I'll leave you good folks to decide the specifics of how John and Kaneki enter. As you both agree on exploring the well's gated opening, here is what our handsome duo can discover:
— a tight, fairly claustrophobic channel leading from the opening to a sizeable underground hideaway. All walls and floors within this enclosure are made of stone and bare, and the scant furniture comprises tables, benches and standard work tools, alongside residual machinery. Around nine to 10 mirrors have been packed and reclined to face the wall. If they're turned around, they will show distorted images of Kaneki and John, typically reflecting the versions of them if some of their greatest hopes and wishes were fulfilled. There is a small bathroom and bathing facility connected to the room, including old, rusted cleansing and shaving tools. Some show light bleeding marks.
— one corner of the hall shows the room was at one point briefly lived, with table cloth set on floors or bundled in what appears to be the shape of a pillow. The ensemble is dusted, suggesting whatever occupant lived here has long vacated.
— there are spare technical parts on site, including crudely cut wire, steel and wood. Kaneki and John can see some parts of these were repurposed to create the "stairs" of the well. Slabs of stone are mounted towards the back of the room, though they have been artlessly cut into.
— all across the floor, 37 pieces of stone have been lined up. The different sizes and poor angling betrays the mason was either an amateur or inexperienced. Blunted knives scattered about the room were used to sculpt names into the stone pieces, alongside the THE TRUTH BOWS ONLY TO THE SUN motto seen on tombstones in Ellethia-Hamsour. Each stone rectangle is inscribed with a full name, the same date (coinciding with the first of the dates carved in the well), and short notes about the honoured person. Mostly, the carver has put down their occupation: technician, department of the arts, cook, mechanic, senior healer, keeper of the grounds, board member, professor, etcetera. The majority of the dead are technicians.
— three stone pieces have unfinished inscriptions that only list, matthias. The title of 'Matthias' is engraved differently on each stone piece: lead technician, master of the halls and board member.
— on one of matthias' three stone pieces sits the room's singer — an old and battered rag doll. The painted lines that previously shaped her face have largely been eroded by time.
— half an hour into Kaneki and John's exploration of the hall, the doll stops her song, and says she cannot see, for her button-eyes have fallen off. Is it her father she hears, here to take her home?
Let me know what you'd like to do with the doll, but please be aware — there is a (non-life-threatening) cost to deciding to take the doll with you, if you do.
Consider sharing some of the findings with the class!
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— a tight, fairly claustrophobic channel leading from the opening to a sizeable underground hideaway. All walls and floors within this enclosure are made of stone and bare, and the scant furniture comprises tables, benches and standard work tools, alongside residual machinery. Around nine to 10 mirrors have been packed and reclined to face the wall. If they're turned around, they will show distorted images of Kaneki and John, typically reflecting the versions of them if some of their greatest hopes and wishes were fulfilled. There is a small bathroom and bathing facility connected to the room, including old, rusted cleansing and shaving tools. Some show light bleeding marks.
— one corner of the hall shows the room was at one point briefly lived, with table cloth set on floors or bundled in what appears to be the shape of a pillow. The ensemble is dusted, suggesting whatever occupant lived here has long vacated.
— there are spare technical parts on site, including crudely cut wire, steel and wood. Kaneki and John can see some parts of these were repurposed to create the "stairs" of the well. Slabs of stone are mounted towards the back of the room, though they have been artlessly cut into.
— all across the floor, 37 pieces of stone have been lined up. The different sizes and poor angling betrays the mason was either an amateur or inexperienced. Blunted knives scattered about the room were used to sculpt names into the stone pieces, alongside the THE TRUTH BOWS ONLY TO THE SUN motto seen on tombstones in Ellethia-Hamsour. Each stone rectangle is inscribed with a full name, the same date (coinciding with the first of the dates carved in the well), and short notes about the honoured person. Mostly, the carver has put down their occupation: technician, department of the arts, cook, mechanic, senior healer, keeper of the grounds, board member, professor, etcetera. The majority of the dead are technicians.
— three stone pieces have unfinished inscriptions that only list, matthias. The title of 'Matthias' is engraved differently on each stone piece: lead technician, master of the halls and board member.
— on one of matthias' three stone pieces sits the room's singer — an old and battered rag doll. The painted lines that previously shaped her face have largely been eroded by time.
— half an hour into Kaneki and John's exploration of the hall, the doll stops her song, and says she cannot see, for her button-eyes have fallen off. Is it her father she hears, here to take her home?
Let me know what you'd like to do with the doll, but please be aware — there is a (non-life-threatening) cost to deciding to take the doll with you, if you do.
Consider sharing some of the findings with the class!