Rata Mall - Barbers - Phase 6

[ambic]

The Curse of Rata Mall - Barbers

This barber shop looks dirty. It probably used to be spotless back when it was in use.

The map

Present are:
Primate is Harry Carrouthers: Male, 60s Medium Build, using a cane, white haired, wearing thick glasses. Jacket and shirt with a slash down each arm, exposing skin (Formerly Jesternl)

Room Deadline

(expired on 2020-09-07 08:00:00).

[RubberDuck]

Howdy.

Was there any thing in here you needed in particular?

I think you had a good idea with trying to get a hose to siphon fuel, so let’s try to do that.

Examine mirror benches

Examine flatscreen for remote

Check cupboards

[Primate]

*Harry walks into the room and takes a long look at Dr. Lacey, his face stoney*

"Ah. You. A woman who people have known to go missing around. As long as you stay away from me I'll hope we'll get along fine and dandy."

Check the gas heater while Rubberduck is over the other side of the room looking at the mirror benches, make sure she goes there first.

Watch Rubberduck to see what she takes out of the cupboards, then examine it myself.

[Primate]

"Consider smashing the mirrors. There's something strange about this whole place, there may be something behind them."

[ambic]

@RD:
-The benches contain a (small) variety of things. Indicate which bench you wish you to check (Left, middle or Right) - Once you decide, Harry will then go over to the gas heater
-The flatscreen is a PC flatscreen, not a TV flatscreen - no remote

@Primate
-Gas Heater - pending the above
-You watch the cupboard scene carefully. Will update as needed.

[RubberDuck]

My advice to that would be not to tamper with doors that are clearly lighting up skulls.

I’m happy to share anything I find if you need it. I can put things on the counter if you prefer to pick them up from there.

Middle

[RubberDuck]

The cupboards have:

Spray Bottle with unknown liquid
Hair Gel
Foils
Tube of Superglue

Take superglue

I think a few people were looking for this.

[RubberDuck]

Look at poster

[ambic]

Its a poster of Raquel Welch

[RubberDuck]

"Consider smashing the mirrors. There's something strange about this whole place, there may be something behind them."

Good idea.

[Primate]

"Put the spray bottle on the counter, it might be useful to contain fuel or similar later."

"So, why are you here, in this godforsaken place? Come for the amazing deals?"

[RubberDuck]

<I notice people are talking in character with “ “

Is this a role play element that I am supposed to be following?

I haven’t been doing it, but I notice others have.>

[Primate]

<It's a play by post rpg thing I've been doing out of habit, I dont think its important>

[RubberDuck]

“No, primarily I’m looking to treat as many people as possible.

I can medically inspect/treat other players for various ailments, hence why I checked your limp. But turned out that was just age and there’s nothing I can do about it.

I’m looking for items of a medical nature, of which I now have several. There’s a pharmaceutical company that was associated with the mall and one of the stores was possibly owned by a Dr, so I’m trying to find that.

[Primate]

*shrugs*

"It's arthritis. If you can find a cure for that you'd be a millionaire. If it starts to act up again I'll come to you and see if I can get something for the pain, but I don't really feel comfortable with my mind foggy in this place. As long as I avoid stairs I should be fine."

"Did battlemage let you examine him? I wouldn't be suprised if he tried to hit you up for drugs honestly."

"I've not seen any evidence of any store owned by a doctor or anything along those lines, so no luck there I'm afraid."

[RubberDuck]

He did ask for drugs, to which I said no, so he stole a booster shot off me which he used on himself, which would have given him a bonus to combat for one turn (not that he knew that)

I have a Hippocratic oath, whereby I promised to observe ethical principles in the practice of medicine and to first do no harm. It would have been unethical to feed his addiction, hence him stealing off me, but regardless none of my medicine would have given him a high - Potassium Iodide is an anti radiation drug and I have bandages.

I have a syringe (2/3 uses left) in my possession that players can consent to be treated with. Not all players are able to be cured and treating them will have no effect.

I offered to try examine him, to which he was described as “Appears to be suffering adverse effects of substance abuse.” BM consented to being treated and was cured of his addiction.

Stupidly, BM insisted on pushing back on Ambic bringing the deadline forward so he could try figure out the secret door as he didn’t want to leave it unsolved and spent the next 12 hours trying to figure it out and then decided if he couldn’t do it he would try lock it out so no one else could get in there.

[RubberDuck]

"Put the spray bottle on the counter, it might be useful to contain fuel or similar later."

Petrol will melt through normal plastic, if we want to move fuel it will need to be a jerry can or similar.

Check couch for items in the cushions or behind/underneath couch

[RubberDuck]

Hmm, there’s another light switch in here. The cafe didn’t have one.

Turn off light

Look around room

Turn on light

[ambic]

The room goes completely dark.
It takes your eyes a moment to adjust
You see nothing unusual
THe light comes back on again.

Nothing of note in the couch.

[RubberDuck]

look behind poster of Raquel Welch

[Primate]

*Harry's eyes narrow.*

"Don't you

dare

do that again."

Move to the other side of the room, away from Rubberduck, to examine the rightmost mirror bench.

[RubberDuck]

Well do you have any ideas of what to try doing in here? I though breaking the mirrors sounded like a good idea but I don’t have anything that could be used.

I do have this laser pointer. It was inside the fake camera I ripped off the wall in the eatery.

Casually points laser across the mirrors

The till is locked, so might need to pry it open, find a key or use the attached flatscreen to unlock it.

This room has power sockets, so we could try plugging something into them.

Need to check the left and right side barber benches.

There’s a cctv camera, if it’s on and recording it is probably hooked to somewhere, maybe a back room with a security setup or the mall might have a comms room.

3x barber chairs, those can probably be adjusted for height.

I think that’s everything in here. Open to any suggestions.

[RubberDuck]

Do you want to check out the last mirror bench?
Perhaps you might be able to use your cane to break a mirror.

Take magazine and sit on couch and read

[ambic]

Harry goes over to look at the bench on the right. There is a handheld mirror. When he looks at it, he sees Lacey is gone

[Primate]

As in if I turn around and look she's no longer in the room?