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vault1132023-04-10 05:36 pm
WEEK 1 MINGLE
As you sleep, you find your mind plagued with strange dreams. You’re still trapped, of course, there’s no way to avoid that, even in the comfort of your own mind, but you’re alone. Utterly alone. The radios and jukeboxes scattered around the place all spring to life, as if they’re speaking to you directly. On the other end, you see people talk about you. From your own perspective, it can’t have been more than… 48 hours since you were taken. From the perspectives of those on the outside, the times don’t match up nearly so well. It might have been days. It might have been weeks. It might have been months.
The voices discuss you. They discuss the way things have changed. They talk about how you just suddenly disappeared without a trace. Maybe they’re glad, glad that you weren’t around to see what happened without you. Or maybe they’re angry. Maybe they know that it was your fault. If only you’d been there, none of this would have happened. If you’d met up with that friend, they wouldn’t have died. If you’d been there to save her, things would have been different. If you had apologized, maybe… or if you hadn’t abandoned your responsibilities…
You don’t get the specifics either way. Your dream - or vision, it leaves your imagination to do all the work. But there’s one thing you can be absolutely sure of.
You are running out of time.
Well, what’s there to be glum about? The vault is your home now, lovingly prepared by Vault-Tec™! Who cares what some ghosts from the past have to say about you, eh? It’s not like you’ll ever see them again.
And no matter how deeply you were sleeping, The Overseer’s voice sounds out on the intercom and seems to wake you immediately.
“Hello, lovelies. We’ve decided to be extra generous to all of you, so we bring some good news for a change. I’m sure in the last few days, you’ve gotten pretty sick of that walled off little cellblock you’re cramped in, so you’ll be positively giddy to learn that we’ve prepared and unlocked the rest of the first level for you all to explore to your heart’s content. If you’ve given up on ever getting out of here, make yourself at home. If you haven’t, well, there’s plenty of fun and interesting tools to integrate into your work whenever you decide to take advantage the former group’s complete lack of initiative or willpower.
Oh, and before I forget… check the common room before you go.”
With that particularly nasty announcement, you will find that the doors that locked the rest of this floor off to you have all been opened up. And in addition to that, the profiles have been made public, joining the rules as framed pictures in the common room.
And if you wish to contact your Overseer or her robotic assistant, you are free to stop for a chat.
MONDAY
profile popcorn in the common room
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he seems to be staring at the profiles, studying each one of them and doing his best to memorize the information and the faces attached to them. but when he reaches his own... ]
I don't think it's encyclopedic... [ a tilt of his head. ] Huh... they even know my age. Impressive. [ not even he knew that! ]
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[If 'thousands of years' could count as a while?!? Such is life when you're an immortal of some stripe or patch, apparently; Belphegor can be observed or accosted looking at his own profile with only mild dissatisfaction. He also looks somewhat sleep-deprived but then again he always and forever has a bedhead and is always sleepy so the 'naps' part is too real.]
Maybe there are limits to their stalking.
[stares judgingly in general direction of the flesh witch and the maidbot wherever they are]
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Mine could be worse. I'd like to think I have more than four goddamn skills, though....
[He scrunches his nose.]
Some of these seem to be...rather revealing?
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Well, it isn't like anything on this sheet is wrong. ]
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I feel like knowing your age is the least impressive part about this. Anyone who can access government records could know that. It's the more person things that concern me.
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Oh, eat shit. [ Wait a second. ] How did they even take these pictures?
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[Now Mob feels a little embarrassed.]
I think they're accurate, judging by mine. I...do like milk.
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Wow, that's... one way to say that I take care of business, I guess!
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[he. he went through all of the previous day introducing himself as Shadowhunter... and now his name's just... right there...]
...I see.
[...it IS accurate, too... he feels a little self-conscious now. He picked it because it was accurate but it also sounded kind of cool, but now it feels a little like he was trying too hard...]
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[ Even if he's definitely been referring to himself as Saber up until now. Whoops. ]
Whoever compiled this list really knows their stuff. I'm impressed!
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How much do I look like I weigh, then?
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Either way, it's clear he does have good amount of skill even if a lot of the pieces are somewhat rough, especially if he hasn't actually spoke to you directly. If you also happen to be passing by while he's working on a sketch of you, he might also just look up and scrutinize you a little, it's fine.
A small distance away from where he's sitting, there's also a sketch of Ianthe left on one of the tables, with a couple of pens left scattered around it. You know, just in case someone wanted to add their own artistic flair to it.]
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etch-a-sketchy let's go
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Whenever someone enters the mysteriously named SUZY'S, Klaasje gives them a tiny nod and a slight, ironic smile, not yet stirring from her pose against the shelves behind her. ]
What's your poison, sailor?
[ You know. Because of the decor, and all. ]
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post profile popcorn and investigation
[ well, well, well, sigma decides to take the time to check out some of the place. it lands him in armory...which would be fitting, if there were any actual weapons. for a game where people have to kill each other, there really aren't many options, are there?
but hm. the rocks and dust there. let's take a look. ]
schoolhouse
[ later in the day, sigma can be found in the schoolhouse, the small stack of vhs tapes next to him. there's a movie playing on the screen, and he's sitting on one of the desks, watching it listlessly.
join him? ]
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He's watching his clothes spin around in the washing machine, his fingers drumming on the arm of his chair and his golden eyes unfocused. Maybe he's zoned out. Maybe he's listening for something. Maybe the washing machine really is just that mesmerizing.
He doesn't look up if you enter the room. The view is a gift. ]
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TUESDAY
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Ah--forgive me, I am... feeling somewhat off balance.
[first the shadowhunter thing and now this... he's feeling so cringe. admittedly he has felt like that ever since he blew up his own castrum. but you know. he should probably make himself useful and investigate... so he'll check out the storeroom, both to see what they're working with and uh... to take a much closer look at things given the fact that it looks like something Happened here.
After that, he's going to try and get a shower because he is in... 'civilization...' and should therefore try and keep himself clean and presentable. Communal showers... now that's a blast from the past. It also becomes apparent why he's been keeping his arms all bandaged up because they're covered in horrible looking burn scars! The left is way worse than the right, but they're both kind of bad... at least no one is probably going to be weird about it. Probably.]
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Investigation, sorry for the delay!!
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Oh wait, she's doing that. ]
So these are the kinds of comics they like in America, huh?
[ Okay, well, later on she's actually back by the laundry room, just sort of. Waiting for her jumpsuit to wash. When you have two outfits to choose from, you have to alternate! So she's sitting on top of the washing machine, flipping through a book. If anyone comes by, she'll wave. ]
Do you think we could ask for more outfits? I'm a little tired of doing laundry every day already.
[ And much later on, like at three in the morning or something, she can be found leaving the showers! She's toweling her hair off, but the showers are empty behind her. ]
Hey there! Still up, huh?
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common room let's go it's GROGNAK TIME and stuff
WEDNESDAY
Mini-Event!
Attention, please! This is Kanon speaking, bringing you an announcement from your Overseer! She does not want you to think she is totally uncooperative, so please file into the schoolhouse and receive some proof of her goodwill. I repeat: all vault residents are expected in the school house! Kanon, over.
[ When you file into the schoolhouse, you’ll notice that Kanon has tried to get the desks back into order at least a little. She is standing in the teacher’s position, holding a stack of papers in her hands. She’ll wait until a good number of vault dwellers have settled in, and then start speaking: ]
You’ve all given the impression of being very opposed to killing just because you’re told to and– well, I do believe that is a good thing, even if it makes things more difficult for us.
But if you do stay strong in your convictions, that means you’ll all be stuck here for indefinitely - which means that you’ll need to start pitching in to keep the Vault going. You’ll move from being our guests to being our roommates.
So what I have here is, uhm, a job aptitude test. To see what the best distribution of tasks would be, in this scenario.
[ She waves the stack of papers a little and then starts moving around the room to hand a sheet to everyone who showed up. ]
Ianthe’s going to reward everyone who gives back a fully completed test. You all asked for proof of the world outside being destroyed, right? She’ll give you some of that. And some jobs might also mean that you get to access more rooms in the vault.
And, I mean… It’ll only take you half an hour, so maybe you can take it just to fight off boredom for a bit?
((Characters are free to discuss the questions in the provided toplevels below. Or get wildly off-topic. Relive your school days by passing little notes. Who knows?
Whether your character announces their answer or keeps it secret is up to you.
Likewise, characters may lie on the test, or choose to coordinate their answers.
You can also keep your character’s final answers an OOC secret, which is why submission of the results is here. You have until 12pm EST on Thursday to submit your answers. Participation is not mandatory!
Results and rewards will be handed out via dreamwidth DM.))
Question Corner!
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Test Question 1
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Gimme a hotdog with the works, Patience. [ patience, it seems, is the name he's given to the diner robot. it's official; that's that. and... it doesn't seem to mind? or just doesn't have the functions to care!! either way, it diligently conveys his order to the kitchen.
have a meal with him. ]
OPEN SPACE
Hey, lemme throw you.
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he'll come to life if anyone talks to him. ]
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With boredom.
Suddenly, entirely out of nowhere, Keiichi jumps from his seat with a full-bodied yell, throwing his comic to the ground with a thwap of paper on floor!]
I've had enough! [He points, dramatically full of accusation, at anyone else present in the common room.] You guys know Never Have I Ever, right? If we're gonna be stuck here in this... hyper-American purgatory, I'm not doing it bored out of my mind, or not knowing my fellow inmates!
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Never have I ever gone swimming in the ocean!
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Never have I ever had a supernatural experience before the Vault!
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THURSDAY
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Armory]
Isn't it curious we're supposed to kill each other and yet we're not given weapons? Maybe creativity is the point of this all. We'll find someone who got their throat slit with one of the comic books.
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...okay, we definitely can't have been the first ones in this vault. The odds we'll find someone stashed inside one of the locked rooms is starting to be quite high.
[And Erin would dare say they may not be alive. Things just are looking kind of eerie in this shelter! It's a mystery going on here! If it wasn't for how she was trapped here, she would find it an intriguing situation. But alas, it's hard to get into it when you're, you know, trapped]
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