[IC] Turn-based Escape the Lab

[Benzaiten]

For the first time I feel alright. Well compared to the other feels I had since I awoken in this mess of a situation. This room looks just like a normal office to me.
The screech of metal breaking scares me. I consider leaving right away without doing anything, but the curiousity inside of me wins. I have always been a find-all-clues kinda girl, so I wouldn't leave a room unsearched.
Hopefully I am not wasting my time as I search through everything I can get my hands on.

My body is tense, my ears sharp. I look up every now and then. I have turned paranoid, but I guess in this situation that's only acceptable.

[Camerch]

Turn 7

KahleenCuthald

You search the office.

There is a wireless radio on one of the walls. Instructions are taped to the front describing how to contact Security, Medical or Fire.

Near where you came in is an emergency map of the facility. It is held in a plastic folder attached to the wall so the map can be removed easily.

The desks all have general stationary in them. Pens, paper clips, staplers, scissors, the like.

There is a memo on one of the desks:

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"As of 20/5, experiments involving DEY-35 are limited to five per week. We know you came here to escape from scientific restrictions, but we're not made of electricity."

Map

Emergency Map

greywolf375

You find yourself in an office filled with cubicles. Compared to the other rooms you've been in, it looks oddly normal. There are computers in each cubicle, though none of them turn on. Like the other rooms, papers are everywhere, stacked in piles on each desk.

The room you just came out of is labeled "241-TESTING 1"

You could search the cubicles, in case someone left something important behind.

You hear something moving about in the right room.

Map

[greywolf375]

I will search the cubicles carefully, watching the door to the room with movement just in case

[Benzaiten]

I take the radio with me. Right now I do not know if calling for help would be the best idea. After all, who knows who's on the other end of the radio. I know that I will be trying to reach someone, but first I'd like to finish with me room I am in.

I snatch the map from the wall and look at it. It doesn't take too long until I find out where on the map I am. I easily find out what the bigger signs mean. Elevators obviously. The smaller signs seem to be some kind of electricity, though I do not wanna make assumptions from the top of my head.

I take a pen and scissors from the desks. The scissors may come in handy. With the pen I put an "O" onto the map, on the room where I am standing in right now. The map is already my best friend and I have only known it for several seconds.

There's a note saying something about DEY-35. I do not understand a word. What is this all about? I can only assume that it is nothing good. Everything I have seen and read so far only makes me more suspicious. The whole experimenting with DNA is nothing I wanna ever be involved in. This note, for some reason, only makes me doubt if I wanna call those people for help even more.

I try the doors that lead away from the room. Obviously the way I came from, south, is unlocked and I could go back and check the hallway with the tousands of rooms again. The door up is closed and I do not feel like trying to get it open just yet. That will have to wait.

Instead I go left, the door is open and has no sign on it or next to it. Let's check what this room is about.

[Camerch]

Turn 8

KahleenCuthald

You go left.

The room is filled with more cubicles, just like the last room. You hear something shuffling around in the cubicles.

Down is a broken door that opens easily. It looks like the door was forced open, strangely.

Left is a patterned wall.

Map

Emergency Map

greywolf375

You search the room.

Hanging on a thumbtack in one of the cubicle walls is a key with the number "241" written on it.

Inside one of the drawers is a scrap of paper with a quickly written note:

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"Trust me. Nobody can tell the difference between the VM walls and the normal ones. Just act normal and nobody will notice."

While you are searching the cubicles, a woman dressed in a hospital gown comes in through the right door.

Map

In the silence, both of you hear a mechanical humming somewhere that sounds like an elevator moving.

[Benzaiten]

As I step into the room - looking much like another office - I hear shuffling and immediately know someone is in here. I do not wanna scare them and by now they must have noticed I entered the room anyway.

"Hi", I say awkwardly. Hopefully this person knows something about this place.

My eyes dart to the former locked door. I believe I know where that screeching sound came from earlier. The person must have tried to get in or out of this locked room. Successfully

A mechanical humming appears and I am sure it's the elevator I saw earlier through a glass window in the hallway.
The sound of it gives me goosebumps. I was so sure the elevator was unpowered when I saw it. But someone had made it move - I hope it won't mean trouble.

I look at the wall on the left. But I don't move. I won't reveal what I think I know just yet with the other person in the room. I don't know if I can trust them.

The hospital gown is getting on my nerves. I hope to find something more functional to wear soon.

[greywolf375]

After seeing the note, I think to myself, 'Hmm, VM walls and Normal walls? I guess I'll have to check that out later.' I will also grab the key and hold onto it for later. Right when I see the woman, I will hide under a desk, with my cattle prod thing in hand, the pole on the ground within arms reach

[Camerch]

Turn 8.1

KahleenCuthald

As you enter the room the shuffling suddenly stops. Nobody responds to your greeting, but they're surely still around.

Map

Emergency Map

greywolf375

You duck under the desk, trying to hide from the woman. You hide successfully, but it's quite obvious you're still in the room.

Map

[greywolf375]

I will call out to the person who just entered, "hello? Are you friendly?"

[Benzaiten]

Confused I answer the voice that roamed through the room. "I am most certainly friendly. I am not armed." Hopefully the other person was not armed either. "Are you friendly?", I give the question back.

[greywolf375]

"Yeah, I'm friendly unless given reason otherwise." I would call back, and get up from my hiding place, staff in hand, used to help myself up. The prod is on the desk, within easy reach.

[Benzaiten]

"I ehh" What should I say? I don't know. "I do not know this place."

I don't feel like opening up all my thoughts and knowledge to the stranger. But they should know I had nothing to do with whatever happened here.

[greywolf375]

"Nor do I. I woke up lying on a table holding a cube of something." I say, also being cautious

[Benzaiten]

"We should keep moving. Whatever happened made people leave in a hurry. I'd rather get out of here. So either we work together or you try it on your own." I wanted to move. I needed to. I was still unaware if I should share my new found information with the stranger or not.

[greywolf375]

"I don't know where we are or why we are here, but I'm down with working together. I figured out that i can change the shape of a particular material, namely this stuff by zapping it with this." He says, holding up the pole and the modified cattle prod in turn.

"I also found a note saying that there are apparently certain walls in here that are made of the same stuff as this." He says, indicating the pole again.

[Benzaiten]

I nod. I already know about the wall, and I have a certain feeling on what's behind it. "I do not understand that thing and how it works. But right there" - I point forward to the wall on the left - "is a wall that is not real. And behind it is something we should get."

"Also I am very concerned by the sound of a moving elevator just a bit earlier. Let's get behind that wall and then keep moving."

[Camerch]

Turn 9

KahleenCuthald+greywolf375

Grey aims the prod at the left wall and fires. Beams of electricity jump at the corners of the wall from the four prongs of the prod. The wall suddenly changes its color to a metallic sheen and starts to compress, getting thinner and thinner. Before long, the prod displays a full loading bar and the wall has shrunk to a thin chrome pole, like the one Grey has. Behind the VM wall is a wooden door with a metal plate next to it reading "241-Power B". When you try the handle, the door falls off its hinges and onto the floor. Presumably it was broken in the past and the wall was being used to cover it up. You go left.

The room you enter is clearly a power supply room. Light panels, switches and loose cables cover the walls from ceiling to floor, though none seem to be activated. One panel of interest is a 5 by 5 grid of switches that has a North arrow pointing up. As well as that, in the center of one of the walls are two large buttons, one red and one green.

Near the door is a handheld radio. Next to it is a post-it that has the maintenance crew’s radio number which can be used with any radio.

Map

Nyu Nyu

You wake up in a glass tube facing rows and rows of shelves.

You should look around.

Somewhere, the elevator keeps humming.

[Nyu Nyu]

I start to blink my eyes until I've seen clearly what's before me; it's truly bizarre. I see many rows of shelves that never seem to end and the air where I am seems cramped. I'm in a glass tube? Oh no, I get claustrophobic really fast. My hands began to pound on the glass as I gasp, the anxiety creeping up on me.

Where am I?

[Benzaiten]

I first go for the radio. Getting the pen out that I gathered from the office earlier, I write down the maintance crew's radio number on the backside of the emergency map. Then I take the radio and test if I can find a connection between this one and the one I found earlier. It would be very helpful if my new partner in crime and I could hold contact by any cost.

"My name is Lana", I say. I feel like the man should know my name. "Do you understand anything about this?" I wave my hand towards the switches and buttons.

I do have my thoughts about what this is about, but I don't wanna share and sound even more stupid than I feel.

[greywolf375]

"No, not particularly. I mean, I can see that it's an elevator, but as to what each switch does, your guess is as good as mine. My name is Chris, by the way." I said, taking a closer look at the 5 by 5 square of switches to try and discern a pattern, or possibly which one does what, roughly