trusthell | Final Investigation.

You've all done very well to make it this far, but it's not over yet.

The klaxons blare out today, as they always do – there's no reason they should do any differently, not least of which because it's a Thursday; strange things usually don't happen around here until Fridays, and there's no reason to think that today will be any different.

But as soon as you awaken and get a glimpse of what's happening down that first-floor corridor, it becomes very apparent that that's far from the case.

The usual rooms on the eastern wing of the first floor are gone entirely, replaced by more of that glossy black that coats the courtroom; it's a little vertigo-inspiring at first, but it's not dangerous.

Of more interest, then, is probably those three rooms that seem to be waiting for you – one to the north, two to the south.

Choose where you're going to go. Look around for a while.

What else are you going to do, after all?

>Explore?

[OOC: Welcome to the final investigation! The areas blocked off in rooms 2 and 3 will require card keys to open; otherwise, you are free to investigate at your leisure!

Remember, we need 15 comments total from each of you on this log somewhere!]

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[Good guess! It turns on!

...Slightly more pressing is what it's showing, which appears to be a city. It's populated and you can see people walking by. The city itself is pretty standard as cities go; densely-populated and made of tall buildings. There seem to be a lot of people though! Look at them all, damn.]

Holy shit!

[Guessing it doesn't have any modern Earth recognizable features?]

[Glancing over there and what the shit.]

...Well, that seems to answer where we are.

[Huh.

Colress leans in to give it a better look. Indeed, is there anything recognizable about it?]

[Nope. It looks like it could be almost any city anywhere... except probably Pokémon world, since there aren't any Pokémon.]

Maybe we can see more and figure out where it is?

[Time to push one of the other buttons, starting right to left]

[That button changes the view! You're no longer looking at a city, instead you're looking at a room... that looks suspiciously like one of your rooms in the Vault.

It's definitely not one of yours though, and it's not one of the rooms you guys haven't touched either. The layout is different and it looks like someone's been living in there. They didn't even make the bed! Or clean up!! Rude. They're not in the room, however, so there's that.]

... could this be the other Vault?!

[The one he was SO SURE was fake? ~~Or one of the various other games he doesn't know about yet~~

Guessing the room is vague enough that'd be impossible to guess who lives there ~~It's def not Yu, the bed isn't made~~]

[Yep, it's too vague to figure out who this room could belong to.]

[Time to move on then, next button get]

[Another room! And another different layout. They're all bedrooms at least, but this one has a TV! How totally unfair.]

...man I wish I had a tv.

[Speaking off he kinda... casually taps the screen real fast- no he doesn't expect anything, no one else has their powers, but he hasn't had the chance to really check (and the arcade machines just seemed like trouble waiting to happen.)

Moving on!]

[Yep, sorry, Yosuke. No dice.

Another button press will net you something totally different! This looks like the control room you're currently in, but better lit. Also the monitors are all off and there's no one around, so there's that.]

A different control room. So they aren't all controlled from here?

[Boopboop you'd think he was Beat with so many buttons]

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[A more different control room!! This one actually has the screens on. It looks like it's monitoring a murder game as well, though there's no one around to control things here either.]

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[As Yosuke goes through the shots of control rooms...]

I believe the more concerning thing we should consider is the fact that there are multiple control rooms for multiple events like this.

Is there some sort of network connecting all of them...?

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That is...a very good possibility.

[Even Colress was questioning if it was real or not...]

Are there shots of any of the other rooms? Perhaps we might catch sight of someone.

No one yet, but all the rooms are different. Maybe different Vaults? Holy hell...

...The other vault, from the photographs...?

[It's a theory. Maybe save theories for later.]

[He was definitely looking for Pokemon.

If it weren't for that, he might've thought of Castelia City...

But yes, let's see what the other buttons do, Yosuke.]

[Srry Colress, he can't resist buttons]

[It's all good. Buttons are very fun.]

[Another button press will get you another room! This one looks similar to the room you were just looking at the ones in the Vault... but the layout is different again. Huh. At least this person made their bed.]

[Weird. Why do the layouts keep changing?

Is this room similarly nondescript? If so, Colress will go along the line of buttons to see if something more recognizable or at least describable pops up.]

[Yep. It looks like you're getting nondescript living spaces here. Yosuke's found something interesting though!]