CALHOUN HOUR - ESCAPE

[vivariummods]

When characters begin to wake up, instead of finding themselves in the usual warehouse, they will instead find themselves in an a very unfamiliar area. Maybe they'll wake up alone, or maybe they'll wake up with someone else. Either way, the biggest point is that they're in God-knows-where and it's the start of a new Calhoun Hour. Within seconds later, a familiar voice booms throughout the loud speakers. "Ahem, testing, testing! Hello, can you all hear me?" It's, without a doubt, your favourite robotic mouse, Calhoun. As usual, he sounds a cheery as ever. "Wow, isn't this familiar? It's almost like the first time we've met, you know. Test subject in a new location, maybe alone or maybe with someone else, my charming voice rings throughout the room, trying to drown you all in an elevator. Good times!" "Well, anyway, welcome to your new Calhoun Hour! You can see that I've taken the liberty to move you all to a more suitable location. You may not know it, with how small your brains are, but you're all stuck in a maze! I've had my fair share of running around in mazes, you know, being a mouse and all, so I want to return to favour to you humans! So, you know the drill: explore, look around, try to escape, blah blah blah, I don't need to explain all this! Just get to it! Who knows, maybe the exit here is an exit out to the real world. I might be generous like that, if you manage to find it. If not, well, I guess you can all starve here!" He snickers, then pauses. Suddenly, a loud gunshot-like sound rings throughout the speakers, and Calhoun screams again. "Let's get started!" BASIC INFO ✖ ESCAPE ✖ POST-EVENT MINGLE ✖ TURN-IN

Comments

Sasuke punching a fish in the face would be hardcore

[blind_badass]

*Well then. Snake takes a bit of the bread and per instructions, ascertains where he's supposed to drop it and bloop, there goes the bread in the water.*

[skyentificmethod]

I'm not particularly looking forward to punishment, but it's gonna happen sooner or later, so...

[she shrugs, which he probably can't see, ugh whatever]

Do what you want. I'll put it on your tab.

New life goal: punch a fish in the face

[not_that_sasuke]

[And then the fish come and eat it all up like gleeful little fish that are perfectly safe and apparently not at all carnivorous.

Victory?]

Seems to be fine so far...

[skyentificmethod]

[she shrugs, shoulders a little stiff]

You have any better options? I mean, I guess I could just sit around and eat all the rest of this stuff, things can't get worse.

[...famous last words]

[detectiveofthewest]

Heiji tried the controls, but after a little while of attempting various strategies, he had to conclude that it was impossible. "No good. But I can do a replay of what other people've been doing in here. I've seen most of the rooms in these images..."

He flipped through various rooms and times at random, but unlike in the surveillance puzzle room, did not do so systematically. After all, Snake probably didn't want to sit here for hours. "There's another room past this one, too. You wanna check it out? Or we could see if coins work in that vending machine, I guess. I'm not much for sweet stuff."

[blind_badass]

I'd rather save up my coins for something more practical. *LIKE COFFEE okay he needs to admit he might have a problem.*

Let's go check out the room. *He walked past Heiji, but not before squeezing one of his hands briefly in his.*

[blind_badass]

Duly noted. *And! He pushes the button! What will happen?!*

Achievement unlocked

[blind_badass]

*Snake sprinkles just a little bit more, not enough to be greedy, but if they need to trigger something to move on, this would be room to do it.*

[detectiveofthewest]

Cute...

Heiji peered over Snake's shoulder as he entered the next room, starting a little as the tile under his feet sounded a musical note. He was not particularly surprised to hear the sound of the door locking behind him. "There's a plaque here that reads 'Play me a tune.' Doesn't specify a particular one, though. Player's choice, huh? That's a switch."

[skyentificmethod]

[the door opens! for him.

for her, a trap door opens up and she falls in with a yelp. Though it's a pretty short one, as it's not a very deep hole, just a few feet. It is even padded with what feels like a bunch of rounded objects, like figures or dolls... Apparently whoever made the Calhoun shrine had a few things left over, dolls and figures and inflatables and statues with limbs and strings and heavy, clinging things that seem to shift so that Ema gets tangled even deeper within them the more she struggles to get herself out, like a quicksand made of musty-smelling rat plushes. Their eyes begin to glow red as the trap door closes above her.

...On the other hand, Snake won't have to worry about tripping at all!]

[blind_badass]

Oh really. *Snake grinned.* Heiji, do me a favor. Slowly walk along all the tiles so I can hear which note plays with each tile. Once I know that, I can play us a tune and get us out of here.

Ema should find him later and give him a punch or something

[blind_badass]

EMA! *Well, whatever he'd been expecting to happen it wasn't THAT. He runs his hands over the floor but he can't even tell there was a trapdoor anywhere. Crap. He'd have to keep going in the maze and hopefully meet up with her later.*

she will consider it depending on how many other calhoun/drowning-related punishments are inflicted

[skyentificmethod]

[all three doors are open around him! the maze is his oyster. pay no attention to what certainly probably isn't muffled shouting from the floor, this is a safe space for winners okok]

[not_that_sasuke]

[...Well, he doesn't hear anything, but then again there is also the sound of fish nomming on that bread to contend with.]

I think if it was going to do anything, that should be enough.

[detectiveofthewest]

Heiji touched Snake's shoulder as he walked past. "What's that saying? 'Your wish is my command'?"

He made his way across the tiles, playing each note in turn so that Snake could listen.

[blind_badass]

That was refreshingly anti-climactic. Sorry for worrying you for nothing then. *Snake stops feeding the fish, who he hopes are well contented. Then he turns toward Sasuke.*

[blind_badass]

*With a thoughtful cant to his head, Snake concentrated on each tile and each note. It was a slightly unconventional order but he thought he could make do. His mind crunched the math about tile size and distance. He waited for Heiji to finish his playing and instead of trying to remember where he heard a tune, let his mind wander to a tune he could easily play. He came up with this although played much slower as he hopped around from tile to tile.*

[detectiveofthewest]

The doors on both sides of the room unlocked; Heiji walked up to Snake and took his hand. "The songs you pick sure have a melancholy streak to 'em sometimes."

But he kind of liked that. He tugged Snake along to one of the doors on the other side of the room and opened it, revealing a long hallway with another door at the end -- probably another room.

"Wonder how far this goes in. You know, with mazes that're simply connected, you can just pick either left or right and follow the walls along until you reach your goal. That's basically what I've been doing."

[blind_badass]

That's true enough, but there seem to be a lot of dead ends. *He followed Heiji into the hallway.* It wouldn't surprise me if there's no exit at all in this maze.

[detectiveofthewest]

"Well, he had to've gotten us in here somehow," said Heiji as he opened the door at the end of the hall. "But I gotta agree with ya about that exit he promi..."

His first instinct as he stepped out on the glass floor was to freeze as soon as he heard the cracking sound. But he wasn't here alone. Heiji shoved Snake in front of him, onto an uncracked section of glass. "Move! It's glass, it --"

But even that small increase in pressure was too much for the glass; Heiji fell through the floor and hit the ice-cold water below. He fought to reach the surface again, but it was Snake he was worried about...

[worrywirt]

Wirt didn't have to be told twice. As soon as Heiji grabbed his arm, he was racing close behind and picturing how terrible death by boulder would be. His live would probably flash before his eyes, if he actually remembered more than one thing, but alas.

"I-I can't believe this." Wirt was not athletic, he could feel himself slowing down a little. He should start working out or something. "It's like something out of movie."

YOU HAD TO MENTION INDIANA JONES-ESQUE MOVIES, DIDN"T YOU.

[detectiveofthewest]

Look. Look. If anyone was to blame for this, it was not Heiji, okay? Heiji did not procure a giant boulder and whittle it down until it was just the right size and shape for crushing teenagers. He did not put that boulder in the ceiling. And he definitely did not construct the elaborate apparatus that had apparently kept it in said ceiling until aforementioned teenagers got just the right amount of distance into the room, okay?

THIS WAS NOT ON HIM.

In any case, Heiji was athletic, and he was going to pull Wirt along bodily if he had to. "Just... a little... farther!"

good with me!

[fairsfair]

[ Jake was so ready to tackle a zombie robot and disable it, like the Survivor event, but everyone never gets what they want. Instead, he gets stuck in some room. Oh well... He goes and checks both ends, just in case, and then makes a face. ]

Yeah, and there's a keycard reader on the door, but nothing else in the room besides some trash and a hole.

[ Yeah, a hole...... ]

J3

[skyentificmethod]

[some hour(s?) since their last meeting. the large room is...large and empty, musty-smelling and quiet except for the faint sound of breathing near the north wall. there seems to be some message painted on said wall in thick paint, too]

[puzzlinglad]

You look a little damp. [At least that was all. No stab wounds were always good. And he nods.] I'm quite alright, been lucky so far, really.

[He turns to regard the doors they could go through, gesturing to one.] I haven't been there yet, shall we give it a go?