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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
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!
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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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Yeah, it's locked good! I'm gonna....
[ He looks down the long room, back towards the console. The screens are out, but...could he start them back up again by playing with the keyboard all over? Then again, that creepy robot face had, uh, graced them just before cutting out.
Is it worth it?
He actually looks up to his Persona for a second opinion. His Persona shrugs. ]
How's it going on your end, guys?
[ He walks back to the console, trying to see if he can work the same magic again. After all, he's had a pretty good run with the electronics thus far, right?
He presses the enter key to see if the screen will come back to life, and then > ESCAPE ]
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But even more worryingly, Clarke's going to get.....captcha'd.
Are you human?, the screen displays, and then it checks.
It removes the air in the room and hallway, because after all, robots don't need air. If the robot can continue, then clearly it isn't human. It's a robotic captcha.
But the others are going to have all of about two or three minutes before they no longer have enough air to function. ]
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When the air starts getting removed though, Nico decides it is time to go, expression looking grim.]
Adrien, Yosuke, get in here now!
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He'll peek into the room Yosuke's in before he makes his way back to Nico and Clarke.
He can't do anything but— ]
Yosuke!
[ They can't die, not all of them, not now. ]
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You know what? That was rude, and even Clarke without her humanity thinks it was, because hey, she isn't human, but oxygen is still a requirement here!!! ]
Wait. There's no way I'm leaving yet.
[ Because just for that she's going to start breaking things. Not just anything, but very carefully rifling through or breaking open the equipment in the room until she can find a hard drive, disk, or other electronic storage; even just paperwork that seems important. She's bent set on finding something that she knows will contain information; she doesn't seem to mind about the whole oxygen thing, if only because she's fully aware that if she suffocates from the thinning air, she'll just revive back and have a couple minutes before she suffocates again.
May as well see if she can get something out of it in the process.
(If she doesn't find anything in this room, she'll return to the original one and begin tearing through it as well. Clearly if she's going to die, she wants to make sure it's worth it.) ]
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Okay!
[ He spares the door one last look before trotting down to the end of the long room. His Persona follows, though it flickers. ]
I can't get the door open. The computer isn't responding anymore.
[ And flickers again. ]
What's going on?
[ He's starting to feel kind of light-headed. The fact that coming back means he has to look at Jaune's dead body isn't very comforting either. ]
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He just hopes his shadow traveling will work. It's a one time only trick until he's able to rest and recover for a bit because he's likely to pass out shortly after he does so for a good while due to shadow traveling with multiple people. Hopefully they won't land in more trouble if he's able to pull it off; he doesn't want to end up being dead weight for the others to carry around if they do, but if it's a choice between 'I'm pretty sure we are going to die if we don't get out of here soon' or 'We might end up in trouble and I will probably be passed out for it,' he's going with the latter.]
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If she doesn't go with them, she'll die; it's inevitable with how all of the oxygen is gone. If she does, she will wake up 3 IC days later in the park, and will occasionally find herself to be short of breath for 2 IC days. All other effects from the interlude will have been reset by her death.
Regardless, those that do shadow travel with Nico will be able to get out, and it will take them right out and away to safety -- presuming he takes them to the original door they managed to open with Yosuke's "Escape" command.
They will be deposited into a room which will reveal itself to be the basement of an empty building in the Entertainment District. When they get themselves out there, they will be light-headed from a lack of oxygen, but otherwise fine. They won't be able to go back from where they came from, even by shadow traveling; it's as if the path is now gone.
The pieces of tech that Clarke managed to salvage are unfortunately mostly junk, but one single one of the pieces will be of value if someone is able to decode it. It will take some time and effort even for a talented hacker, but eventually they will be able to pull from it a single picture with the file name DC.png ]
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...What'dya mean you've got something that can get us out of here fast?
[ He's almost in disbelief. He doesn't really know any of these people well, but he would assumed if someone had a trump card in their pocket, they would have brought it out, you know...right after they were kidnapped and stuck in a sewer?? It's a very visible change in Yosuke's demeanor, his concern and curiosity changing to something far more expressive and, frankly, upset.
His Persona flickers again behind him, as if it's having trouble staying manifested. ]
Are you saying you could've gotten us outta here this entire time?
[ Because, what? SERIOUSLY? He throws his arms up. ]
Are you frickin' serious? What the hell, man!? Someone died! [ He motions to Jaune's body behind him as he takes in another breath. He's feeling dizzy. His Persona begins to fade. ] This entire fiasco could've been avoided--I can't--
[ He coughs, then gasps, holding at his throat. ]
Why didn't you say som-- [ Gasp. Susano-o disappears entirely and Yosuke holds onto the wall. ] --I can't--
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They evaporate into the shadow, and the group will get the feeling of moving incredibly fast in pitch darkness before popping out into the basement of the building.
Nico takes in a deep breath to steady himself as he lets go, weaving a little bit on his feet as a wave of tiredness and dizziness hits him. Good, it doesn't look like he landed them in immediate trouble. He takes the time to answer Yosuke's question, turning to him and speaking in a tired murmur.] Wouldn't have worked... Something was... blocking me before... Don't know what...
[And then suddenly standing is a very very hard thing to do. Nico ends up falling forward onto Yosuke and manages to mumble one last thing before he's out like a light.] Find... Will Solace... [Will will know what to do with his unconscious self, because he has a feeling he's going to be out for awhile. He'll apologize later for having to haul him out the rest of the way, and he hopes they can just walk out without anything else happening.]