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

[worrywirt]

[ Wirt peeks his head it, looks at Sasuke, and shrugs. ]

Looks pretty harmless.

[ Carefully, he takes a few steps inside. So far so good. ]

[not_that_sasuke]

[Sasuke steps in as well, moving a bit ahead of Wirt as he goes on alert. It's a normal looking room, but consdering where they are, that's almost suspicious in and of itsel--

Did the door just lock itself.]

[worrywirt]

Uh.

[ UHHHHH. Is that water coming into the room? Yeah, yeah he's pretty sure that's water coming into the room. Why.

Wirt's about to ask Sasuke what they should do, when Calhoun's announcement plays.]

Wh-what? What does he mean by an amusing show?

[not_that_sasuke]

[He does an admirable job of not panicking too much outwardly, even if he's definitely far from calm internally.]

Knowing him, probably... anything that makes us uncomfortable or unhappy.

[Calhoun sure does love those things. But he's not exactly about to turn around and attack Wirt for the sake of Calhoun's amusement, either. What can he do that would count as "amusing"...?]

[worrywirt]

[ Eeeruuuughhh. Wirt feels like his life has been nothing but uncomfortable and unhappy recently. ]

W-well, I don't want to sing Karaoke again. [ So don't even suggest a song and dance number. Not that Sasuke seems like the type that would. ]

[not_that_sasuke]

[...]

You could try punching me.

[Said in a tone that is not at all joking. He's pretty darn sure he could survive that much.]

[worrywirt]

[ Wow, Sasuke, no. ]

I'm--I'm not punching you.

[not_that_sasuke]

[Wirt he may not remember that he is a trained ninja but he is certain he can handle a punch from you no problem.]

Can you think of anything else?

[worrywirt]

Maybe--[ Wirt's cringing internally, but he can't think of anything else; ] s-some poetry?

[not_that_sasuke]

Do you know any?

[Anything is honestly worth a try right now.]

[worrywirt]

Uhh...n-not by any real poets, but. I like to think...poetically?

[ Don't look at him sasuke, this is the most embarrassing thing. ]

[not_that_sasuke]

[Not even an ounce of judgment over here man, what's so embarrassing about poetry? But if Wirt thinks it fits the bill...]

Give it a shot. Maybe Calhoun will appreciate it.

[worrywirt]

R-Right, uh.

[ Wow. He's doing this. Someone save him. ]

M-Memories obscured, stolen away on a midnight breeze

[ His voice cracks a little from embarrassment, and he has to stop and gather up his nerves before continuing. ]

Cold water, silver glinting off a mournful moon
What really happened? How much blame must the ship carry through the hungry, wave-driven seas?
But alas, we are trapped, the answers kept just out of our reach by inexorable hands
and masked faces.

[not_that_sasuke]

[The water seems to... slow at the very least. Though not quite to the point of stopping, and definitely not receding yet.

But... wow that sure is some poetry. Uh.]

I think... it's starting to work.

[You. You don't happen to have more poetry you could possibly continue to recite for the sake of their continued lives, would you, Wirt?]

[worrywirt]

[ Wirt wants to crawl away and hide somewhere immediately. Why this. Why him. ]

Uhhh. D-Do you think I should try and come up with something about Calhoun...?

[not_that_sasuke]

[...]

Can you come up with something really flattering? He might like it enough to make it stop.

[That is, if Wirt can rise to the challenge of making a flattering poem about Calhoun.]