❧ Life's An Adventure

[luministimods]

[surprisingly, a private text message is sent not to the device Nathan left behind but to all of the residents' CATs. it reads:]

Get to the nearest door and wait. When the alarm sounds, immediately go through the door and await the next signal.

[surely such a text is confusing, but the sender hopes those words are heeded. ten minutes after it's sent, all vidscreens in the town begin to flash red, and a wailing siren breaks the din. the only word that flashes on screen is:]

EVACUATE

[similarly, back in the spacestation, red flashing lights drop down from the ceiling and a constant, beeping alarm begins to ring. over this, a pleasant and feminine automated voice says:]

Please find the nearest exit and evacuate the station via escape pod. A distress signal has been sent to the closest galactic space authority. Those with small children are asked to--[but this message is interrupted with another]

Life support systems in sectors A through L are at 80%--65%--50%. Life support failure in sectors A through L is imminent. Warning, please evacuate sectors A through L immediately. Warning...

[the automated voice continues with warnings about those sectors--but oddly enough, nothing is wrong in the spacestation itself. no one is evacuating, and in fact, no one can be seen fleeing from the town. the only people who should be in the station are the residents, if they all heeded the text message's warning and went through their respective doors at the right time. all doors brought everyone back to the observation deck, near the first hallway that used to lead to the Mayor's house.

suddenly, Nathan's device begins to chime and an audio message from him begins to play. (oddly enough, the automated voice's warning messages soften, like the volume's been turned down.]

Oh good, you made it out safe! I didn't think that person would...[he trails off] Anyway! I've had a bit of help and I think I can finally get you out of there. I'm sorry though, but I can't get you back into town. I had to shut off life support there to distract those in charge, but I also managed to open up access to the lower level. I can't find the staircases, but the elevator should be working now, so you'll have to use that. This is your chance, everyone! Find the one responsible for this mess and find Lab #3. Contact me if you need me.

[the audio transmission ends. a moment later, there's a soft "ding" as the elevator set behind the Maintenance door in the nearby hallway opens, ready for occupants to board it.

shame it won't be a simple elevator ride.]


❧ Plot Details: Life's An Adventure **Quick-time Event**

Thank goodness everyone (hopefully) got out in time! Staying in town during that life support shutdown would have been...unfortunate (and if anyone DID want to stay behind during that? Let me know.) But who sent that helpful text if it wasn't Nathan? Was it Audrey? Was it someone else? Was Nathan just pulling a fast one? In any case, now everyone can move on to, well, the final level if we take it in RPG terms.

Funny that though...

For this quick-time event, we are going to keep things to this entry. You'll be given a choice of going up or down in the elevator. Actually...just about every action in this plot is based around choice, and fittingly too. Depending on how much you discover during this plot--there are four objectives that can possibly be fulfilled (and they don't all have to be by every person)--the outcome will shape the end of this plot, the game, and next season as well. I'll have a list at the bottom of this entry so people can easily see how many objectives have been completed. You'll only have a week! Keep in mind that only one objective--the main one--has to be accomplished by week's end and things will not progress until it's accomplished. (If we accomplish the main one before the week is done, I will still wait the full week before going ahead with the second half of this plot.)

So what are we doing in this mad week-long event? Like I said before, you'll be given a choice of taking the elevator up or down. From there, you'll be given the another choice via vidscreen about which direction you want to go in. Sometimes it'll be two choices, other times it'll be three. But nonetheless, you'll have to make a choice--and you'll have to make the choice in the style of a text adventure. This is a bit of a hybrid rather than a straight text adventure, though. You can talk to people normally and interact with them as you would do in a normal action thread, but when you go to make your choice or wish to interact with the environment (you don't have to do it for every single step or anything), you'll basically be inputting your command to help the adventure to progress. If you don't ever interact with the environment or make a choice, well, you're stuck in that room. Kind of a boring adventure, being stuck in a room.

If this explanation isn't quite making sense, I did a mock-scenario of this to illustrate the hybrid/pseudo-text adventure I'm talking about. Head here! Hopefully that helps explain things? If it didn't, please, please don't be afraid to ask me. The first two comments to this entry will be for the IC interaction, and any additional ones can be for OOC comments/questions.

I do advise that while you can go in groups, please keep them small so we can go through things at a steady pace. Heck, if you want? You can even solo this and interact just with, well, me as the text adventure prompts, and then contact people if you find something. I just ask that if you want to solo it, that you indicate your intentions in the subject line to whichever direction you wish to go in the elevator.

Threadhopping via the CATs can still happen, especially if you or someone else learns something that might be important for the others to know. (Of course, if you want to join in physically, you can do it like this.) Also, I do recommend tracking your threads, especially when I pop in with prompts and disrupt the notification process. (And let's hope varnish errors are few to none!)

So...that's it! If you have any questions/comments/etc, leave them here or get a hold of me through the normal channels! And before I leave, here's our handy objectives list!



Objectives! Objective #1 = Completed! Objective #2 = Completed! Objective #3 = Completed! (Also here and here.) Objective #4 = Completed!

Comments

Going up!

[luministimods]

> You enter the ELEVATOR! It's spacious and very sleek. Strangely, it lacks the usual muzak, but perhaps that's for the best. Before you, you see TWO BUTTONS, one with an arrow pointing up and is labeled, "Upper level", and another with an arrow pointing down and is labeled,"Lower level".

>Which BUTTON do you press?
>Or do you want to hang around in an ELEVATOR all day?

[grandbellknight]

> You take a bit longer than you feel should be necessary to choose a direction, but in your defense, it really does seem like every little thing in this crazy place is just that crucial... in the end, you press the "Upper level" button.


((OoC: Company is totally welcome. ♥))

[vengefulagent]

> Just as CROIX presses the button, you join him on the elevator. You figure he's the best person you'd rather have fighting alongside you at this point, and who knows what you and CROIX will encounter?

Re: Going up!

[fortune_sought]

[Sophie has never been in a lift before, and she already knows she doesn't like it. she glowers at the buttons]

And of course, it couldn't be simple, could it?

>You press the UPPER LEVEL button

[luministimods]

> The ELEVATOR goes UP! Thankfully, the trip is short, and soon the doors open to show the TOWN SQUARE. You notice that something...seems very off. The SHOPS and OTHER BUILDINGS adjacent to the TOWN SQUARE appear to be fake. To your LEFT/NORTH and STRAIGHT AHEAD/EAST, you see TWO DOORS. (And good for you seeing the EASTERN DOOR! It's behind the fully functioning FOUNTAIN.) To your RIGHT/SOUTH, seemingly hanging on several store-fronts, is a blank VIDSCREEN. When you step into the room, you will notice the ENTRANCEWAY from the ELEVATOR is now completely white.

>What do you do?

[desertdaggers]

>You don't know there's supposed to be musak, but in all honesty that's probably for the best.

The previous message mentioned the upper level, so you decide to go that way first and press the corresponding button.

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[wind-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! Hold the elevator?



Which way are you going?

Going down!

[luministimods]

> You enter the ELEVATOR! It's spacious and very sleek. Strangely, it lacks the usual muzak, but perhaps that's for the best. Before you, you see TWO BUTTONS, one with an arrow pointing up and is labeled, "Upper level", and another with an arrow pointing down and is labeled,"Lower level".

>Which BUTTON do you press?
>Or do you want to hang around in an ELEVATOR all day?

Action

[lamb_of_gold]

/Press DOWN

[painlessfighter]

Hey! Wait for me!

[Sorry, you don't get to ride alone! Natsuo slips in before the doors shut. ♥]

[bonnypiperlad]

Aye, well, that's easy, isn't it? He said he opened the lower level, so...

> presses "Lower Level".

((OOC: Anyone who wants to come along is welcome!!))

[bit_impossible]

[the Doctor runs in, putting his hand between the doors to keep them open]

Exactly what I was thinking! Well, not exactly in those words, but close enough.

> You wait in the elevator rather eagerly!

[irreversibly.livejournal.com]

[Let's go down! :|b]

[summer-doors.livejournal.com]

[Hey, Xion! Hope you don't mind company, as Willis is dashing into the elevator before it closes.]

Ugh, this city...

[manicurious.livejournal.com]

>Your name is ICHIJOU. You are currently even more EMOTIONALLY VOLATILE than usual, because some JACKASS has effectively forced you out of your ONLY SAFE HAVEN. You kind of hate him for it. What will you do?

>You slump against a wall in the ELEVATOR and shake and cry like a USELESS BLOB. You truly are PATHETIC. Why don't you do something useful?

>You are far too stressed out to think straight. You thoughtlessly punch the DOWN button and hope that the elevator moves smoothly enough that it doesn't jostle your SENSITIVE STOMACH and give you HORRIBLE MOTION SICKNESS. That would be EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE FOR EVERYONE.

[luministimods]

> The ELEVATOR goes DOWN! It's a short trip, thankfully. So short, you barely notice that the ELEVATOR has moved at all--the ride was that smooth--until the DOORS open to show the CIRCULATION DESK of the Luministi LIBRARY. Something seems odd about it, though. For one, the CIRCULATION DESK itself seems to take up the entire room, and the room itself seems...smaller. Contained in a smaller area than it normally should. And two, the normal routes to the upper floors, like the WESTERN STAIRCASE, seem painted on the walls. Looking around, you notice TWO DOORS: one to the NORTH/RIGHT, and one to the SOUTH/LEFT. Also, you see a blank VIDSCREEN hanging on the WEST wall of the room (straight ahead). When you step into the room, you will notice the ENTRANCEWAY from the ELEVATOR is now completely white.

> What do you do?

VIDEO BROADACST TO THE CATS

[lamb_of_gold]

[It's Mu. He mad.]

We found Proctor, but he was spectacularily unhelpful. All we've been left with is half a name and the knowlege that we were being watched for entertainment.

That being said, if anyone finds a name starting with "Fi," please, share.

[fortune_sought]

[Sophie is, if possible, even more mad. in fact, she's screaming into the CAT. sorry, Mu]

Resarci's son has done all of this!!!

[lamb_of_gold]

[The video zooms out a bit as he moves it away from his face jesus christ, sophie.]

His son? Was he the man in that message I recorded from Nathan?

[grandbellknight]

We've discovered the same. There are papers with Charts. Ratings. ... Viwer... comments.

A name, though... I'll let you know if I find out.

[lamb_of_gold]

....Comments?

[manicurious.livejournal.com]

[Ichijou looks horrified rather than angry. Also he's with a giant sentient paperclip, you can feel free to notice that.]

Wait, what? W-watched by who?

[lamb_of_gold]

I got the impression of a rather large audi--what is that?

[desertdaggers]

…so it was like that after all? [the least enthusiastic]

[lamb_of_gold]

It would seem so.