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(VIDEO) RESULTS OF THE EXPLORATION SO FAR
[The following video file is sent to the network twice. "Ryuuzaki" is the sender. The first time, there’s a lot of interference: the picture skips and jumps and freezes and the sober voice of the young man who sent it is sometimes distorted--for some passengers, it may not play at all. That is attached to a text that says “Video of newly discovered area.” The sentence repeats ten times, each on its own line, in an attempt to circumvent the poor transmission and reception. The words are probably legible to someone who looks at all ten lines taken as a block, but that won’t make the video any less spotty.
Once L is back in network range, about 14 hours later (25th August), he re-sends the entire video as an attachment to a text post that simply says “I doubt that this footage got to you uncorrupted yesterday. This is my second attempt to post video of one of the newly discovered areas.” He doesn’t repeat the words.
The second time, the footage is clear. Responses to that are forward-dated.]
[There’s no one in front of the camera when the video feed starts. Instead, it begins with a focus on the Duty Roster sheet, a page that looks aged and worn.
When it moves from that, it begins to slowly and steadily pan around a room, from one wall to the next. The room itself is edged with bunks, ten in all, and there’s a sizeable graffiti-covered metal table in the center.
Where there’s something like a foot locker to look into, it scans across the contents if the foot locker is open or across the closed box if it isn’t--anything interesting in the closed ones can be photographed independently later. It looks like it’s mostly personal items: uniforms, the very obvious corner of a wrapped condom, and so on.
When the camera reaches the framed map, it holds for a long moment, then zooms in on the number in the corner: 45TH. Anything else that might need more detail--the posters and pin-ups, the graffiti, the small collection of books, the pamphlet, and so on--also gets a relatively lengthy steady shot. The video covers the adjoining room in the same way, although the kitchen and bathroom areas there are less interesting than the main area.
Other people are in the room, but with one exception, they’re represented mostly by how quickly the camera moves past them. While their faces are never shown, the shot sometimes catches a shoulder, or an elbow, or the back of someone’s head. There is occasional murmured conversation in the background.
The contents of the video will probably be interesting to at least some of the people who see it, in spite of the excruciatingly boring pacing and cinematography. It’s like the world’s longest documentary about a barracks, made by someone with a selectively near-infinite attention span who sometimes watches security footage for fun. But it is an accurate record, and there is one point where the action heats up.]
River Tam discovered this room earlier, but it took everyone some time to get inside. The duty roster and the condition of the other room in comparison to this one both suggest that this is a staff area. The first area certainly wasn’t.
You won’t have any trouble finding either of them if you follow the map that Mr. Combeferre discovered. For now, it appears to be safe, but I don’t know how long it will remain this--
[Across the room, there's an unintelligible shriek (distinct to some, maybe), something akin to a gasp, but miserable; echoes of someone else's anguish (?). River mutters a litany of 'oh no' under her breath and there's a journal in her hands, old and worn and falling apart. ]
I found him. Didn't want it, didn't want to stay.
[The camera approaches her, mostly because the man behind it is curious about what she’s found. River stares up at him with frightened eyes, like a man right before his hour of death. It doesn’t seem to be Ryuuzaki that she’s afraid of.]
Aren't you going to save me?
[The video pauses then, and resumes an indeterminate amount of time later--not long. The camera focuses on three leaves of a journal in turn, River’s hands holding them and turning the pages. The man’s voice can be heard thanking her, more softly than the rest of his narration.
The camera then resumes its measured circuit around the room. When Ryuuzaki speaks again, he sounds slightly less confident than he had earlier, eager to stop talking, almost curt.]
I also have footage of the first area. If you’re interested, I’ll send it. Let me know.
[He’s shaken: how had River known that the journals were in the room?]
[As far as L is concerned, this message accomplishes two goals.
The area River found is now documented, intact, for everyone who might be interested in it; once they’ve received the video, they can make the decision of whether or not to come look for themselves. The condition of the network in this location of the ship makes it hard for him to tell whether or not someone has yet posted a similar record of the first area that was discovered.
His own video has enough detail to serve as a record, and still images can be isolated from it later, if necessary. L has no authority to have the area preserved and searched in a way that he would consider professional, and in any case, the members of SEC who have remained on board have better things to do than guarding a scene from the depredations of passengers interested in titillating photos of young women. It seems possible that the room's existence is more important than its contents, but it’s hard to tell something like that without further investigation.
His second aim is more personal: if he creates and sends the video himself, if he seems to have the whole thing covered, he’s less likely to appear in someone else’s similar footage. There was a time when Amane could kill if she had seen a face, and the possibility that she she might turn up with that ability during any jump, and Yagami might turn up and request it, seems to exist. L might not be able to protect himself with any certainty, but keeping his face off the network if he can is an easy way for him to feel slightly more secure.
Even the next day, River's apparently intuitive knowledge of the existence of the journals is still troubling. She couldn't have been in the room before--she could never have gotten the door open on her own. Yet she had been insistent and vocal about the idea that people were trapped there, and once they'd broken into the room, the pages, the most personal things that seemed to be left of the people who had once used the room, seemed to be the locus of her certainty.]
[OOC note: This video draws from the mods’ description of the room! Anything that’s in that is in the video, but most of the foot lockers and such haven’t been opened yet (so that items other players want to keep under wraps won’t necessarily appear here). Likewise, if you ask for the video of the first area, which I included mainly because it doesn’t make sense for L to take such detailed footage of only one of the two, you can just assume that it follows the mods’ description in the event post and is shot in the same detail-oriented way. The second transmission of this message should be accessible to people who were on the Cyllene after they get back.
There are no specific mentions of who was in the room in the video, because a lot of the threads are barely underway. If you sent your character into this room in the first group and don’t mind that L filmed their shoulder or elbow, which they probably would have noticed at the time, your assumptions are fine with me! River’s face is already on the network, so he wouldn’t be too careful not to show it.
Finally, if the subject of the journals comes up, be prepared for River to threadjack.]
Once L is back in network range, about 14 hours later (25th August), he re-sends the entire video as an attachment to a text post that simply says “I doubt that this footage got to you uncorrupted yesterday. This is my second attempt to post video of one of the newly discovered areas.” He doesn’t repeat the words.
The second time, the footage is clear. Responses to that are forward-dated.]
[There’s no one in front of the camera when the video feed starts. Instead, it begins with a focus on the Duty Roster sheet, a page that looks aged and worn.
When it moves from that, it begins to slowly and steadily pan around a room, from one wall to the next. The room itself is edged with bunks, ten in all, and there’s a sizeable graffiti-covered metal table in the center.
Where there’s something like a foot locker to look into, it scans across the contents if the foot locker is open or across the closed box if it isn’t--anything interesting in the closed ones can be photographed independently later. It looks like it’s mostly personal items: uniforms, the very obvious corner of a wrapped condom, and so on.
When the camera reaches the framed map, it holds for a long moment, then zooms in on the number in the corner: 45TH. Anything else that might need more detail--the posters and pin-ups, the graffiti, the small collection of books, the pamphlet, and so on--also gets a relatively lengthy steady shot. The video covers the adjoining room in the same way, although the kitchen and bathroom areas there are less interesting than the main area.
Other people are in the room, but with one exception, they’re represented mostly by how quickly the camera moves past them. While their faces are never shown, the shot sometimes catches a shoulder, or an elbow, or the back of someone’s head. There is occasional murmured conversation in the background.
The contents of the video will probably be interesting to at least some of the people who see it, in spite of the excruciatingly boring pacing and cinematography. It’s like the world’s longest documentary about a barracks, made by someone with a selectively near-infinite attention span who sometimes watches security footage for fun. But it is an accurate record, and there is one point where the action heats up.]
River Tam discovered this room earlier, but it took everyone some time to get inside. The duty roster and the condition of the other room in comparison to this one both suggest that this is a staff area. The first area certainly wasn’t.
You won’t have any trouble finding either of them if you follow the map that Mr. Combeferre discovered. For now, it appears to be safe, but I don’t know how long it will remain this--
[Across the room, there's an unintelligible shriek (distinct to some, maybe), something akin to a gasp, but miserable; echoes of someone else's anguish (?). River mutters a litany of 'oh no' under her breath and there's a journal in her hands, old and worn and falling apart. ]
I found him. Didn't want it, didn't want to stay.
[The camera approaches her, mostly because the man behind it is curious about what she’s found. River stares up at him with frightened eyes, like a man right before his hour of death. It doesn’t seem to be Ryuuzaki that she’s afraid of.]
Aren't you going to save me?
[The video pauses then, and resumes an indeterminate amount of time later--not long. The camera focuses on three leaves of a journal in turn, River’s hands holding them and turning the pages. The man’s voice can be heard thanking her, more softly than the rest of his narration.
The camera then resumes its measured circuit around the room. When Ryuuzaki speaks again, he sounds slightly less confident than he had earlier, eager to stop talking, almost curt.]
I also have footage of the first area. If you’re interested, I’ll send it. Let me know.
[He’s shaken: how had River known that the journals were in the room?]
[As far as L is concerned, this message accomplishes two goals.
The area River found is now documented, intact, for everyone who might be interested in it; once they’ve received the video, they can make the decision of whether or not to come look for themselves. The condition of the network in this location of the ship makes it hard for him to tell whether or not someone has yet posted a similar record of the first area that was discovered.
His own video has enough detail to serve as a record, and still images can be isolated from it later, if necessary. L has no authority to have the area preserved and searched in a way that he would consider professional, and in any case, the members of SEC who have remained on board have better things to do than guarding a scene from the depredations of passengers interested in titillating photos of young women. It seems possible that the room's existence is more important than its contents, but it’s hard to tell something like that without further investigation.
His second aim is more personal: if he creates and sends the video himself, if he seems to have the whole thing covered, he’s less likely to appear in someone else’s similar footage. There was a time when Amane could kill if she had seen a face, and the possibility that she she might turn up with that ability during any jump, and Yagami might turn up and request it, seems to exist. L might not be able to protect himself with any certainty, but keeping his face off the network if he can is an easy way for him to feel slightly more secure.
Even the next day, River's apparently intuitive knowledge of the existence of the journals is still troubling. She couldn't have been in the room before--she could never have gotten the door open on her own. Yet she had been insistent and vocal about the idea that people were trapped there, and once they'd broken into the room, the pages, the most personal things that seemed to be left of the people who had once used the room, seemed to be the locus of her certainty.]
[OOC note: This video draws from the mods’ description of the room! Anything that’s in that is in the video, but most of the foot lockers and such haven’t been opened yet (so that items other players want to keep under wraps won’t necessarily appear here). Likewise, if you ask for the video of the first area, which I included mainly because it doesn’t make sense for L to take such detailed footage of only one of the two, you can just assume that it follows the mods’ description in the event post and is shot in the same detail-oriented way. The second transmission of this message should be accessible to people who were on the Cyllene after they get back.
There are no specific mentions of who was in the room in the video, because a lot of the threads are barely underway. If you sent your character into this room in the first group and don’t mind that L filmed their shoulder or elbow, which they probably would have noticed at the time, your assumptions are fine with me! River’s face is already on the network, so he wouldn’t be too careful not to show it.
Finally, if the subject of the journals comes up, be prepared for River to threadjack.]