third loop

[cancrymods]

SUPERBIA

On midnight of the fourteenth day, it happens again. Time rewinds itself back to the Executors' starting point, putting them right back at the beginning of the loop. This is now their third time experiencing the events of the two-week Superbia loop and while they've made some good progress on the investigation, they still have a ways to go in bringing it to and end and escaping. Use this log to investigate during this two-week time period and drop a comment down to the Investigation Request subheader if you'd like to explore. If you're continuing or building off of a previous loop's investigation results, please link to it in your comment. If you need a refresher on the loop mechanics, check out this post. Good luck, Executors.

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INVESTIGATION REQUESTS

[cancrymods]

[emberserker]

She's bound to turn up something if she keeps investigating. Wolfsbane gets up from her room in the student dorms in the middle of the night and starts sneaking around the halls. Anything out of the ordinary there this time around? Weird signs on the bulletin boards, cursed stairwell graffiti...?

[cancrymods]

Nothing out of the ordinary, unfortunately! It's a lil spooky just on account of it being after dark, but there doesn't seem to be anything sinister or Authority related going on in the dorms.

She will eventually get caught by the faculty member who oversees the dorms, though, and be sent back to bed after a light scolding.

[daughterofthemark]

Well, obvious first step here is to check in on her Three Chosen Trees and see if they're still in the state she left them in.

[cancrymods]

The Chosen Trees and all the other changes Veil made at the end of the last loop have remained!

[etincelledefierte]

After meeting Miss President last loop, Etoile is going to head to the student council’s room. Under the guise of looking for some paperwork for the theatre club, she’s going to look for anything that looks off or shouldn’t be there.

[cancrymods]

First of all, Etoile will notice that the room looks basically exactly the same as she did when she left last loop – as in, literally the same. Any changes made to the room seem to have been retained with this loop.

Is there anything or anywhere in particular she's checking out?

[etincelledefierte]

She's going to start in the direction of where Miss President was getting the tea and snacks from.

[cancrymods]

It's just a little cupboard on the wall! Nothing too fancy. If she pokes around inside, she'll find pots of tea leaves, a tea set and packets of sweets and snacks from the school store. That sort of thing.

But if Etoile looks around in there a little more, she'll find something else – tucked away carefully at the back of the cupboard. It's hard to spot, if you're not already looking for something that's out of place.

It's a photograph.

Take a look?

Miss President

[schardynfreude]

Mr. Chiron would be delighted to make her acquaintance better and have a lovely, lively conversation about some of the activities students can involve themselves in! This Has No Chance Of Going Poorly.

[cancrymods]

No Chance Whatsoever!

If he's looking for Miss President, she's relatively easy to find – she's in the Student Council room as usual.

How does Chiron want to approach this conversation?

[schardynfreude]

He'll knock on the door and poke his head in! He is a polite teacher! And hopefully she doesn't block the way like he's done before shh it's okay everything's fine.

"Good afternoon~! Am I speaking to the Student Council President?" Yes he is we know he is. Does this take place before or after the knock on the door? Yes. "Ah, so you're the one to talk to about getting students involved in activities and celebrations, yes?"

[swordofajerk]

Okay so after the butterfly thing last time, Sword is going to go and check the roof again. He wants to see if the butterfly is back, and then start to look for what might have been setting it off.

[cancrymods]

The butterfly is not back but a faint impression of the feelings it implanted in his and Phoenix's heads remains, like an emotional blast shadow.

There doesn't seem to be any clear indication of what might have resulted in the butterfly being here as opposed to anywhere else on the Layer, though.

[swordofajerk]

Okay. As Sword wanders around the school and plays at being a teacher, do those feelings get stronger? Like is there a Bad Vibes Radar now that he knows what the Vibes are?

[crypddyd]

So Lion went kinda ham in the forest last loop- when he returns this loop is his destruction still there or did it return to its previous state?

[cancrymods]

Unfortunately for the forest, the aftermath of Lion's rampage is still firmly in place. Think of the poor trees!

[ourtomorrow]

Monarch is going to listen carefully to everyone's descriptions of what they've been up to at the meeting and then go exploring any significant area on campus no one has been yet! Covering every inch of ground is important.

No matter how awkward to access the destination ends up being. There is an wurme waiting(?) for him. He is filled with determination.

[cancrymods]

Well if we're talking grounds, then why not the garden? That's a nice place. Sure to be all kinds of relaxing and – never mind, there's a butterfly here.

It seems to be the same butterfly the other Executors had spotted on the previous layer. It's perched atop a flower and it tinkles gently when Monarch approaches.

[ourtomorrow]

That's - that's one of Rei-san's, isn't it? And it's not the kind of butterfly that's already been spotted, the one that seemed different. This one matches the earlier descriptions.

It's delicate. So....so memory is this fragile a thing.

Monarch will step closer quite carefully indeed, lean down, and offer his hand, palm-up. Hello. He's a friend.

Would you like him to learn what you have to say?

[alcahest]

ALRIGHT LET'S DO IT

mona will start asking around both students and faculty about the previous student council president, and she'll try to phrase it casually, talking about how the current president works so hard and since mona is new here, what was the previous one like?

she's also going to try showing people the photo etoile shared with them on her phone to ask about the other students in the picture. she'll keep miss president herself out of the picture, only showing the other students

[cancrymods]

The photo gets a similar sort of response that Specters tend to give when they're confronted with the facts about Purgatory – they either ignore it outright or not along and then just drop the information right out of their heads. Whatever's going on with the photo, the Specters Do Not See It.

The response she gets when asking about the previous student council president is... a little more interesting, though. For the most part, people just let her talk but eventually there comes a point where they stop her, looking confused and ask something in the vein of: what is she talking about? There was no previous student council president. Miss President has always been head of the student council. Always.

Hm.

Gym???

[heir_to_ruin]

So... that chain still sliced through (Thanks Chiron) or did that get reset?

[cancrymods]

It's still sliced through! If he'd like to enter, no one will stop him.

[heir_to_ruin]

Well then it's time to check out the carnage Chiron and Phoenix were talking about, huh?

It's going to take him awhile to really take stock of all the damage. But, aside from all of the wreckage, how does the gym look? Like... structurally. Have the walls or floors taken any damage? Broken windows and light fixtures, that sort of stuff.