Season 1 / Eloise - "Overboard" [The First Trial Projection]

Kaoru Naito

Kaoru is generally nosy and likes being in the way, so his presence in the corner of this room, just on the cusp of where the machine will catch him, is not an uncommon sight by now. He's gotten his creeping down to a fine art.

Since he knows he's following Ellie's voice down the hall, though, he actually steps into the room, calling up towards her lightheartedly.

"I better see somethin' badass in here, Captain, geheheh."

Andrew Edgeworth

Another day, another projection. Ellie's though…he'd be lying if he said he wasn't curious. She didn't seem particularly ashamed of her murder at all, even pre-reveal of why they were all there. If nothing else, she'd want to be told if anything cool happened in it, so Andrew followed in after Kaoru.

Tatsuko Onizuka

Tatsuko likes projections! They've been pretty fun overall, so much so that she's nearly forgotten that they're all about, y'know, murder. But she thinks Ellie is pretty cool, so she's looking forward to this. And either way, she was getting pretty bored of the usual prison life, so she tags along when she sees a group moving toward the projection room.

Ellie Carter

You step through the creaking wooden door into the ship's charting room. The smell of sea salt and aged parchment fills the air. The walls are lined with shelves of weathered books, old scrolls, and brass instruments. But there's something immediately off about it all other than the time and place you've been transported to. Everything feels flat, like everyone except you isn't real. The world around you is drawn on layers of old, stained brown paper. Your vision swims in sepia colors and inkblots dot your vision.

At the center of the room sits a large table, its surface covered with a sprawling, old map. But resting right on top of it— cut and pasted into the scene like a mismatched collage— is a laptop. The texture of that piece feels as if it was torn out from an old magazine ad, the edges frayed. The hum of its fan can be heard over the sound of the waves coming in through the windows.

Kaoru Naito

Wow it's awesome in here. Kaoru likes it. He walks over to look at the map, picking at the corner of it with his nail while flippantly pointing at the laptop and saying, "Ehh, puzzle fer' y'all, I don't speak geeky." He hopes they teleport into it. Like video games.

Ellie Carter

He walks over to look at the map, picking at the corner of it with his nail while flippantly pointing at the laptop

Kaoru Naito

The map, despite the vintage look, is one of the United States of America. Scrawled lines and notes decorate the map, surrounding polaroid photos pinned to the paper. None of you knew Ellie before this, yet the photos are of you.

Under a picture of Tatsuko—

N3M3515DR4G0N

1:35AM

SWAT RAID AT PLAZA HOTEL

CITIZEN REPORT

Under a picture of Kaoru—

DIESELCUMSLUT

11:56PM

GRABBED AT BLACKOUT CLUB

SELFIE METADATA

Under a picture of Andrew—

TAXFRAUDT0M

7:21AM

ARRESTED AT OFFICE

UNKNOWN TRACE

Tatsuko Onizuka

Tatsuko's always wondered what it would be like to be a drawing. Feels very… monochromatic. Good experience, but she thinks she'll probably get bored soon and will want to stare at some color when she gets back to the prison. She looks around the cabin in awe.

"Holy shit, she really is a pirate! No fucking way!"

She immediately makes a beeline for the laptop and starts pressing buttons to turn it on. Ellie do you have games on your computer

Ellie Carter

Tatsuko Onizuka

She immediately makes a beeline for the laptop and starts pressing buttons to turn it on.

The laptop wakes up with a simple tap to any key. Text begins to scroll across the screen.

Kali GNU/Linux kali-rolling

capnk4li@kali:~$ systemctl status auth@user-session

auth@user-session.service - User Authentication Agent

Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/auth@.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)

Active: active (running)

Docs: man:auth-agent(8)

[SYSTEM] COMPUTER STATUS: LOCKED

[SYSTEM] AUTHENTICATION: SECONDARY_AUTH REQUIRED

[SYSTEM] MODULE: sec-questions v3.1

------------------------------------------------------------

SECURITY-QUESTION CHALLENGE

You must correctly answer 3 of 6 to unlock the account.

Q1) TAXFRAUDT0M'S TIE TO VICTIM

Q2) N3M3515DR4G0N'S RESENTMENT

Q3) DIESELCUMSLUT'S GOING RATES

Q4) TAXFRAUDT0M'S RIVAL CREW

Q5) N3M3515DR4G0N'S FIRST FLAME

Q6) DIESELCUMSLUT'S COUCH PIRATE

Enter responses as: Qn <answer> (example: Q2 Seattle)

capnk4li@kali:~$ _

Andrew Edgeworth

Truly, he wasn't sure what else he expected from a representation of Ellie's mind-

Andrew looks over Tatsuko's shoulder in case any actual computer knowledge was needed.

Tatsuko Onizuka

That's… a lot of words. Going very fast. Tatsuko.exe has stopped working.

Ellie Carter

You've been investigating the vision laid before you for a minute now... The odd papery world of it had distracted you, but as you mentally adjust to it you realize something else is strange— the wardens had entered this projection too, but they're nowhere to be found.

Kaoru Naito

"…….."

He's staring at the map and looking over at the laptop screen. Kaoru might have been right, he doesn't speak geeky and he actually doesn't know how to feel about this. But he'd surely notice his favorite people in the world's absence…

"Hey, where's th' Three Stooges? I know they suuuuck suck suck suck at their job, but flakin's a whole new level, specially fer Mr. Perfect Ei-ttendance."

Where's his touy….? his funny guy to harass into yelling….?

Andrew Edgeworth

"Here, let me…" Andrew sighs, gently waving Tatsuko to the side to give her brain some time to reboot.

He looks over at the map to make some connections to the security questions. "These are awfully specific questions. I doubt we have the information we need to answer any yet. Maybe we have to find the wardens somewhere…?"

Tatsuko Onizuka

Tatsuko also looks around, very happy to stop looking at the computer for a little bit. He's right! The wardens are gone! She is free (from their presence. Unfortunately she is still in prison.)!!!!!!

"Who cares where they are! We don't need them! Let's just stay here and do whatever the fuck we want! What're they gonna do, stop us?" She's already eyeing one of the guns on the wall. Are those real or are they just drawings?

Ellie Carter

Tatsuko Onizuka

Are those real or are they just drawings?

Everything* looks like a drawing right now, including Kaoru and Andrew. Of course, Tatsuko also looks like nothing but a sketch on the page to Andrew or Kaoru.

*minus the laptop, which looks as if it is a photo torn out from an old magazine ad.

Kaoru Naito

Kaoru stops and thinks about the puzzle while picking at some of the paper edges of the furniture in the room idly. Something to do. He'd love to put his hand through a wall, it seems like it would feel good as fuck.

"Nah, me mateys, looksee," he says in a weird combination of his regular way of talking and a piratey twang while reaching out to touch the computer with his finger, tapping. "That's some shit I said to Ellie 'fore, 'bout my own crew." He touches the words Couch Pirate. "I think it's just askin' 'bout us, yeah? She's a nosy motherfucker ain't she? Geheheh."

Andrew Edgeworth

Kaoru Naito “I think it’s just askin’ ’bout us, yeah? She’s a nosy motherfucker ain’t she? Geheheh.”

Andrew raises an eyebrow. "That does make sense, especially for why it only requires three answers. Neither of the questions under my…'username' ring any kind of bell for me. Any of these remind you two of conversation topics you've with her?"

Tatsuko Onizuka

Tatsuko looks back at the computer, scrutinizing it. Or at least trying her best to. "I mean… a little? First one for me feels a little vague, but we could give it a try."

Kaoru Naito

Kaoru teases, "Aw, c'mon Taxy Tommy, nothin'? Y'ain't got like, the guys y' compete with makin' business cards n' shit to punch in? Maybe yer tie t' the victim's just that yer their killer, geheh."

He starts flicking the top of the laptop, because if he stops interacting with objects his heart will stop beating.

"Give it a whirl, I can shoot next."

Tatsuko Onizuka

Tatsuko is racking her brain to remember the last conversation she had with Ellie. This is a very difficult and strenuous process on the minimal amount of brain cells that she has that makes her forget mostly everything but the general vibe of conversations after she has them. Eventually, she seems to come to a conclusion and types a few words into the computer.

Q2 the hotel maybe exploded and i didn't even get to see it!!!!!!

Ellie Carter

Tatsuko Onizuka

capnk4li@kali:~$ Q2 the hotel exploded and i didn't even get to see it!!!!!!

[SYSTEM] received answer for Q2

[SYSTEM] hashing answer -> sha256(salt + "the hotel exploded and i didn't even get to see it!!!!!!")

[SYSTEM] compare -> NO MATCH

[SYSTEM] log: authentication failure recorded

ALERT: ACCESS DENIED — incorrect answer.

Andrew Edgeworth

capnk4li@kali:~$ Q1 Killer

[SYSTEM] received answer for Q1

[SYSTEM] hashing answer -> sha256(salt + "Killer")

There's a pause in the comparison of this one that did not occur when Tatsuko submitted hers, as if the computer is weighing the answer.

[SYSTEM] compare -> MATCH

[SYSTEM] correct_answers = 1 / 3

And another,

capnk4li@kali:~$ Q4 Disney

[SYSTEM] received answer for Q4

[SYSTEM] hashing answer -> sha256(salt + "Disney")

[SYSTEM] compare -> NO MATCH

[SYSTEM] log: authentication failure recorded

ALERT: ACCESS DENIED — incorrect answer.