WEEK 3 MINGLE

[vault_tech]

i don't want to set the world on fire

Week 3

The dreams are back, of course. They never left. But they’re different. In the dream, you wake up back at home at last. It’s so close now or… maybe everything else was just one great big nightmare. Your loved ones hug you tightly, and you can feel it so vividly that this has to be real. Things are going well for you, somehow. Maybe you won that fight. Maybe you found your freedom. Maybe you got that promotion. There’s something hopeful in the air as you breathe it, so so vividly. So much more vividly than the dank corners of the vault.

And then someone in your dream, a friend, an enemy, a loved one, family, they turn to you. They open their mouth, and through it, almost like a speaker, a song begins to play. Have you heard it before? You have now.

Coincidentally, they seem to freeze. Ice creeps up their skin, and if you take the chance to look around you, you’ll see it all start to crumble. It all goes up in a cloud of fire. A mushroom cloud, more specifically. Every single morning, on every single day of this week, you’ll be forced out of the real world and placed back in your body. Horrible, isn’t it?

Of course, just like the last two times, The Overseer speaks up over the intercom.

“I said at the end of the last execution that we’d have a new area prepared for you. A new week awaits you. I look forward to watching you take a stab at it.”

Poor choice of words, maybe, but the routine continues and the elevator has unlocked another stop. The third floor is now available to you.

As ever, the Overseer and her significantly more pleasant assistant are available for contact.

NAVIGATION

Vault 113: a short-run murdergame

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Comments

[vault_tech]

[He seems to consider that. Then grimaces, eating even more dirt than before.]

"Lay that pistol down.

Crawl out through the Fallout, baby, when they drop that bomb!"

[justlikemob]

…

[Mob considers what that could mean. Clearly this ghost only has access to a certain amount of sounds, so what is he trying to tell him.]

A bomb, then…that’s what put you in the vault in the first place? How did that turn into…what killed you?

[vault_tech]

[He looks down at the dirt, shakes his head.]

"Crawl out through the fallout."

[He repeats himself.]

"Atom bomb baby, little atom bomb."

[justlikemob]

…would you like help?

[Mob is going to get a spade from the gardening tools and start helping Gaius dig through the dirt.]

[vault_tech]

[He nods limply, and after about five minutes of digging, he falls inside the dirt. The ghost seems to be gone. Maybe he just wanted to be in the dirt?]

[justlikemob]

…goodbye.

[Well, Mob has no clue what to do with this giant man in a shallow hole in the ground. He can’t exactly move him, so…does he bury him?]