[rearranger]

lavvy said i could do a roll with my dice so i rolled a 15... please let me save the dynamos, i'm so emotionally attached to them

[subtract]

Ranger gets a bonus for actually knowing what he's doing, so a 15 is enough to determine that Dynamo suffered a hard impact and electrical shock followed by something draining their batteries completely. Luckily, they've been laying in a sunny spot all day and with a bit of effort he can do a patch job on whatever internal parts got knocked loose...

Dynamo lights up, briefly attempts to float up, and then collapses onto the ground again. They are now online, but damaged. What are his instructions?

[rearranger]

NOT DAMAGED who did this to you cutie i just wanna talk to them

I don't remember exactly how Dynamo works, but it keeps recordings and such so it can see when somebody's bringing fish into his room, right? So is there anything of interest that can be pulled up on it?

[subtract]

They respond to voice commands! Dynamo is a smart cookie!

Upon requesting a recording, they attempt to load a file on a small holoscreen... unfortunately, it appears to be corrupt :( All Ranger can make of it is a very garbled voice that might be Komaeda's...? The image is completely scrambled, but it looks dark with intermittent flashes.

Right before the playback ends... Dynamo seems to freeze up, and briefly stops responding to any inputs. Coincidentally(?), this is right when the crystal that was inside Komaeda turns black.

[rearranger]

Dynamo is so smart! Ranger doesn't really know how to hug, will it accept pats for a job well done for now?

Is Dyanmo able to locate where Add's core is?

[subtract]

Pats are also acceptable, thank you. They vibrate a little in response because Add may or may not have at one point tried to program them to purr.

There is a delay in responding to that request... followed by a new screen popping open. It takes a few seconds for the scan to complete, ending with a dejected beep.

SCANNING... 100% COMPLETE.
SIGNAL LOST.
RETRIEVING LAST TRANSMISSION...

... and then it displays another screen that's completely filled with what looks like a very complicated equation. If Ranger wants to skim through it the numbers will eventually loop, though it's difficult to discern what it's trying to calculate since it's just endlessly repeating.

[rearranger]

nooo please don't be sad, pat pat

If he reads through it all, can he get anything out of it? That is, is it programming language where you can get an idea of what the issue is, or is it completely random? Either way, once he's figured that out maybe Dynamo should stop trying to do what its doing please don't hurt yourself.

[subtract]

has ranger been listening to add's lectures on weird timespace tech........

It's not random, but the impression he gets is that it's an intentional loop... something ticking up automatically only to be manually adjusted back down so that the value can never change, over and over and over again.

[rearranger]

he'd listen to any and all that he could be given, you know he eats that up please teach him add-senpai.......

Is it possible to pin down where the issue is in order to try and resolve it? It doesn't quite sound like an error so I'm blanking on the correct word is, but modifying it so it can run properly.

[subtract]

It's not an error! Or, at least, it doesn't seem to be? But if he messes around with the values enough, eventually he'll realize that it's a program that freezes time using some supernatural void nonsense. Since it's Add's last transmission, that must be what he was doing right up until his signal was "lost".