The Invisible City of Kitezh II. Wedding Procession

[collector]

[Braxiatel has picked out a nice, comfortable room for the broadcast. (Also, he has tea, but does that even need to be mentioned?) The initial smile he offers is somewhat less pleasant than it could be.]

First, allow me to congratulate the happy couple on their engagement. Do enjoy yourselves picking out the drapery for your new home. And if I may applaud the Doctor in particular for finding a new place to trap us all.

[That done, Brax is back to being cool, calm, and calculating]

Now, on to business. Some of you may have already explored the area and found five locked doors. One, to the north, is essentially inaccessible, but I'm sure no one will be too upset if we keep trying. There also are four other doors, each of which asks a security question when one gives it access to one's CAT. Each door's question is asked by one of the residents of the town.

In case anyone wanted to have a go at the questions, I've made a text post with the door's location, the question's speaker, and the question given. My suggestion is that the doors be taken in teams. We haven't any idea what's behind them, after all.

[with a sip of his tea] And if I could borrow the future wife of Doctor Hatter, I think I'd like to try the northwest door with her first.

[TEXT]

Northeast: Osculia
What treat is the best reward?

Northwest: Verita
I don't just stand for the news; I, Verita, also stand for...

Southeast: Audrey Ardes
I'm as boisterous and cheerful as they come, but mentioning this can kill my good mood. What is it?

Southwest: Dante Iussus
I'm a man with an awful... And before I believe anything, I need...

Comments

[collector]

I hope she hit you.

[bit_impossible]

[feel the love man!]

Would you be disappointed to hear that she didn't?

[collector]

On the contrary, it means there's still a show to come.

[bit_impossible]

Considering we're trapped in this place together, she might not be the only one--not after you kindly announced that it's my fault.

[collector]

Oh, surely no one will blame you for this.

[bit_impossible]

Besides you, you mean?

[collector]

[with a bit of a smile] Well. It is rather telling when our greatest accomplishment so far is forcing them to trap us somewhere else. But there's plenty to be learned in here.

[bit_impossible]

Well, it's not like we haven't been trapped elsewhere in this town. [he refuses to take full blame for this, darn it] Didn't you recognise the garden?

[collector]

No, I completely ignored it on my way in. Yes, of course I recognized the garden. Did you recognize the photographs?

[bit_impossible]

[nods] Yup. Someone's got quite the hobby.

[collector]

Red lines and blue lines. I wonder why that was only on the photograph of the gardens.

[bit_impossible]

Could be that they're only present there and nowhere else, perhaps.

[collector]

It's the one I'd match it with. If I were the matching sort, I mean. You've seen the Collection; I don't like to organize artefacts by era or culture. But aesthetically speaking, the others were fairly space age. The other two didn't follow the scheme precisely.