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« 004 ⇢ INTERLUDE004.EXE »
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.
▶ ACTION.EXE | IC: 7/15
▶ RUN.EXE | MOD NOTES
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.
▶ 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.
▶ 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
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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!
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Once it finishes, she types in a few points worth remembering, just in case the video itself doesn't display things clearly enough. As much as she wanted out of this place before, it's even more prominent now; this whole colony is as sketchy as Mount Weather, and she really doesn't want a repeat of that.
Staring at the screen, Clarke looks down to where Yosuke is near the keyboard, debating. ]
Do you think it will take more commands if we type them? [ Clearly she wants more information out of this thing, if it's even possible. ]
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No crocs, yeah, that's probably for the best. When the lights come back on, he raises his brows and looks around, half expecting...something. But, no, it's pretty straight forward. ]
"Remember it".
[ Hmm. He sends a suspicious glance to the screen. ]
The fact that they're even calling it a "discovery" makes it seem like someone planted it here to be found. Would CERES actually do that?
[ He taps his chin. Clarke's idea is a good one, though. ]
I dunno. Why don't we give it a shot?
[ And since he's on a roll...! Yosuke turns back to the command prompt and pushes the enter key a few times, trying to see if he can pull something else up. If that doesn't work, then he tries typing... ]
MENU
[ ? A+ hacker here. ]
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He's never been good with technology due to a lack of experience with it though, so while the others poke at the computer, he's going to walk over to the door at the end of the hall. He won't open it or touch it just yet, but he does study it, looking for any sort of sign of what might be behind it.]
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In fact, something does happen.
This face appears on the screens, smiling at them almost grimly, and then disappears as the monitors all shut off for good. Huh. ]
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Yosuke, you expert hacker! You broke it! The sudden appearance of their robot friend gives him somewhat of a start, as he blinks at the darkened screens. ]
... Maybe it did.
[ yeah.
why
does everything happen so much. ]
I'm guessing we won't get anything else out of this place?
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Clarke stares where the face had been, and it sure does look familiar. ]
Did anyone else see our driver earlier? [ Because she can't just be misremembering, right?
But Adrien has a point; they're probably not getting anything else of use here, and she turns to look at the previously ignored door. ] We should probably go before anyone else gets here. [ Meaning more reinforcements to those previous policebots. ]
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Huh? Uh, no, I was too busy having a bag over my head.
[ Yosuke sighs, rubbing the back of his neck. ]
Go where? Back out in the hall or through the door?
[ He's still staring at the keyboard, though. Nico's by the door, but do they need to use the console to open it? ]
...
[ Hey, there's an ESCAPE key for a reason, right? He pushes it. ]
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The door at the far end of the hall opens, invitingly.
So that happens. ]
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[ But that's a long conversation, and Yosuke's hitting buttons. Were he more put together he'd probably whoop and congratulate him... that kind of energy isn't really happening right now.
He can muster a smile towards that stroke of luck and the responsible jrpg character, before he moves to follow Nico cautiously. ]
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When the door opens, she looks forward to what is presumably the exit, before glancing over her shoulder to the hall they'd just come from. There were still two doors left unopened, and she can't help but wonder if there are answers.
So, while the others start scoping out the potential exit, Clarke's going to start backtracking to check out those wooden doors. ]
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Uh--hey.
[ He steps away from the console. ]
Where're you going?
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Clarke, on the other hand, is backtracking now, and when she opens one of the wooden doors, she'll find that it opens to a small room that has a desk with controls. It might control the other parts of the building, it might control that room they were in.
It might control something else entirely.
But it is on and functioning. ]
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Once he sees that there is only more controls behind the door, he again leaves that to the others. Computers aren't his strong suit. He glances down the hall at the other wooden door on the opposite side, wondering if it's another control room of some sort, but he stays to see if anyone messes around with the controls in this one, wanting to be present if it shows something like the other one.
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... The stuff we didn't check. The other doors, I mean. There's stairs with light at the end up there, too. [ ... ] Come on, let's stick together.
[ That's what he offers, as he follows the group out into the hallway (and he tries his best not to remember what happened here shortly before). With the exit so close, maybe there is no harm in checking everything else. Especially when he peeks into the wooden door and sees the desk with controls.
He could go into the other wooden door and try to save time, but that's probably feeling recklessly safe where they're not. Safe, that is. ]
What do you think this one's for?
[ We definitely need our master hacker Yosuke Hanamura. ]
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Clarke's going to sit down in the chair and start looting around for anything that might resemble an instruction manual or directions of some kind. Just in case a nice robot or other sentient being decided to be thoughtful and leave one behind for the next operator.
While she continues looking over the desk and surrounding area, she also takes a moment to type a quick > MENU command into the keyboard. One of those things might work, right? ]
Someone should probably keep an eye at the door in case we need to leave. [ Should probably take appropriate precautions, right? ]
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Here's Yosuke looking back and forth between what is hopefully the exit and what is definitely going backwards. Are they--seriously? ]
Guys...
[ He even peeks out the door. There's light! There's a light! He starts walking back to the rest of the group, hands on his hips. ]
Hey, that might actually be the way out--
[ And then notices the screens. ]
Er...Yeah, sure.
[ He rubs the back of his neck, glancing over to where Nico had wandered, but decides to stand between the two doors at the entrance of the original room. Should he call his Persona just in case? ]
You think there's another computer in the other one? Maybe one of those controlled the dogbots.
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The computer lights up, but the command isn't accepted; instead, the screen displays little more than a blinking cursor.
There's also the ominous noise of the door that leads towards the light swinging shut, and the door across the way locking with a click. ]
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And even if the door across the way did lock, well... Between the thing Yosuke summoned before and Clarke's strength, he doesn't think a wooden door would stand up very well against them.] Do we want to go take a look at the other door...?
[While a tiny part of him is curious about what other information they might find, he'd rather get out of here, but he's staying put until everyone's out.
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Maybe try typing some of the names we saw in the room? Like... Merui—
[ until he's cut off by that sound, which means Adrien's turning in the direction of the doors, a slight rush of oh running through his mind. Well, add this to the laundry list of mistakes they've made lately. Excuse him as he looks over to Clarke and Nico, then makes his way to the other wooden door.
So, yeah, that's his answer. ]
Yosuke, did the door with the stairs close?
[ Calling that out. This is... seriously exhausting. But just leaving without checking everything is a waste, so he just... shoves everything aside again for a little bit longer. ]
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Her hands hover over the keyboard, tempted to type in Adrien's suggestion, but- But she saw the Drabwurld. She saw it, and her incessant need for answers drives her to typing it in.
First it's > DRABWURLD but that's soon followed after with > ALLAIDH DARACH
If neither of those return anything, > MERUI will be inputted next.
(She wishes that Raven or Monty were there; they would actually be able to figure this out.) ]
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[ Yosuke winces, stepping back into the long room they'd been in before. The screen is still black and...yeah, the door sure is shut. He cringes. ]
...Yeah. It's closed. I dunno if it was on a timer or something...or did opening the other room close this one off?
[ He goes to the end of the room and--well...hold on a sec. Looking upwards, he waits for a blue light to form around his feet, the Magician tarot card floating down from the ceiling. Calling his Persona, just in case, seems like a good idea. ]
Takehaya Susano-o!
[ Good ol' flameo is back. With his Persona floating behind him, Yosuke decides to reach out and yank on the door to see if it's locked, too. ]
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Then the computer beeps, and offers up the prompt: ]
Begin Transmission?
[ The door's definitely locked now, Yosuke! ]
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Excuse him as he tries to open the wooden door! ]
Clarke typed something on the keyboard. It might've been that... The other door shut too.
[ Okay. Well. He's here, and they're there, so he crouches down in front of the door and looks back towards Nico and Clarke, along with the room Yosuke is in, before he whispers (assuming the door is locked): ]
Plagg. Sorry... I know you're tired. Can you try and open the door? Just, get out if it turns bad.
[ and that little black cat will come out of his hoodie with a sigh, before disappearing into the door to get that done. ]
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While Adrien is busy with the door, Clarke stares for only a moment before she hits the > Y input, though she has the thought to dig out her Cerevice and stick it on record before she taps the enter key, because why would she ever consult those around her as to if she should or not? She fully realizes that transmission could mean any number of things, but hey, escape plans can be made on the fly, right? ]
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