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[reparator]

Who: These suckers and E R R O R
When: OOC: 5/29, IC: 7/15
Where: CERES Research Tower and Beyond
What: It seems an old friend has decided the situation is progressing too slowly.
Rating/Warning: PG-13: Violence, injuries and inevitable deaths.

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▶ ACTION.EXE | IC: 7/15

For those unlucky saps who disappear today, ranging from early in the morning towards the middle of the afternoon, well...they can't be reached by CereVice.

Any attempt to do so will bounce back the message User Currently Occupied.

It's an odd message, and one that's never been used by the CereVice. How strange. It's probably nothing though, right? No contact can be established between groups or from groups to outside people in Cerealia, whether by technology or magic. You're cut off from everyone but those in your groups, now.

Otherwise, all abilities will remain intact.

As for the people who do disappear, well... things get a little hairy really quickly.

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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
Group 04 | OOC plotting
Group 05 | OOC plotting
Group 06 | OOC plotting
Group 07 | OOC plotting
Group 08 | OOC plotting
Group 09 | OOC plotting
Group 10 | OOC plotting
Group 11 | OOC plotting
Group 12 | OOC plotting
Group 13 | OOC plotting
Group 14 | OOC plotting
There is no tagging order, so feel free to tag in whatever way works best for you as a group.

The characters should not ICly be gone longer than 5 hours -- if they survive, of course. There will be mod involvement in each of the threads.

If there are any questions, feel free to ask them here. Please try to avoid asking hypothetical questions (such as "What will happen if my character does [action]?") as that's part of the fun and risk of the interlude! You are welcome to plot with your groupmates in this post. Thank you!

Comments

[feytality]

[Okay NOW she's springing into action, planting her foot on.... whatever qualifies as its midriff to shove it back as hard as she can and grabbing its claws to try to force them open and free Athena]

Hey! No more grabby grabby!! Let go!!

[unpreparer]

[This is his life. Why is this his life.

You know what. He's just going to let the children handle it. If the thing gets too grabby he'll step in, but his threshold for caring is quickly beginning to wane.]

[reparator]

[ It topples back again!

Struggles to get up again.

Reaches for Athena's arms again.

Rinse and repeat. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ THANK YOU, MAYA!! athena can't help but think it wants something, though.

she extends her arm as if signalling maya to stop, and it's not like mr lillydan is going to do anything. and han should stay back too, just in case. ]

Maybe violence isn't the way. It looks like it wants something...

[ please don't eat her arm. ]

Or maybe it's going to show us something?

[ does it even have a heart?! can athena hear anything from it? ]

[feytality]

Whew!

[Oh, good, it let go!! That wasn't so bad.]

...It really wants to shake your hand, or something.

[she glances between Athena and the robot, kind of uneasy. She's got nothing against robots in general, but the last ones were kind of... homicidal. She just doesn't want this one to start trying to claim Athena's arms as its own, or something]

Show us...? But.... Athena, it's just been trying to grab you this entire time...

[unpreparer]

[If Illidan still had eyes to roll, he would be right now.]

Let it do as it will then, if it is hostile I will simply kill it.

[notsosolo]

Insistent droid.

[Han still has his blaster in hand. He's waiting to see what exactly the droid is up to, but he's not trusting it.]

Athena specifically.

[reparator]

[ With Athena not suplexing or shoving it away, the poor robot is finally able to finish its designated task.

It plucks the books from her arms and shuffles off to put them away.

Yeah that's all it's for. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ ... it's. ]

It's a librarian? [ she blinks curiously, following the thing. ] H- Hey! We wanna borrow some books! [ in fact, she goes to grab another now and waves it in front of the robot's face. then she opens it up to a random page, points at it, then points to her eyes.

maybe it understands actions more than words. because if it doesn't lbr she'd just grab a ton again and run off.

(sorry in advance.) ]

[feytality]

[Okay but did the robot notice Maya totally shoved books in her kimono too...]

[But she feels a little silly now that they realized what the robot is actually for.]

Whew.... I guess it just wanted its books back. Maybe we need to get a robo card!

[Maya mostly just watches to see how it responds to Athena, now]

[unpreparer]

[You know... he's tempted to just kill the thing on principle now.

But, he refrains, simply watching. Totally going to wipe the thing from existence before they leave though.]

[reparator]

[ The robot seems very unhappy when Athena grabs another book, reaching for it to try to put it back.

It's single-minded here! ]

[psycholawgy]

[ damn you, robot!!! athena takes a few steps back before she decides to just bonk the stupid robot on the head.

hard. ]

What's the point of putting things on display if you can't touch them?! Stupid thing! I thought you were cute, too!

[ to her group, she nods towards the door. maybe lillydan can blow it up. ]

Grab as many as you can and head over there! [ and make sure you're fast, because athena sure is grabbing a couple more books now and then cheesing it. ]

[feytality]

[Well....... Maya's going to stuff as many books as she can in her kimono, carry a bunch in her arms, and takes off after Athena, running]

Sounds like a plan! Let's hoof it before we get get shushed to death!

[get it... because it's a library...]

[unpreparer]

[Nope. Illidan is not running from some malformed hunk of twisted metal. Instead he takes his glaive and slams it down ontop of the thing's head, seeing if he could manage to cleave the stupid robot in two.

Yeah, see what happens when you ignore him. Stupid robot.]

[reparator]

[ Rude.

The glaive sure does cut it in half! It lets out a horrible, high-pitched shriek when that happens too, before crumpling to the ground in a pile of twisted metal.

And then the doors slam shut. Throwing everything they've got at them, but those doors aren't going to open now. ]

[psycholawgy]

Eek!

[ she manages to stop in her tracks before the doors slam on her. it doesn't help that she's in a lot of pain from that robot screech, too. ugh...

she looks back at the group. ]

Uh oh. . . D- Don't worry! With the robot out of the way, we can keep looking around and take as much as we can! [ yeah!!! gotta keep positive here. they're not stuck!!!

she tucks the books back in her court record (wherever that is. thanks hammerspace.) and walks around to try and find another exit. that's when she notices the desk. it's definitely clean, and not dusty... and she only proves this when she traces a finger on its surface.

somebody else has been here before they have. ]

1/2

[feytality]

Oooh...

[HER EARS!!! OW!!]

2/3 I lied

[feytality]

[and then she's rounding on Mr. Tall Dark and Slicey]

Hey! What did you do that for? [HUFFS AT LILLYDAN!!!] The robot was just doing its job! It didn't do anything wrong!

[robot activist Maya Fey]

[feytality]

[And the doors are slamming shut.... She's got a bad feeling about this]

O-Oh... there's gotta be another way out...

[making her way over to the desk, but she's going to actually start flipping through a flamine book to see what it says]

[unpreparer]

[The robot clearly started it, he simply finished it. He is unrepentant.

Even with the high pitched screeching he doesn't outwardly show it bothered him at all, really he's been in a lot worse pain than that before, this was simply an annoyance.

Even when all the doors slam shut he doesn't seem bothered at all.]

If you think it would let us out of here without becoming hostile you are incredibly naive.

[And just the sheer amount of how much he did not care about that robot's right to exist...]

[reparator]

[ That sure is an un-dusty desk, Athena's right. The drawer's locked, but only with a simple, easy to break into lock, if she wants to go that way.

Otherwise, it's a pretty unremarkable desk. If anyone was doing any work there, they seem to have taken it home with them. ]

[psycholawgy]

[ athena's never picked a lock before. it's definitely not something you study as a lawyer, which is why she turns to the rest. ]

I smell something important in here...

[ no time like the present, anyway!!! if she learned how to pick locks, maybe phoenix would be prouder of her and even give her a raise!!! this is the worst kind of logic. no lawyer should learn how to pick locks. look for a key like a proper citizen, athena.

she unpins her attorney's badge from her lapel and inserts the pointy part into the keyhole and starts wiggling it. but if that doesn't work, then she moves to the side to give the others a chance at it. ]

[feytality]

[Maya gives another huff at Lillydan, but she's quickly distracted by breaking into things. Luckily (??), Maya does know how to pick locks, (the little degenerate) so if Athena can't manage it, she'll take a good crack at it herself.]

If it's locked up, it's gotta be important! Maybe it'll even get out of here! Lesee....

[With any luck, this thing will get open]

[And hopefully nothing else shady is going on in the background]

[unpreparer]

[Illidan heaved a sigh and began to pace, nine steps one way, then turning to pace nine steps back. He was never one for being patient, and now the idea of being captive was getting to him.

Well, might as well initiate productive conversation.]

You two have been reading the books have you not? What did you discover?