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Who: These unfortunate souls
When: OOC: 9/02, IC: 3/01
Where: CERES Research Tower
What: It's time to stage a raid against CERES while they're MIA; what better place to start than the research tower?
Rating/Warning: R: violence and death

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▶ ACTION.EXE | IC: 3/01

[ It took some time to get to the tower itself; the Research District was in as bad a shape as the other district, if not more so due to the lack of reconstruction there; the debris was piled high, pools of water hiding shorted out electrical gadgets (be careful not to touch!).

But either way, after a few days of hard work, the characters will find themselves at the door of the research tower.

Time to go in through the front door!

You step inside, and then... you're separated. ]

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▶ RUN.EXE | MOD NOTES

This is the event log for these sign-ups! Your groups have been sorted below; here are a few handy links for you:

Group 01 | OOC plotting
Group 02 | OOC plotting
Group 03 | OOC plotting
There is no tagging order, so feel free to tag in whatever way works best for you as a group.

There will be mod involvement in each of the tours; please be prepared for injury and death in each thread.

If there are any questions, feel free to ask them here. You are welcome to plot with your groupmates in this post. Thank you!

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▶ GROUP 01.EXE

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. . . LOADING GRELL SUTCLIFF.$$$ . . . LOADING HICCUP HORRENDOUS HADDOCK III.$$$ . . .
. . . LOADING HIRARI ABE.$$$ . . . LOADING NAMUR.$$$ . . .
. . . LOADING SAILOR MARS.$$$ . . . START RAID.EXE. . .

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[ For everyone in this group, the moment they're inside the floor will open up under them, and they'll be falling. It seems to be a shaft of some sort, perhaps once for an old elevator that is no longer functioning.

Either way, they'll fall for a short period of time before they land on a hard and metallic surface -- it may, in fact, be the top of the elevator that's no longer in use. The shaft is incredibly dark; it's impossible to see just about anything.

Welcome to CERES. ]

▶ GROUP 02.EXE

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. . . LOADING HIRO HAMADA.$$$ . . . LOADING KORRA.$$$ . . .
. . . LOADING MASAMUNE DATE.$$$ . . . LOADING SORAMARU KUMOU.$$$ . . .
. . . LOADING TERRA.$$$ . . . START RAID.EXE. . .

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[ At the same time that the other group falls through a trapdoor, everyone in this group will find themselves grabbed by robots and dragged through a hallway. It's at a disorienting speed that they drag everyone, and doors are passing by, some closed and some empty -- but they are just robots.

It's hard to say where they're taking everyone, though; there's two robots per person, one holding to each arm, and they're all metallic lines and cold eyes, none of the cheer of the AIs that populate the rest of the city.

Welcome to CERES. ]

▶ GROUP 03.EXE

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. . . LOADING ALCOR.$$$ . . . LOADING CHIBI.$$$ . . .
. . . LOADING ILLIDAN STORMRAGE.$$$ . . . LOADING ISHTAR.$$$ . . .
. . . LOADING JACK FROST.$$$ . . . START RAID.EXE. . .

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[ Group 1 falls through a trap door and Group 2 is dragged off so suddenly by robots that there's really nothing that can be done --

And then Group 3 is left in the lobby alone.

There's awkwardly cheerful music playing. A door across the way denotes itself as an "Employees Only" entrance, and there is an elevator off to one side, though the lights are flickering.

There's no receptionist at the desk.

Welcome to CERES...? ]