Here's how we figured out which rooms Oriel could be in :D
(We still don't know for sure though qwq)
onlin was useful for once, so we figured out that this is what oriel's message said:
I'm in the cube-shaped building at the edge of town
It has 5 floors and 25 rooms on each floor
1st floor has 1-25, 2nd has 26-50 and so on
Room number had 3 digits. Ended in 3, 5, 6, 8, or 9. Tens place was 1 or 2.
I think it's divisible by---
you want onlin to do something? involve his pride.
i noticed that the last room on each floor is a multiple of 25. 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125.
Agent Oriko: Just wanted to check in on my favorite agents! ;) Also wondering if Ordinary wanted to go get coffee with me at Shmumber Coffee? I’ve got a giftcard and it’s too much for one person.
Hi, Oriko!
We're doing good here, more or less.
except for ordinary. she seems... sad? no not exactly sad...
I'd love to go out for coffee with you!
Maybe it could help me think about where Oriel could be in The Cube...
Yo, what'd you guys end up doing with that scientist clone? Are they still in HQ or...?
we're holding cedric in hq right now.
We haven't caught him trying to escape, and we hope it stays that way qwq
He seems to hate being here. We've asked him if there was anything that would make him feel better, and he only asked for a new pair of glasses and a hair straightener. (We didn't give him a hair straightener, but O'Dahlia straightened his hair.)
if you have to interview him, keep him in his cell. and don't talk about oriel at all. or the fact that he's a clone.
sure he's not much of a threat without his gadgets, but he doesn't need another agent to hate.
The Cube was packed. O'Vidiya and I rushed into a crowded elevator and anxiously waited until we were on the fifth floor.
"116, 117, 118... Room 119!"
O'Vidiya zapped the door with an Unlock-inator (one of the only gadgets we Security agents were allowed to wield) and we barged into the room.
"Odd Squad, Odd Squad, stop right there!"
My eyesight isn't the greatest, even with glasses, but I still questioned why I was seeing double.
Oriel looked up from the gadget he was holding and glared at us. Another Oriel, the real one, was loosely bound to a wooden chair, his face glasses-less and... yikes.
"You look rough," O'Vidiya winced.
Oriel slipped his arms out of the ropes and pointed to a thin but long cut on his right cheek. "Paper-inator."
He pointed to his right foot, which was encased in a block of ice. "More-Precise-Freeze-inator."
Oriel sneezed and sniffled. "Pollen-inator."
My eyes were drawn to a small burn mark on his left cheek. "What's that...?"
"Oh, this? Fireworks-inator."
"What?!"
No... We should've solved it sooner...
"Explain yourself," O'Vidiya demanded to the other Oriel. "Who are you?"
He cleared his throat. "I'm Cedric."
He chuckled and took his lab coat off, breathing a sigh of relief. Relief?
"Don't you know how exhausting it was to be him?"
"I thought you'd have it easy since we're technically the same---" Oriel started to say.
"We're not!"
"The same what?" I asked.
"Since you're so eager to blab about it, why don't you explain what you did to me?"
The other Oriel's---Cedric's---voice dripped with venom potent enough to numb a bear.
a bear?
I'd be exaggerating if I said an elephant hehe. Just look at him ^w^
Oriel sighed. "You know how I test gadgets on myself? I thought it would be a great idea to use the Multiply-inator to have a bunch more of myself, but I went too far and he rebelled and it's all---"
"What?" O'Vidiya demanded.
"I was nine! I didn't think of the consequences!"
Cedric readied a gadget. "You never do."
I retrieved my riot shield and stood in Oriel's way. "Look out!"
The beam from Cedric's gadget ricocheted off my shield and froze part of the wall.
O'Vidiya retrieved her own shield. "Free Oriel. I'll handle this."
I untied Oriel and dragged him to a corner of the room.
"Get his gadgets!" Oriel called.
O'Vidiya slid down to grab a gadget on the floor.
"Way ahead of you!" she called back, throwing the gadget to me.
"Gadget 70's the Heat-inator," Oriel said. "That's gadget 48, the More-Precise-Freeze-inator!"
Cedric retrieved another gadget, bombarding O'Vidiya with fireworks.
"Fireworks-inator! 110!" Oriel shouted over the noise. "Too big!"
O'Vidiya put her cochlear implants in her pocket and faced the fireworks head-on with her shield.
dug into my scalp and took them off yeah👍🏾
The removable parts! You know what I mean >:(
Just as Cedric was about to fire another firework, O'Vidiya knocked the gadget out of his hand and threw it to me.
"We can't use that," Oriel said. "110 is greater than 70---"
I aimed at Oriel's foot with the Fireworks-inator. A firework the size of a cigar shattered enough of the ice to free him.
Oriel blinked. "...That works, too!"
Cedric gritted his teeth. "Why do you have to be so---"
"Shields up!" Oriel exclaimed as he retrieved his own round shield.
Cedric retrieved yet another gadget and covered us in a burst of pollen. I'm allergic to a lot of weird things, but pollen isn't one of them.
I zapped him with the only other gadget we Security agents were allowed to wield: the Handcuff-inator.
"You win this time," he spat. "But just you wait, Oriel!"
I returned the rest of the gadgets to Oriel. He retrieved more of Cedric's gadgets from his hammerspace somehow...
"How are you doing that?" I asked.
"We're technically the same person. Kinda..."
O'Vidiya took Oriel's glasses off of Cedric's face and returned them to him.
We took both of them into the tubes back to headquarters.
What the heck is "The Cube?" Ordinary kept spamming me with codes and something about her scientist friend while I was still healing. Can I have a case summary in case Ms. O asks me for a status report or something?
the conveniently cube-shaped building at the edge of town. cant blame you for not knowing since you barely go out of hq. it just looks like a white cube.
tldr: oriel's been acting strange. turns out it's someone pretending to be oriel. the real oriel is trapped in a room inside the cube.
we don't know who it is since we don't have shapeshifting villains in the area afaik
We've narrowed it down to 7 out of the 125 rooms!
If you're interested in how we did that, we'll put that in a different post :D
Unknown voice: Hello. I’d like to know if any of you know anything about the villains “The Projectionist” and “Miss Fortune.”
More specifically, have you heard the rumors that Miss Fortune still has connections to Odd Squad?
Miss Fortune? That villain that recently popped up in our archives?
We have information on what kind of powers they have, but other than that? Not much qwq
I think I remember The Projectionist mentioning something about someone destroying her "life's work?"
I didn't get to ask her about it in the heat of the moment. Also, she trapped me in a flipbook and erased my mouth. (Don't worry, I got back to normal!)
Eh, I don't pay attention to rumors and stuff like that. But where did that rumor even come from?
