R1 DEADLAND

[lockdownmods]

[it’s strange, for the people who were already dead, the shift in scenery is sudden and complete. For those who have just arrived? It’s like you’re back where you left?

How strange.

But if you ever need her, you can always reach out to the guardian of this place.]

LOCATIONS
Note: locations lag a week behind the living counterparts

Comments

[lockdownmods]

[the projector is providing enough ambient light that she can see around it! And in fact, there is a sort of knob for turning. There's five, actually. They seem to line up with letters?]

[supportrole]

[ well never mind hooray for not needing lights!! ]

What's this?

[ what letters are there? ]

[itwasfeyt]

Huh?

[Letters? Like A-B-C and so on?]

[lockdownmods]

[like a-b-c yep.

There's a set of five of them! What letters go where, though. '-']

[supportrole]

[ Uhhhhh hm. Let's look at some of these scattered papers. Any obvious clues for what letters we need...? ]

[lockdownmods]

[this note.

all of it.]

[itwasfeyt]

...Huh? What do you got, Mishima?

[squints super hard.]

...what is that?

[lockdownmods]

[it's a code???????? OBVIOUSLY?]

Mow.

[itwasfeyt]

[Oh, Chichi is still here.

Maya's definitely gonna give her some head scritches. Right before she check if there's anything else.]

How did you know all of this was down here, Chichi?

[lockdownmods]

Mew.

[what does that mean?

her tail swishes]

[itwasfeyt]

[What she wouldn't give for more papers with weird code A cheat sheet, if she's lucky. Which she isn't.]

I wonder if this is part of another one of those riddles or not. Kind of a lot to go through for one...

[lockdownmods]

[there are other things to look at! And even around the room! it's fine!]

[itwasfeyt]

[Okay!!! time for her to leave the relative safety of the dias and wander around the dimly-lit room. Let's see what we can see!]

[lockdownmods]

[there is a desk... and some writing on the wall in the far corner.

It's fine!]

[itwasfeyt]

[Yeah, that's probably important. Let's have a look at the writing on the wall, shall we?]

[lockdownmods]

Administration policy is final, and not to be questioned under any circumstances.

[supportrole]

[ hey fuck that ]

[lockdownmods]

[there's still a desk. :)]

[itwasfeyt]

[Hmph!]

Too bad, we're questioning it right now!

[Anyway, the desk. Let's go see to that now.]

[machrophage]

[Yes let's have a look at that desk now that we've given Fun Things to Mishima.]

Any luck?

[Or do you need him to bust open some drawers.]

[itwasfeyt]

Well, I just started looking at this desk, so all in all it's going great!

[No need to bust things... not yet.]

[lockdownmods]

[the desk looks like this, with a couple of books on top of it.]

[machrophage]

[Books are for humans let's get into those drawers. Starting with the wide upper keyboard tray one.]

[supportrole]

It doesn't seem like enough words for a riddle, really. I think I half get it, but...

[supportrole]

[ Oh, he's pretty sure he's seen this kind of code before, but... hm. If he tries to arrange letters in a grid the way he thinks it's supposed to go... That can't be right.

Just from looking at the arrangement and frequency of that first symbol on the first line, he feels like that has to be an E and the first word has to be "everyone", but ??? Shouldn't that be an S and not an E if we're going alphabetically? Is the grid just random or is there some kind of shift--

OH jesus why is Viral yelling ]