Technic's Shadow

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[overlording]

START EVENT: HERE

LATECOMERS: HERE

Note in your subject line if you have to leave at any time and I will work it into the game!

--S T A R T--

[overlording]

[Stepping into the mirror leads you into an open, metallic room. Scraps of metal and machinery lay about, rivets lining the walls and ceiling. There's a fine coat of rust forming on nearly everything.

You can hear the cranking of gears, as if you are standing in a large clock. Other than the echo of that movement, all is quiet.

There are three large, metal doors.

Only one is open.]

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[goodbyenurse]

[Are there any scraps of metal which could be used as a weapon because Belt wants one.]

There seems to be a single proffered path. Shall we?

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[unguilded]

[ running a hand over one of the surfaces. ]

Rusted...?

[ and then going over to the closed doors first to inspect them, mainly to see if they can be opened or if they're locked with something. Mostly to get an idea of if they'll have to double back to one of them later. ]

[overlording]

[While one door looks as if it could open, there is no visible handle or switch to do so. The second door is completely welded shut. When Rook approaches, a small green screen under dusty, cracked glass flickers to life. It asks for a passcode.

Most of the metal is not useful, and would likely only serve as blunt shrapnel. There is a somewhat large piece with a sharply-cut edge, although handling it could be risky. A sleeker object, almost like a pipe, can be seen buried under a larger pile of scrap, if one is willing to dig it out.]

[unguilded]

We have to find a way to get this door open. [ still poking at the first door when he says this, as if that might be the trick or something, idk.

And then looking at the second one when the screen lights up. ]

Ah ... a passcode.

[ checking over the options for the passcode. Is it just numbers, letters? A mix of both? ]

[overlording]

[The first door does not budge under his relentless poking.

The passcode is in letters. It appears to be quite long.]

[unguilded]

A big word or a phrase, then.

Keep an eye out for any letters or writings we come across. We'll probably need it for this later on.

[unguilded]

[ also, wait, counting to see how many letters it is. ]

[overlording]

[There is room for twenty characters.]

[goodbyenurse]

[...I'll take the risky one, I heal.]

Rook, we dig this other pipe out before we move onward. I will not have you running around without a weapon.

[unguilded]

[ glances at her, then moves to carefully dig the pipe out. ]

We're not going to hurt anything though, unless we're absolutely sure it's something bad. We don't know what kind of misleading things might be in here ... I don't know how this is supposed to work, and I don't want to mess something up if it affects Technic.

[overlording]

[Picking her new weapon up slices a nice, red line across Belt's palm.

The pile of scrap shifts noisly as Rook begins, and he will soon feel far more resistance than expected. Either the pipe is attached to something else, or it is not a pipe at all.]

--T H R O U G H--

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[The door immediately slams shut behind you.

The cranking of gears is louder and far more haphazard. Ahead lies the gaping, dripping mouth of a large furnace, giant metal smokestacks billowing up into the ceiling and pipes running to every inch of the room.

In front of the flames one can spot the silhouette of two men. One is on his feet, closest to the party, while the other lounges back so close to the fire that even the glimpse of his nonchalance is uncomfortable.

Both men look exactly like Guy.]

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[unguilded]

[ carefully: ]

Technic?

[menially]

[Nearly jumps..... SPINS AROUND]

Wh-- Rook? Rook, what are you doing here?

[morbirdinterest]

We were sent here as part of a game.

[unguilded]

Sorry. Nyssa did this to you-- she did something to a number of people, and told the rest of us we had to come inside to help.

[menially]

A game?

[He glances at Shuu, then back to Rook, brows tight.]

So an echo's just playing tricks, then...

[overlording]

[Any chance at that careful tone shatters with a piercing laugh.]

You say that like you actually believe it. Please.

[The other man brushes back his hair with an open hand, smile almost unnatural, eyes a brilliant yellow.]

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[onebullet]

[ Dude's a total stranger to Garnet, she's just going to watch for now. ]

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[goodbyenurse]

[Keeping careful watch on the double.]

[overlording]

[He's staying very still, eyes closed. That smile of his is rather unnerving.]

[codecmoment]

[ I'm gonna get killed again aren't I. ]

--S T A R T: D E U C E--

[overlording]

[Stepping into the mirror leads you into an open, metallic room. Scraps of metal and machinery lay about, rivets lining the walls and ceiling. There's a fine coat of rust forming on nearly everything.

Embedded in the wall are three large, metal doors. All three are closed.

It is absolutely silent. The floor under your feet feels uncomfortably hot.

A quiet, labored ticking sound comes from the door to your left.]