Due to a combination of medical treatment and work, I am... doing like a batch of five tags every three days

But this is just WAY too convenient for Walter to pass up and is going to supercede the "use a flood as an excuse" concept. I have a lot of reasons for this

Mostly I'd like to say thank you to the mods for giving me a million silly little floors to do things on

WALTER

THERE ARE
SO MANY
REASONS

1. we already talked about the idea that Malcolm would like to let Walter be free during the port so he doesn't become even more miserable, and the way this is set up encourages leaving Walter to function on his own like the barge
2. there are lots of closed spaces like the barge so it would be fairly easy to try to arrange "Walter hurts Arthur,

Walter shows Misty before the information spreads any further"
3. UNLIKE the barge there are not waypoints
4. the stuff the admiral said, such as mentioning a crash, I think sufficiently is reason for Walter to think that he should act during the port and not later

I love it

Malcolm: :|

He is trying to have a fun vacation for the first time in his life, Walter.

you still get to enjoy... uh... most of it!

I will close for now... to try to keep up with aforementioned work...

yeeaah i should do that too

WAIT ONE MORE THING this is his own fault for, IIRC, never taking that pre honeymoon with Will. Like I've been under the impression that he never left all this time, though of course I could be wrong

But Walter might still say that anyway based on Will network post and Neal departure post reinforcing his perception

they didn't get around to it yet no

See! Go have a life! Then this wouldn't be the FIRST wanted vacation ruined

BUT THIS IS WAY FUN. WAY FUN.

Wow Walter it would be a lot easier to leave if you were speaking to him and honest with him and he could know you'd be okay man.

Here, he can have fun fun vacationtimes WITHOUT leaving you somewhere!

maniette I hope that this timing is still cool.
I think casino might be a place he hopes to run into the guy and engage him non suspiciously...

I'm gonna have to plan things out carefully so I can use my capacity as effectively as possible. I might forward date a log with the most important
interactions, then have a network post that goes up shortly after the IC date of the incident

I'm here for it

clap

I am bringing up their thread NOW. wait, technically JD thread is what I have open, but Im doing small batch of tags Now

I will hope to wrap up by 9/22 proper. the escape room I mean. and then I will write up all my info for the physical method of attack and other stuff so everyone can approve. there may be volunteers for various reactions. and pick some kind of date (approximately 9/25) to post the forward-dated log (approximately 9/28).

"volunteers" e.g. John sensing Arthur's pain, etc. hopefully I can make a clearer description at that time

Just, you know, opportunities for everyone to react as they see fit

Elijah Wood's Feet << wikiFeet Men Elijah Wood pictures for inspiration

I was going to say he'd have no objection to a male bottom only swimsuit. But that he might wear a male top/bottom one piece out of solidarity with the many ye olde guys. AND because. There really is an immediate concern that something could happen. If nothing else, a barge freak pushing him off the edge

I am dying that you linked his wikifeet dude

saaame

that is nice that walter wants to show solidarity, its so true that getting pushed over is a real possibility

It would still be a fairly short one piece not the very long one some are wearing. And I'm so sorry is wikifeet. But at least all the pictures of him are grown up. Most other pictures from swimsuit Google were him as a kid actor???

Malcolm is getting thematically matching loud swimtrunks for himself and Will at the giftshop.

Will’s will have fish on them and Malcolm’s will have birds.

For the record I need to go to Siobhan about the poison soon I'm sorry it's so many months later. My original guess was turbocurarine but that's the wrong region

Ok this is getting speculated upon elsewhere but because time is of the essence in this operation the basic plan is to take a single large chunk of flesh off his face and make it into a small pie that fits into one hand, which is also how it is in (most versions of) the musical

Omg

It really is wild how perfectly this worked out though because the chore bot thing is something that fits really well for Walter to be able to use to his advantage and genuinely surprise Arthur

i will say, i actually don't know how much viable flesh there is on arthur's face, just bc he very much in recovery from starvation

Walter: finally some hacking. I'll take it

however he is also going to be wearing a more casual set-up for the port so it will be much easier to access something with more meat

which is a hilarious way to refer to my character

Oh my god. Oh no. I'm sorry man.

Reluctantly adds CW in the subject line

don't apologise i am legitimately having the best time lmfao

but good call on the cw

Yeah I mean more like frowning at my boy X days since last nonsense

hahahah

also i think depending on where he gets the flesh from/how deep he cuts there's a very real chance of arthur bleeding out, if walter isn't trying to outright kill him

Get some of that juicy thigh meat obvs.

It really is primarily for symbolic purposes. But I think his next choice after face for symbolic purposes is hand/arm

tinwateringcan: RAISES HAND just saw you say you're busy in Dre's plurk if you won't be able to easily write a full thread for Walter confiding in Silver shortly after the cruise starts, that is ok!

I am cutting every corner I can to make sure I can execute this plot efficiently with my own limited capacity, so I can totally just write up a few paragraphs for you to see and answer like once.

arthur does wear Fancy Space gloves that are extremely tightly fitted, so he'll be able to see that his hands are basically just skin and bone

(not to deter you just that walter would easily notice that it's not viable)

Oh okay. I got confused I thought they were chunky gauntlets somehow

nope! fancy leather-looking ones

they're 90% to hide that he's missing part of his left pinky, it got replaced by wood :'D

help

/having fun googling effects of phenobarbitol

Okay
I finally found the thing again, it is actually a "paralysis needle"
This is not necessarily a big deal because Walter only has one shot with it so he never actually tested it. Big leap of faith

powers are non-specific as is genre-appropriate. People can be knocked out for thirty seconds or three days. well hooray. We're free we can do whatever we want

\o/

Huge sigh of relief

It's a fictional needle. I finally don't have to Google a real poison

also the more i think about it the more i am slightly squeamish about the idea of him swallowing the needle, but i'm fine with arthur biting it obviously without realising and getting jabbed in the mouth

OH! actually second was my plan from the beginning so you're good!

\o/ COOL i wasn't sure

Especially with the muffin if it's literally a muffin. Just I think its shape would lend itself to that somehow

look at this snow white bullshit, lmfao

hey! I should be okay by next week, I've just got kitten appointments & chores tonight and did not want to put a few-day delay on Jedao being able to talk to Gojyo for that thread. After port begins I'm good!

Oh ok awesome! Thank you for letting me micromanage lol

additional needle discussion (completely optional, just my perspective on alternatives)

i love that the muffin plan is in fact totally unnecessary if he can just jab arthur fast enough, it's just such a funny layer of extra drama

It's true. Like, Walter does think it's reasonably plausible that if he lunged the wrong way Arthur would get jumpy and turn into a tiger. Too slow and he sees the needle, too fast and he sees Walter moving suspiciously fast. But like

The look on the face

Of a guy with a British accent chomping a muffin and then there's a needle

he gets the expression for all of like 5-10 seconds before arthur passes out

also i think for john's own peace of mind he might be the one/one of the ones to find/save arthur, but that's still plenty of time between walter Doing His Thing and getting away with it in the short term

That's good. Yeah there should be a good range of options like 10 minutes (immediately rushes to Misty and fallout as soon as they're done talking) versus 30 minutes (some other stuff before fallout like maybe Malcolm or Trevor) fallout being Arthur's allies reacting

(and by this description I also assume reawakening Arthur quickly?)

i was assuming he'd be staying out for a while tbh! he has a cane that he's keeping on him for the port bc it's sentimental, i figured him losing that would be a massive alarm bell if john found it abandoned

Okay sure. Yeah something in the range of 10-30 minutes would be more like the amount of time before an ally that can sense his presence reacted. Probably more like 6 hours in terms of the effect of this paralytic drug uninterrupted

yea!

But if the allies take longer then by all means

given the size of the ship i feel like 30min to find him is pretty reasonable

Good point, like even with sensing presence, JUST sense presence would still literally take a good 30 minutes

In terms of walking to wherever

As in if there's not other enhanced mental information

yeah, like john actually doesn't actively track arthur's general state of being, on arthur's request, so it usually takes something else actually prompting concern for john to check on him, and the lack of reply will be the biggest alarm bell

I think that the cane and Arthur would probably not be separated. Because the goal is to separate a reasonably sized amount of flesh and then just leave to get it cooked (which has to be done with a separate non witness chore bot some ways away) and then brought to Misty. Walter thinks like...

(not that walter would know this)

Well basically it's more like he'd try to roll (the remaining 95% of) Arthur and his stuff to a semi inconspicuous location and leave the casino. Like behind a curtain, fling a tablecloth over the area, etc. But if the cane keeps rolling out unevenly

Then oh well Walters gotta vamoose. Sure it can stay there

drag him behind the casino machines, lmao

Like the cave is certainly not great to have lying around but it's not like covered in blood that would immediately attract the attention of any person (rather than only a close ally) from far away

Also in my head like... Have you ever seen one of those REALLY big casinos where there are multiple separate very big casino rooms?

yeah, i used to work at Crown Casino

biiiig casino

Wow you're an expert compared to me. So yeah. That's what I'm imagining, poorly, so that is why it is reasonably not suspicious for there to be just the two of them running into each other in a single big room

This cruise ship is too freaking big, man

However if you imagine things differently like there'd probably need to be quite some minutes of finessing for anyone to happen to be gone, that is also okay

just kick him under a table, lmao

ALSO thank you for event tag I think I'm gonna try to get on desktop and make a pretty big reply tomorrow to cover some ground. I do not have fa and ti clues prewritten. Ti we have all that tea stuff. Fa, maybe binoculars or something

if we wanna fudge it, we could make it so the solution doesn't actually need those keys, arthur can totally just play it (like a showoff lmao)

If anyone at the gates of heaven ever doubts that Mani is an angel, remember that this thread was started on 8/22, I flaked off at 9/4, and Mani has fully supported me picking it back up at 9/16

I am gonna need to look up The Song

you are too fucking sweet omg

Basically I have a lot of ideas that are not in those keys. Though I am a fool and maybe reading The Song will be too hard

if this is the puzzle, they actually have all the keys they need!

Screaming. Did I coincidentally pick a full range of keys like a genius

Oh it's from silent Hill

fa and ti are F and B, respectively, so first and last in the 4w3b keys

Okay yeah I'm going to like... Make it into this.. which will take some time but probably make more sense

no stress! we are working together to round things up

We're here making the next episode of the space soap opera

and it's gonna be so fuckin good

Im here reading the SH1 piano puzzle and I'm like. man. how did anyone ever solve this yeah. and. not sure how to put all this white bird black stuff in but I am thinking. the fact that the puzzle keys are silent would certainly explain why the tune hasn't been haunting them this entire time.

I have written the comment. the part with the feathery thing at the end is a segue for the birds to show up (since I went through several ideas for how to incorporate the bird clues and decided that a full writeup could be done slightly later)

it's an excellent comment

btw. The "rocky transition on multiple levels" from setting alpha to setting beta. I'm so ready for us to just get hit by giant space rocks

lol!

NOTE TO SELF I figured out how to make the birds do the clue without a written version so that will be making its lovely debut soon

Mnagh. I'm not entirely done with my threads but they might be done soon

I'm going to. Try. For the 9/22 goal of closing threads. And writing up a plan

Alright I think it'll be a while before I do more work. Anyone with ideas is still welcome

okay I came up with a simple enough way to gather my ideas so Soon!

cheering for you

I'm 2/3 done with the thing!!! Unfortunately the last third is the hardest one but oh well progress is progress!

\o/

i am more than willing to handwave if we need to, if that helps you get it sorted out on schedule for yourself

it has been a high concept thread and i've loved it immensely

yeah Im currently working on this plot writeup instead of escape room since I got a bit brainache last night. the hard part is in fact the maiming lol.

I should have a pretty big comment soon that should in turn be something Arthur can answer with the final solution to the puzzle, and then still a bit more falling action in the real world that is kinda like "haha you know. i think we really gotta balance out the hanging out fighting for our lives some time if it's been twice now lol."

almost done but time for dinner!!

(hmu if you need a hand with any arthur parts! just bc i do get a kick out of writing horror gore, lmao)

thank you I get to put [INSERT ARTERY HERE]

the thing with arthur is, canonically, he has survived a compound femur fracture, along with other broken leg bones, that he walked on, for at least half an hour or so

with his throat slit (even if it missed the jugular) so like

there is some incredibly insane canonicity to him being able to survive just an atertial bleed, lmfao

new thing is up now!

ok the canon puzzle is
1: re 2: la 3: rightmost black 4: so 5: leftmost black

"flying beyond the Pelican as far as he could" inexplicably through word association made me think "get the fa key from the pelican"

so my version is
1: fa 2: la 3: rightmost black 4: so 5: leftmost black

i have done it

did this advance the story. well no but it was high concept and so I am happy