one new mouse

[vivariummods]

It's been two days since the vote. Since then, there has been little activity. The speakers have never been turned on since that day, and there's been no sign of the owner of that voice. No further contact has been made, and it seems as if the group was abandoned again without a clue as to why they're here. ... Unless any members of the group are lucky enough to wake up early enough to catch a glimpse of something, uh, "new"... In the Greenhouse, while the artificial sky is a reddish colour from "sunrise", a large metal ladder is placed in front of the sickly trees. Beside the ladder is a children's wagon, filled with apples, and on top is an upright mouse with a gas mask... Yeah, as if this place couldn't get any weirder. The mouse quietly mumbles to itself, something along the lines of "... work... not paid... test subjects... spoiled", and holds an apple in one paw and a tape gun in the other. It appears to be taping the apples to the tree branches, one at a time, occasionally climbing down to grab an armful of apples to bring up. It's only a third way through the pile of apples (which only seems to be about a dozen...) so catch it while you can.

Comments

[toybombs]

Maybe all of us were in the same area then, for some reason...? Or maybe each of us even had some sort of contact with each other.

[elliexir]

Maybe? It still doesn't really make any sense though.

[ Why would they all be in the same location? What kind of contact would they have had? What the hell did they witness to be trapped here? ]

Man, the more we talk about it, the more confused I get.

[toybombs]

It's the age of the Internet. All sorts of different people could be connected even if they didn't know it.

[elliexir]

Yeah, but it's still pretty hard to imagine...

Maybe we should ask that mouse some questions, if it can even talk. It's just as weird looking as everything else around here.

[toybombs]

[She shrinks back slightly.]

H-he scares me... he looks all weird.

[How rude, Rio. But still...]

...I'll go if Ellie wants to, though.

[elliexir]

[ Extremely rude. Calhoun is beautiful?? ]

Promise we won't take too long sticking around it, okay? Plus, I think with the two of us, we can take on a tiny mouse. Maybe it's as dumb as the goat.

[ which they ran away from but it was dumb enough to be held back by a fence soooo who's the real loser here? ]

[toybombs]

But we had to run away from the goat.

[She's pretty sure that makes them the losers...]

[elliexir]

But the goat was held back by a simple wooden fence soooo that makes it pretty dumb.

[ c'mon, rio, they're totally the smart ones here... they are the winners ]

[toybombs]

[That just makes her look uneasily at the fence.]

It... It would be bad if it were smart enough to open that-!