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!"

BASIC INFO ✖ ESCAPE ✖ POST-EVENT MINGLE ✖ TURN-IN

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*Snake made a little noise as he exhaled. He supposed he couldn't really do anything about it now. And in the end, Heiji did talk to him and all was well. So instead, Snake smiled.* I'm afraid I'm the wrong person to ask what things look like.

I suppose you did meddle, but in the end, it was for a good cause. Otherwise myself and Heiji would be angsting in our separate corners for no reason whatsoever.

Heiji leaned forward and ruffled Hershel's hair, ruffle ruffle, wow what a monster. "If you go over in that direction, you're gonna come to a room where you gotta push this button. One person does, anyway. They're the 'winner' and the other person's the loser and suffers the 'consequences'. I dunno what would happen if you went in alone, though. Maybe you'd win by default?"

When Snake smiled, Heiji looked away a little. Snake had better watch out, or he was going to get a kiss when Hershel went off to find Alfendi and Kuzuryuu.

"Right." Hershel still looked pretty awkward but he smiled at Heiji for his monstrous hair ruffling. "Alright, I'll keep an eye out for that one, I'm assuming the 'consequences' aren't very pleasant."

And with that he stepped back, raising a hand. "I'll see you both late, alright? Try to be careful out there." And off he went in search of idiots, surely nothing bad will happen and no one will be in comas etc etc.

Heiji waved to Hershel. "Alright, see ya! Watch out for any traps!"

Once he was gone, though, he'd take Snake's hand. When he spoke, his voice was lowered slightly. "...You know what he said to me? Hershel, I mean."

No, what did he tell you?

"He said I should talk to you about how I felt, 'cause there's a chance we won't make it out of here." Heiji glanced over at Snake for a moment.

"...I get what he was tryin' to do. And say. But that guy worries too much. I ain't interested in dying in here with you. I want to get back outside with you."

I plan on escaping here too. With everyone I can take with me which better be you. *Good Lord, Heiji, how do you casually say things like that with a straight face? His stomach flips around.*

How did you say the things you said, Snake?

"Well... good," said Heiji, smiling a little. "'Cause I'm not letting you off the hook. You'd better show me around your place."

CALHOUN HOUR - ESCAPE

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