I13: Test 00002.5 - WE'RE NOT DEAD?

by **Narrator** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:27 pm

Sidney and Alex would materialize in the same white room together. It was smaller then the others and there didn't appear to be any doors. Just a large metal pad in the center. On the far wall there were large screens with a portrait of each of the other testers (minus Alex and Sidney).

"Welcome to the next phase of testing. You are here because you are incredibly stupid. However, our capacity for forgiveness is limitless and we have designed a way for you to make up for your mistakes."

"The rules are simple. You are in a room with no food or water. There is no escape other then the teleporter pad in front of you."

"To activate it and return to your fellow testers, simply choose two candidates for termination."

"Or do not. And starve to death here. It is up to you."

by **Sidney Young** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:34 pm

"Well, I never liked that Brigid chick." Sid points out, really more to piss off Alex.

by **Narrator** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:36 pm

A giant red "X" appears above Brigid's face.

"She has been marked for termination. One more to go."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:37 pm

"Gonna have to think it over," Alex called as he started circling the room, giving it a pound here and there with a steel fist to feel it out.

by **Sidney Young** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:41 pm

Sid actually swivels around when the computer takes her seriously. Well it's not gonna do anything if I don't step on the damn thing.

"Yeah, I'm sure the room they teleported us into has a secret door." she says, looking around the room anyway. She wasn't really sure if she was immune to starvation and she doesn't particularly feel like eating her own foot over and over either.

by **Narrator** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:43 pm

The walls were steel, but it felt like there was a thick layer of something solid on all sides.

"Take your time. The choice to murder your friends is one that should be given some thought."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:46 pm

"Yeah, I'm not looking for a door. I'm not the big smart strategic guy... I'm the one that pounds stuff." And with that, he started going to town on the wall, hoping to find a spot that wasn't solid that he could punch through, or get down to the support beams, or SOMETHING.

by **Sidney Young** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:48 pm

Sidney covers her ears at the metallic pounding noise and shouts "Hey asshole, can I change my vote and tele-frag him instead!?"

by **Narrator** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:50 pm

"It is much funnier to watch him attempt to break through several hundred yards of solid rock with his bare fists."

by **Sidney Young** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:52 pm

"Well fuck you too then. Can I kill myself and at scare the fuck out of Haley by teleporting in as a mangled corpse?"

by **Narrator** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:53 pm

"It is funnier to watch you live with the guilt of condemning two human beings to death."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:59 pm

Having established that the walls were steel, Alex touched it and shifted to steel, starting to daw the walls off (and floor too, hopefully) to get a look at all the supposed sone underneath, particularly to see where the screen and other equipment was getting power from.

by **Narrator** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:04 am

The walls were, in fact, solid stone. It looked like someone had teleported the entire room deep underground.

The equipment had no visible means of power. Weird.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 8:33 pm

"Dammit," Alex sighed, thinking it over. "None of this makes sense. Would've been better for Cal to get stuck in here..."

by **Sidney Young** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 9:05 pm

"Yeah, if you wanted to make me more miserable maybe." she says, walking along the wall and doing her own investigating.

by **Narrator** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 2:42 pm

The screens shifted to show pictures of Sydney and Alex starving to death. The words "SIMULATION" ran underneath.

Sydney wouldn't find much that Alex didn't. If she investigated the screens and pad closely she'd find they all had a similar symbol on them. It looked like a stylized eye of providence.

by **Sidney Young** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 3:34 pm

"Yeah right. Rusty can probably eat the walls and I'm pretty sure I don't need to in the first place." she says, punching the monitor displaying the simulation.

by **Narrator** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 3:37 pm

The screen shatters and there's a brief burst of sparks as Sidney smashes it.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 3:43 pm

"Well damn. Looks like it's time to start tunneling," Alex sighed, briefly wondering just how long he could stay shifted.

by **Sidney Young** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 4:30 pm

Sidney starts prying the shattered monitor away to pull on cables (assuming there are any) to see how far she can pull them out of the wall where the monitor had been.

by **Narrator** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:52 pm

The tables lead into a metal box that looks as if it was hastily welded into the wall. It sounded hollow if you knocked on it.

Another monitor started playing a live feed of their friends. Haley was levitating someone that looked like Alex towards the group. Everyone looked very worried.

by **Sidney Young** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:55 pm

"Uhm..." she stops ripping things apart for a moment, then glances over at Alex. "Bloody hell?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:43 pm

"Wait, what the... What the fuck is going on!?" Alex seemed very close to being brain-broken.

by **Sidney Young** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 9:52 pm

"Ugh, there's two of you?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:05 pm

"Well no, there shouldn't be..."

by **Sidney Young** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:12 pm

"Maybe you're a fake and they're just trying to fuck with me..." she eyes Alex suspiciously.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:34 pm

"Yeah, the one that isn't moving and looks dead is the real one, and I'm fake," he deadpanned.

by **Sidney Young** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:38 pm

"He's not moving right now. But you're probably right... And they won't try looking for us."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:40 pm

"Shit. I think it means the time's up on our 'get back out of here' deal, too."

by **Sidney Young** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:55 pm

"Well, get digging then." she says and goes back to tearing apart the electronics to find enough cable to string together to reach the pad in the middle of the room.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 11:19 pm

Alex focused on the extra iron he'd taken in, forming it around one of his hands like a chisel, forming a heavy hammer of it around his other hand, and started on the stone wall as you would expect someone so equipped to do.

by **Narrator** » Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:19 am

As the two made slow progress, onscreen their friends were being attacked by their robotic duplicates.

by **Sidney Young** » Tue Dec 31, 2013 1:16 am

"Hey asswipe! Don't kill Clobberella in case I wanna take you up on your offer after all!"

by **Narrator** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 3:48 pm

""You prefer another target, then name the player."

by **Sidney Young** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:06 pm

"Sidney Young." she says and steps on the platform.

by **Narrator** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:09 pm

"Oh, so noble. It really brings a tear to your eye, does it not? Such a lovely example of self-sacrifice and heroism.

That won't do at all. Invalid selection."

by **Sidney Young** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:14 pm

"Bloody gob shite poxy twat plonker! Take your ugly nonce mug and shove it up your arse!" Sid calmly informs him.

by **Sidney Young** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:39 pm

Haley Crusek wrote:"SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! I'M GONNA FUCKING RIP YOU IN HALF WHEN I FIND YOU!!!!" Haley screamed, a corona of psionic energy burning around her.

"Good thing the others are keeping their cool." Sid spits out, though getting her to actually admit that she had hoped for them to get them out of this room would be hard. Instead she just goes back to yanking wires out of the broken monitor and hooks them up to the metal platform in the middle. Maybe if she can short-circuit it it'll teleport them back to where they had been. Worst case scenario she electrocutes herself again, right?

by **Narrator** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:01 pm

That also happened to be the best-case scenario, as she was, in fact, electrocuted.

Please hold.

by **Sidney Young** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:18 pm

She lets out another string of profanities after jerking her arm back.

"Fuck this place!" she says, kicking the platform for emphasis.

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