vivarium | ambidex voting #3

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ambidex voting #3

A M B I D E X V O T I N G

After escaping your rooms, talking with others, swiping your Ambidex Room cards, and entering, Calhoun appears on the screen to very briefly explain how the AB Voting works (45 minutes to either choose to Ally or Betray, you gain/lose points depending on what your opponent chooses), but to also introduce this round's prizes.

That's right, this round has a whole new set of prizes! They're a bit different from the last round, so listen carefully!

For anyone who chooses Betray, they will be getting a standard first aid kit and a can of food. Calhoun noticed that some of you managed to hurt themselves in the puzzle rooms, so he highly encourages you to take advantage of this one-time opportunity for free medical supplies!

For anyone who chooses Betray and their opponent chooses Ally, you will get a memory regain instead of a can of food! After all, you'll have access to the cafeteria so it won't really be necessary. ~~Unless your name is Clive Dove.~~

For anyone who chooses Ally, well, if your opponent chooses Ally as well, not only will all of your BP increase, you'll even get a gold star of friendship! Doesn't that sound wonderful?

If you're the poor sap that chose Ally and got stabbed in the back, well, sorry, you only lose BP, but maybe Calhoun will have something for you. He likes all of his test subjects, so he won't forget anyone here.

But anyway, happy voting! Calhoun will see all of you later with the results.

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[...................wh...at]

Uh,

No, no, you should hold onto it. It might come in handy someday.

[look he doesn't want this horrible thing..... he sighs.] Maybe I'll just flush it and hope Calhoun doesn't decide that's against the rules somehow to destroy parts of the puzzle rooms. He'd probably decide that the second I did it, though.

I can't believe how long we've been here now... It's getting hard to keep track.

Aren't you done with toilets? ...You might need to cut some rope or open another tin can. Won't hurt to have something useful for once.

And it's been too long. Way too long for how little progress we've made. [she opens her mouth to continue, then glances at the front of the room, pressing her lips together instead]

I guess... still, it's a little like having a weapon around. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that.

[and he glances over when she does, looking curious.] Is everything ok, Ema?

Is it ever?

...Don't worry about it. And...take it or give it away, but don't toss it. That's wasteful.

[He glances to where she was looking, confused but too much of a british polite kid to press when ema clearly didn't want to say.] Oh, uh, ok, if you're sure.

[He shakes his head] I won't, though I'm not sure how to say here, do you want the knife I just pulled out of my arm? [...] Well, besides how I said it to you. Sorry, that was a strange thing to do, wasn't it? [what a long, weird day] Maybe Heiji will want it, he's seems to be starting a collection of strange things.

...Wasn't that strange.

[it was almost--sweet, if that was a thing you could say about awkwardly offering weaponry that had injured you to a friend, but-- whatever, that was just stupid. being stuck here for a week and a half must be making her punchy]

...Could use it to try making a tunnel.

[he smiles because good, maybe he actually could get rid of this without seeming too weird and flushing it down a toilet. what a puzzle.]

... well, that certainly has an old movie prison sort of charm to it. [He regards the tiny, stupid knife for a moment before placing it to the side with a sigh, fiddling with the edge of his dumb tie bandaging because nerves.] You know I've been thinking, how big could this warehouse possibly be? How many more rooms could he have like these puzzle rooms? He's going to run out sometime.

I know. We've already all been shunted between the same few places. Maybe he's scrambling to buy time...maybe he wasn't ready for us to be here so soon. We should take advantage of it...

You have a point... how could we, though? I guess we can try to look for weaknesses and flaws in his designs. Blindspots, things like that.

[He glances around] I can't say I've noticed anything like that. The closest was that Jake was able to break the cabinet in that puzzle room with no repercussions.

It'll be a few days before we have another puzzle room anyway, if the current trend continues. There's got to be something we can do other than just sit around helplessly.

That's a good idea, it's not like we have much else to do while we wait, unless you actually consider anything in the lounge 'entertaining' or 'helpful.'

[He shifts his arm back down for now, thoughtful.] It's not like it would take too long either, this place seems smaller and smaller the longer we spend here.

Don't tell me it's starting to feel like home.

I certainly hope my real home doesn't feel anything like this. [dry there, then more seriously] It's strange though, isn't it? In a way this place is all we really know right now.

If this's all there is to know, may as well give up now.

Well, I know there was a small creek in rural England that's pretty lovely. [he shakes his head.] So... if anything seems stifling there's always that out there, waiting for us all.

...?

Ah, sorry, it's just where the memory I got back took place. It was a very nice place, so.. I suppose at least there's that out there, even if we can't remember the rest yet.

Right... You mentioned you remembered something.

Yeah, from last round. Calhoun took us to these... pods? And Jake and I both remembered something small. [He shrugs his non-injured arm.] It was very much like a scifi story, the more I think about it.

Ah...

Do you remember how you got there?

[He nods and points to whatever door it was Calhoun took them through, it's a mystery...] Calhoun took me through there, and then to the room with those pods. As far as I can tell it's locked unless Calhoun's the one entering, I haven't really tested it to be sure, though.

One way to find out.

[guess who is dragging you up]

What- [Oh, well, she had a point. Hershel gets to his feet at Ema's dragging, trying not to sway around too much like an idiot, before setting course for their destination!]

[A door that was likely completely locked, and he taps it with his foot. He turns to Ema with a small smile.] Any idea how to pick electronic locks?

Not really. What did the rat do to open it?

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