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Gable and Shay. Dropping some truths.

GABLE, GWEN, & MARITZA
P4 then Gable's Room — Morning — PG-13 for blood

Maritza is starving. Gwen provides a snack. Gable intervenes. ...

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Day 80.

Weather: It’s a bright and sunny morning, the sun reflecting dazzlingly bright off all snow-covered surfaces. So, you know… everything. Mid-afternoon sees a light fluffy snow begin falling; the snow gets heavier into the evening and doesn’t stop. It’s not a blizzard by any means, but a consistent fall.

Events: If tomorrow is TPTB’s day for Christmas joy disbursement, does that make today Christmas Eve? Twas the day before Christmas and all through the tower, the fuckers did tinker and display their power. Or something like that.

Much like last time there was a dumpster dive, highlight footage of everyone’s attempts plays without prompting on everyone’s computers in the morning. Well, those that still have computers. More on that later.

First, a message is displayed from TPTB. It reads:

“Greetings.

Yesterday, we tested several of your number in a challenge of teamwork. This experiment was very similar to one we did in the early days of the experiment. That time, of the eleven teams tested, the majority won. This time, seven teams were tested, and the majority failed. We find this curious. Though many of you have been here longer, it seems many of you are still resistant to work together properly.

As tomorrow is your first Christmas celebration, we have decided not to punish the entire tower for their failures. The participants will be individually rewarded or punished depending on their own performance. We have also extended the window for gift submissions. All submissions must be in by midnight.

Good day.”

Well fuck you too, pal. Anyway, yes, rewards and punishments have been dolled out appropriately. Or, inappropriately. Whichever one feels right. They are as following: Gwen, Taissa, Eunmi, and Anja have all been rewarded. Calvin, Oliver, Birdie, Morgan, Poe, Winter, Nathan, Marco, Hiroki, and Leya have all been punished.

Gwen, Eunmi, and Anja will all wake up to find company in their rooms. For Gwen, it’s her dog, Benjamin Barker. For Eunmi, her cat, Goguma. For Anja, a cat. In their bathrooms they will find the basic necessities (such as food, and litterboxes and litter for the cats).

Taissa will find her mother’s unpublished cookbook at her computer.

Calvin, Poe, Winter, and Leya will all find their beds and bedding have been removed. What's more, any time they enter the room of another individual the bed and bedding disappears.

Oliver will find a large folder full of newspaper coverage about his parents.

Morgan will randomly experience his father's old curses 'reawakening' at various points through-out the day.

Nathan will find all of his marijuana has been removed, including all seeds.

Marco will find the amount of cameras in his suite have quadrupled, and they cannot be removed. In addition, wherever he goes he may see brief glimpses of a camera sprouting octopus-like tendrils. At a second glance they will disappear.

Hiroki and Birdie have been locked out of their rooms. They will wake up in the hallway directly outside, and their doors cannot be opened by anyone in the tower.

Finally, a smiling new face has been added to the tower! Maritza has been added to a room. Funnily enough, she does not have the ‘typical’ experience for those just arriving. She is wearing whatever she was last, and her door is unlocked. She need not bother with the network to be free. How nice of them!


NOTE: Gift submissions are still open for all characters! Submissions go HERE.

i forgot to post a placeholder like a dipshit, but for Eunmi and Maya's dumpster dive

Who: Nathan Johnson & Marco
What: Oh, God, it's the pit
When: Morning
Where: Room of Doom

( Easy now, we're in some room. I'm...what's on your face? )

Who: Hiroki and Leya
What: Garbage diving, now with added water
When: Morning
Where: A miserable room

( The cold was the first thing that breached Hiroki's awareness. )

Day 79.

Weather: No significant changes. Light flurries off and on, and wet, slippery streets. No cars means minimal slush, but what little there is ices over fast.

Events: It’s a relatively quiet night in the tower, but come morning a handful of people will be waking up in different places.

Fourteen subjects have been grouped into pairs, and are going to wake up in a strange room. Only a few of them have seen this room, or something similar, before; for most of them, it is a new experience.

But not everyone can see the room. One member of each team has a device locked on their head rendering them completely blind, and it will not come off.

Each pair is in an identical room. The groups awaken on a raised platform in a space that looks kind of like a warehouse. There are brick walls, concrete floors, and no windows. On the south wall are elevator doors that will not open. On the west and east sides of the platform are iron curved staircases leading about 4 feet down to the lower level. On the northernmost side of the platform is an iron railing. On the lower level are four densely packed and cluttered shelves.

Yes, we've seen this room in action before - but not like this. The lower level has been flooded.


In every team of two players, one individual is wearing a sleek metallic device that completely blinds them. If they feel along it, there is a keyhole on the back. The blinded participant is handcuffed to the railing on the platform. The seeing participant is shackled to a metal ring in an odd metal tile with three keyholes on the floor of the platform. The chain of the shackle has enough slack for the seeing participant to move around the platform, but they can’t quite reach the stairs on either side. Neither the blinding device, the handcuff, or shackle can be forcibly removed or broken by any means available to the participants. The participants are wearing whatever they were last wearing. If an individual went to bed naked, they are wearing a hospital gown. However, neither participant has shoes. Psychic powers do not work in the room, and neither participant is capable of shifting in this room, or performing any magic. Vampire powers of levitation and wall-crawling do not work.

They’ll begin to come awake at around 9AM or so (not that they have any clue what the hell time it is). For a few long minutes, absolutely nothing happens, and no explanation is offered. Eventually, they will hear a voice. It’s a bit robotic, playing from an unseen speaker. It says:

“Hidden on the shelves below you are three keys. One of you, the seeker, must find all three to release yourselves and leave this room. The seeker must rely on the directions of the seer. If you can find all three keys and free yourselves in an hour, you have a chance at being rewarded. If not, you may be punished. Each key is in a small ball that will occasionally omit a red light. Good luck. Time starts now.”

After the message plays, the handcuff falls off of the seeker, and they are free to head downstairs and go looking.

Only, it’s kind of hazardous down there. Some of the participants who have been around long enough may sort of recognize this space. This fun little bonding exercise was forced on another group of poor souls in the early days of the experiment, and those who weren’t chosen still got to watch a sort of ‘highlight reel’ that had definite sport bloopers vibes. However, there have been some significant changes to the playing field.

The shelves are still stuffed with objects of all sorts, but this time the lower level is flooded. The temperature in the room is quite chilly, and the water? Absolutely freezing. The water level is about four and a half feet high, and some of the shelves and objects within are submerged. Some of the shelves are also frozen over in blocks of ice. Hanging on the north wall between the middle shelves are a few tools - hammers and icepicks, and the like. Some shelves might require some physical force to break the ice and explore what’s hidden beneath.

The floors are still in no way clear. There are a lot of hazards, either floating in the water or resting sunken on the floor. Broken furniture (Titanic vibes, anyone), antique rollerskates, putrid smelling slimes, a great many plants. Seaweed? Why on earth is there seaweed in this warehouse?

The shelves - I mean, the parts not frozen over in a block of ice - still have a lot of objects meant to hurt or shock the seeker. The cacti are still there and thriving, and there’s a lot of wet, flimsy boxes that will happily collapse if someone even looks at them a little too hard. There are a few large, heavy coolers. There are light boxes with odd trinkets and glitter. There are a lot of precariously placed vases on the shelves that could absolutely shatter on the ground with very little provocation. There are weird textures. Some boxes are sticky. Some are moldy. There is, frankly, far too many taxidermied animals in this space for anyone to be comfortable. And it’s all freezing fucking cold.

So who are the pairs? They are:

Gwen (seer) and Taissa (blind seeker)
Calvin (seer) and Oliver (blind seeker)
Birdie (seer) and Morgan (blind seeker)
Poe (seer) and Winter (blind seeker)
Eunmi (seer) and Anja (blind seeker)
Nathan (seer) and Marco (blind seeker)
Hiroki (seer) and Leya (blind seeker)

If someone finds all three keys and unlocks the panel in the platform, inside is a box containing the keys to the seeker’s blinding device and the seer’s shackle. The elevator doors will then open. If someone does not find all of their keys… well, they will still be free at the end of the hour. Their binds will fall off and the elevator doors will open. But ominously.

The elevators will take them to the ground floor lobby of the tower, revealing they were in an underground room.

NOTE: Gift submissions are still open for all subjects! Submissions go HERE.

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Ori and Ford, Ori's room, morning

Birdie and Sabina, in Birdie's room, late morning.

Day 78.

Weather: Light flurries off and on, but it’s a soft, wet snow - nothing that will lead to additional accumulation.

Events: At some point in the night, Oriana and Taissa are added to the tower, back in their own rooms. Welcome home, ladies. I’m sure you’ll have plenty of interesting stories to tell.

At 8 AM, everyone receives a message from TPTB. Unlike other messages received in the past, this one will remain in an individual’s inbox after being read, and can be ‘replied’ to later on. It reads:

“Greetings.

We have decided to aid in your holiday festivities. For the next two days, we will be accepting gift orders. You may order gifts for your companions - or not, if you would prefer to opt out. Gifts will be delivered in four days.

We do have some guidelines regarding what are and are not acceptable orders.

You may not give multiple gifts to one single person. You may only choose one gift per recipient.

You may not order intangible requests, such as enchantments or contact with the outside world. We will not accept orders for bespelled items.

You may not order people.

You must be specific in your orders. You cannot simply tell us ‘give this person something nice.’ Nice is very much up to interpretation, and likely not something anyone would thank you for on Christmas morning. You cannot submit ‘give this person something they want.’ There are no freebies and IOUs.

You may not order a present for yourself.

You may choose whether or not to be listed as a gift’s sender, or remain anonymous. If you do not specify a preference, we will list you as the gift giver.

As always, we reserve the right to reject requests if it is felt they are trying to cheat the system.

Happy Holidays.”

Orders for gifts may be submitted to this entry. Comments are screened, and submissions are opened for two weeks.

Day 77.

Weather: Though there's still the occasional cutting gust of wind, that's mostly died down. Skies are clearing up, and there's a fair bit of sun in the afternoon. I mean, it's still cold as balls out there, but it's brightly so.

Events: At some point in the morning, everyone will regain their eyesight. When, exactly, is a little different for everyone - and it's not even necessarily in the morning. It's sometime after waking up, and completely and immediately at random. It's meant to be jarring, and it is - though perhaps not unwelcome. As for those handy dandy network transcribers? They disappear soon after. Much in the same way they appeared, people just realize they're not there anymore.

Beyond that? All is quiet.

Who: Gwen & Ford
When: Afternoon-ish
Where: Ford's room

( Have yourself a merry little blindness )

Day 76.

Weather: No changes.

Events: If anyone was expecting to wake up this morning with their vision magically restored… guess again.

Those that were blind yesterday, are blind today. And with absolutely no light sensitivity, some internal clocks may be a bit out of whack.

A lot of things are out of whack, actually. Blind participants may find their closets and dresser drawers have been reorganized. Articles of clothing that don’t even belong to them may show up, because - ha freaking ha - how are they gonna know? Furniture in public rooms may be moved in the path of common walk ways at random times through-out the course of the day.

Personally, my favorite part of the day is the message sent out by TPTB first thing in the morning. It says:

“As some of you realize, not everyone was blinded in yesterday’s experiment. We selected seven individuals to retain their sight. Some of them have chosen to keep this information private.

We have opted not to reveal their identities at this time.”

Lovely.