vivarium | All I Want For Christmas Is Calhoun

Well, it's yet another day of AB Rounds. For anyone keeping track, it's been three days since their second Calhoun Hour event, so they're back to playing in these terrible puzzle rooms. Calhoun even calls everyone to the second floor so time to trek along...

But instead of finding a brand new set of doors, everyone will find... Christmas decorations?

A small Christmas tree in the centre, obnoxious flashing lights on the walls, a table full of food, and is that a snow machine in the corner? There's even holiday-themed songs playing, such as 'All I Want For Christmas Is Calhoun', 'Joy to Calhoun', 'Silent Test Subjects', and, of course, 'We Wish You A Merry Betrayal'. (Well... mostly holiday-themed. At least they have the same tune, so if you can just ignore the lyrics, it'll be close enough.)

Dressed in a Santa Claus outfit, Calhoun sits in a large red chair in the back and yells at everyone to come closer. He strokes his fake beard (which... he put over his gas mask...) as he speaks.

"Meeeeeerry Christmas, test subjects! Welcome to my holiday party! Because I'm such a saint, I took it upon myself to spread some cheer and joy into you dull bunch. You're so depressing sometimes, I have to wonder who died," he snickers to himself. "Anyway! I'm pushing back the Ambidex Rounds by a few days. I know, I know, I'm disappointed too! But I'm only one mouse, so you can't rush these things. So, you can have this party in the meanwhile."

"Also, since it's Christmas, I'm letting everyone choose one gift for themselves and their beeeeestest friend. Of course, I have final say on whether you can get it or not, so don't get your hopes up, but Lord Calhoun, just how do I get these gifts, you may say. It's quite simple! Just sit on my warm lap and tell me how kind and giving I am, then you can have your present! Isn't that nice?"

"So, get to it! Hee-ho-ho!"

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Hey Jake hey

Heiji walked into the lounge holding his new first aid kit, ugly Christmas sweater draped over one shoulder at least until he could find Sasuke and give it to him instead. He grinned when he saw the food basket.

"Hey, check it out! Ya asked for somethin' after all. Didja manage to break Calhoun while you were at it?"

Jake just gave a look, like what the shit is wrong with you.

"Like hell I sat on his lap. I just wrote him a note in the suggestion box." He weaseled his way out of having to ask Santa Calhoun the normal way. "Don't tell me you actually sat on him."

"Oh, you could do that?" Heiji shrugged; on the long list of shit that had gone down since he'd gotten here, sitting on Calhoun didn't even make his top five.

Plus, he'd still never made out with Calhoun. No one could take that away from him.

"Well, whatever. I got this kit and a journal for Clive to write stuff in. So try not to get stabbed or anything, but if ya do, I'll help ya out."

"Yeah, he mentioned it at the end of the day," so of course Jake went for that route. He would rather shoot himself in the leg than sit on that robotic rodent's lap (or stab himself, not like he hasn't done that before).

"Thanks, but no thanks. Use it on yourself. Managed to get a first aid kit for myself." You may proceed to ask..... h... ow??

"Yeah? How?" Calhoun had always seemed rather stingy with the whole supplies thing. And honestly, Jake didn't seem like Calhoun's favoritest test subject, so...

You didn't stab yourself again, did you Jake

Wow, why was that the first place you jump to, that he stabbed himself. Did he already have that kind of reputation with him

"Pulled a coin from a slice of cake, which apparently gets you an extra prize." He wasn't complaining, though, since he got a nice med kit from it. "So you can worry about yourself or something else."

"There was a coin in there?" Heiji made a face; biting into one of those didn't sound pleasant, what the hell Calhoun.

"Anyway, heard ya the first time. You really don't like acceptin' help, huh?"

"Yeah, it was a damn choking hazard." He was lucky enough that he didn't actually swallow it or anything. Biting down on it wasn't nice but a hell of a lot better than choking and dying on a tiny coin.

"Don't need it. If I want help, I'll ask for it, but don't hold your breath on it." Sorry Heiji, you should probably know about now that Jake was not a very friendly or talkative person. "'Sides, a med kit isn't exactly something you want to share with everyone. They're not easy to come across."

lbr though it would be funny seeing hershel trying to give jake the heimlich maneuver. Jake Muller, died as he lived, money.

Heiji thought about this for a second, but then shook his head. "Nah, I'd rather just use mine to help someone who needs it. It's bad enough that we're stuck down 'here; I don't want someone getting sick 'cause I was saving stuff for later. It's good that you scored one for yourself, though!"

hershel is like a head shorter than jake, this would not work out very well, but you know what, let jake die like this. he would be so proud, dying through money.

Jake gave a small scoff and looked off. He should have figured that would be Heiji's answer. He was your afterschool super hero, always thinking about everyone. "Yeah, lucky me," not sounding too excited or anything. He was glad about getting a med kit, yeah, but he didn't think he was as heroic as Heiji.

"Well, what did everyone else get?" He figured that Heiji might have gone around to see other people first before coming over here. Jake was probably not number one on Heiji's list of people, or on anyone's list...

Jake. Jake. You didn't need to be a hero to give someone a band-aid.

"Well, let's see... Snake got a Braille typewriter, Sasuke got a first aid kit like me. He was talkin' about getting a foil for Hershel, too. Clive got a journal and a digital camera, and asked for a mystery novel for Hershel..." Of course, technically speaking, maybe it wasn't good manners to be discussing other people's presents.

"Why d'you ask?"

He shrugged.

"Just curious." Which was true, he wanted to know without actually going around to ask everyone. He wasn't on the best relations with some of the people here so it would have been awkward to go up and ask what their Christmas gifts were. Better to just ask a single sociable person. "Zero sure was generous to give something like a digital camera, though. That could easily be used against him."

"Yeah. Though if he wanted, I bet he could just knock Clive out again and take it from him." HAHAHA, living here was so awesome.

Heiji tilted his head slightly to the side, giving Jake a curious look. "...you know, you should try talking to people a little more if you're interested in how they're doing. I don't think anyone here hates you or anything like that."

He stared at Heiji with a raised eyebrow. Where did this come from? "What, instead of just talking to either you or Hershel? Sounds like work," that was said in an amused tone than a serious one. "And it doesn't matter if they hate me or not. I'm not here to make friends, I'm only here because of this experiment."

"Wow, that sounded like one of them reality shows," said Heiji, looking mildly amused. Jake wasn't here to make friends, he was here to be

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"You are interested, though, right? Otherwise you wouldn't be askin'. Besides, people might actually end up liking you. That's not so bad."

That would be the worst show ever. I'd watch every single episode of it.

"Yeah, because there sure are a lot of interesting folks around here." The sarcasm, can you taste it right now? "Just was wondering if anyone got anything useful and something we could use to get us out of here."

Fiiiine, Jake, play it that way for now.

"What? They're totally interesting! Like Sasuke broke up someone's date once. And Hershel jumped in a pit of poison spiders." Okay he wasn't 100% sure about the Sasuke thing, but he definitely broke up something.

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