umbralant | GRAVEYARD

Graveyard

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

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]

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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.]

[ 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. ]

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

Oh! Maybe that's what's missing.

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

[ 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?" ]

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[ 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...!! ]

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]

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[ 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. ]

[Oh. Well, eh... Triangle Circle next then. Might as well see if the code is the same number as the amount of buttons]

[ After Suzaku presses Triangle, the light stops blinking and goes solid, which means its a 4 button input. The light also stays yellow. ]

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[Well, that doesn't look like it worked. He'll try square square cross circle, and if that is wrong then his theory about the clue is just off]

Looks like we have to flip a switch to confirm once this light turns green. Which one should we do?

[

SQUARE SQUARE CROSS CIRCLE

The light blinks and then stays yellow. ]

Hmm.... I thought the 'cross' meant the X and the ladies were the square and the rectangle [which look practically identical to him] since there were two. Definitely looks like that was wrong, though. Could the ladies be referring to chromosomes...? That would mean two x each.

[CROSS CROSS CROSS CROSS]

[

CROSS CROSS CROSS CROSS

The light blinks and stays yellow. ]

Circle I feel usually represents women because... mother earth, etc other symbolism I feel so maybe...

[ circle cicle x triangle

or

circle circle x rectangle

because, dicks or something. ]

[

CIRCLE CIRCLE X TRIANGLE

The light turns green.

What location switch are you going to power on? ]

Huh. Thanks to mother earth.

I'd like to choose the science lab if possible. I think it would send more of a message...

Well, more than a message... it has that laboratory right? That's probably useful with some electricity more than.. those other places. [ Maybe. ]

...Ah, in that case, I'm not so sure. I think all it has is that T-Rex, but I didn't get to explore it much.

[what with all the murder he did instead]

Hmm. We could salvage parts from the t-rex to make something?

[Honestly he has a bad feeling about sabotaging the museum any further.]

I think using this to communicate with the Night is what we need to focus on. If we can affect their power, it's possible we can also affect machines that run on that power too.

[ Look Suzy, he's part of the problem with the sabotaging things, he doesn't mind if the whole city's wrecked up. ]

Hm. I'm not sure what else would be really effective. I did find something working at that... McDonalds? [ Was that the name it went by there?] But that's not on the list here.

[he'll just... figure that out later, alright]

The jazz bar could let us play music for them, although if my theory is wrong it wouldn't be useful for much else.

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