SEEK A WAY OUT - CONFINEMENT ROOM (GREEN TEAM)

[formicarium]

T H E  C O N F I N E M E N T  R O O M Despite being called the "Confinement Room", you will quickly notice that it's a hallway with four rooms, instead of just one room. In fact, this seems more like jail than anything else. Someone must have put the wrong plate beside the door, but the moment you step away from the door, it closes up behind you. You find that there isn't even a handle on this door, so there's no way you're going out that way. Time to start looking around this dimly lit "Confinement Room".

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FIRST GLANCE

[formicarium]

[ In the hallway before you enter the room, before the door closes behind you, pretty much anything before the actual puzzle solving goes in here. ]

[puzzlinglad]

[The best thing that could possibly happen when you found yourself imprisoned in a strange place was opening up a door in that place and finding a different, mini-prison all nice and cozy for you. Hershel thought he had steeled himself against whatever they were going to find for the most part, but something about heading through that strange door and finding bars like something out of horror game wasn't really his cup of tea.

He rubs his arm almost immediately, a nervous tic he couldn't seem to stop doing since he woke up, surveying the room with a steadily declining expression before he swallowed his nerves and spoke.] ... I guess it was too much to hope for a window. [He steps forward as he speaks, regarding one of barred off rooms more closely.]

[fairsfair]

[ Unsurprisingly, Jake isn't fazed by this at all. Horror games? HA, he laughs at those, so he is just casually stepping in. ]

Zero must really hate us, since he's not even throwing us a bone.

[ WHERE IS THEIR SENSE OF HOPE....... ]

[skyentificmethod]

[pshh, who needs hope when you've got ~skills~

anyhoo, jail...okay, that's not scary. the thought of the last time this place was cleaned, however... ugh, pretty musty.]

Whatever. Nothing's even flooding in here. This'll be a piece of cake.

[puzzlinglad]

If this is easy I'd hate to see what you think is difficult, Ema. [Well, at least his group was good humored, sort of. Better than panic, right?]

I hope the others have something a little more cheery than... well, this.

[fairsfair]

Yeah, maybe they'll have a playground or party room instead.

[ Can you taste the sarcasm in his voice... ]

[skyentificmethod]

You really wanna see the type of party games this guy is probably into? Not to mention the party favors...

[puzzlinglad]

Somehow you're making these jail cells sound preferable. [What skill you optimists have.]

[fairsfair]

Heh, maybe he actually runs parties in here. Share a few balloons and cake with the prisoners.

[skyentificmethod]

Yeah, with cyanide sprinkles. Think I'll pass, I'm not too keen on getting anything else from the rodent, thanks.

[puzzlinglad]

I agree with Ema, I think the impromptu pool party was enough. At least he gave us party favors. [That happened, right, if not i'm an idiot and sorry.] I wonder if he built this entire warehouse from scratch.

[fairsfair]

Zero will need some serious cash if he wants to build something like this, but looking at it, it looks pretty old to me.

[ Ew, those toilets and these cells and all... ]

SEEK A WAY OUT

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IMPORTANT NOTES

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✖ Map of the confinement room + notes.

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[fairsfair]

[ Taking a few steps down the hall, looking around. ]

Zero sure likes keeping his warehouse as depressing as ever.

[ Celled rooms, dim lights, depressing atmosphere... ]

[puzzlinglad]

[Hershel already made himself busy checking the cell doors one by one, frowning as each creaked open with horror movie quality metallic scrapes.] I never thought I'd say I preferred the other rooms. Even the elevators were less, ah... [he prods one of the doors again, punctuating his statement with a creak] ... scenic.

At least we don't need to find the keys for these doors.

[skyentificmethod]

The inmates get full run of the jail, cute.

[she heads over to the exit, examining the mechanism with the red light]

...Looks like we'll need some sort of key card.

[fairsfair]

Then let's start looking. A key card isn't that hard to find.

[ And Jake will head off into a cell. He'll be taking the top-right cell, guys! ]

[puzzlinglad]

We can hope, though last time involved the threat of drowning. [Optimism. Hershel's going to stay out of the cells for now, thank you friends, and go towards the north part of the room where a monitor was hanging out. He was curious about that but more so about tall the other interesting things around.]

Oh- there's a safe over here. [He turns to tell the others before looking back at what was surely a harmless notebook. He picks it up, flipping it open to reveal.......]

[skyentificmethod]

What's in it? Does it open?

[ema asks, searching through the bottom right cell. ugh, that toilet...]

[formicarium]

[ This notebook seems almost brand new, hardly showing any kind of wear. It's clear that the owner hasn't used it often. At the very least, there seems to be something written in it: ]

             , 20    

I'm so sick and tired of these         . I don't care if                  for this. I'm not some sort of babysitter. These assholes keep clogging up the toilets with God knows what. They can go          themselves. I'm not sticking my hand down another toilet again.

[puzzlinglad]

[Well what a rude journal. Hershel frowns as he reads it, realizing Ema's question after a beat and turning towards the direction of her voice almost sheepishly.] Oh, let's see-

There's a lock on it, a digital one. It looks like it needs four digits instead of three this time. [He squints at it before focusing on the notebook again.] There's a notebook too... it's a bit strange, there are some blacked out words but it seems like a small journal entry from someone who's very unhappy about having to clean the cell toilets.

[skyentificmethod]

I can understand that... But maybe you'll have better luck!

[she claps him on the shoulder with a suspiciously broad smile]

[fairsfair]

[ Ema can be all happy about it, but Jake will be... well, Jake. ]

Anything else in there that might tell us how to bust open the safe? Or is it all about cleaning toilets?

[puzzlinglad]

[Hershel glances over at Ema, a little alarmed before looking at one of the toilets through the bars. Well.] ... Please don't tell me they're all like that. [He had a bad feeling about where this was going.]

[And he looks to Jake as he holds the notebook out for Ema if she wanted to see it.] Not really, there's some other stuff over here though. I haven't checked the drawers yet.