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T H E W A R E H O U S E

【 day 16 - 4:00AM 】

For all "old-timers" and "somewhat-old-timers", it'll be another typical night sleeping on the warehouse floor. It's not great, but perhaps you're getting used to it now. Maybe you're just making due. Maybe some of you are in a deep sleep because you've adapted. Whatever it is, you will be rudely waken up by... the sound of sirens?

A sense of deja-vu might run through you as you wake up and look at what's going on. Right in the middle of the warehouse, Calhoun is wearing a bike helmet on top of his gas mask, and standing next to one of these.

Well, standing isn't exactly the right word for it. Struggling to pick up Kariya and onto the stretcher is more accurate...

【 day 17 】

To the newcomer, welcome to the 【 Warehouse 】.

Once you escape your elevator, you will find yourself here. It's strangely empty for a warehouse. Aside from the elevators you've come out of, there's nothing else here. In fact, the longer you look around, the stranger everything looks.

Every window has been bolted shut, with no way of removing the steel coverings. The only source of illumination comes from the florescent lights above. Along the walls are numerous amounts of surveillance cameras, watching every bit of movement and listening to the sounds of everyone and everything. Every door is locked up tight, with no clear way of opening them, and there's one giant door with a 9 painted on it. It's a rather strange place, and there seems to be a lot of people here, so go introduce yourselves?

For the "old-timers" and "somewhat-old-timers", come meet your new fellow test subject and, oh, look! You can take another bath with that elevator open! Isn't Calhoun such a nice mouse, letting you bathe?

【 day 18 】

A M B I D E X R O U N D

After those two busy days, it'll be nice to sleep in, right? Well, too bad you're all test subjects, it's time to wake up! Itttttt's time for another Ambidexxxxxxx Round!!

Oh, but where is it going to take place this time? Not on this floor, that's for sure. Everyone, head out to the hallway, line up in front of the elevator! We're heading up to the second floor of our warehouse! Amazing, right? Who would have thought you would stick around long enough to see the second floor, huh?

The elevator, that was once non-functioning, turns on and allows everyone to head to the second floor. How many floors are there? It's unknown, as all the buttons are hidden under a single large metal sheet, asides from 'L2'. Well, don't worry about that, welcome to the next level. It looks identically to the first floor, asides from a few differences:

There are no Ambidex Rooms on this floor, nor is there Calhoun's shop in the corner. However, to make up for that, there seems to be four coloured doors, rather than three: Red, Blue, Green, and Grey. Yes, that's right, Calhoun has decided to add a fourth Ambidex Door, just to accommodate the new number of people. So, look down at your bracelets, you'll see what teams you're in.

The rules are the same: Go in, solve the puzzles, come out, vote! It's as simple as that, so line up in front of your doors, he doesn't have all day.

Oh, speaking of days... Before everyone enters, Calhoun will start to snicker uncontrollably. He hopes you haven't forgotten what today is?

It's the last day to give him a proper "show".

So far, all we've gotten were two lousy attempts at a show:

Some fake drama, hosted by the Blind-And-Dumb Test Subject (Snake) and Should-Probably-Drug-Again Test Subject (Ema)? Talk about yawn. You two get a 1/10. Half a point for getting two dumb teenagers all riled up about it, and another half a point for some form of effort.

The other was some sword fight by the Needs-A-Haircut Test Subject (Hershel) and Probably-Hiding-A-Bald-Spot (Heiji) in the lounge. Not as boring, but sheesh! Do you really think just something like that will entertain him? You didn't go in there with the proper intent of hurting each other, just some practise! Most of all, you've destroy Charlie, Calhoun's pot plant, so you only get a 4/10. Better than the other show, but not good enough!

And that's it, only two dumb shows. It looks like you guys really don't care about your secrets or memories. Maybe he should just end the contest here early and get this over with. He'll just reveal your secrets, destroy your memories, and get this over with. You clearly aren't bothered by it, so why keep this up any longer?

But you know what, Calhoun's a nice mouse. He believes in second chances, so he'll give you all until tomorrow morning, 6AM, to come up with something, or you can all say goodbye to everything!

Chao!

GOODBYE ✖ NEW ARRIVAL ✖ MINGLE
BASIC INFO ✖ TEAMS + ROOMS ✖ ESCAPE

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"Oh, so that's what it was," said Heiji. "I was wonderin' why she was buzzing around like that. Eventually I just let her borrow it for a little while; figured it was a dare or something. Oh yeah, and I found out her height. 'One hundred sixty-two and five-eighths centimeters exactly'. Who keeps track of the eighths?"

Suddenly, Heiji's manner changed and he looked quickly from left to right. When he spoke again, it was with lowered voice and a hand next to his mouth -- SECRET TIME AGAIN. "Hey, um... I kinda got something to ask you."

"In Akiko's defense Ema dared her to do some... strange things." Hershel glanced to the side, no, never talking about that. Ema was a monster. He has to smile at Ema's behavior though. "Well, it sounds scientific, and she certainly seems to like science." Scientifically speaking.

Uh oh, secret time, Hershel turned more serious- clearly this is either important or gossip. "Sure, what is it?"

"Well..." Heiji looked a little flustered again. Hmmm. "I was wonderin' if you could do me a little favor. S-see, I was just kinda thinking... if you weren't too busy or anything... maybe you'd let me..."

He sank into the water suddenly. "O-on second thought, just forget about it!"

Hershel watched him patiently, wondering what the heck could get him so worked up. When he started to back down Hershel raised a hand placatingly.

"I'd be happy to do you a favor, Heiji, I certainly owe you more than one now, and even if I didn't we're friends, aren't we? So don't fret so, what is it?" He couldn't imagine what Heiji needed that would get that reaction.

Arrrrrrrgh Heiji couldn't handle this why was this happening

"I n-need to kiss ya," he said finally.

Hershel just stared a moment, almost as though he wasn't sure he heard that right. When it does register he turned a bit red, trying not to sound flustered as he spoke. Spoilers, he didn't succeed.

"I-Oh, I see." Smooth. "Heiji, why on earth would you need to do that?" ... "Ema didn't dare you, did she?" If this was Ema's doing...

"...Do you really need an answer? Well, I guess it's kinda unreasonable to ask that kind of thing without giving a reason..."

Sob. "It doesn't really have anything to do with Ema. I think. I'm just... I been thinking... well, ever since I k-kissed Snake, somethin's been bothering me, and I can't put my finger on what it is. I figured if I repeated the... process... with someone else, I'd have a better idea about what was buggin' me so much!"

YEAH. GREAT REASONING A++

Heiji your reasoning is so shounen. Hershel... can't say he understood but he doesn't mention that, because whatever it is it's clearly bugging Heiji enough to ask for this. He tried not to turn more read, he really did, but his life's blood is flustered and British, he can't help it.

"W-well, I-" Oh my god what was his life right now. "If... if it's this important to you then I don't see the harm." It wasn't like it was his first kiss at least, that belonged to poor Akiko. He did still really really owe Heiji for the voting with Jake and you know, not thinking he was a horrible murderer, so he tried to be a little less flustered and nodded. "Um, have at- wait I shouldn't word it like that- go ahead?" Oh my god what if he just drowned here, that'd be fine right.

IT WAS, HERSHEL. IT WAS SO IMPORTANT.

Now that he actually had permission, though... how exactly was he going to do this? It wasn't like he'd planned this out very well. Heiji swam over towards Hershel and... just...

Kind of looked at him.

Hershel just looked back, trying not to turn more read. Why. Did this have to happen when they were mostly unclothed in a pool? Well, in a flooded death trap but yeah, Hershel was 100 percent sure even without his memories that his life wasn't this ridiculous before getting kidnapped into a murder game.

Did... Heiji want him to do the kissing? Oh my god he's too British for this life. "Um, should I-" Beet. Red. What a delicate fucking flower.

"Well, I mean..." On one hand, that wasn't really how it had happened when he'd kissed Snake. On the other hand, if Hershel was willing to get this party started...

"Okay..."

Hershel's brow furrowed- ok. Ok he could. do this. He could! Holy shit he had to instigate a kiss how did this happen to him- no, no, he totally had this! He told Heiji ages ago he owed him any favor he needed, and here it was. Kissing. The most difficult challenge he had yet to face.

Of course he knows nothing about kissing, he and Akiko barely pecked. Did... it need to be longer than that? Hershel again tried not to turn any redder because soon he'd be glowing like a new sun. There's the beach for you.

He swallowed, tried to man up, failed, tried again and decided to just hurry up and go for it, he could do this, for friendship!

So yeah he just sort of pushed forward and pressed his lips to Heiji's, having no idea what to do besides that. What a harlot.

The kiss lasted for several seconds before Heiji pulled away, slightly out of breath. His whole face was glowing bright red. "F-forgot to breathe," he muttered. "Um... thanks, Hershel."

Oh gosh, this was so embarrassing he didn't even know what to do without someone there mocking him. "I think... well, it was a little different, but..."

Edited 2014-08-27 06:08 (UTC)

Hershel's just as red, if not more. He lowered into the water a bit, totally not hiding. He's a complete harlot and ruined for marriage though, what a day. "Um, sorry-" He just. assumed he needed to apologize for that. Confidence.

He straightened a bit, desperate to be less ridiculous and flustered. "Did it- do you think you know what was bothering you, then?" Was his kiss in vain...

Heiji crossed his arms, thinking really, really hard. It was difficult because literally all his intelligence was poured into the detective pitcher and there was basically like two drops left for anything else please measure out 4 ml in 5 moves

"Well..." It hadn't been like kissing Jake, which had been absolutely hideous thank you very much groce. "I guess it was more like kissing Snake? And you an' I are friends, so that means... that other kiss was also like kissing a friend? So maybe that thing that was botherin' me was really nothing after all!"

Now Heiji was all smiles -- although his cheeks were still a little red. "Ha! I was all worried about it 'cause I thought it'd be awful, and then it wasn't. But kissin' a friend shouldn't feel bad anyway, right? Nothing to it!"

Hershel just stared at him a moment, finally understanding something. He squashed a nervous smile, trying to gently approach the topic.

"Um, Heiji... was all this because you felt something when you kissed Snake?" Man, and he thought the Ema and Snake gossip was something. "You don't um... well, do you think maybe you-" Like like him?

Heiji blinked. "Maybe I what?"

Sorry, man. You were just going to have to spell it out for this dummy.

Oh yeah, Hershel's pretty sure he's got it now and how did he not see this before. He's torn between slight exasperation and and amusement, you shounen hero.

"Maybe you like him in a different way than a friend?" He tried, very curious to see how Heiji was going to react to that. "Did his show with Ema bother you at all?"

"Well, I dunno if bother's really the right word," said Heiji, frowning a little. Clearly this was going to require some deep concentration.

"A different way than a friend...?" Suddenly, Heiji's face cleared. "Oh, you mean like a best friend?"

... Oh my god Heiji. Hershel stared for a moment before slowly shaking his head. This... was going to be a bit harder than he thought.

"Um, no, not exactly like that. I mean-" He faltered, how could he spell this out without being crass, life's rough. "I mean in a romantic sense, I suppose." That was safe, right?"

Heiji blinked at him, then burst out laughing. "Ha ha ha, no way! Snake's a guy! Besides, wouldn't that mean I liked you, too?"

Oh, Hershel, you and your theories!

Hershel's still gave him a curious look because yeah dude, not convinced. "Well, I suppose you have a point, if our- um, if that wasn't any different from Snake's."

"Still, you did seem pretty flustered about it even when Akiko and I were asking." He considered a moment before smiling. "Ah well, mystery solved, I suppose?"

"Well, of course it wasn't exactly the same," said Heiji, looking a little annoyed -- though not at Hershel.

"I mean, he was bein' a real jerk about it just 'cause I didn't do it fast enough. Besides, you were all embarrassed when I was grillin' you about kissing Akiko, right? And just now your face was all red. Anyone'd be flustered about that!"

ADMIT IT, HERSHEL.

"Y-yes well that-" Look here he was flustered at the mere mention of kissing that doesn't count! "That's different!" Strong argument, so solid.

He shook his head. "Um, there's nothing wrong with liking Light- Snake, I mean- if you do, you know. It's certainly a strange situation to meet someone but-" They're teenagers, these things happen. He offered Heiji a smile. "Don't worry so much about it, Heiji, I'm sure you'll figure it out, whatever it ends up being."

"It's totally the same," said Heiji, sticking his tongue out at Hershel. "I mean, it was part of the game both times, right?"

He looked at Hershel a little skeptically. "No way, not that guy! He never smiles, he's got only bad things to say.... and he's got premature gray hair!"

Gray hair, Hershel!!!! I mean, come on!

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