Ceasefire - The Way Out
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mockweek[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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Date: 2018-12-10 05:07 am (UTC)[He read that in his Caleb Cleveland novels.]
Looks like you all did a pretty good job saving yourselves, though.
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Date: 2018-12-10 05:08 am (UTC)Just barely. Oh! The other AI, erm... MOS? It said it had other captives in another location-!
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Date: 2018-12-10 05:12 am (UTC)[He looks serious now, pulling out a notebook and pencil.]
Can you tell me exactly what happened, as much as possible?
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Date: 2018-12-10 05:14 am (UTC)It's a very very long story, sorry little dude]
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Date: 2018-12-10 05:26 am (UTC)[As the story wraps up he taps at his notebook with his pencil.]
Gosh, this sounds pretty dire. But there's some good news!
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Date: 2018-12-10 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-10 05:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-10 05:34 am (UTC)[Lookit that hopeful expression]
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Date: 2018-12-10 05:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-10 05:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-10 05:45 am (UTC)[PLEASE NO HIT, HE IS NOODLE SCIENCE BOY]
Traveling between planar systems like this shouldn't even be possible anymore.
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Date: 2018-12-10 05:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-10 05:51 am (UTC)[This, he sounds genuinely excited about.]
Yes, if it were configured correctly, it's VERY possible it could see into other planar systems beyond our own! The only trouble would be targeting it, since- well, there are infinite planar systems, getting the same one twice would almost be impossible. This "mastermind's" technology must have some way of compensating for that.
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Date: 2018-12-10 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-10 06:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-10 06:04 am (UTC)I mean, Hodgepodge was kinda a dumbass.
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Date: 2018-12-10 06:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-10 06:14 am (UTC)