consulting: (➡ wrong)
ѕнerlocĸ нolмeѕ ([personal profile] consulting) wrote in [community profile] ataraxion2012-02-22 12:13 pm

VIDEO

[ Sherlock is adjusting the video. He's squatting on a chair. The floor, which is sort of in view, is covered in papers. All scrawled over in haphazard notes. He rubs his hands together, eyes intense and focused but there's a ghost of a smirk threatening to break free. His words are precise, perhaps said far too quickly. ]

- Alright. First disappearances, Eight people attacked, an unknown number lost in hallways and now skeletons. Oh this is Christmas.

There's a mute button for those of you that don't care for it or are too slow to comprehend, but I think best when I think out loud. Inputs, provided they aren't dull would be most helpful.

[ Fingers press against the tips of his nose. ]

Now, let's dissect this, shall we? Examine what is factual. One, every jump cycle leads to the disappearances of more people. Two, something on this ship is attacking people. Three, reports of people getting stuck in corridors and finding a door, a door that says open me. Followed by: "Don't believe everything they tell you" and "why don’t you sit down and rest a while? sorry about the mess. best i could do on short notice. you’re welcome." all of these signed with smiley faces. End of obvious facts.

Let's do this backwards start with the fourth point. The smiley face, signatures are important. Take a peek at the way it was worded, first with Hello. Greeting, familial, informal. - Those of us in the first batch [ He'll put air quotes on the first batch. ] had seen it in an abandoned elevator if my sources are right. The second being, the message on the door - open me. lower case, smiley, red paint. Because of it's position we can also rule out child, or anyone too short. The strokes get confident in p, e, n and me. O is faded, thinner. Then you enter the room, suddenly - all capitals. What do all capitals suggest? Urgency, look at me. PAY ATTENTION. The strokes are bolder, more confident. We can deduce paint from the texture, left over smudges and brush marks. The writer was not in a hurry - words suggest no hint of emergency; but it's still a point the writer had to get across. Don't believe everything they tell you. Emoticon, again. Now WHO are THEY?

Now, the bones. Cut, scorned and in Tranquility uniforms. The cuts are precise. A more accurate detail in forensics would have been done had the unsettling Jack NOT CHEWED ON THE FEMUR. But we can note that some of the bones are broken. Yet despite the presence of red in the room, none of this is blood. The food can be taken as a gesture of kindness, like the smiley face. Now if the bones had been here a while, they would have collected dirt. Yet, there is no indication of bone decay or dust. How long the skeletons had been there draws a blank. If I had my riding crop, perhaps an examination of the brittleness would have occurred.

We've been dealing with missing people, perhaps they're turning up? We all go through the stasis tubes during jumps, perhaps a few people in the first batch weren't being entirely truthful about just arriving? A cycle of new people every month is guaranteed, and if there were little left. Pretending would have been easy enough to manage with a small group of people. Perhaps, 'they' is a reference to that? It's clearly not a single person we're being warned about. Look at the pronouns! Now, why would people go missing at all? Consider the possibility that the attacks may be a first stage of disappearances and whomever is writing is giving out a warning?

Oh, so many ideas to explore. Give me facts, give me conspiracies, every theory you've drummed up because -

[ Oh he's outright grinning now. ]

The game is on.
madmaninabox: (oh look a shiny penny)

[personal profile] madmaninabox 2012-02-22 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
...Corridor. It was an abandoned corridor at the end of a supposedly broken lift.
walksonrooftops: (uncertain)

Video

[personal profile] walksonrooftops 2012-02-22 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Theories...

[He thinks for a moment before continuing, more quietly.]

I think the corridors and strange room were in different worlds.

[Is this helpful? He hopes this is helpful. The whole thing has him extremely worried, so he wouldn't want to withhold anything.]
testgasm: portalcaps @ tumblr (because it melted)

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[personal profile] testgasm 2012-02-22 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[That's right, Sherlock. You think real hard and solve this puzzle. POST YOUR PROCESS FOR US CREEPY VOYEURS]

I have a list of suspects! For you.

Well. It's just one suspect, and mostly for the disappearances, and the people getting attacked issue, but hey, that's better than nothing, right?

[Wheatley...]
barkstabbark: (⚛ SFX: ANGRY)

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[personal profile] barkstabbark 2012-02-22 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
You can't fucking prove that was me!!
firstofficer: (✩ONE:: unsure.doubt.)

text | locked to team | encryption 100%

[personal profile] firstofficer 2012-02-22 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Detective?
walksonrooftops: (downwards)

Video

[personal profile] walksonrooftops 2012-02-22 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
People went missing but no one could find them. Everyone was in the same room but didn't see anyone else there. Then they all disappeared.

How else could that happen?
madmaninabox: (the doctor explains it all)

[personal profile] madmaninabox 2012-02-22 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Chase and I were out exploring when she had one of her vision-y things. Led us to some of the others and a lift previously thought to be broken. Took a ride, found a hallway and an un-unlockable door with the word 'Hello' and that signature smiley-face.

I tried to communicate back, once. Through your broadcast. Thought whoever-it-was might be listening.
andblockbuster: (Other people are into sex. Or cats.)

[personal profile] andblockbuster 2012-02-22 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
[...Topher can't even go with brain theories right now, because, dude, if the answer is to solve the puzzle, then clearly this guy has the right idea, so no matter whose theory is right... It's a win/win.]

People have been saying say there's two people left from the original crew, right? So when the first group arrived, those two were obviously were the ones with all the answers. And... How many people have talked to them exactly?
walksonrooftops: (concern)

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[personal profile] walksonrooftops 2012-02-22 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
I...hm.

[Smaller words, Sherlock. This guy didn't exactly read a whole lot of books when he was a kid.]

The food? They made the different worlds to suit everyone who went it? Or it read our thoughts.
testgasm: <lj site="livejournal.com" user="relicfragments"> (i am thinking really hard about algebra)

[personal profile] testgasm 2012-02-22 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
Uh, excuse you. Robot pawn? I'm not anybody's robot pawn, I am--especially not Doctor Watson's robot pawn. I'm an independent robot, thanks very much.

Anyway, I have it on good account that there is a serial killer on board.

barkstabbark: (⚛ fuck your shit)

[personal profile] barkstabbark 2012-02-22 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
[SNARLING INTO MIC]

Oh yeah, asshole?! Fine, fucking prove it! Give me all your fucking bullshit made-up proof! I'm an innocent fucking bystander, how the fuck do you even know I was in that room?!
constructum: (sad)

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[personal profile] constructum 2012-02-22 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
I'm missing two of my friends now. [ she is stressing two also. knowing that there was two bodies discovered and that clearly has her looking more scared then anything. ]

And I'm having a hard time trying to understand how this is even reality.
andblockbuster: (Wait for it.... Chaos theory.)

[personal profile] andblockbuster 2012-02-22 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
So there's a 'who' They gave us one set of answers and then never said anything else- worried about contradicting their stories? Trying to lay low? Who knows? But I think any answer we could hope to get from this starts with the crew. They're the ones who know everything about this creepy ship, so why aren't they talking?
testgasm: <lj site="livejournal.com" user="relicfragments"> (fml)

[personal profile] testgasm 2012-02-22 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Nonononono, it's not the cat. It's not. This is an actual, for-real, completely bonkers serial killer. She is totally legit.

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