CALHOUN HOUR - BINGO II

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Early in the morning of Day 84, an announcement booms from the warehouse speakers: "All test subjects report to the first floor lobby immediately for your next experiment." Zero's unmistakable garbled voice goes silent afterwards. Once everyone gathers downstairs, they'll be treated to an unexpected sight: Zero standing in front of them in the flesh. Standing tall (at 5'4"...), they're donned in the same piece of clothing everyone remembers them in: a black raincoat (large and long enough that it covers their entire body, leaving no distinguishable features), a full facial gas mask, and matching black gloves. It seems as if Zero really dislikes showing skin... "Today, you will be participating in a game of, what you may call, 'Bingo'. I believe most of you have participated in this before. The rules and explanations are on the back of the cards." An arm is raised to motion towards the paper cards scattered on the nearby table, then it falls again. "Due to some... unfortunate events, I will monitor you in person. However, do not underestimate what will happen to you should you decide to cheat, escape, attack, or do anything that will break my rules. Your bracelets are still very functional and my cameras will continue to record every move you take, so I suggest that you refrain from doing anything foolish." "Now begin." BASIC INFO ✖ LET'S PLAY BINGO ✖ TURN-IN ✖ POST-EVENT

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BASIC INFO

[vivariummods]

✖ This Calhoun Hour will go towards AC. You do not have to complete this event, but you do need to have a minimum of 10 comments from you.

✖ Characters are allowed to interact with Zero, who will remain standing in place and refuse to partake in any tomfoolery. For players who wish to thread with Zero, please contact a mod.

✖ You must at least start the activity in your thread for it to count as a square. You do not need to finish the entire thread.

✖ If you fill out a line, you get a bonus of five coins. You can only get this bonus a maximum of three times, so only three lines count, so you can only get an extra 15 coins.

✖ If you fill out the entire card, you will get an extra ten coins and a memory, meaning the maximum amount of coins a character can earn is 65.

✖ You can do up to three activities per person.

✖ This event will last for 4 OOC days and 1 IC day. The deadline to hand in all your threads will be April 6 at 11:59PM EST.

✖ A post-event thread will go up on April 6.

✖ Bingo Card + Turn-In

✖ If you have any questions? Ask and we will try to get back to you asap.

✖ Have a nice trick!

LET'S PLAY BINGO

[vivariummods]

[ Leave a top-level comment or tag others, and get to filling those squares! ]

TURN-IN

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<font face="georgia" color="#44657b"><b>CHARACTER:</font></b> Character Name (<user name="character journal">) <font face="georgia" color="#44657b"><b>THREADS:</font></b> The character you threaded with - <A href="link to thread">which bingo square is it?</a> <font face="georgia" color="#44657b"><b>TOTAL POINTS:</font></b> (from just squares) + (any bonuses from lines) + (any bonuses from completed square) = Total Amount of Points

[fairsfair]

[ ... Standing here like it'd be so easy for him to snap Zero in half... It'd be so fucking easy, just... angrily holding his sheet, wrinkling it up. That dick probably came out here just to taunt them because they can't do shit as long as they have their bracelets. (He wonders how fast he can chew off his arm before he gets Akiko'd...). ]

[ In the meanwhile, go do Bingo shit with him while he angrily stands in his corner. Also, hey, it looks like his eyes are all better again. Thank god... ]

Heiji

[detectiveofthewest]

[Let's do it.]

[detectiveofthewest]

Hmm, look at Jake all angry in his corner. Maybe it would make him feel better to get some of that out?

"Hey Jake, you wanna fight for a bit? You look like you could use it."

[fairsfair]

Well, wasn't that just the most casual way to ask someone to get into a fight... Hello, good ol' chap, would you care to get into a scuffle?

"What, are you serious?" Did you really want to choose the giant merc as your fighting partner... That seemed unwise.

[detectiveofthewest]

Yes, what was Heiji doing, getting into a fight with the patron deity of beef jerky. "Well, you do know how to spar with someone without throwin' 'em into an incinerator, right? I don't think our normal styles would go together that well, but the other day I threw Alfendi with some aikido. I figure we could trade some moves."

It didn't seem right to hit an unarmored opponent with a shinai or a bokken, even if that someone was Jake.

Yes. Even Jake.

[fairsfair]

Look deep within yourself, Heiji, did you really want to tussle with Sir Jerky?

Well, he looked amused at the thought of Alfendi being flung across the air. "Hope you got a good back story on why you threw Alfendi around." Hahaha, fuck that guy. Go get your arm bitten again by Bluebell, why don't you. "Fine, it's been a while since I did anything hand-to-hand, so why don't you start us off."

He was going to be a gentleman and let Heiji take the first punch. He spread his legs, bent, and slightly raised his arms, keeping them close to him.

[detectiveofthewest]

Not if he used words like 'tussle', he didn't, but Jake did look like he could use some cheering up.

"Well, he was yellin' things and chasin' me around with a faceful of makeup." Imagine that. Just imagine it.

Okay, Jake, what a time to pick to be a gentleman. Were you going to throw punches with your pinky raised. Heiji moved forward and aimed a quick blow at Jake with his right fist. He did know how to punch, more or less; it just wasn't his main thing.

[puzzlinglad]

[what a shitlord. well here's hershel and a lazy top level from me, sorry... maybe he'll be staring at his bingo card looking like he wants to sigh. memories.]

[puzzlinglad]

"This brings back memories, doesn't it?" Are they good memories? He wasn't entirely sure. Still...

"Do you want to fill any of these out? Maybe we can swap clothing like last time." He offered with a shrug.

[puzzlinglad]

[have your buddy, walking over to the sulking corner with a vaguely concerned look. don't do anything stupid, jake...]

Maybe we should fill something out, as a distraction. [from you know, getting akiko'd]

[detectiveofthewest]

"Sure!" And with that, Heiji took off his cap and put it on top of Hershel's fluff. "But it's gotta be your tie. That way I'll be all fancy."

And Hershel would have to be one of the tie-less heathens, unless he had a tie under his tie. Heiji wouldn't put it past him. The horror...

"If you want, um. I could tell ya about what Clive told me. The rest of it, I mean. That counts as sharin', right?"

[puzzlinglad]

"Did we ever figure out if you can even tie a tie?" Hershel asked, amused as he undid his tie and held it out to Heiji. Prove what a gentleman you are in your heart, man.

It took him a moment to register what Heiji was suggesting, and he looked a little surprised when he did. "I suppose it does, doesn't it?" He paused. "Are you sure? It must be rather personal if Zero chose it for this."

[detectiveofthewest]

"W-well, I know I can tie it for someone else, anyway." Time for the moment of truth. Heiji wrapped the tie around his neck and tied it in a nice little half-Windsor or something, I don't know why they bother giving tie knots different names because half of them all look the same.

"It's not... that personal. It's just kind of embarrassin', that's all. And I guess it was somethin' that... I don't know. Anyway. Like I said, I was tracking down this fella I figured as a drug dealer about to make a big transaction. Only Kazuha was there, chatting him up! Even though he obviously looked like he was up to no good. I was in the middle of the crowd, so they ain't see me, but she told me by text that he was some pharmacology student she knew."

Heiji snorted indignantly. "A pharmacology student with tattoos, bleached-blond hair, and piercings? Yeah, right!"

[fairsfair]

What was wrong with the word 'tussle', did it hurt your feelings.

Unfortunately, he wasn't that much of a gentleman, to throw his punches with a pinky raised. He was still a barbarian, and he quickly moved at a downwards angle away from Heiji's punch. He then use his right fist to take a quick jab at Heiji's side. He didn't really want to hurt Heiji that much, but at the same time, he didn't want to take it that easy.

[fairsfair]

[ when does jake do anything stupid, never, that's when. we don't talk about the grey room ]

Yeah, maybe. [ grumble grumble but looking at his card and now suddenly seemingly in a good mood? oh no... ] Up for another round of Truth or Dare?

[detectiveofthewest]

It just sounded weird and British like pip pip time for a tussle and some crumpets on the pitch, there's a good lad.

Heiji used the forearm on the same side to turn the jab slightly aside, not so much deflecting as sliding his way up Jake's arm the way he might ordinarily turn away a blade. If he'd had a shinai or something, up close like this was where he would have tried a hit to Jake's upper body, but... uh, he didn't have one? So instead he just aimed an open palm strike at Jake's chest.

[puzzlinglad]

[this sudden good mood is the most suspicious thing he's ever seen. and then it all comes together]

Absolutely not, the last two time we did that were an unmitigated disaster. [he's absolutely not going to do it! no way! absolutely not going to doormat this one probably!!]

[puzzlinglad]

Being the shitlord that he is Hershel actually clapped for him. It was a nice tie tying, sue him. "Well, that certainly answers that question. You look very proper now."

Hershel nodded to the story- yeah Kazuha, not exactly proper student sounding dude there. "Do you know why she was there? She seems to have you knack for getting into trouble, doesn't she?" If only he knew.

[fairsfair]

[ still smiling ]

You just need to lighten up. Why stop our Truth or Dare tradition now?

[puzzlinglad]

[you're inhuman.]

Because it's a terrible one! [but, surprising exactly no one, he sighs.] Alright fine, but you go first. Truth or dare?

[detectiveofthewest]

Hershel, you nerd.

"I think she just ran into him. Anyway, some of his buddies came and started draggin' her away, so I went up to the guy and grabbed him by the shirtfront. And then I said..."

He glanced away, looking a little sheepish. "Look, you better not tell anyone about this okay? I said, 'What're ya doin' to my Kazuha?' That's when his buddies started after me."

Snake

[blind_badass]

*Let's dance...if that happens to be on the card. Not that Snake had any idea, you might want to inform him. He might mutter something about the lack of braille yet again while finding partners to fill out squares.*