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

[uro_cyon]

[ After listening to all of the talk thus far:]

Hell of a game you're running here.

[kingmakereffect]

Do you have a question, Adept?

[uro_cyon]

[ Well if they're just going to get to it then--]

The phones. What's the point in them when there's no signal here?

[kingmakereffect]

You can use those to get in contact with me.

[amygdalae]

How do we do that?

[PHONES, YES. Bruce wants to know as well.]

[kingmakereffect]

It will connect to me automatically. You can call me or text me, if you'd like.

[amygdalae]

Only you? Nobody else?

[Since there's no dialpad or anything.]

[kingmakereffect]

No one else.

[uro_cyon]

You didn't need to give me a new one, I would have answered you on my old one. [ He knows very well why his original phone was taken away, though. But he's still talking to see if he can get any other information-- if there was a connection even if it was one way, there's got to be a network of some sort even if it was an intranet.

Or so he thinks, anyway.]

[kingmakereffect]

I'm sure you would have, but this is what you have now.

[uro_cyon]

How kind of you.

There is only one of you, right?

[captainobnoxious]

Oh, it's a phone? I thought it was a weapon.

[She might've tossed it a few times at a wall to see its capabilities.]

It's tough as rocks. I think it even chipped off some of the wall here.

[penduli]

[ SIGRUN.................. ]

[amygdalae]

[SIGRUN.........................]

[prismbloom]

[ you tried ]

[bloodisthicker]

...

I thought it might be some sort of incendiary booby-trap, myself...

[captainobnoxious]

Right? It's obviously multipurposeful! Who cares about calling or whatever, let's just toss it at the wall until it cracks!

[bloodisthicker]

...

The wall or the phone?

[isafraid]

Right. The thing's tough as nails, if I didn't know better it could probably deal a nasty blow to someone!

[captainobnoxious]

And I bet it will, fluff head. I bet it will be.

[isafraid]

[Fluff head....]

Hold on, that's not an offer to use it that way!

[wokeupdead]

[Lynne left her own phone in her room but-]

We had something like that around? Why do we need portable phones when phone booths work fine?

[bloodisthicker]

...I suppose I can see the logic behind it, even if it's definitely something I'm very unfamiliar with. It'd be nice to have a phone all the time in case something important happens...

[some people have lives, tarrlok.]

[wokeupdead]

I guess but what's the point when it can only call that jerk? No thank you.

[She's still annoyed at the Kingmaker, thanks.]

[bloodisthicker]

Well, I'm thinking in contexts that aren't only calling him, not... this. I have absolutely no intention of acknowledging him directly whatsoever.