"Hm? Should be." Seath shrugs as if the idea of him breaking out is infeasible.
"Like, no body doubles or anything?"
"I highly, highly doubt it. He sorta lost a lot of connections with people in D-Corp and those corrective facilities are airtight."
Hm.
Everyone scans the room for what could've powered this damn TV but damn, it was really hard to find it. No wires, no energy sources that could power it on, no hidden tampering to make it feasible. The only thing that broke the illusion was when Ben ripped off a sticker on the back of the TV.
It immediately causes it to power off. Benjamin slaps it back on. It powers back on.
[OPEN MINDED] "Some sort of ODDITY or a very, very shitty PARADIGM. I think it can power anything it's stapled to. Looks like it was placed recently."
You already have a PARADIGM for tech so you won't bother looting that.
Kiara scans the area and only manages to find one piece of evidence for who could've been here: A clump of white goo with flecks of fur stuck in it.
Everyone can immediately tell that's NOT something a human would leave behind. You've dealt with enough anomalous bullshit for one mission. You can only hope whatever anomaly left it won't come back.
<span class="mu-b">You know an anomaly is nearby, though. Somewhere.</span>
The earpiece in your ear crackles to life. "Hey, we're about done in this room." That's it. Huh, okay. One last thing to do.
The VHS tapes.
Your group grabs a few tapes from around the lab. Checking through them reveals that a good chunk of them are...painfully mundane. One was about Jin gushing over his daughter winning a talent show. Another was him complaining to the camera about tax increases. Five of them were him being overly gushy about his wife.
Clover and Benjamin are eating it up, each sharing the same goofy smile, but the rest of the group is bored stupid by it. It's not what you were looking for frankly. One tape does have something remarkably interesting, though.
Unlike all of the other ones, the fox-headed man is trying his best not to look at the camera. "Can't talk about this with anyone else. Decided it would be safer to make a video diary about it. No one checks down here."
https://youtu.be/-NMOlbJ_1b0?si=ZGytvA6irbzaRdU5 - TAPES
"I made a mistake. A massive one. I recently collaborated with a man who..." Jin runs a hand through the fur on his head. "I shouldn't have, frankly. The money was too much and I was, uh, in hot water with D-Company's High Administrator."
[SEEKER OF THE CITY + KIARA SEEKER + SEATH ALLY] All of you hiss at the same time. That's the title of the CEO of D-Company. It was probably the same even back then.
"But to put the blame all on him would be denial over my own involvement. He offered me the resources, the potential, to make something that could've helped the City. Something would've given those unfortunate enough a chance to exist. I was born into a prestigious family. I had the obligation to help people, damnit, and I..."
