mockweek | Ceasefire - The Way Out

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[And then you wake up.]

[The room is dimly lit and made of pitted, industrial metals. You sit up abruptly on- some sort of padded table or cart? There’s a caged structure of metal piping surrounding you like a low barrier, but it’s open on top. You might similarly have a moment of panic about the straps holding you down or the electrodes on your head, but they’re just velcro and lightly tacked on, respectively, and in no significant way prevent you from sitting bolt upright and getting onto your feet. A series of twenty one such tables ring the room at even intervals. All but one has an occupant.]

[However long it takes you to notice, there a twenty of you again. Patches, the Trusty, and Yaiba, the Legendary Bassist, are back among your number. Penny, unfortunately, seems to be missing. Whatever you were wearing to the trial, or at the time of your death, you are back in the clothing you wore when you initially arrived. If anyone checks, CAREFULLY PLEASE, they will find that any powers they may have been missing are back.]

[The room is lit well enough, and there are computer banks and monitors around all the walls, which look to have been monitoring your vitals until just this second. Wires and tubes lead from each table to the center of the room, where a low pool is filled with a thick, milky-looking liquid that looks incredibly disinviting to touch.]

[A door rests on each side of the room, a glowing hand-sized pad beside each.]

[Welcome back, Participants.]

[Now, what do you do?]

((One clarification - any active powers that require some kind of power source or connection from your home worlds will either be not active or severely weakened.))

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From:

mockmods

[The music follows you all as you flee the facility, rushing out into the cold winter air. Fortunately (?) it's quite literally all downhill, the ridge tipping down and down towards the plains and then the forest below. Legs pumping, you all run faster and faster from the now unseen countdown, trying to reach minimum safe distance, whatever that might be.]

[Maybe you're able to mentally keep count, maybe not.]

[Three... two... one...]

[The moment that should be zero passes, the air quiet except for your panicked breathing. Well, if you need to breath. Was it a bluff? One second, two-]

[BOOM]

[Yeah, the lab is- not gone, but a whole lot more wrecked than it was before. You're probably thrown flat by the force of that explosion, too.]

[Upside, maybe that lightshow will attract some help?]

Edited Date: 2018-12-10 03:27 am (UTC)

From:

scratchitti

...

[Cool guys don't look at explosions. Only Neku isn't cool at all, and from his place on the ground he blinks out at the flames.

And then it hits- whatever brought them there was either in that place, or the main facility that could be literally anywhere]

Damn it...

From:

in4apounding

Are you all right?!

[Help up ALL the people!]

From:

scratchitti

I've been worse.

[He grunts as he stands up, holding his arms against his chest cuz it's cold and he has no gd sleeves]

From:

in4apounding

...With or without being dead?

From:

scratchitti

...both, honestly.

[Neku's seen and done some Shit]

From:

in4apounding

....Your life's been really weird, Neku.

[She is so sorry.]

From:

scratchitti

You're telling me.

[He grins]

It's sure been weirder the last few weeks though.

From:

in4apounding

....I think mine might've been too.

From:

windowsexplorer

Is everyone all right?

[Meredith does a quick headcount to make sure everyone got out.]

From:

mockmods

[Looks like everyone's accounted for!]

From:

deathroadtocanada

I'm... alright, as I can be.

[Just going to turn down her temperature sensitivity settings.]

I guess there's no reason to go back where we came from anymore.

From:

windowsexplorer

I don't think we should go too far. I'm pretty sure someone was coming.

From:

deathroadtocanada

Let's hope. [She scans the party.] We'll have to get everyone out of this cold soon.

From:

mockmods

[Speaking of, you ever seen any oldschool cartoons, Kara? You know that whistling sound things make when they're falling?]

[You can kind of hear something like that now, weird.]

From:

deathroadtocanada

[She... has not, actually. It's hard to say if she even has a passing knowledge of old cartoons.

But she does hear something, her Android senses make it easy.]

Do... does anyone hear that?

From:

mockmods

[Yeah, that's definitely getting louder.]

[If she looks up, her keen android senses might also spot something bright and metallic arcing down out of the sky.]

Edited Date: 2018-12-10 04:20 am (UTC)

From:

windowsexplorer

[Meredith has definitely seen old cartoons, if not necessarily the same ones we'd know, so she looks up pretty quickly.

Does the shiny thing look like it's going to land uncomfortably close?]

From:

mockmods

[Well, it looks big and solid, and it's coming very fast-]

[Might be kinda close-ish? It'd be understandable if you were all a bit gunshy at the moment.]

[And you've got another half second or so before it slams into the ground anyway, raising a large cloud of dust and snow.]

From:

nerd_lord

[A cloud which takes a moment to clear, revealing-]

[Wow, that's a terrifying looking mascot face on a big metal box.]

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEY KIDS!

[With a disturbingly high-pitched voice.]

From:

eudaimonikos

Holy shit, shoot it!

[It's lucky that Michael has no actual offensive supernatural abilities]

From:

deathroadtocanada

[Immediately steps in front of any children or robot children to put herself between them and this... whatever the fuck this is. Hoo boy.]

Who a-are you supposed to be?