pinesfortruth | week 3, Sunday, post-execution

[Jake is still kind of out of it but, perhaps unsurprisingly, he does want to talk about literally anything else. Especially if that thing might help them stop this. He just holds Dirk's hand for support and tries to stop spacing out.]

Oh, yes, thank you. Um... Righto, well. We wanted to... discuss the Dark Room a bit more. And we think, well, um, one of our roles, from the sounds of yours, could work together well and perhaps unveil something that could help us.

[There's a brief sharp nod. Dirk is not letting go of Jake's hand. He is worried about his very traumatized friend.]

[dipper thinks for maybe three seconds before nodding, a bit nervous:]

... Yeah, okay. Yeah. Alright. [there's a bit of a pause, then a sigh before he admits:] I was thinking of telling you last week, except then Andersen was being all ... weird. I mean, that's his personality, but. [waves a hand dismissively] Anyway, I'm the "Idealist". From what I can tell, since my rules were kind of completely useless [there's a helpless shrug], the telescope lets me see secret passageways, though I've used it to see through locked doors too.

[Jake can't help smiling a little bit at the mention of Andersen's personality. But then he nods and focuses more on what they actually need to talk about.]

I wondered if it was, when you talked about it, but it's hard to say for certain. Um, Dirk's role is the Photographer. That's why, um... I said I knew something actually was already in the Dark Room. He took a picture of it. It's, uh, not a happy photo.

[He isn't sure if Dirk has the photos on him though so he'll leave that bit to him.

Oh, right.] Oh and I'm the Carpenter but as you can probably gather from today at least, it's not a useful role for me.

[He is seriously not killing someone and especially not with a nail gun. Ouch.]

[The camera doesn't appear in his hands, since Dirk himself did not reveal the role to Dipper. But he holds it up, and the size and shape of it is clear.]

The walls have eyes and there's a dude sittin' in the chair. It's pretty gruesome.

Is yikes an appropriate response here? I'm gonna go with yikes anyway. Let me guess, you can take about three pictures a week or something? Oh-- that reminds me. [he takes his "journal" out of his vest and pulls a loose page out of it. jake will recognize it as the picture Dipper showed him&Andersen last week] Remember this? I saw this when I looked at the mirror in the lobby... you can see the same thing from the ones in the bedrooms.

I think it was five? [He glances at Dirk for confirmation before he looks at the picture again.] So that place is... beyond the mirrors? Or... a real reflect of where we are?

[He's not entirely sure since Lovecraft Horror is not the best represented genre in movies, so he's going out on the limb here.]

Five. My instructions say I can the camera is the "gateway to this realm's secrets" and reveals "that which is hidden to the naked eye."

[It's interesting, though. He looks closely at the picture.]

Have you tried looking through the fog?

Huh. Mine also said I might see "that which is hidden to the naked eye", but that's all it said. So I think if that was where we actually were, I'd see it no matter where I looked? I'm not sure. [huffs] Like I said. Completely unhelpful. I've been thinking of it as maybe a secret passageway. I dunno.

[on the fog:] I was going to do that this week. I tested it on locked doors last week, one that was unnamed on the map and one that was, then I checked out the, uh-- [hm] the electric room. To see if there had been a passageway there. [sorry for the dead dave reminder dirk] And before that I was just trying to guess what might be a hit. [he's looking very exasperated for some reason]

Dirk's been having trouble cooking up ideas for where to point his camera. I thought, well, maybe it might turn up something worthwhile if you combine these items and plot out where to use them together maybe?

[Though it sounds like possibly Dipper has not had much luck with seeing anything useful.]

There are a lot of dead ends.

[In an UNIMPRESSED MONOTONE] Taking pictures of people gives me jackshit but a new shot for their Facebook pages.

Yeah, I tried it on someone and on Craftly and got a whole lot of nothing.

[the suffering is real]

I'm seconds away from pulling it out during the next execution just to check.

[DIPPER STOP MENTIONING UNCOMFORTABLE SUBJECTS]

Edited 2017-06-12 00:53 (UTC)

[Dipper oh my god. Jake flinches a little but he clears his throat to get over it.]

It really wouldn't be a bad idea to use it on the lake, but we only see it once a week.

[He's trying to think where else might be suspicious but it's the same wall he's run into trying to help Dirk.]

The locked and burnt buildings are a bit dangerous to suggest...

Can I hear your rules? We can talk about what's been a hit and what's been a miss.

[maybe WORKING TOGETHER they can figure this crap out]

[dipper might play the paranoid but he's always eager to have ~~friends~~ partners in crime and it shows in how he's rocking on the balls of his feet as he brings out his rulebook to read off it. he clears his throat before reading it off:]

"1. The following rules are for your eyes only. The ink is invisible to those who surround you.
2. You have been granted a gift. Your item is a telescope.
3. Your item can be found under your bed. Do not worry about your roommate catching a glimpse of it, as the telescope is only visible to you and those who you willingly choose to reveal your role to.
4. If you use it well, you may see that which is hidden to the naked eye.
5. We hope you are able to enjoy this gift."

[he shrugs helplessly after]

And then it stops working after I try it three times. It just goes dark. Like I said, they're pretty useless.

Well. That is very vague and unhelpful. How rude.

[Hm.]

We got different things out of the Dark Room, so we might get different things out of other crap. I could try out the mirrors.

[to jake:] That's what I said!

[huffs and then starts to count off on his fingers] Okay, so, the other stuff I tried it on so far... Craftly, one person, the toy machine and the electric room were a bust. The Dark Room had that trap door, there was the mirrors, I managed to see through the door to the mayor's office in City Hall, and the room between the kitchen and laundry's actually a curio shop. It looked like it was full of junk. That's all twelve things I tried out so far.

Aw, it's full of junk? [He knew it was a curio shop but now he's disappointed. He thought it would be like. Some majestic warehouse of secrets.]

I can't see through doors. [So there's that. He is still for a moment.

Quietly,]

Do you think you can see into the Disposal Room? [To see what is done with the bodies.]

Honestly, dude, the common feature in all of those seems to be passages. Maybe it's a stretch for the mirrors, but they've been famously considered ways into other worlds.

It looked like a bunch of religious garbage. Um, gimme a second. [thank god dipper has drawing abilities so i can canonly have him show drawings to people constantly. even if it's cartoony versions of them.]

That's why I tried the mirrors in the first place. The lobby one seemed suspicious. [everything seems suspicious to dipper.] I can try the Disposal Room and the fog. They were on my list anyway.

[Cartoony Virgin Mary disappoints Jake but he nods.] I can't really see the relevance of that...

[Though that doesn't explain why it's not only locked up tight but also unlabeled?]

There was a strange thing in the building I went into but... [He is really not about to suggest anything less than a well-armed squad go into that building.] There's a locked room in the hunting lodge. The public archives in the city hall probably wouldn't turn up much without actually going in... The Game Room here in the motel is still an unknown. Umm... The rulebook mentions the sun in a weird way? Oh and it's... weird that the rulebook has so many blank pages.

[That seems to be everything he can think of, though.]

Taking pictures of the rule books have gotten me jack shit. [A pause.] It doesn't translate some of the gibberish, but apparently my weird tattoo from frog vomit says "Have a nice day."

[HE IS SO FUCKING UNIMPRESSED]

Well... the sun never sets? That's pretty weird. It might actually be like, a giant eyeball or something.

[but then he's distracted from possibilities by dirk's "have a nice day" tattoo and he actually just facepalms]

Why does that sound exactly like something Bill would do.

Oh, is that the demon you told us not to summon?

[Don't worry Dirk. It's nothing??]

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