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

[cherryblooded]

[Cherryblod is quiet listening to the rest of the survivors shout at the Kingmaker, and to that little bombshell. When he does speak, it's calmly.]

Define 'destroyed' as it applies to our worlds.

[kingmakereffect]

You can't return to your worlds. There's nothing left.

[cherryblooded]

And the people you didn't 'rescue'?

[kingmakereffect]

...You don't really need me to confirm that, do you?

[cherryblooded]

No, I suppose I don't.

I can't believe you, Kingmaker. [It would probably break him.] But on the off chance that you're telling the truth, you made a poor choice of who to bring here.

[kingmakereffect]

It's alright if you can't believe me. The option of escape is still there, should you wish to take it.

[cherryblooded]

Would be happier if there was some way to prove you wrong not involving murder.

[isafraid]

[....Oh. That's right.]

They're bluffing. Nothing to it.

[cherryblooded]

Of course he is.

[But his smile is a lot thinner than normal.]

[isafraid]

Telling someone that right when they're worrying for their family... it's just insane.

[There's tinge of doubt in his voice, but he swallows it.] And there's no way we'll know for sure anyhow.

[cherryblooded]

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

[Whether it's true or not.]

[isafraid]

Sounds about right. [No telling what was more dangerous, someone doing this in a fit of insanity... or on purpose.]

This entire exercise feels more like an experiment to me.

[cherryblooded]

It does. But what exactly would they be proving?

[How quickly people kill each other, maybe.]

[isafraid]

Like ya said. Something tells me 'sanity' isn't playing into it all that much.

[cherryblooded]

...Worrying.

[Cherryblod's not the easily worried type, but this is a different story.]

[isafraid]

That's this whole mess... shrunk right down to a single word. ['why' would probably suffice as well.]

It all stinks worse then a rats breeding ground.

[cherryblooded]

Now, now. That's insulting to rats.

[He's met some... decent rats in his day.]

[isafraid]

[Casual reminder for Speedwagon that he's talking to a lobster person...]

Have to say, I've know a few rats in my lifetime, and they weren't half the trouble this is.

[...He means Humans though. Not actual rats.]

[cherryblooded]

[He knows Speedwagon means humans, but it's funny all the same.]

Exactly. This Kingmaker is in a league of his own.

[isafraid]

In all my years I never seen the like. If I didn't know better, I'd say he's the worst I've heard of so far.

[...It feels oddly right, saying that. But it's not like an average criminal that kidnaps twenty-seven people and sets them off into a little experiment while "saving" them.]

All the more reason to prove his reasoning wrong, I'd say.

[notjustawriter]

What happened to them? What makes you so certain there's "nothing left"?

[kingmakereffect]

Because there isn't anything left. It really is that simple.

[notjustawriter]

And what caused that?

[kingmakereffect]

I don't know.

[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. ]