Alamantus

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As for fitting stuff into his bag, this is where inventory management comes into play, right? His bag is all maxed out on slots, but there should be some room in his pockets if I understood correctly.

@Vertigo

Correctomundo! And you can shift things around back and forth between your bag and pockets—a bag just extends your inventory space.

That post looks good to me!

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@Vertigo Cool, no problem! I just wanted to check because I've had a lot of players ghost in the past :)

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Gonna wait for a Dunk post before I continue with Pebs.

@Typical

That's what I assumed.

@Vertigo, you still with us?

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As Pebs peers down into the drain, she sees a glint far down in the drain. As she strains to see what it might be, she eventually makes out what she was hoping for—a key! Strangely, there appears to be a large-ish metallic hoop attached to the key standing straight up as it is weighed down by the key. The hoop is positioned right in the middle of the drain about 3 feet down, almost as if it was begging to be pulled up by some means.

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@Alamantus Shoot, I just realized I never replied to your comment on Discord. Yes, I think it'd be better to keep in touch with, especially with some small stuff. Since the group's small, just posting on the thread works too, but it just feels so... inefficient. So yeah, I'd prefer we switch to a Discord if possible.

@Typical

Ok! I sent you and @Vertigo a discord link via PM. :)

As for the post, pretty standard stuff. Took the liberty of assuming there's no signal (because uh. well. hello police) but lemme know if I should change that.

@Typical

Yep! No service. If she had somehow been able to get her phone to make a call anyway, she would have encountered a bunch of static sound!

Also, it's pretty hard to pick up any flat object that's lying down, so picking up a key with a hook seems pretty undoable... Maybe if it weren't lying down, sure, but flat on its side there wouldn't really be anything for the hook to hook onto, right? (basically just pointing this out in case this is actually what the characters are meant to do. If there a spoilers, feel free to keep your secrets and stay mum).

@Typical

Yeah, Pebs is gonna notice something interesting about the key when I post. (for some reason, there's a big ol' ring standing up as if it was intended to be fished out!)

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Duncan feels around and finds the door knob on the other side. It has a simple turn lock, and as he feels around some more, he feels that there is also a deadbolt underneath the knob. Both feel like totally normal locks, and he can actually feel them give way easily as he touches them.

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Done and done! Let me know if him getting his hand through is implausible, and I'll edit accordingly (adding that he made the hole bigger first, or the like). I left it vague as to whether he could actually reach the handle at all also.

If he can reach it, should I roll for something to see if he can figure out how the door is locked?

@Vertigo

Duncan can definitely get his hand through the hole he made! I'm imagining it roughly the size of a shoebox viewed from the top below and to the left of the knob, so there's plenty of space. And because of that positioning, I'd say it's pretty easy to just reach on through and work the door knob, so no roll necessary.

Excited (and a bit apprehensive) to see where the hand through the door goes. Fingers crossed this stays all G-rated and easy on my heart.

@Typical

I don't want to spoil too much, but...

Minor spoiler

Let's just say that this is not a horror/slasher movie.

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Sorry for the wait! It was a very busy weekend from Thursday on for me. I'll reply to everything within an hour or two!

Also, I do use Discord, too. Are you thinking it'd be better to keep in touch with, or as a disaster plan? @Typical

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she opened up the lined paper for them both to see. Was it as blank and innocuous as it seemed?

@Typical

Unfolding the paper reveals a diagram written in, what, is that some kind of green marker?

In bright green marker is a crude drawing of an oval with several lines drawn through it, a line going down through the circle with a sort of hooked end with an arrow is drawn pointing down along its length. Further down the paper is another line with a circle at one end and kind of a jagged edge coming off the top side of the line? Another arrow points at the circle with the jagged line sticking out.

^{@Typical@Vertigo}

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Working methodically, opening the top cabinets first from left to right, Pebs finds that each cabinet contains one thing:

The first has a flathead screwdriver with a red handle;
the second, a small radio-controlled pickup truck that's about a foot long and half a foot wide;
third, a folded sheet of lined paper;
fourth, a tangle of wires coated in several different colors, the frayed metal sticking out the ends of each;
fifth, a bare speaker that looks like it was removed from something rather than bought new;
sixth, a D Battery;
seventh, needlenose pliers with orange handles and a wire stripper on the inside end;
and eighth, a C Battery.

@Typical