Event: Consolidation Theory, Part Six

[snowblindmods]

Characters: the marked, the unmarked, and their rescuers
Location: ???
Date: Morning 356
Summary: Time to get out of here.
Warnings: gore, psychological horror, warn for specifics in the subject lines

Part Six OOC Post

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[termineur]

[ Gabriel hides the concern, but the relief on his face after Stephen opens his eyes is clear. He lets out a huffy laugh. ]

It sure is. Just like the rest of town, unfortunately.

You see the one big room now?

[ It's important to check, right? ]

[thewarningafter]

Yeah.

[Stephen doesn't quite let go, one hand still on Gabriel's shoulder, but he turns to look behind him at the cell from which he just came. Nothing there, of course, just an indistinguishable patch of the expanse of open floor.]

That was a hell of an illusion.

[termineur]

[ The relief coalesces into a smile. He'll keep an arm around Stephen's back- this is definitely one of those circumstances where physical contact is a must. He doesn't want Stephen to feel like he's going to disappear. ]

No kidding. Multiple layers, and it was in there deep. I knew Robert Miller was going to be a problem, but if he can whip up something like that--

[ His eyes flash dangerously as he imagines what he'll do if he manages to find Miller. But they can leave that for later. ]

Come on, let's get the hell out of here.

[thewarningafter]

[Stephen doesn't set out to argue; he's ready to move, to get out of here, back to the surface--but as he gazes around at their filthy surroundings, a question occurs to him.]

How many of the places we've been taken have just been this same room?

[termineur]

[ Gabriel snorts, hearing that question. ]

Could be almost all of them. We'd have no idea.

[thewarningafter]

We wouldn't. That room under the coffin--we assumed the underground all looked like that, but what if it's all just this?

[termineur]

I wouldn't be surprised, actually. The metal those rooms were made of- the way the structures made no sense, and sometimes the walls were seamless? I remember Andromeda- or Winter- saying that that was the rooms they had when they were initially started up. Like training rooms, right? I'm betting very little of it was real.

[thewarningafter]

It can't have been real.

[That's...kind of a relief, in a way. He'd always known those spaces were physically impossible, but seeing this kind of confirmation that they simply can't have been put through every iteration of hell he remembers.....]

How did you get down here? Where do we get out?

[termineur]

We go through those doors-

[ He points at the only set in the whole room. ]

And then we end up in a sort of maze area again, and we'll probably have to hide from some static-ey figures. I'm guessing that part is the Admin scrambling our senses so we don't find this place again. At some point we'll go up and then we can get back to the normal town.

[thewarningafter]

Oh, is that all.

[Stephen frowns at the doors. Pats his nonexistent pockets.]

You're probably right. We probably won't remember how to reach this place, going by previous patterns.