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nolandspam2020-04-04 04:35 pm
TEST DRIVE MEME 1
IF BOTH CHARACTERS APP IN AND AGREE, THREADS USING PROMPT 1 CAN BE COUNTED AS GAME CANON.
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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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The pool cue is certainly no katana, and Mitsuhide is well-versed in hand-to-hand combat, but he's loathe to give up his makeshift weapon in this place when none of them know what to expect. And no matter how much fun he's been having at Jiro's expense, he's not going to attack one of the other denizens of the Vault with a weapon without sufficient provocation.
Before Jiro can reach him Mitsuhide turns so he's walking backward, facing Jiro, and shoulders the pool cue.]
Are you quite certain this is what you want to do, boy?
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Yeah, if you'd stop backing away like a fucking coward!
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Very well then.
[He stops, pool cue still resting on his shoulder, looking not the slightest bit worried.]
I suppose in the name of good sense, it would behoove me to suggest that perhaps your energy would be better spent helping the others, rather than playing here with me. Though that feisty look you're giving me is rather cute.
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I'm afraid if you're trying to wipe the smile off my face, you'll be sorely disappointed.
[He doesn't move to strike back.]
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He grabs the discarded box of cereal and starts off down the hall; mimicking Mitsuhide's stupid wave from earlier. After fighting monsters for a month, this guy is boring as fuck.]
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Laughter follows Jiro, as does Mitsuhide. He doesn't expend any extra energy to catch up with the younger man, just strolls at the same leisurely pace as before. This was the direction he was headed off in before Jiro threw his punch, after all, and the only direction that isn't currently infested with giant cockroaches.]
Bored so quickly? And here I was beginning to think you were flirting with me. Alas, it seems it wasn't meant to be.
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Flirting!? Gross! You're like old enough to be my dad!
[It's time for childish insults.]
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He just laughs, that same smile on his face as he strolls unhurriedly after the younger man.]
Does that make you young enough to need a spanking for poor behavior?
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Shut the fuck up! We're in some weird bunker with fucking giant cockroaches and alien pod shit, and you're sleazing around creeping on people! BACK THE FUCK OFF, SHITFACE!
[His vocabulary leaves much to be desired, but he's getting his point across.]
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At the end of it he just laughs even harder, grinning.]
My my, this is the most fun I've had teasing someone in ages. Let's do it again sometime, shall we?
[And at this juncture he'll saunter toward one of the side hallways, content to leave Jiro stewing in his own anger where he is. He probably has more productive things to be doing than tease the boy all day. Definitely not more fun, though.]