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

[blind_badass]

Oh, Ema? Good to hear your voice. *Because he's run into random people all over the place.*

I assume I'm here in this maze because we all are. As to how I got here, I came from somewhere else in the maze.

[skyentificmethod]

[well. She should have expected that. Shaking her head, she walked closer, the door closing behind her (as apparently always)]

You okay? Nothing too weird?

[blind_badass]

Well, you might want to be careful of a room filled with fancy food. It has ransom effects. *He shuddered.* I started to hallucinate sounds.

[skyentificmethod]

Weird... Probably best to be careful of anything around here. Look out for a room filled with rat paraphernalia. You thankfully won't have to see it all, but even the aura of it should be sufficiently soul-crushing.

Or RANDOM effects if I could spell

[blind_badass]

Really? What is it, just a room full of Calhoun? *Because one is enough, thank you.*

Heheh no worries!

[skyentificmethod]

Yeah. Pictures, dolls, models, statues...anything you can think of. Jake enjoyed it but it was more than I've ever needed to experience.

[blind_badass]

I'll try to avoid that room on general principles then. What room are we in now?

[skyentificmethod]

Well--

[she is interrupted by a recording.

"Whoever pushes the button is the winner, and can go freely through whatever door they choose.

The one who does not is the loser, and will suffer the consequences."

the short announcement made, Ema sighs]

...That room, I guess.

[blind_badass]

Where's the button located? *Because if it's not near him, he might lose right away. He's not eager to get a punishment but then again, if he wins, it shifts to Ema.*

[skyentificmethod]

Two steps to your left.

[she takes his wrist, moving it so that his hand hovers over the button]

Guess we're stuck in here until one of us punches it, so...

[blind_badass]

*He wasn't expecting that, quite frankly. It surprises him that she'd help him out because she's kind of a tough read on the best of days.*

Do you want me to go ahead and push the button?

[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.

[blind_badass]

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

[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!]

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]