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nolandspam2020-04-04 04:35 pm
TEST DRIVE MEME 1
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You awake laying on your back in an, admittedly comfortable, pod. You can't move anything but your eyes, can't even feel your body yet. How you got here or why is a blank. You may have been in the middle of your day, asleep, or even- for what you remember- should be dead. Then a screen directly in front of your face flickers to life and in crisp, black and white displays: DON'T PANIC. The following video then plays:
The screen flickers again and reads: CONGRATULATIONS ON PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE! WELCOME TO VAULT LIFE, CITIZEN. WELCOME TO YEAR: [ERROR]. YOUR PERSONAL BELONGINGS ARE LOCATED IN [FILE CORRUPTED. SEE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR]. ENJOY YOUR STAY AND THANK YOU FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT VAULT-TEC.
The pod then unseals and you are able to, unstably at first, climb out of the pod. Your body may feel foreign for a moment- perhaps entirely foreign if you suddenly find yourself a human, ghoul, or super mutant for the first time. But whatever your form, you have two items on: a bright blue jumpsuit with the number 66 in yellow on the back, and a mechanical device known as a Pip-boy sealed onto your arm. If you click on the buttons it takes you to an instruction screen.
You look around to find yourself in a room of other pods. Some are just opening, other people looking as confused as you climbing out. Others remain closed with the status of 'STASIS' on the screens attached to the pods. The rest of the room is less than impressive. Computer systems that seem out of place compared to the technology level of the pods are scattered across the room, apparently running the chambers. Trying to access them, even for the most talented hacker, will simply result in SEE OVERSEER being displayed. There is large metal door leading to the rest of the vault, a lever on the wall next to it that will cause it to open.
Welcome, dweller, to vault 66.
The living quarters of the vault leave something to be desired. Like non-moldy bedding or fewer skeletons and less blood on the walls. It's clear that whatever happened to the last occupants of the vault, whoever they were, it wasn't exactly a peaceful end. The medical wing has some of the worst blood splatter...but that at least you can pretend was from needed medical interventions. Right?
At the moment, the entire vault is run only on emergency generators, creating dull, flickering light throughout the underground base. None of the computers are working yet, and what appear to be three robots are powered-down in various corners of the vault. There's only you and the people that woke up with you now.
Despite this, there's some hope. There's clean, if very mineral tasting, water in the sinks, toilets, and showers. There's a pool table if someone can relax enough for a game and doesn't mind the fact it looks like a pool cue shoved in the eye socket may have caused the death of a couple of the skeletons laying around. Further, on exploring the kitchen there's even some food! It's all pre-apocalypse, hyper preserved canned goods and sugary cereals that somehow haven't gone bad yet, but it's something.
Those willing to explore a little more will find they are not alone in the vault. In the shadows created by the flickering lights or outside of the range of the light of your pip-boy, there is skittering. The noise isn't noticeable when there are groups of people, but get down to three or two and it's impossible to ignore. If you don't run away, you'll eventually come across groups of foot long radroaches, gigantic cockroaches that are ready for some fresh food for once. And it looks like you're on the menu. Hopefully you've got one of those pool cues or found a wrench or some other weapon, because it's gonna take more than a stomp to take these guys out.
It's been a few days since everyone got out of the pods and started settling in. Louis, the 'Mr. Handy' robot in charge of cooking, can power up for whole hours at a time now. While he's recharging again now, he did make quite a feast beforehand. A whole cake, some tasty cola, and even grilled meat (if you helped kill the radroaches, you know where that meat came from). He even found some old party decorations that, once upon a time, were supposed to be used when the vault was unsealed and everyone allowed to leave. Everyone waking up is close enough, the robot had claimed, and hung the streamers and balloons throughout the rec area. There are even party hats, for the particularly festive.
The party lasts a good hour before the price for relaxing is paid: the emergency power flickers once, twice, then shuts down. Worse, the constant hum of the air vents you hadn't even really notice until now stops, leaving the vault in total silence and darkness. Only the pod room has any energy left, and all of that must be used to keep those still in stasis alive.
Repairs are going to have to be made.
((OOC: feel free to make assumptions and go wild with repairing the reactor or the emergency power supply. It's a TDM, mod approval not needed for anything)).
Post text or audio messages to the pip-boy network to get to know your fellow dwellers!
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For some time, I was like this repository for the ambient power of the New Gods. Came with lots of different powers when I was under duress. Honestly that would really have come in handy right now.
[Fine, don't be friendly, but unlucky for Jiro, he's come across the second friendliest guy in all of Metropolis.]
Uh, no. Metropolis is in Delaware. Though there might be a Metropolis in Greece, I don't really know.
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[Jiro's back to his "prison run by the Bureau theory" because that's exactly what he was. A repository.]
Yeah, I dunno where Delaware is either. Doesn't fucking matter anyway. I think this is a prison type deal. Containment of powers and shit.
[He holds up his arm, the pip-boy facing Jimmy.]
Probably these things holding them back.
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[It honestly wasn't as fun as it sounded.]
It's in the United States? Part of the Eastern Seaboard. Where are you from?
[The fact that Metropolis is a fairly major city that this guy hasn't heard of worries Jimmy a little bit. Just what is going on here?]
I think it's possible that these are power dampeners. Recently I haven't had any powers, so...I mean, maybe whoever brought us here doesn't know that and is just playing it safe.
Have you tried the computer terminals yet? I couldn't get anything out of them myself. Kept on telling me to talk to an Overseer.
[He's heard of Oracle, the mysterious information broker, but Overseer is new to him...and sounds just a bit more sinister.]
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I'm from Japan.
[They're not going to get anywhere just wondering about shit, so moving on to the computers is a good idea, only...]
Not really a computer guy. I won't be much help.
[He jerks his thumb at one of the closed pods.]
People are probably trapped in there, right? Let's break the fuckers open.
[He may just want to hit things, and he's trying his best not to scream in frustration at this point.]
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[It's a safe conclusion, right?]
Hopefully just people and not monsters or something.
[He walks up to the pods and studies them carefully.]
There a button or something that pops these open? Something that turns on the welcome message we saw before we woke up?
I'm a little worried that just bursting them out without the message might mess them up somehow.
[What if they woke up as mindless zombies before they were ready to wake up? Then again, maybe that message wasn't necessary.]
Alright. I've rarely been Muscle Boy, so do you have any idea on how to break these pods?
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Yeah, just people.
[He's been considered a monster since he merged souls with one, but he's not going to tell anybody about that. He examines the pod with less scrutiny than Jimmy; breaking them being Jiro's first plan. While not visibly muscular with the jumpsuit, he's pretty much just lean mass. Physical strength is probably his only asset here, and also his default solution to anything.]
I was just gonna punch it. But I don't wanna fuck things up if they're like half-dead in there. Maybe they open from the computer?
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[Reflexively Jimmy raises his arm to sniff his armpit. If he was dead, or recently undead, that would be the first place to go rancid, right? But he smells...well, not dead or rotting.]
Okay, scratch that theory. Maybe some weird cryogenic sleep thing.
[He walks over to the nearest computer and tries to key in anything that'll give him a result that doesn't tell him to go find the Overseer, but to no avail. He grunts softly in frustration and turns back to Jiro.]
Either we try to find this Overseer - and who knows how long that will take - or we just...make with the smash-y. Which, you know, I'm not much with the strength but I'm happy to help in any way that I can.
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Who the fuck would want to freeze random people?
[It's muttered more to himself, and he just watches while Jimmy messes with the computer. Looking for this Overseer guy seems tedious and too much work. He might show up if they fuck up his equipment though; make the man come to them.]
Or we do this.
[He's just going to yank on the nearest computer wire, or bundles of wire, until something snaps. Maybe it will release the pods, maybe he'll electrocute himself, maybe an alarm will go off, who knows?]
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[He gives Jiro a small, embarrassed smile. If he hasn't heard of Metropolis, he definitely hasn't heard of the villains he just listed.]
It's...a local thing. Anyway.
[Jimmy instinctively steps back when Jiro grabs ahold of the wires.]
Maybe we should - ah, never mind. We're already out, so I don't think anything would happen with the open pods. But with these ones -
[He holds his breath and prays they don't all explode.]
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Something makes a popping noise near the computer when the wires give. Little tendrils of smoke start rising from the back of it. Behind them, something hisses; the opening of a pod - or half-opening. It's gotten stuck half-way, and there's the sound of static from within, like the video's glitching.]
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Hey. Uh. ...good morning? Welcome to the vault? It's the future, yay. Or something.
[There's no response from the sleeping person. He turns to Jiro.]
Yeah, I don't think that worked.
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WAKE THE FUCK UP!
[Hopefully, Jimmy has better ideas.]
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[He steps up next to Jiro and looks into the pod again.]
There's clearly some pod-process to waking people up, but. At least they didn't wake up like a mindless drone or something?
[Jimmy reaches up and grabs the top of the pod. It creaks as he pulls down on it, but he's barely able to close the pod.]
There's gotta be more to this place than just these pods. Maybe we should explore, see if we get answers somewhere else?
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Yeah, let's find that Overseer guy.