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Enclave => Online Roleplaying => Topic started by: Narric on December 21, 2012, 01:24:58 PM

Title: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Narric on December 21, 2012, 01:24:58 PM
You find yourself in a white, markless room, with one door. There is a small crate in the opposite corner. Your try to think of who you are, or should you say, who you were. Everything else is too painful to think about. You hear a noise beyond the walls. Like someone else is waking up. As you stand, you fix memories of who you are into your mind.

You are
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: The Man They Call Jayne on December 21, 2012, 06:07:56 PM
James shook his head, he felt a little groggy. Drugged? By who and for what purpose. He checked himself over and found no injuries of note other than some minor bruising. What the hell had happened? He examined the room, there was nothing but a crate in one corner. His training, honed to the point of instinct kicked in. He examined the walls, the light sources, everything, but everything seemed tamper proof.

Hmmm. Cautiously he approached the crate. Could be explosives. Or a toxin of some kind? No, probably not. If they wanted him dead they would have done that when they took him in the first place. Or they would have just killed him in his home. The crate was throughly examined. If it didnt contain anything that could be used as a weapon, maybe there was a tool that he could use to dismantle it to make a weapon of his own. Or at least use the lid as a makeshift shield. It wouldnt stop a bullet, but it might deflect a baton or knife.

Kneeling carefully behind the crate, he slowly and carefully open the lid, using it as protection. Any trap inside would simply lash out at empty air.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Narric on December 21, 2012, 06:16:42 PM
As the lid began to open, the chest hissed as pressurized air escaped. Despite its wooden exterior, the inside was white, smooth metal. James looked over the lid to the contents. He was surprised to see an old .32 calibre Rifle, and ammunition, alongside a worn military uniform jacket, an aged medal, and a Dictaphone.

Attached to the underside of the lid, was a torn piece of paper with a message...

"You'll need these. Its all I could grab befo....."

Cutting the sentence, the tear raised more questions than it answered. Who had helped him, and why, and what had happened for this mysterious aid to have been rushed?
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: The Man They Call Jayne on December 21, 2012, 06:46:18 PM
Checking the box for any traps that may yet go off, he carefully extracted the jacket. It looked familiar, standard issue by the look of it with plenty of pockets. He put it on and found it to be a good fit, if a little long in the sleeve. The rifle was in good order and the sights seemed to be well aligned. He worked the bolt and found it smooth. Plenty of ammunition aswell, for a man with his skill set at least.

Next the medal. He didnt recognise it right now. But it may have significance when more of his memory returned.

He also decided to take the lid of the crate anyway, bracing himself he wrenched the lid back and forth until the hinges gave out. It was a little unweildy, but the handle on the lid made an able handgrip. He wasnt sure how well it would serve in its roll, but he would rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. It would also be able to serve as a trough to hold rainwater, as the sides of the lid were curved to a depth of about 3 inches.

It would impede his use of the rifle though, trying to hold both at the same time. He was more than capable of resting it on his arm and firing it well enough over short distances however. Anything more than 15 meters away might present a problem. He decided to deal with that when he came to it though. If he dropped the shield and killed the target, he could pick it up again. If he was killed, he wouldnt needed. He took that as good enough logic for now.

Finally he pressed the play button on the dictaphone to see if there was a message for him on it.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Mabbz on December 21, 2012, 09:39:31 PM
Catherine woke up slowly as she realized that she was lying on a hard, cold surface. She was finding it hard to think straight, which was probably a good thing as it stopped her from panicking. Eventually she the facts got through to her brain, and she worked out that she was in a strange place with no idea how she had gotten there. All she had for company was a single crate. With little else to do, she opened it.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Narric on December 21, 2012, 09:47:02 PM
The pressurized crate opened with a hiss. Inside the elongated crate was a strange assortment of items. Before looking to the item,s Catherine looked at the underside of the lid. A sticky note read.

"Don't Panic!"

A little confused by the strange Douglas Adams quote, she returned her attention to the crate's contents. The first item that caught her eye was the .45 calibre Pistol nestled on top. Six magazines filled, with a seventh loaded. She pushed it to the side, and lifted out a pair of gloves, examining the detailed finish of the leather. Under the gloves a strange hand-held device sat. An icon that looked similar to an envelope flashed on the LCD screen. The final item was a Rattan Cane, the seemingly sole reason for the stretched crate.

She sat herself upright, thinking about what to do next.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Ravager Zero on December 22, 2012, 07:09:52 AM
Daniel Teran woke violently, thrashing side to side. His head felt like he had been on a week-long bender. Something seemed wrong, out of place. The room was too small, the light too bright. The fog lifted from his mind, and he found he could remember
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Mabbz on December 22, 2012, 08:47:20 AM
More than a little confused, Catherine gingerly picked up the gun and pocketed it along with all the ammo. She put on the gloves and examined the device. She guessed there was a message on it and tried to figure out how to read it.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Narric on December 22, 2012, 01:15:25 PM
The lid to Daniel's crate opened mechanically and slowly. Hot steam hissed out the rim, seemingly for mysterious effect. As the steam cleared, Daniel looked in.

A red crowbar sat proudly on top of a set of Navy Blue Overalls. Lifting them out and putting the items to one side, revealed a scoped Magnum. Next to it was a mall box, which held fithteen spare bullets, and another six were already chambered. A cardboard tube sat next to the gun. white stoppers on either end. Lastly, a PDA, a birght green message plastered across the screen.

"1: new message waiting"

As Daniel looked over the crates contents again, he saw an envelope sellotaped to the lid. He gently opened the envelope, to find a short message inside.

"Rise up, and smell the ashes
but remember which bridge was your own.
Others feel the same, but all are alone."
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: The Man They Call Jayne on December 22, 2012, 02:52:52 PM
James pent more time examining the room. It contained nothing that appeard to be of any use at all other than the crate and its contents.

There was a single door that blended well with the wall. There didnt seem to be an opening mechanism that he could recognise. He felt his way carefully around the edge, looking for some kind of pressure switch that was hidden from plain sight. He wasn't sure if he was going tobe released, but he damn well wasn't going to wait for it to happen on his captors terms.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Ravager Zero on December 23, 2012, 04:14:33 AM
Daniel had never been great with poetry, but he pocketed the note and the envelope just in case. Next he put on the overalls
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Narric on December 23, 2012, 11:55:44 AM
rolls

James' Door unlocking (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3835395/)
Daniels' Crate dismantaling (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3835392/)

James checked every seem, all around the door. As he scanned up the apparent door frame, reaching the top, he luckily found a small finger sized hole. Pushing his finger in, he tried to pull at the hole. Unfortunately, it wouldn't budge, no matter how hard he tried to pull it.




Daniel looked over every inch of the crate. He realized the obvious that it was a pressurized capsule, so the contents would not have been too greatly affected by time. The PDA would obviously lost battery power, but the rest would've have been preserved.
After carefully examining the crate, he found a small lever on the underside. The entire bottom section became loose from the top, with the side slipping away, still attach the to lid.
A small sphere was connected to a series of tubes, what loked like a heating element, and finally a release valve. The small sphere was see through, and was clearly empty. The entire mechanism seems to have been welded together, save for the release valves.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: LinnScarlett on December 23, 2012, 12:11:19 PM
Vallerie woke with a start from her unpleasant dreams to find herself in a room she had most definitely not fallen asleep in. Her head felt heavy, fuzzy. Where had she been when she'd fallen asleep? How long ago was that? She frowned deeply, a small crease wrinkling her nose. She couldn't remember much of anything, now that she tried. My memory is gone! Closing her eyes she forced herself to stay calm. Vallerie, your name is Vallerie, she thought. She remembered that much. Slowly shards of memories and knowledge came back to her, but they were disjointed and contextless, like pictures from a past that wasn't her own.

Rubbing her head she opened her eyes again and looked at the room around her. It was no use trying to force anything out of her poor brain now, better focus on something more immediately. Like how to get the hell out of here. The empty, featureless room didn't look like anything she could even begin to pretend she might have found her way in by some natural, logical means - not even the holding cell in a mental institution, after all, the walls were not padded. That left only one other option...

It was only then that she noticed the crate in the far corner. Why was that here? She got up and approached it carefully, not sure what to think of it. She got down on her haunches beside it, and opened it at arm's length with the lid towards her. She'd been on the receiving end of too many 'jokes' to ever again open anything facing her.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Ravager Zero on December 23, 2012, 09:40:26 PM
Looking at the release valve, Daniel applied a little elbow grease and engineering know how. Within a minute or two he had the thing free, and placed it in a spare pocket. Along with the revolver he had overlooked earlier. A total of twenty-one rounds was not a lot, but he knew from lots of TV shows that it often only took one bullet to kill someone anyway. Especially the size these bullets appeared to be. Now he really wanted to know what was in the cardboard tube. Plans, a blueprint, posters
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: The Man They Call Jayne on December 23, 2012, 09:56:05 PM
Annoyed at the false hope provided by the fingerhole, James decided to resort to slightly less cerebral measures. Standing opposite the door he placed his rifle and shield on the ground, braced himself and sprinted at the door as hard as he could, before slamming into it with his shoulder and all his weight behind it.

He was not enjoying being locked in here, and maybe if anyone heard the banging and were also trapped, they might be able to call to him, or if it was his captors, they could be encouraged to open the damn cell. The fact that he had been supplied with weapons, seemingly by agents unknown implied that he captors had not been the one providing them, and maybe didnt even know he had it.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Narric on December 24, 2012, 10:58:56 AM
Valleries crate opened silently, and smoothly. Slightly shocked by the lack of prank, she peered inside the omminous crate. Sat atop, was an wide brimmed work hat, similar to what Indiana Jones always wore in the movies. A small reflection underneath implayed metal, and as Vallerie movce the hat to one side, she was stunned to see a perfectly restored Nock Gun. Necessary bags of shot and power, and the tools for reloading were next to it. Then there was a military combat knife. Finally, a large unmarked book sat at the bottom.

Vallerie wasn't quite sure what to do with these items.




The tube opened for Daniel with a delightful *Pop*. peering inside was a plue piece of paper.
"Blueprints?" he questioned aloud. He pulled out and examined the blueprints. Unfortunately, he couldn't understand what the blueprints were for. He cursed the one responsable for taking away his memory. Something on the page caught his eye. His signature, and a Date. He couldn't remember the date from before he was emprisoned, so the date meant nothing to him.




James' shoulder was becoming sore. Breathing heavily he rested on the wall opposite the "Door." Brute force was n'tgoing to open it, and as technical wasn't something he practiced, he had little chance of opening the door himself.

As he stepped back, he kicked the Dictaphone
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: The Man They Call Jayne on December 24, 2012, 01:45:51 PM
He picked up the dictaphone, realising that apparantly he hadnt hit play before. He did so now.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Ravager Zero on December 24, 2012, 07:37:47 PM
Carefully rolling the frustratingly vague blueprints back up and storing them in the tube, Daniel fished the PDA out of his pocket and finally opened the message therein, hoping it would give him some clue as to how to get out of the featureless room he was currently in.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: LinnScarlett on December 25, 2012, 12:16:55 AM
So much for the guys pulling a stunt, Vallerie thought. Who then might have done it? Picking up the fedora Vallerie put it on and tugged it straight with a practised ease. It brought back shards of memories - sand, sun, laughter and the thrill of finding buried artefacts, uncovering ancient knowledge. She had been in the field, to digs, often in the past. But when she tried to remember any such an occassion inparticular, the memory would not come. Cussing under her breath at the lack of mental fortitude she returned her attention to the crate.

She picked up the Nock Gun and admired it for a while, it was almost of museum quality! It looked to be a restored original... could it truly be? She wondered why anyone would have left it here for her, but the bags of shot and powder, necessary tools and the military combat knife left little to the imagination. It was meant to be used. That might just yet ruin it! Although she supposed that, when it came down to it, she'd rather ruin it than be ruined herself. After a moment, she stuck a finger in one of the barrels and felt around. At least its a smoothbore, she thought. 

Lifting the weighty gun she tested its leather sling, which appeared remarkably new. Confident that it would hold she slung it across her shoulder. Now what to do with the utensils? She couldn't just carry them around in her hands and even her trail pants did not have pockets for quite such things. She thought for a moment, and then an idea occured to her. Grief, these were one of my favourite, she thought with a sigh. She sat down on the ground and zipped loose one of the legs of her pants at it's knee-height joint and tugged it off over her boot. She put the cloth on the ground, took the combat knife and tried to cut the cloth along its long end to create an angular piece of cloth. After that, she'd cut loose the elastic in the hem. That way, she could put all the items in the cloth, tie it with the elastic string and have everything packed away. In the left leg of her favourite pants. Lovely.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Narric on January 03, 2013, 01:08:46 PM
As the quartet of captives individually began to read, or listen to their strange final message, they paid close atteniton. Regardlesss of conveyence, the message was such.

Greetings, my prizes.
So sorry I was not there for your awakening.
You will not remember me, for I ahve taken your memories.
We have also never met.

Despite what you think, I am not doing this out of evil.
I am merely running a small....
Experiment, and you happen to be a test subject.
Be ever so kind, and not die, and maybe
my associates and I will let you leave peacefully.

Please do be careful as you leave your "Cells."
I am not sure what will happen once the test has started.
Inside your crates, you will find items the belong to you.
This is to give you a choice.
Do you return to your old life?
Or will you embrace a new one?

One final note.
Don't do anything stupid, especially
when big red buttons are involved.

Simultaneously to the end of the message, each door unlocked and slide upwards, revealing a corridor lined with doors. Each door is staggered, so occupants in opposite cells cannot see eachother through the open doors. At the end is a Blast door, with a control panel to its left.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: The Man They Call Jayne on January 03, 2013, 09:56:25 PM
As the door slid open James brought the rifle up to his shoulder with practiced fluidity. He crept out of the door cautiously and took shelter in the nearest alcove. It allowed him a good veiw of what was around him without being too easy to spot.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Mabbz on January 03, 2013, 10:09:39 PM
OoC
I assume we're all in the same corridor, and not just identical corridors.

Grabbing the cane, Catherine moved to the door and peered cautiously into the corridor. "Hello?"  she called nervously. "Anyone there?"
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Ravager Zero on January 03, 2013, 10:25:09 PM
Daniel stood with his back against the doorjamb, having watched enough cop shows and horror movies to know that walking straight out the door was never a good idea. He thought he heard a voice. A woman's voice. No harm in answering, right? he thought to himself.

"Hello. Who's out there?"
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Mabbz on January 03, 2013, 10:36:24 PM
Relief flooded through Catherine at the sound of another voice, followed immediately by suspicion. What if the man was responsible for her imprisonment? Pulling out the pistol, she spun into the corridor, pointing the gun with shaking hands in the direction the voice had come from.

"Who are you?" she asked in what she hoped was a strong voice. "Why should I trust you?"

She was blissfully unaware of the fact that the safety catch was on. Guns were not her specialty.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: LinnScarlett on January 04, 2013, 12:59:09 AM
Vallerie look up as she packed away the things she had been given, having heard voices. One somewhere to her left, the other, somewhere to her right. Hoisting the gun and improvised bag over her shoulder she took out the knife and crept towards the door. She was not about to give herself away until she knew more about the owners of these voices. For all she knew, they were responsible for this... whatever the hell this was!
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: The Man They Call Jayne on January 04, 2013, 02:23:31 AM
James counted 3 distinct voices. He couldnt see anyone directly though, so determining lines of fire was impossible. The voices echoed around the corridor.

He had been armed. It was reasonable to assume that others had been too. Diffusing the tension was essential.

"My name is James!" He called out into the corridor. "I am a former soldier who was apparently taken and brought here against my will. I have just been released from a cell in this passage. I do not know who brought me here or why, but I have no desire to injure or attack anyone who is in the same situation. Can you indentify yourselves?"
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Ravager Zero on January 04, 2013, 04:11:34 AM
Daniel heard an authoritative voice from down the corridor, stating that it belonged to a soldier, taken against his will.

"My name is Daniel. I used to be a field engineer, fixing things. I think was at some weird bar last night
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: The Man They Call Jayne on January 04, 2013, 09:46:48 AM
"I. . .I don't know. I don't remember much. I'm not injured though."

Cautiously, James stepped out from behind the wall, his rifle not in a firing position, but held in such away that made it clear it could be raised very quickly.

"So. . .we need to get out of here. Who else do we have and what skills can we bring to the task?"
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Mabbz on January 04, 2013, 10:05:14 AM
"I'm Catherine. I seem to be in the same situation as you; no injuries and no memories." She lowered her gun and glanced sheepishly at James. "I'm not sure what use I'll be. I'm a primary school teacher."
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: The Man They Call Jayne on January 04, 2013, 10:38:42 AM
"Everyone can serve a function. Nobody is useless. It may well be that we have been selected because of the skills we possess."
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: LinnScarlett on January 09, 2013, 09:23:34 AM
Vallerie observed the others for a moment, but then gathered together her courage and appeared from hiding, walking up to them.
"My name is Vallerie. I am an archaeologist, and up until 5 minutes ago I was blissfully certain the guys at work had pulled some stunt on me. I have barely any memories prior to waking up here."
She looked them over each in turn.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Mabbz on January 14, 2013, 10:09:58 AM
Catherine wandered over to the blast door at the end of the corridor. It was the only way they could go if they were going to escape, so she started trying to open it.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Narric on January 14, 2013, 12:11:18 PM
As Catherine searched over the walls near the blast door, a small square receded. Next to it, a large panel slip in and up, revealing a control panel. It was simply a screen and two buttons, marked "Open" and "Close." Only the Open button was lit, obviously because the blast door was closed. Catherine stepped away from the control panel, thinking about what to do next.
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Mabbz on January 14, 2013, 01:11:26 PM
Catherine turned around, figuring it'd be a good idea to get everyone ready before opening the door. There were, after all, people here that were far more qualified to deal with whatever threat might be lurking beyond.

"We should probably get going. Are you all ready?"
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: The Man They Call Jayne on January 14, 2013, 01:33:57 PM
James moved up towards the door. "Well, it is our only way out it seems, we have little choice. Might I suggest that anyone with a fire arm take up a position to provide covering fire and that somebody presses the button and gets out of the way fast, just in case?"
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: LinnScarlett on January 18, 2013, 11:18:09 AM
Vallerie moved after them, cautiously observing the blast door and the opening panel. "A good idea," She agreed with James. "This is too easy."
Title: Re: Endless Chambers - Roleplay Thread
Post by: Mabbz on February 16, 2013, 11:58:24 PM
Once everyone was in place, Catherine pushed the button, taking care to stay out of the line of fire.