trusthell | Induction.

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!]

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I'm afraid I can't tell you that.

[You're being... very helpful. Really.]

Fine. Just what can you tell us, since apparently there's so much you can't say.

[This is worse than Fury, god.]

[maybe his title should have been "helpful"]

That's a bit vague. If you have specific questions, I can try to answer those. What else do you want to ask?

["""""""""helpful"""""""""]

What exactly is this Vault? Did you build it, or is this refurbished specifically for us?

[ONE STEP AT A TIME, BANNER, YOU CAN DO THIS.]

That's an interesting question. Why do you want to know?

It just seems like a lot of effort, if your intention is indeed to save us from whatever apparently destroyed our worlds.

[This place seems very... specifically designed, after all.]

Perhaps it was, perhaps it wasn't. That isn't really important.

[Welp, there goes his plan to try and discreetly find out more about this place or world or whatever.]

Is there any way to access the elevator?

Not right now. Maybe you'll find out later.

[You know what, he's going to jump back to his earlier line of question.]

This place doesn't feel new, but some of the facilities in here seem to be. I'm assuming this was an old building that was refurbished, which meant you wanted us to be here if you've went to the extent.

[Notably, there's just the right amount of rooms for everyone who's here right now.]

That's an interesting theory. But as I said, it's not important.

Considering you're not willing to give us anything right now, I think its pretty important.

You can keep asking about the building if you'd like, but it really isn't important. I don't have anything to tell you about it.

[Ugh.]

I'm assuming the selection of books in the library is what's usually common in this world?

...I'm not sure what you're trying to get at with this line of questioning, Temperamental.

Bruce, please. [Can we not with the titles.] And they're not quite the selection of books I'm used to back where I come from, so I was just wondering.

I hope your curiosity has been satisfied. If not, perhaps we could save this for later.

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amygdalae - 2016-02-29 00:31 (UTC) - Expand

Ain't that convenient? There's exactly 27 rooms.

It's an oddly specific number.

[If there were maybe 30 - heck, even 28 rooms - he could wave it off, but this is far too specific to be natural.]

[He tries to gesture that they should speak in private, but it's sort of a vague motion with his hands and head, so]

Too specific to be a coincidence.

It's something to think about.

[He gets you, good sir. Have a nod.

Bruce is more than willing to talk about this later.]

Yeah. It certainly is.

Exactly 27 rooms and exactly 27 people. These rules, the profiles with specific information about us. The fact that they claim our worlds have been destroyed... I agree. It's not a coincidence.

We can mull over it later.

[aka get together and discuss this shit because boy does Bruce want answers himself.]

After we've had time to gather information, if there is any way to.

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