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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.
schoolhouse
[ Deena stands in the doorway. She's being sarcastic, but also, is she? ]
What, uh... what is that?
no subject
[ it's just him in a dilapidated classroom...and now deena.
he turns away from deena to glance at the movie again. there is a giant, praying mantis on the screen. he turns back. ]
A praying mantis.
no subject
It sure is. You mind if I stay?
no subject
[ he shakes his head. ]
Not at all. If you want, stay.
no subject
[ She steps in and skeptically tests how durable a desk is by sort of leaning on it with her elbows. It looks stupid, but it'll look and sound ten times more stupid if some janky old desk collapses underneath her! Once she's satisfied, she perches on top of it and gets to watching.
And from there on out, Deena's pretty quiet. She's not the type to appreciate something she wanted to see getting interrupted after letting some stranger watch with her, after all, and this kind of reminds her of the late night schlock Simon would watch! however that makes for an absolute nothing of a thread so like five minutes in: ]
... So the radiation makes bugs huge, but it made the main guy a bug?