CALHOUN HOUR - SURVIVOR

[vivariummods]

At the crack of dawn, presumably, Calhoun gathers everyone in the first floor warehouse to make an announcement. "That's right, it's time for another of my special events!" He seems pretty pleased with himself. "I noticed you lazy, fat test subjects really let yourselves go last round! It's like I don't feed you here or something." "Well, I'm worried about your health, always lazing about and not getting proper exercise. So, I decided to be the change I want to see in the world, and so we're going to do something a littttttttllllllle different this time." "To stop you guys from getting soft from all the fun you're having here, it's time for a little workout." From one of the doors Calhoun never lets anyone go through there's a loud, metallic banging sound repeating, as if something is trying to get out. Calhoun does not seem troubled at all by this. In fact, he seems pretty excited. "The rules are simple, everyone's getting sixty coins to use as they see fit. You'll notice the vending machines on both warehouse floors. Anyone who isn't caught will even get a memory back." But what does that mean? "So go on, survive for 23 hours, I'll even give you a five minute head start. Good luck!" And with that he scurries off. Should people hang around they'll get to witness that same door open five minutes later. From the door comes several figures, human in shape but something is very, very wrong. They seem to be robotic, skeletal humans. At one point they must have had some synthetic skin over them but most of it seems to be melting or ripped off. They don't move very fast, mostly they shamble about until they focus on a target. Better hope it's not you! BASIC INFO ✖ FIRST TEN HOURS ✖ LAST HOURS ✖ POST EVENT MINGLE

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[babygangsta]

Kuzuryuu regarded Sasuke with some apprehension. "Well yeah, that'd probably kill you." Electricity and water was generally a bad combination. So much so that he hadn't expected Sasuke to immediately volunteer.

"H-hey," he half-whispered like that actually mattered when the robot already knew they were there. "Are you planning on just making a run for the waterfall?"

[not_that_sasuke]

"Do you have any better ideas?" By all means, enlighten him, he's not super pumped about doing this either. "...I think I might be able to make it. If not... you can probably move to another room while it's busy with me." Seriously feel free to make a dash for another place once it's dragged him off, no hard feelings.

[babygangsta]

"Well, no," Kuzuryuu admitted somewhat reluctantly. "But I'd feel like kind of an asshole if I let you go down there and then made a run for it." That was more than a tad cowardly. Besides, Sasuke had come to help him when he hadn't needed to.

Unfortunately, clever ideas were not forthcoming. "Whatever. Do what you're planning on doing, then. If anything happens I'll... try to figure something out at least." Master of strategy he was not.

[not_that_sasuke]

He just gives a nod, continuing to move along the branch until he's gone as far as it will allow without snapping under his weight. That would be decidedly awful.

Cautiously, he swings down, using the momentum to hit the ground running. He doesn't even have to turn to know that he's being chased - the sound of metal screeching behind him is enough of a hint. On the bright side, his choice in tree did not turn out to be wrong.

He makes it to the edge of the water before abruptly jumping back, carefully keeping low. The robot stumbles forward, stopping only as it teeters on the edge of the water, which turns out to be just perfect. A quick leap and he's on its shoulders, and another jump causes the robot to lose its balance, sending it careening right into the water.

A loud buzz, a bright flash, and the robot is left smoking in the water. Sasuke, for his part, is just going to continue to catch his breath on the comfy grass for a minute because wow that actually worked maybe Heiji is onto something with his insane ideas.

[babygangsta]

The initial jump into the tree had been remarkable enough, but that had been nothing compared to what Sasuke had pulled with the robot. Everything had happened so quickly that it took a few seconds for Kuzuryuu to realize that the robot was actually gone. Or dead. Or whatever a robot could be considered. Decommissioned?

Once it registered, Kuzuryuu climbed down, walking over to stand near Sasuke. "Damn, you made that look like it was nothing." He was clearly rather impressed by it. "I didn't realize you were that skilled."

[not_that_sasuke]

Give him a second to recover himself. "It was Heiji's idea. He did something like that when we first ran into a group of them." Except there had also been like four of the things on that occasion. The fact that they had managed to destroy every single one at the time was a feat in of itself.

[babygangsta]

"Yeah, that sounds like something he'd come up with." That guy was all kinds of crazy clever. "Still, all that jumping around was pretty good. That's not something just anybody could do." Kuzuryuu sure as hell couldn't have pulled something like that off.

[not_that_sasuke]

"I'm just quick on my feet, that's all." ...Or something, anyway. Even Sasuke isn't entirely sure what his own deal is. Having had a chance to calm down from the excitement of shoving a zombiebot into the waterfall, he hauls himself up once more. "We'd probably be safe up in the tree now, but... this is also a good chance to move to another room if you want to."