>Pour a drop of the rainbowy fizzing stuff on the sticky substance jamming the door

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 01:41:00

>Var: Search underneath the desk, as well as in any drawers it may have. Note the features of its design, and make note of and pocket anything found in this search that isn't part of the desk.

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 01:57:00

NICKNAME: Paco

>Paco: Inhale rainbow gas, lick the stuff on the door, and look at the interface.

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 05:29:00

If I can join, I suppose I'll try to do so, but it looks like there might be enough players already.

> Nickname = "Ruin". IE: Shadow the Edgehog.

I casually flick my emo hair out of my eyes, then take a few moments to lament about the human/whateverSpeciesWeAre condition and how we are adrift in the void of a bleak and uncaring universe. I try to locate the darkest and most miserable corner of the room and go sulk in it. And to actually do something vaguely useful, I mentally go through all of the math I remember, starting from simple arithmetic and going up to algebra and calculus to see if I remember facts, but not episodic memories.

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 06:08:00

>Nickname = Hezetor
Try to remember more informations about FRALC.
Check if there is something in the closet we just left.


Originally posted on 2017-05-31 09:03:00

>Name: Hyperion the Titan (Not the superhero)

HYPERION: This will be... interesting.

>Hyperion: Check the keyboard thing. Input >HELLO WORLD! if possible.

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 09:17:00

Chapter One: Update Two

QUOTE (engie @ (time=1496184967))

>Take a good long analytical look at myself and anyone around me to try to identify all of us, or at least take note of any important features.

You take a look around at you and your compatriots. It's hard to see much in this dim lighting, but you have a form others would describe as humanoid - two arms, two legs, a head, no tumor-like outcroppings. Your eyes don't function very well in the dark, but if you had to hazard a guess at skin color it would be some sort of gray or silver.

QUOTE (Battlefury @ (time=1496185137))

>Examine Interface, loot rainbow gas jars, examine office papers to get general idea of office's function >Nickname: Apopayptic Phantom Chaos Order Auracyst The Most Colossal of All Regen Camo Spiked Orange Purple Fake Red Entropy H.A.S.T.E Anti-OP Protection Anti-Joke M.E.T.A.L. Commando Lead Fluke Sun Skyblaster C.A.M.O.R.E.G.R.O.A.B C.O.N.C.E.P.T.I.O.N. T.M.A. Mk. II Bloon

The interface has ten characters on it that you recognize as the numerals zero through nine, laid out in a keypad formation. You suppose it works as a security system well enough.
You attempt to pry a rainbow gas jar out of the clamps, but it holds fast despite your greatest efforts.
You attempt a cursory look through the office papers. In them, you find many detailing design and assembly of industrial-strength lasers for a company called Vetrine Industries. There are also a few... oddball papers. They seem to be recording some sort of scientific test with a substance called FRALC. These ones are buried beneath the others, but they look newer.
You also choose a nickname that I am not going to refer to you by for obvious reasons.

QUOTE (Erelye @ (time=1496185267))

Examine office papers thoroughly, and open all filing cabinets, examining contents deeply. If there's anything lethal inside, close immediately. > Nickname: Kumi. I rolled a die for that, I'll have you know.

You examine the contents of the papers more deeply. It appears Vetrine Industries was an off-planet technology and vehicle company that purchased a tract of land for production purposes. Why those papers would be here, you're not sure, although you suppose it's possible that you're in that very facility.
The other papers are some highly scientific and not easily understandable documents pertaining to FRALC. From what you can understand, FRALC is the scientific name for the rainbow gas in those jars, and it has some sort of anomalous property when used with something called a COIL. If only there were handy plot-revealing audio tapes to listen to somewhere around here; they would surely make everything more clear. Perhaps later.
The filing cabinets mostly contain boring day-to-day memos. Among them, you do find something else - a hammer. It's a little sticky, and you're not sure why.
You pick a highly respectable nickname.

QUOTE (ConsumerOfAll @ (time=1496185323))

> NICKNAME: ANNIS > Examine the weird future thing, see if you can get details on its internals.

The weird future thing, as you call it, appears to have some electrical wiring leading from the keypad to the clamps underneath the jars. You can't seem to find any other clues about its internals.
Your nickname is now Annis.

QUOTE (Emerald_Mann @ (time=1496191049))

Nick: Maxx >examine the sticky substance by the door

You pick the nickname Maxx, and examine the sticky substance. It is still hard to see colors in this light, but you think it's either a pink or reddish color. It looks like some sort of congealed gel, and appears fairly stuck.

QUOTE (pionoplayer @ (time=1496191290))

>Pour a drop of the rainbowy fizzing stuff on the sticky substance jamming the door

Unfortunately, the jars are stuck fast.

QUOTE (variant @ (time=1496192222))

>Var: Search underneath the desk, as well as in any drawers it may have. Note the features of its design, and make note of and pocket anything found in this search that isn't part of the desk.

Under the desk, you find several balls of lint, a dead rodent of some kind, and a piece of crumpled-up paper, all of which you take. You decide to read the paper, as it would probably turn out to be significant. It reads, "30175".
The desk itself is made of old wood and quite bare. There are no drawers, and the papers have already been searched.

QUOTE (Cyanogynist @ (time=1496204942))

NICKNAME: Paco >Paco: Inhale rainbow gas, lick the stuff on the door, and look at the interface.

You are now Paco. Luckily for your teammates, the rainbow gas is locked away, but you do still lick the gel-like substance on the door. It tastes like a mixture of bile and licorice. Your tongue almost sticks to it, but you pull away, taking a little of the less congealed outer edge with you.

QUOTE (Talist @ (time=1496207297))

If I can join, I suppose I'll try to do so, but it looks like there might be enough players already. > Nickname = "Ruin". IE: Shadow the Edgehog. I casually flick my emo hair out of my eyes, then take a few moments to lament about the human/whateverSpeciesWeAre condition and how we are adrift in the void of a bleak and uncaring universe. I try to locate the darkest and most miserable corner of the room and go sulk in it. And to actually do something vaguely useful, I mentally go through all of the math I remember, starting from simple arithmetic and going up to algebra and calculus to see if I remember facts, but not episodic memories.

Sorry, we're all full up.

QUOTE (Hezetor @ (time=1496217824))

>Nickname = Hezetor Try to remember more informations about FRALC. Check if there is something in the closet we just left.

You don't remember anything about FRALC. You could ask Kumi, perhaps.
The closet contains a few cleaning supplies and a couple crates. The crates are tightly sealed, but perhaps with enough force you could break one open, though whether that would be worth your time would be something you would have to answer.

QUOTE (TrickleJest @ (time=1496218664))

>Name: Hyperion the Titan (Not the superhero) HYPERION: This will be... interesting. >Hyperion: Check the keyboard thing. Input >HELLO WORLD! if possible.

You name yourself Hyperion. You check the keypad, and upon seeing that it has numbers, you promptly give up on the Hello World scheme.

PLAYERS: Maxx / ENGIE / Kumi / Hyperion / Paco / Annis / Hezetor / Bloon Nonsense / PIONO / Var

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 14:53:00

>grab something and start scraping away the substance

>attempt to disconnect the rainbow gas from the clamps

>look at myself

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 14:56:00

>Paco: Ask Kumi what the gorilla FRALC is.
"What is that rainbow stuff? And what is this stuff covering the door?"

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 14:58:00

Because nobody else deserves this hell, I pick up the hammer, swing it about, and slam it into the door. It'll probably get stuck, but that doesn't mean I can't try.

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 15:04:00

everyone's crowding this room, it's very hard to move around. Sighing as I let my compatriots wander about, I sit down lightly in the chair, to test if it'll break before sitting in it all the way, then read through the papers on the desk myself.

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 15:10:00

Examine day-to-day memos for mentions of FRAlC

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 15:25:00

>Ask Kumi about what they found,
"So, what did you found?"

>Check documents.
>Check object made of black metal.

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 15:27:00

A set of numbers and a number pad. There may not be any 2s in the number on the paper, but Var can put two of them together.

>Enter 30175 into the keypad. If this fails to elicit a response or isn't the right password, enter 57103. If this fails as well, start systematically entering every permutation of the digits on the paper until one works.

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 18:57:00

I wholly explain my findings to both Paco and Hezetor.

> Kumi: Read boring day-to-day memos for anything of potential interest. Also, if possible, take as many of the papers on the desk as you can hold. We'll want to bring them with us, I suspect.

If possible, bargain with Var for the dead rodent's custody. I want it.

Originally posted on 2017-05-31 21:08:00

>As I have no idea who I am yet, analyse myself further. Anything particularly notable? Size discrepancies between me and my compatriots, perhaps, or notable articles of clothing? Is my skin more of the sort of grey I'd expect a life form to have, or a machine? What am I?

Originally posted on 2017-06-01 04:27:00

>Dial 3075 into NumberPad

Originally posted on 2017-06-01 06:21:00

QUOTE (Emerald_Mann @ (time=1496238971))

>grab something and start scraping away the substance >attempt to disconnect the rainbow gas from the clamps >look at myself

You grab a random shard of glass that happened to be sitting there and try to scrape away the substance around the base of the door. The outer edge comes free easily enough, but the inner layer is hardened, and it's tricky to get it off. You make some progress, but this isn't a very efficient solution.
The gas jars do not come free.
You look at yourself. Much like Engie, your skin is gray-silver. Your eyes glow a light green in the darkness - not enough to generate any usable light, but enough to look cool.

QUOTE (Cyanogynist @ (time=1496239110))

>Paco: Ask Kumi what the gorilla FRALC is. "What is that rainbow stuff? And what is this stuff covering the door?"

You go ask Kumi.

QUOTE (ConsumerOfAll @ (time=1496239450))

Because nobody else deserves this hell, I pick up the hammer, swing it about, and slam it into the door. It'll probably get stuck, but that doesn't mean I can't try.

You swing the hammer into the door. The hammer almost catches on the gel and sticks, but your windup gives it enough force to break through and make contact with the door. The door dislodges from the gel surrounding the base and pushes open slightly.
You peer out the door to see a long hallway with another flickering fluorescent light bulb in the center. The hall is dilapidated and spartan. Two doors opposite from one another sit a ways down, and at the very end is a staircase seemingly blocked by some sort of avalanche of rubble.

QUOTE (pionoplayer @ (time=1496239837))

everyone's crowding this room, it's very hard to move around. Sighing as I let my compatriots wander about, I sit down lightly in the chair, to test if it'll break before sitting in it all the way, then read through the papers on the desk myself.

The chair creaks but does not break as you sit down. You pick up the stack of papers and discover largely the same things as your compatriots did.

QUOTE (Battlefury @ (time=1496240739))

Examine day-to-day memos for mentions of FRAlC

The day-to-day memos do not mention FRALC. One does mention a relocation of the business for undisclosed reasons.

QUOTE (Hezetor @ (time=1496240848))

>Ask Kumi about what they found, "So, what did you found?" >Check documents. >Check object made of black metal.

You ask Kumi the same question. You rifle through the documents, learning much the same thing, and examine the mysterious black metal object. It looks almost like a bookshelf but with jars instead of books, and has small black wires running from the interface to each clamp.

QUOTE (variant @ (time=1496253459))

A set of numbers and a number pad. There may not be any 2s in the number on the paper, but Var can put two of them together. >Enter 30175 into the keypad. If this fails to elicit a response or isn't the right password, enter 57103. If this fails as well, start systematically entering every permutation of the digits on the paper until one works.

You enter 30175. The keypad begins beeping loudly and turns red for a second. You discern this must have been incorrect, and proceed to enter 57103. The keypad turns green, and with a snapping noise, the clamps surrounding the jars release.

QUOTE (Erelye @ (time=1496261286))

I wholly explain my findings to both Paco and Hezetor. > Kumi: Read boring day-to-day memos for anything of potential interest. Also, if possible, take as many of the papers on the desk as you can hold. We'll want to bring them with us, I suspect. If possible, bargain with Var for the dead rodent's custody. I want it.

You tell them what's up.
The boring day-to-day memos are quite dull, mostly involving production details of industrial-strength lasers. You collect the papers on the desk in your arms, seeing as you have no other receptacle in which to hold them yet.

QUOTE (engie @ (time=1496287676))

>As I have no idea who I am yet, analyse myself further. Anything particularly notable? Size discrepancies between me and my compatriots, perhaps, or notable articles of clothing? Is my skin more of the sort of grey I'd expect a life form to have, or a machine? What am I?

You examine yourself further. Your size is almost exactly the same as your compatriots, and your clothing consists merely of a jumpsuit-like material. You aren't quite sure what your skin color would indicate life-form-wise. You don't exactly remember what color life forms are supposed to be. One of the issues with your current memory situation.

QUOTE (TrickleJest @ (time=1496294505))

>Dial 3075 into NumberPad

The number pad is no longer receiving input.

The hallway is open. The jars are released. Those crates are still there, I suppose. What will you do?

PLAYERS: Maxx / ENGIE / Kumi / Hyperion / Paco / Annis / Hezetor / Bloon Nonsense / PIONO / Var


Originally posted on 2017-06-01 14:59:00

Nice. I look cool. And a green light too. Convenient

>Continue attempting to scrape away the substance

>Take a jar now that they've been released

Originally posted on 2017-06-01 15:02:00

I take a jar, and step out into the hallway, looking around.

Originally posted on 2017-06-01 15:02:00