The speakers crackled and boomed in feedback "Well, well, that's enough of that now. You all must be scared out of your minds to be acting in such a way. You there, Grey Knight Brother-Captain Arvann Stern, do get along with your peers. You will depend on them one day during your stay here, trust me. The time for fighting isn't now, you will have plenty of hours to spend doing that while you're inside. Now, do please stand by here. I am trying to get this to work." Sparks fly from the lights and the room rumbles almost like it is moving. The walls fold into the floor and you find yourself in a huge expanse surrounded by what had to be mile-high walls of a strange black stone with purple veins pulsing some sort of energy. From the ceiling crawls the shape of some huge spider, and it soon shows itself to have a different body entirely, a human head and four arms along with the eight legs. "Greetings! Sorry for the rough entrance, as I said I had difficulties. Alright, let's see who's here... Karkat, check. Terezi, present. Zhang is here. The ignorant knight is present. Sonic, check. Medic, check... Hm, the Engineer seems to have lost his way to the facility, oh well. If he arrives i'll pop him in with you later. Now that that order of business is done, may the games BEGIN!" The walls shift and fly outwards, leaving a perfect maze in their place. Suddenly a platform underneath them slides through the maze, too fast for them to track where it was going. It stops when it reaches the start point, a small dead end on the edge of the maze. A speaker floats up from the platform. This little bot had a helicopter propellor, a camera, and the speaker. "Good luck. I will be watching you."
"Oh, and to answer your question, grey knight? It's the year 356, cycle gamma. For you that means it's the year 600078."