Night 18

[theyregooddogs]

[we exploring]

Comments

[truthstranger]

Were there any instruments at all other than the piano? Do you think that's relevant?

[theyregooddogs]

Not that I recall. But "breathe, kind friends," unless someone was adding something extraneous.

[which isn't unreasonable]

[truthstranger]

Well, 'orchestration' is an interesting word choice, too. I suppose we could try the piano. It did lick me before...

[pandatreasure]

[if they head up to the library, the piano is still there.

waiting. watching. dangerously close to meowing.]

[theyregooddogs]

Mm, it's chromatic scale. Play it with all sharps.

[truthstranger]

A-Ah, I don't know what that means.

[my pianist girlfriend died before she could teach me things]

[theyregooddogs]

It's a way of notating music without using the symbols we're used to.

[when they're at the piano, waving Shuichi back just a step then playing the tune]

[pandatreasure]

[The piano keys retract, slooowly.

The slobbery, sandpapery tongue comes out of the mouth.

It slowly, tenderly licks Will's hand.

It retreats back into the piano.

...

Thanks.]

[truthstranger]

...Ah... that's what it did last time, too.

[theyregooddogs]

[not amused, wiping his hand off on his pants]

Any chance something somewhere else changed?

[truthstranger]

I suppose it's possible, but... as far as I know, nothing happened before.

[theyregooddogs]

It may need a change of location.

[but is the piano bolted]

[pandatreasure]

[it sure is. it can't just be gotten rid of that easy!!!]

[truthstranger]

[apparently]

I don't think we can move it...

[theyregooddogs]

The elevator also has a sequential pattern that fits, but it doesn't relate to the breathing. There aren't any instruments in the tunnel, but we could check if anything has changed.

[could go on and on]

Do you have anything?

[truthstranger]

The aquarium is the most relevant thing to breathing that I can think of... nothing else comes to mind.

[theyregooddogs]

There's also the pond.

But it's also something than can "harm" us. So, where can we find water and danger and music?

[truthstranger]

...I don't know about water, but for the rest of it, maybe the auditorium stage...?

[theyregooddogs]

[still churning options]

Any mirrors?

[truthstranger]

Ah? Why mirrors? There's some in the bathrooms, obviously, or... the interrogation room?

[theyregooddogs]

You'll find out. Let's go to the interrogation room. And find a bat.

[truthstranger]

Er... if you say so...

[this seems legitimate. there's probably some sort of blunt force weapon to grab, though]

[theyregooddogs]

[like there's any limit to weapons around here??? still he's walking very calmly to the scene once he has a weapon. standing to the side and breaking the mirror with a trained ease, #coplife]

[pandatreasure]

[we got weapons for DAYS, all of which are more than adequate to get the glass to shatter.

it's a good thing we brought a flashlight, because it'd be impossible to see what's in the space behind the mirror without it, it's so dark in there—it looks like a long, concrete corridor, eventually turning a hard corner.

the space where the mirror was is big enough for the two to fit through if they pull themselves up or get a boost and duck on the way in but mmmaybe mind all of this glass everywhere...]

[truthstranger]

Ah! You were right, there's a passageway!