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

[penduli]

[ movies are right, the robot uprising is upon us, etc. ]

Murder isn't exactly what's ordinarily on people's minds. This situation brings it to the forefront with a tempting motive of "you can leave as long as you don't get caught". Personally, I don't know what's outside of this place, and I don't really care, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to find out.

[ratingspoint]

And normally I would be one of them! But I'm not really interested in seeing whatever this world has to offer.

So you can settle down a bit, sweetheart. Take a few deep breaths and don't worry so much! You'll start getting wrinkles at this rate, and I don't have my products to help you.

[penduli]

[ Sweetheart, darling, kitten... does this ever stop. ]

...if you say so. [ He'll try and take the robot's advice. ...his products, though. He has products. ...no no never mind

let's not ask. let's not. ]

Hey, Kingmaker, over here

[sleepingkogoro]

That is correct, but would they risk "taking responsibility"?

[Say, now that he wonders about it...]

Hey! Kingmaker! What does "taking responsibility" mean, exactly?

[kingmakereffect]

Exactly what it sounds like. If you fail to cover your tracks in accordance with rule seven, you'll be punished.

[sleepingkogoro]

Punished...

[Right. Maybe it's the whole being locked in a vault thing and the whole destruction of multiple worlds thing, but that single word, "punished", is enough to show killing somebody can be a death sentence for the culprit too]

You should make that clearer in the rules! If everyone hears killing somebody could lead to their own deaths surely that would deter anybody who may be planning murder already.

[captainobnoxious]

Sooo, eye for an eye kind of thing, or... Just standing in the corner?