Message 06. Lighting Fires

[unrecovered]

Everyone's been talking about finding the keyhole or the pieces of the keyhole or whatever. Here's my question: has anyone actually started looking yet?

[Oh look, he disapproves of all of you. Yep, still Tuesday.]

Comments

[shadearchivist]

If you'll tell us what areas you've already covered, I'm sure others will be happy to form groups and perform a thorough search.

[unrecovered]

[Fuck you, asshole. He was not volunteering.]

It's not in the tunnels. I can tell you that much.

[shadearchivist]

Excellent. I believe we would be best served if the groups each had a keyblade wielder, if possible.

[sailorlaughter]

What're we looking for?

[unrecovered]

[Oh God not her.]

A keyhole. About this big [he makes hand motions indicating about the size of a football] and shiny. Seen it?

[sailorlaughter]

Nope! But I'll keep an eye out! I'm really, really good at hide-and-seek!

[go_dream]

Have you?

[unrecovered]

No. And I'm not bitching about not having found it either.

[Yeah he doesn't really care. He's just tired of people talking about it and not doing anything.]

[go_dream]

Sorry, who's been doing that? As far as I've seen, people have been planning out what to do next, and eliminating the places that have already been searched. No one's dealt with a broken keyhole before--at least, no one's said they have, and most of us are new to this, so it makes sense that we would make a plan as to where we should look, in order to raise our chances and cut down on the time left we have these dreams, instead of just walking around randomly and hoping for the best.

[earthshatter]

I would be inclined to agree with Ienzo's assessment. It would be best to not cover ground that has already been searched.

[unrecovered]

Then don't bother with the tunnels.

[earthshatter]

Understood. Is there anywhere else that has been covered?

[dork_of_keys]

[Sora's at Sunset Hill, judging by the mini clock tower in the background. He seems a bit annoyed before he speaks up. He is grouchy, partly from crappy sleep and partly because this Keyhole -in-pieces ting is annoying him.]

You want a written report?

[He pauses a moment.]

I was halfway thinking the photos might have something to do with the Keyhole. Maybe pointing out locations, but all the pictures were taken in Traverse Town... wait. They were still all found in Twilight Town.

[Now he's thinking. And then he's moving, heading over to Tram Commons where he had found one of the photos himself.]

[revenancemods]

[Had Sora looked a bit harder at that statue of the clock tower, he might have noticed a glow on the clock's face...a glow vaguely in the shape of a keyhole.]

[unrecovered]

[It may be small, but it's out of place and Wash catches it. After a few moments of playing the video back to be sure he's not just seeing things, he finally comments to Sora.]

Go back. Wherever you just were, go back there.

[salvagedlight]

[You know what? Unlike everyone else, Ven doesn't look annoyed or whatever. He looks kind of taken aback, which is unusual for someone who's personally been on the end of one of Wash's tirades already. And then that look changes to... concern? Yeah, concern. He's not sure what, but... something's... off about Wash.]

Are you okay?

[unrecovered]

Yeah. I'm great.

[Actually, he's sleep deprived and reliving the worst thing that ever happened to him every night, so no, he's really not doing well. The wall of sarcasm and anger is just easy to hide behind, that's all.]

[4letters4ninja]

Do you want a formal search request, in triplicate? I am sure I can find one somewhere.

[unrecovered]

[Oh come on not you too]

If you're really that bored, go for it.

[There's very little edge on the sarcasm this time; more than anything, he just sounds tired.]

[colorbymemory]

No--I didn't think it was good to search alone, and nobody had mentioned forming groups yet...

[Private]

Wash, are you feeling okay?

[Because he does not look good, as Ven noted.]

[unrecovered]

[All the sarcasm and anger is gone. He's not going to throw that at Namine.]

Good. Keep yourself safe.

[Private]

I'm fine. Don't worry about me.

[skysmirror]

Not really, but I've been trying to keep an eye out for anything interesting when I'm out hunting Nightmares.

[unrecovered]

I take it you haven't seen anything.

Audio;

[lessabrasive]

[ Someone's not currently messing with the visuals on her communicator, but Wash's irritation shines through loud and clear. You sound like hell.

Fortunately, Lin hates small talk. So you get business instead. ]

I'm only familiar with the sandlot thus far, but there doesn't appear to be anything here that matchs the descriptions of what appeared in Traverse Town.

[she's been listening to others talk here, too. There's a faint snort.] Can't say that 'secret' tunnel network sounds particularly useful.

[unrecovered]

That's one more location to mark off.

...the what?