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redshiftrp2020-01-11 03:14 pm
0thingsonmymind) wrote in redshiftrp2020-01-11 03:14 pm
Video/Text || @totheark
The post starts with a still of a piece of paper with the following message scrawled in drawing charcoal
"THEYWE ARE
WATCH ING
01000101 01011001 01000101 01010011"
(The binary just spells out "EYES", btw.) It holds on this for several seconds before switching to pre-recorded video of someone exploring a newly opened room.
The video shows regular tearing in the bottom fourth of the screen. The room is dark, large and the fall wall is covered in monitors. Most of the screens are working, showing surveillance footage of public spaces around Anchor.
The first three columns of screens show scenes filmed in various places around Anchor, from the park to the kitchens and hallways outside the dormitories characters live in, the Agricultural levels, and most other commonly used public spaces. However, under each screen is a flickering digital display that says "ARCHIVED" and a date - the month and day are flickering and glitchy, but the year is simply listed as "-∞". Instead of the current residents, however, the screens show recordings of a vicious battle in the city between two groups - one dressed in relatively homogenous clothing, all of it white, and with a similarly homogenous appearance with regard to species (humanoid); the other group much more ragtag in different clothing and comprised of a more diverse spread of species from wildly different places and times. The battle is vicious, with the group in white seemingly on the defense and many scenes which imply the more ragtag group is searching for something. Some may note of some of the locations in the recordings, he will notice that some of the battle damage around Anchor (burns from lasers or explosives, or bullet impact craters on the walls, etc.) will match scenes from these fights. There is approximately 2 hours of footage which loops back to the start once it's done, though Brian only shows a few minutes of it before moving on.
The final column of screens display single-point shots, also from a recognizable spot in Anchor - the foyer ring around the park where most of the city's traffic goes when travelling between the park and the dormitories/kitchens and other upper levels. Each screen has a digital display similar to the other columns of screens, but they read "LIVE RECORDING" and show the current date (this would be whatever the current real life date is when he looks at the display, and would continue to change along with the passage of time) but with the year listed as "∞".
The top screen shows that area which almost always has someone coming or going, whether a resident or a bot - but the area is completely empty, and no matter how long he watches it, he will see changes from the passage of time such as the sun rising or setting and tree branches blowing in the wind, but he will not see any sign of anything living besides plant life, either mechanical or biological.
The second screen shows a similar live recording with sunrise and sunset times that seem to match the top screen, but only barely visible because the entire lens of the surveillance camera seems to be smeared with dark red dried liquid. No detail is visible besides changes in the amount of light indicating night or day, and flickers of what might be movement.
The third screen has the same digital display, but there's only static on the screen. The fourth and fifth screen are dark. He lingers on these screens a bit more than the archived footage. There should be people in there, right? He's pretty sure there should be people but they don't show up. Is it a video error? Are these shots not really live? Or is it Something in the system? He'll have to find a way to look into it later. Without touching the screens or computers.
The monitors are interesting enough but not the only thing in the room, so he pulls himself away from them and moves to film what little else is in the room. In front of the screens is a single chair with a computer terminal in front of it. The top of the computer terminal has been violently smashed, rendering the controls unusable, though the system is obviously still working. Though the power is out to this section of the hallway and all the rooms in it, the computer bank to one side of the terminal is glowing blue - upon inspection, Brian will be able to see through a clear front panel that it appears to be being powered by a single crystalline structure that is glowing a bright blue, and is surrounded by a nest of wires and complex computer chips. Brian does not touch it, but if others come to visit no matter how hard they try the internal workings of this computer will not be able to be accessed by brute force or attempts to dismantle the computer. The technology in the room is obviously more advanced than the other technology in Anchor by quite a lot.
The video post ends there but a few moments later a text post pops up from the same sender.
howto
pharm acy
?
((ooc: If anyone tracks down where the first live feed shows they'll find that Brian has drawing a large crossed out circle (see icon) on a wall there in black permanent marker. I'm also open to someone finding him doing this shortly after his post.
Also passing along some info from the mods!
The dried liquid on live feed two is indeed blood.
And if anyone wants to do the legwork to track down where the cameras are filming from they're still there.
The Archived ones would all be there in place and mostly undamaged but not currently working. Characters could also match up particular shots in the footage with damage on the current walls of the city.
As for the live ones, the one that is smeared over would be difficult to find because you can't see much through it at all. But the one that shows an empty Anchor, he could find.
The one that he could find would be present and recording.
The mark Brian left, and anything anyone else leaves, wouldn't show up on the recordings. Nor would any marks left on the camera lens.))
"THEY
WATCH ING
01000101 01011001 01000101 01010011"
(The binary just spells out "EYES", btw.) It holds on this for several seconds before switching to pre-recorded video of someone exploring a newly opened room.
The video shows regular tearing in the bottom fourth of the screen. The room is dark, large and the fall wall is covered in monitors. Most of the screens are working, showing surveillance footage of public spaces around Anchor.
The first three columns of screens show scenes filmed in various places around Anchor, from the park to the kitchens and hallways outside the dormitories characters live in, the Agricultural levels, and most other commonly used public spaces. However, under each screen is a flickering digital display that says "ARCHIVED" and a date - the month and day are flickering and glitchy, but the year is simply listed as "-∞". Instead of the current residents, however, the screens show recordings of a vicious battle in the city between two groups - one dressed in relatively homogenous clothing, all of it white, and with a similarly homogenous appearance with regard to species (humanoid); the other group much more ragtag in different clothing and comprised of a more diverse spread of species from wildly different places and times. The battle is vicious, with the group in white seemingly on the defense and many scenes which imply the more ragtag group is searching for something. Some may note of some of the locations in the recordings, he will notice that some of the battle damage around Anchor (burns from lasers or explosives, or bullet impact craters on the walls, etc.) will match scenes from these fights. There is approximately 2 hours of footage which loops back to the start once it's done, though Brian only shows a few minutes of it before moving on.
The final column of screens display single-point shots, also from a recognizable spot in Anchor - the foyer ring around the park where most of the city's traffic goes when travelling between the park and the dormitories/kitchens and other upper levels. Each screen has a digital display similar to the other columns of screens, but they read "LIVE RECORDING" and show the current date (this would be whatever the current real life date is when he looks at the display, and would continue to change along with the passage of time) but with the year listed as "∞".
The top screen shows that area which almost always has someone coming or going, whether a resident or a bot - but the area is completely empty, and no matter how long he watches it, he will see changes from the passage of time such as the sun rising or setting and tree branches blowing in the wind, but he will not see any sign of anything living besides plant life, either mechanical or biological.
The second screen shows a similar live recording with sunrise and sunset times that seem to match the top screen, but only barely visible because the entire lens of the surveillance camera seems to be smeared with dark red dried liquid. No detail is visible besides changes in the amount of light indicating night or day, and flickers of what might be movement.
The third screen has the same digital display, but there's only static on the screen. The fourth and fifth screen are dark. He lingers on these screens a bit more than the archived footage. There should be people in there, right? He's pretty sure there should be people but they don't show up. Is it a video error? Are these shots not really live? Or is it Something in the system? He'll have to find a way to look into it later. Without touching the screens or computers.
The monitors are interesting enough but not the only thing in the room, so he pulls himself away from them and moves to film what little else is in the room. In front of the screens is a single chair with a computer terminal in front of it. The top of the computer terminal has been violently smashed, rendering the controls unusable, though the system is obviously still working. Though the power is out to this section of the hallway and all the rooms in it, the computer bank to one side of the terminal is glowing blue - upon inspection, Brian will be able to see through a clear front panel that it appears to be being powered by a single crystalline structure that is glowing a bright blue, and is surrounded by a nest of wires and complex computer chips. Brian does not touch it, but if others come to visit no matter how hard they try the internal workings of this computer will not be able to be accessed by brute force or attempts to dismantle the computer. The technology in the room is obviously more advanced than the other technology in Anchor by quite a lot.
The video post ends there but a few moments later a text post pops up from the same sender.
howto
pharm acy
?
((ooc: If anyone tracks down where the first live feed shows they'll find that Brian has drawing a large crossed out circle (see icon) on a wall there in black permanent marker. I'm also open to someone finding him doing this shortly after his post.
Also passing along some info from the mods!
The dried liquid on live feed two is indeed blood.
And if anyone wants to do the legwork to track down where the cameras are filming from they're still there.
The Archived ones would all be there in place and mostly undamaged but not currently working. Characters could also match up particular shots in the footage with damage on the current walls of the city.
As for the live ones, the one that is smeared over would be difficult to find because you can't see much through it at all. But the one that shows an empty Anchor, he could find.
The one that he could find would be present and recording.
The mark Brian left, and anything anyone else leaves, wouldn't show up on the recordings. Nor would any marks left on the camera lens.))