GRAVEYARD

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Reflexively, you curl tighter. Just another minute. Just another minute of sleep is all you need, but the sun waits for no one. Wait. The sun? After many days and nights with only moonlight to guide you, your eyes snap open and your pupils contract at the light.

It's been a while, hasn't it?

Bask in this euphoria for however long it lasts, until your memory snaps back against your mind like a rubber band. Weren't you dead? No matter how you met your end, you certainly remember dying in vivid detail. The pain that corresponds to the last moment's of your life chooses then to make itself known, trying to wriggle free from your skin almost literally. That mark on your skin wasn't there before either.

Take a moment to breathe and get your bearings, and really take everything into focus. The warm rays of sun that dance upon your skin are colorful and fragmented like a kaleidoscope, the effect of being filtered through stained glass. Of all the places to wake up, it seems you're inside a church that's no stranger to you, St. Mary's Basilica. While the odds are good you've woken up with company somewhere near by, the glint of gold from the altar will likely catch your attention regardless—embedded deep in the altar stands a golden staff, two sculpted wings draped down its sides.

While some things are the same, and some things are different, there are still more questions than answers. But the inscription engraved into the roof of the ceiling of the Church, now visible in proper lighting seems rather apt: Welcome to Krakow (again).

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[youspinmeknightround]

Last week, the power came on at the opera house. Maybe we can light up another place.

[tokihanate]

Well, that woman isn't right here right now. She doesn't have hold here. [ He puts a hand to his chin. ] Now how do we do this?

[noellemadic]

[...well he's right. She's not here. If there's a chance to do something that may inconvenience her, it's now. Noelle sighs]

First put something between your hands and the box, just in case.

[Would be easy if they had gloves]

[youspinmeknightround]

[Suzaku is wearing gloves right now actually]

No need. I can take care of this.

[he'll just try to pull it open first of all.

don't make him kick you, box]

[umbralant]

[ Wearing gloves is very reasonable! As is just checking to see if it willjust pull open. Which it does, but it's kind of jammed. Inside Suzaku can catch a glimpse of buttons and switches, along with one lone yellow light.

Pull harder or kick? ]

[tokihanate]

Why don't you try your speciality~

[youspinmeknightround]

What do you mean?

[tokihanate]

You know. [ He lifts his leg and swings lightly. ] Your thing, right?

[youspinmeknightround]

[he's the first one to call him out on this, surprisingly. Suzaku blinks, then nods.]

I can give it a shot.

[Surely a good hard kick to the hinges will fix that jam!!]

[umbralant]

[ BAM!

Spinzaku to the rescue, it not only opens the door but also disconnects it cleanly, sailing far off into the fog in the distance. Seconds later it comes flying back because this fog is rude, so heads up.

But now that you've got the latch open, time to see what's inside:

The first thing you'll probably notice is a single lit yellow indicator light with text inscribed above:

GREEN = ON, YELLOW = STANDBY, RED = OFF

TO RESET INPUT THE PROPER CODE

Directly to the bottom of the text is a row buttons: ⚪, ▭, ╳, ▢, △

And to the right taking up the rest of the panel space inside is a series of switches. Some of them are areas you haven't heard of, but others you should be familiar with by now: Milk Bar, Bookstore, Science Museum, Laundromat, Jazz Bar. ]

[tokihanate]

[ Wow, dangerous. He ducks Noelle if she doesn't have the reflexes to duck. Then down to business. ]

What's this, game controls?

[youspinmeknightround]

First, let's see how these switches work.

[How many positions can you flip them to?]

[noellemadic]

[Oh, she definitely has the reflexes for it, grandpa]

I have a hard time believing they'll put game controls in here. No, it could be something else, maybe a numeric code represented as symbols...

[Or maybe Hyoubu is right and these are game controls because really, both that and numeric codes with symbols have no place inside a power box. The electrician responsible for this must be quite the weirdo]

Too many buttons to guess randomly with, anyway.

[umbralant]

[ The switches are circuit breaker switches: they only flip from left to right, doing so yields no reaction or any other visual cue. ]

[youspinmeknightround]

Do we want to search for more clues before we attempt to do trial and error?

[tokihanate]

We could split up. Someone can look for clues and the other can try the switches. Or...

[noellemadic]

I can stay here and try the switches while you all search. May as well try to be orderly with this...

[If they have to try random combinations then she's going to have a system for it, she figures.

...she really hopes they find a clue, or else this will take ages]

[youspinmeknightround]

All right. [well then.... they can't walk deeper into the fog, so he'll turn around and go back the other way. Maybe the fog has lifted in that direction too.]

[umbralant]

[ Ganba Noelle.

While the fog doesn't seem to have lifted, turning back the other way does yield a new discovery. Or a few minutes old one at that, as Suzaku's foot hits the door panel they blew off before. It's flipped over on it's side and there seems to be writing on the inside it. ]

[tokihanate]

Hmm what's that say? [ He tries to clear up the fog in his mind to look. ]

[youspinmeknightround]

Oh! Maybe that's what's missing.

[yep, he'll lift that up to read it.]

[umbralant]

[ Aren't you glad you read Polish? Written in scrawly handwriting in sharpie the message reads:

"Two ladies are cross enough for any man."

"Use that to reset the entire box, then flip a switch. Needs replacement, trying to power more than one area tends to lock the entire system and then we gotta call HQ. Who designed this thing anyway?" ]

[tokihanate]

[ Yes who the hell designed this thing. He looks around to see if there's anything else around that's more helpful than this riddle.... which probably won't yield anything, but...!! ]

[youspinmeknightround]

Two ladies are cross enough for any man...?

[this doesn't make much sense but.]

Maybe it means pushing both square buttons and then the x...

[he'll just excuse himself past Noelle and make this attempt]

[umbralant]

[ As soon as Suzaku presses a button, the yellow light blinks.

SQUARE SQUARE X

Yields nothing, the light is still blinking. Looks like it requires more than 3 inputs. ]