Turn 10
Summary: Interesting stuff happens.
"Well, thank you. We're going to need your help, anything at all would be appreciated."
BREAK FREE FROM THIS FREAKING WALL.
[6] You summon your incredibly high level of annoyance at being stuck on a wall for ten whole minutes, and use your slowly improving telekinesis to force yourself out of the anomaly. Though you are in an anomalous space and are unskilled at telekinesis, you succeed and land on the gun guy's side of the anomaly - er, except for your left foot. It remains floating inside the distortion. But something about exiting the anomaly seems to have cauterized your leg, and you are free of pain. Still, you don't have that foot.
"Ok, So whats that stuff Suppose ta do anyway?"
I Ask the nameless person while I try to make my way to that Emergency Cabinet.
[5] You carefully move towards the cabinet, as carefully as possible for someone who is flailing their arms around in a pocket of strange space, and land lightly beside it. Juni seems a bit catatonic, like Glass earlier, but you pay no attention for the moment. [4] As you hit the wall, you snatch at the cabinet's latch. The door swings open and reveals 3 dartguns and 3 of some sort of slender pistol. An instrument panel is set into the back of the cabinet.
"Ow...wait,a dart?"
Pulls the dart out of his foot
[5] You get the dart out without causing damage to the surrounding tissue, and throw it aside.
wincing as the dart jabbed him, he would pull it out of his arm and examine it carefully for any sings of what he tried to inject into me.
"The hell did you just inject me with?!"
immediately start making a tourniquet around the jabbed arm after removing the dart at the shoulder preferably. I'm not taking the chance that it's a poison.
[1] You can't get a good grip on the dart, and only injure the skin around it further. You do manage to wince convincingly. That doesn't make you feel better, though.
[6] You tear at your uniform, getting a strip of cloth off, and fumblingly tie a tourniquet - the rest of that dart's payload is not about to get anywhere else. Sadly, neither is your blood. Your arm starts tingling.
Juni becomes limp, but due to the anomalous nature of space,
she her corpse does not fall. Her diagnostics thing blares one alarm, then silences itself. The Orator has two notable kills.
A few of the lights in the emergency panel begin twinkling. A roar erupts somewhere above you; it doesn't sound like any creature, more like a massive explosion. Above you. In a facility that could easily be structurally unstable. A shockwave blasts through the room then ceases abruptly when it reaches the middle, at the same time that the roar vanishes. Well, that was weird.
The guy with a gun relaxes slightly and looks at Bob. "Those darts carry three substances: an antipsychotic, a mild sedative, and a memory enhancer. The first is to ensure you aren't subject to psychoses which have been appearing since the sinkhole appeared. The second is only enough to keep you calm. The third is so you remember what I'm about to tell you.
The Device which disappeared was able to transfer entropy and energy between any two thermodynamic systems. Those who went crazy around it were being driven mad by the arrow of time not matching up - entropy increased more in random areas near the Device than in other areas. After a few of them died in the research room containing the thing, reports of a 'presence' near the device began to accumulate. It was an intelligence using air molecules as a substrate instead of flesh, and it began forming when order from ordered systems - the brains of the researchers who had died - accumulated near the Device. I don't know what it wants, but it caused the sinkhole collapse and every other abnormality which has begun to happen here.
Every so often, the intelligence uses the Device to mess with some pocket of time, and the changes slowly ripple throughout the facility. When they settle in one place, they become anomalies like the space in this room." He paused. "Also, the Device can be used to 'time travel', in a limited way: reverting parts of the surrounding area to former states. I've managed to partially escape some of the reversions, and I estimate that the future timeline of this facility has been reverted about 13 times.
As someone who worked with the Device, I want to investigate it, and so I will help you get there and back. I also need to talk to the ghastly Orator."
He looks at each of you, gauging your reactions.
Note: don't forget to get that insignia scrap from Juni.
Player CharactersNix, male
Abilities: Human Bloodhound |
Untrained Telekinesis (conferred by non-conventional electronic, or NCE)
Inventory: NCE telekinesis extension | Damaged LED Flashlight |
Vial labeled "COMPATH" | Antipsychotics(?) | Medkit | Dazzler
Currently: Struggling
Health: Pain from dart wound in arm; left foot missing
Juni, femaleAbility: Biological night vision
Inventory on death:
Wrist-mounted Diagnostics Device | Repurposed Metal Weapon | Insignia Scrap
Currently: Singing with the Choir Invisible
Health: Dead; electrocuted by the Orator
Erin Quill, maleAbility:
Pushing up the daisiesInventory on death: Nothing
Currently: Lying on the ground, outside stairwell
Health: Dead; electrocuted by the Orator
Dustan Hache, male
Ability: Quick Reflexes
Inventory:
Scaldknife | NCE warning/ward coin
Currently: Outside room, behind cover; applying !!logic!! to armed-guy
Health: Slight left wrist injury, mild pain; cutting off blood flow
Bob, male
Ability: Poison Resistance
Inventory: Electronic scrap
Currently: Investigating emergency cabinet
Health: Normal
Steveno, male
Ability: Parkour
Inventory: Duct tape
Currently: By Glass's corpse
Health: Pain from dart wound in foot
Non-Player CharactersThe Orator
Description: Last seen in the Cold Room, can remotely kill you, and is monitoring your minds. Comforting, isn't it?
Guy with a gun
Description: Has... well, a gun. Concerned that there may be
stark raving mad lunatics nearby. Seems to know about the Orator's kill-switches, and just gave y'all a large chunk of information.
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Topic: Assemblage (4/6; Possibly starting) - Turn 13 (Read 16977 times)