vault113 | INTRODUCTION

INTRO

Vault 113

You wake feeling groggy. You have the distinct sense of oversleeping, even if you may not recall ever going to bed in the first place. And this bed? Definitely not yours, no matter how comfortable it may be. And you'd probably not go to sleep in your street clothes*, right? Well, maybe it's time to smooth out your bedhead and get exploring!

(*or whatever else you were wearing at the last moment you remember)

The first thing you'll notice is the complete absence of windows - are you underground? Though you'll encounter quite a few closed doors, there are some rooms for you to look through and maybe catch your breath in. Maybe it's time for a slushie in the dining room? Impatience won't get you anywhere!

And what's better than a sweet drink to bring strangers together? After all, you're not the only one who's crawled out of bed a little late today. Mingle and don't worry too hard about your current predicament!

((The Mastermind will introduce themselves at 7pm EST real time.))

NAVIGATION

Vault 113: a short-run murdergame

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A witch...?

[I mean. Witches get up to some pretty weird shenanigans, so maybe turning to blood and back is a thing some of them do. But also there's this, and...]

....... That's not how a necromancer works. I still say witch.

You can call me whatever you like.

[It still shows that she finds the disbelief irritating and offensive, but she's decided to ignore it.]

I'm still stronger than you.

Plenty of us are probably planning to.

[Crossing his arms and tossing his head a little, slightly reminiscent of either a runway model with a shitty attitude or a huffy bull.]

And you wouldn't be stronger if you didn't mess around with powers somehow. If that was even you and not some other kind of SNART. What even was the baseline for that? Human?

[ he nods. not that he knows much about necromancy in general, but yeah witch does sound more appropriate... ]

[At least some people aren't totally clueless here. Not that Belphegor is all the way clued in either, but!!!]

[he's no belial but flesh magician also sounds kinda... raunchy

yeah let's go with witch.]

Ugh, that wasn't the point... [why are so many people here weirdos!! but it does get him to settle down some since it does feel a little ridiculous to be reacting like this when everyone else seems to be taking it in stride (more or less, if we exclude the murderhappy kid over on the other side).]

I don't really care what she is, she's just a creep that gets her kicks outta yanking people out of their beds.

[Flesh magician could be either raunchy or gore or overall fridge horror but that's pretty normal. But yeah, Belphegor's definition of 'normal' may be mildly skewed, hang in there.]

I mean, I wasn't here for the blood part, but it does sound pretty creepy. Still, having a bed at all is a selling point. [he seems kind of amused about this] Though, if I get woken up often like this...

[Just leaving that to the imagination, apparently.]

[help he's surrounded by weirdos here and he can't do shit about it (except murder, apparently)

he's more bothered about the fact that ianthe may or may not have snuck into his room back home, yanked him out of bed and then tucked him in here but really, same diff, the blood thing is creepy too.]

Like, she could be less dramatic about all of it, but I guess this place is better furnished than the base I was living in.

[so yeah, the bed thing is a miniscule consolation prize here. there's a small tilt of the head at that ominous(?) way of trailing off though??]

What, did someone barge into your room before?

[Things back home are a little more complicated than a game of bed chicken, but that's neither here nor there; if you were to ask Belphegor he'd say he's been woken up by far worse and be correct on all counts. But also at this particular moment in time it's more of an annoyance than usual.

Two things can be true at once!]

For a home away from home-- [yes, this is very sarcastic, but also what else are they going to call it] --the most I could ask for is some fresh air? And less...

[Apparent general gesture at the entire crowd including Ianthe and possibly the guy he's talking to.]

But yeah. Everyone's barging everywhere. I guess it's a normal reaction.

[He just looks over as Belphegor gestures at the crowd and then back at Belphegor himself and you know what? Yeah. Even if it's a really vague statement, it could definitely be less of everything. Or at least less of these random strangers in an enclosed space.]

Yeah, but I bet she'd say that's all just part of her clever plan. You know, getting us all pissed off at each other for going into people's rooms and needing to share utensils and crap.

[Which honestly, isn't all that different from what he's used to doing anyway (lack of sunlight aside), so the comment comes off as more sarcastic than anything else?? What is having standards, it's fine.]

[Life is hard when you just want a pillow and some peace and quiet and also some entertainment and possibly only like six other people in the universe(s) but that's neither here nor there.

Belphegor snorts at the description; they're definitely gossiping about Ianthe in front of Ianthe but isn't that half the fun of it.]

I don't know how clever the plan is when it looks like she's just picking up other people's trash and turning it into her own personal death game. Or... a bad reality show? If we're really saying people are going to start killing each other over forks.

[Or?! With forks?!! He's just casually musing about their ratings, OK.]

[Honestly he would also say everything he's already said here right to her face anyway so same diff!! The benefits of being Rude, probably.]

A reality show? [he can parse the words, but there's still a quirk of the eyebrow here given that he doesn't really know what that actually is. not that it stops him from just breezing past it.] But if there's anyone dumb enough to resort to that, then they probably do deserve to be locked up somewhere.

[but like, just not with them, preferably.]

[I mean, he would too, so this is just the rude & rowdy convention here.]

The drama is about the same, right?

[Theo has successfully covered up the fact that he doesn't know what reality shows are. Does he even know what TV shows are. I guess we'll find out eventually. ☆]

Is there even anyplace to lock people up in a place where we're already locked up...? Did she even say what would happen if somebody tried and failed? There's an awful lot of executions involved.

[Given Belphegor is Belphegor he can take an educated, rude guess, but y'know.]

[hi fives belphegor (rudely) in solidarity]

Beats me. I've never watched one before.

[that success was pretty short-lived huh.]

No, but she's probably saving it for some big reveal down the line, like most of us haven't already figured out what's probably gonna happen.

[honestly it seems like a lot of them here are pretty pessimistic or realistic enough to recognize the issues with the rules here, so yeah...]

Not even by accident? Now that's harder to believe than our host's resume.

[He says this with a totally straight face!!]

And I don't know about that, there's got to be some standards. Maybe it's the executions that are going to be the real show -- she'd better not just be planning to snap people out of existence the way she says she is.

[She seems a bit bloodthirsty for such a clean method, though with how many executions keep being threatened maybe it's better to be efficient. Nevertheless, a demon's got to have expectations of some kind if he's to be a captive audience.]

INTRODUCTION

threadjacks into this five hundred years later bc how else are we going to get CR

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unfort ive gone senile by aging five hundred years overnight, goodbye to our CR fyre--

I have it on good authority that you've been threading since the dinosaur age you can't fool me

wow it's the reverse dinosaur age in the future!! this is a statement that makes sense

I mean, we are in Fallout, I assume the reverse dinosaurs make sense here somewhere /canonblind

wow are you sure that's not jurassic park you're thinking of!! /also canonblind

somehow I don't think this dinosaur adventure will be a walk in the park /laughtrack.mp3

no but it can be a pretty good dirt nap i've heard

either way we're boned so we might as well make the best of it

yes we can still get all our vitamins and minerals at least

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