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

[not_that_sasuke]

[They can communicate it through cat-related keywords.

Sasuke's gotten pretty used to doing magic squares in here, so sudoku isn't really all that much more of a challenge. He pauses to listen in case they managed to set off something by solving it, but... apparently not.]

...If there's no point to the puzzle, why is it even here?

[It seems... odd. Even the room feels like it ought to be significant, given that giant 9 painted on the wall.]

[fairsfair]

[ Hope that includes cat puns, beclaws I got a ton up my sleeve. ]

Beats me. Maybe it was for the last group of people, but looks like we're done in this room.

[ Unless you see something else you want to talk about, like the number 9... But Jake doesn't know how much to say about it because it's just a wall. ]

[not_that_sasuke]

[We can't be on speaking terms anymore.]

Maybe this is the "exit" he talked about? It's got a 9 on it...

[Though walls are unfortunately difficult to pass through, providing one isn't a ghost.]

It might have fooled someone when they first walked inside and saw it.

[fairsfair]

[ What, you can cut meowt like that. What about my purrfectly amazing puns. ]

Not unless we're suppose to break down the wall. Want to check if it's hollow?

[ If Sasuke does go and check, it'll be just a solid wall. Sorry, what a bummer. ]

[not_that_sasuke]

[He totally does, shaking his head after he tries tapping it at various points with a fist.]

...It feels solid to me. It's like some kind of set up-- the puzzle doesn't do anything, and there isn't actually a door even if it says 9.

[Weird...]

[fairsfair]

Sorry to disappoint. Maybe he just made this room a dud so we'd waste our time and nearly get ourselves killed getting here.

Remember it for later, though.

[not_that_sasuke]

...I'll do that.

[It would be hard to forget, given how bizarre it all is...]

Should we make the run to get out, then?