vivarium | CALHOUN HOUR

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!"

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He was mostly confused, but that's got nothing on his surprise when he's hugged. He actually freezes up for a second out of shock.

"...Heiji. Wake up." His arm is still free, so he'll try shaking him again, if a bit less gently this time.

Heiji grumbled in his sleep as Sasuke shook him, but eventually he opened his eyes. "Geez, okay. Can't a guy sleep in once in -- Sasuke?"

He blinked blearily at Sasuke and loosened his grip. "What're... oh, right, the button."

Heiji sat up and let out a long yawn, apparently not too bothered by the close encounter. "Man. Okay, new rule. Follow the rules if it's automated."

He's calm enough as he moves away from Heiji, but he's clearly not a touchy-feely person. He isn't Yuusuke, he doesn't really do the whole random hugs out of nowhere thing.

"...I wonder if the doors are still locked."

Heiji took a moment to stretch widely and yawn again. Sasuke, though. Apparently he and hugs did not mix, poor guy.

"Dunno. Let's try 'em and see."

He'll head for the door on the left, then. Let's see if it will--

--Nope. The handle doesn't even budge.

"This one's still locked."

"Hold on, hold on," said Heiji, stifling another yawn as he stood in front of the other door. "There's a riddle on this one.

'Throw out my outer.
Keep my inner.
Eat my outer.
Throw out my inner.
What am I?'

I think I heard this one before, actually."

Sasuke's probably a little too literal-minded to be much good with riddles like this, unfortunately. He walks over curious. "What's the answer?"

"Oh, I know! It's corn," said Heiji. "See, you take off the outer husk after you've cooked it. Then you eat the kernels and throw away the cob."

In response to his answer, there was a clicking noise as the door unlocked. Heiji opened it -- to reveal a room with food and drink set up on a table. "Wow, that wasn't what I was expectin'. This another trap room?"

He peers inside as best as he can. It... actually looks pretty unassuming, but considering where they are...

"It could be poisoned." Or otherwise spiked. He doesn't have a whole lot of faith in random, apparently free food found around this place.

"Yeah, guess so," said Heiji, giving it a regretful look. After all, they'd both just been gassed. Probably not a good time to risk more drugs.

"I hate this place. You're not low on water, are ya?"

The pains of being in a crazy facility where everything is made with the intent of causing suffering. "I always fill my bottle up before I go to sleep, so I should be fine. What about you?"

"Yeah, same here. Especially after that pepper spraying I took in one of them puzzle rooms." Heiji looked glumly at the food.

"I can't believe this. You wanna just take five here, see if anyone else comes around?"

"It should be safe as long as we don't touch the food...

Sure, I'll stay for a little while."

He'd like to get a move on eventually, though. Even if there isn't really a way out, he feels like he should at least try looking.

Heiji took a seat at the table, balefully staring at a box of animal crackers. "I'm gonna go on and check on every room in this maze. After this, I mean. It can't be that big. This structure's still manmade, and that means there's a limit on the size it can grow to."

Sasuke, for his part, doesn't have much trouble ignoring the food. Instead, he leans lightly on one of the walls.

"I'm interested in seeing what's down here, too. It seems like it has to be pretty big, if we've all been scattered around it. I wonder where he gets the space?" Where is this even located in relation to the warehouse? An upper floor? Lower?

Screw it, Heiji was starving. He thrust his hand into the box and popped a cracker in his mouth. Goodbye, Mr. Penguin.

When nothing happened, he ate another one. "The entire facility must be huge," Heiji said, now that THE DAM HAD BROKEN HE WAS GOING TO EAT ALL THESE ANIMAL CRACKERS. "And isolated. I ain't seen any rooms with clues yet, though. Is this whole place just for laughs...? Or is he doin' something over in the rest of the warehouse?"

His eyes widen slightly in concern when Heiji digs into the box of animal crackers, but he relaxes a little once more when Heiji doesn't immediately keel over. He'll continue to watch him warily however; hopefully it wasn't spiked with anything slow-acting, either.

"I haven't explored very much yet. So far it's just been another water trap." Poor Wirt.

CALHOUN HOUR - ESCAPE

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