Induction.

[kingmakereffect]

There's a good amount of confusion, and rightfully so. After all, aside from the rules in purple listed on the wall, there isn't much to explain how you got here or why you're here. Don't worry though. It seems like you won't be left to your own devices for very long. There's a brief moment of static - not loud enough to be particularly grating, but enough to let you know that something's about to happen - before a voice addresses all of you from somewhere unseen. "Hello. I hope you all slept well. I was a bit worried after..." It sounds like it's coming from somewhere above you. There doesn't appear to be anything it's coming from, however. There's a brief pause before the voice resumes speaking. "I'm sure you all have a lot of questions for me. I don't mind answering them. Before you ask anything, I'd like you to examine the rules again. They're posted in every room." The voice is masculine, but there isn't anything to note about it otherwise. "I am the Kingmaker. Welcome to the Vault."

[OOC: You can be heard just fine through the PA system, so feel free to ask any questions your little heart desires; brackets are fine, you don't need to use prose!]

Comments

[kingmakereffect]

I'm not sure how you got flattery out of that, but if you say so.

[penduli]

[ well crap that's... fine, whatever. not like he's got anything else going for him right now! ]

I see. [ ....I SEE.... ] What are our titles for?

[kingmakereffect]

In a manner of speaking.

[penduli]

[ ...UM, SIGRUN. ]

He's a quail, not a turkey.

[kingmakereffect]

That's not important. Do you have a problem with yours?

[ratingspoint]

And I do!

But really, you chose to save me instead of any of the others - that's an interesting choice. Not one I'm going to argue with, but just the same... And I'm not going to waste it, either. You gave me an opportunity, so I'm going to take what's mine.

And who knows? Maybe it'll entertain you in the end. That is what I'm here for.

[paidinblood]

Make the most of this or make our way out. Is that right?

[penduli]

No, I was just wondering what it mean and what I did to deserve it. [ "Enforcing" is the gerund of "enforce" after all, and... lbr, look at this shrimp

he ain't much of an enforcer ]

[cherryblooded]

Something tells me 'sanity' wasn't a high priority for whoever arranged all this.

[Whether it's true or not.]

[captainobnoxious]

I do, and one of them is a bird. I'd eat that thing for dinner. Easily would feed a table.

[Sorry, your highness.]

... I don't have a huge issue with them, they're just not fit to be soldiers. [Not everyone is. She's crossing her arms now, not even wincing at the pain centering on her left forearm.] The pink guy's fine until you hit the tail, but all that aside...

If we're surviving here, what are we surviving for? This "exercise" sounds like the kind of thing we'd do to train against the monsters in the Silent Lands -- single a few out, mark them as targets, and then "kill" them. Though your drill sounds a little more real than that and has the reward of leaving onto whatever sort of barren land's out there. Are we being trained, or are we being played?

[Honestly, as much as she picked on even those odd guys, she's starting to see these people as ones she needs to protect. Seeing as she has the experience and knows she can.]

[captainobnoxious]

They're both birds, who cares?

[neverafters]

... The King is hurt.

[captainobnoxious]

[... It's crying...

Yikes.]

... Er... Don't cry. I mean, it's just true. You are a bird.

[goingdigital]

No! But...

[No he wouldn't rather be dead...but still that meant something he couldn't really handle.

Hikari, Mimi, Takeru, Koushiro, Sora, Yamato, and all their digimon friends were just gone. And none of them deserved that. Especially not his little sister and Agumon.]

But still...!

[The words died in his throat. He couldn't deny that it was impossible that his world had ended, after all it and the Digital World have been threatened with that since he was eleven. And it was worse now because none of the Digidestined could enter the Digital World to protect it. Not to mention Hikari and his friends. And all he could do about it now, was hit a wall impotently and yell at a speaker.]

[penduli]

How would you feel if someone referred to you as something you weren't just because "they're both human"?

[ LIKE DANISH. HOW WOULD YOU FEEL TO BE CALLED DANISH. OR... SWEDISH. FINNISH. ICELANDIC?? something. ]

[devastation]

What?

[Of all the things to hear for reasons why she's been kidnapped, that is definitely not what she had been expecting.]

But... wh--what about everyone else? [Her mother? Her students at the school?] And... why us?

[Of all the people to be saved, why were we the ones saved? Why was she saved instead of someone else?]

[neverafters]

But with species... The King does not mind. The King has shed that old image.

Yes, The King thinks it is okay if he is simply "a royal bird". [ SO WHY WERE YOU CRYING??? ]

[captainobnoxious]

A bird's a bird, and birds are supposed to be eaten.

[if the king dies blame sigrun]

[penduli]

[ ........... well ]

You're not wrong there, I guess. Quails are pretty popular food-wise. [ black no.... ] It looks like we've got anything we'd ever want in the kitchen though, so we probably wouldn't have to eat Consc... er, The King.

[kingmakereffect]

...Well, you're certainly interesting, I'll give you that.

Good luck, Bombastic.

[kingmakereffect]

That's correct.

[captainobnoxious]

[SHE...

DIDN'T HURT THE BIRD'S FEELINGS?]

Yyyeah, sure. Royal bird. At least there's reason to bring you along, little king, and I'm the best soldier around so naturally I got picked up, but you agree that the rest of these guys aren't too special, right?

[The robot maybe. Though it seems it was built for sass and complaints than anything useful.]

[psychoh]

-- Uh, c-could we all just say, very quickly, that none of us are gonna eat each other? [LIKE OF ALL THE CONCERNING THINGS YOU JUST SAID, THAT'S V HIGH ON THE LIST]

[neverafters]

The Kingmaker saw, but did not see everything? The King does not agree with this.

[ AKA he's accusing them of knowing more than they're letting on. ]

[isafraid]

[He tips his hat low, over his eyes until they're obscured. Probably not a good time for those stress tears.]

Strewth, I can't say I've heard that very often.

[...Glances downward.]

Someone will probably clean that up.