INTRODUCTION

[vault_tech]

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

RULES

GAME INFO

LOCATIONS

PROFILES

IC RULES

MURDER

PCs

CHECK-INS

code credit

Comments

common room

[picnicked]

You figure we're underground? We could just be in a remote enough location where there's not a lot of towers close by.

[And there's just no windows because the person who built this place has terrible taste or whatever.]

[theinstigator]

[ Ruby doesn't reject the idea immediately, but she doesn't quite buy it, either. ]

Possibly. But if we're this remote, I don't know how they'd have built the place without some kind of Pale compression. Unless they really wanted to kill all their workers.

[ yikes! ]

Besides. No windows.

[picnicked]

Could be a fallout shelter of some kind.
[Hm.]

But what do you mean by "pale compression"?

[theinstigator]

[ Possibly, although they haven't needed those since the war... Ruby's considering it when this guy says something even more bewildering.

Surely, he's talking about the technology. He's not like the woman who just wholesale forgot about the Pale. ]

Uh, well it's usually done with long-range radio waves, broadcasting information to exert space onto non-space. Prime numbers, stuff like that. You know, so people can travel through the Pale.

[ obviously!! ]

[picnicked]

[Well. Some of that made sense. Does she mean data compression?? If he assumed that it would... 50% make sense.]

Well, I know all of the words you're saying, individually. But the word pale to me just means like, light colored? It's an adjective, not something to "travel through."

[theinstigator]

[ OH, YOU'VE REALLY LOST IT NOW, SISTER. ]

You're the second person who's said that to me. [ said more to herself, and not to the other man. ] I figured the first one just hit her head or something, but maybe they've drugged and captured us.

[picnicked]

Maybe? Given I don't believe I have any head trauma, that would make sense.

But if this is some new technology or a highly technical term, maybe we just haven't heard it?

[theinstigator]

No, it's... [ Ruby sounds increasingly baffled. ] ...it's over three-quarters of the world, and expanding. People say the pale is going to swallow us whole, and then that'll be that. There's more pale than ocean, and almost as much as there is sky.

[ So everyone has definitely heard of it. ]

[picnicked]

[Since this is before Ianthe showed up, Grimmer is unfortunately just going to assume this nice young lady is a bit delusional. Best to play along!]

Ah, I see. I suppose it is a bit weird I haven't heard of it then!