The Exam: IC Community

If anyone else comes across a bunch of mushrooms, you should know that they're not so much "edible" as they are "incendiary."

TEAM ELEPHANT

Guys! Something's about to happen! Or it will. Sounds like it depends on us and our ability to figure out whatever this means:

Your journey begins amoung your friends.
Past trees and fire the trail extends.
Don't let them see the path you tread.
Or the ones you love might wind up dead.

I mean, besides the obvious. What's our move?

I'm beginning to feel like I've been kidnapped and imprisoned in a second-rate resort. All we're missing is an activities director encouraging everybody to go to cocktail hour to mingle before poolside hors d'oeuvres and a firelight singalong.

[Emma Frost]

So you're the last woman standing. I can't decide if that's reason to extend congratulations or my sympathies.

When I said that I'd be willing to appear on a reality TV show, I meant like. Guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race. Not inadvertent contestant on Celebrity Survivor: Big Brother House.

Where is this, anyway?

[Kylo Ren]

You've got a mini-mutiny brewing.

I thought you'd like to know.

[BLOCK ONE]

Given the results of last night’s selection process, I suppose I should introduce myself.

My name is Kylo Ren, and I have been selected as the leader of Block One. Unfortunately, it does not appear that the rank came with the ability to change the name of our Block, so we remain the “Angry Idiot Queens of the Dumpster Fire.” I hope you’re all proud of yourselves.

Before I arrived in this place, I was the Supreme Leader of the First Order, a government that rules most of my home galaxy. My predecessor and I grew the Order from a hermit state in the Unknown Regions into the dominant galactic power through a mix of voluntary annexation, alliances, and military victories. Having previously ruled over billions of people, I suspect I’ll do fine with the twenty-five of you.

[Poe Dameron]

I didn't see you after the fight. Or since. Where did you go?

Marx wrote that "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." Simon Sebag Montefiore disagreed. He said that history is never repeated, but "it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to create a hybrid, something unique out of the ingredients of past and present.”

I suppose we won't know who was right until the end.

[Sharon Carter]

In the last experiment, we knew our scientists. We never knew what they wanted, but we knew who they were.

Here, at first, I think perhaps they changed this, because it compromise the integrity of the experiment. Because the mere fact of knowing that you are being observed changes your behavior. But then I think that there are other ways to study someone without them knowing that they are being studied. I think about us, and how we are not who we say we were when we arrived.

Do you suspect that any of our fellow participants are not who they say they are?

Anybody seen Lyra?

[FILTERED TO BLOCK ONE]

Team REDRUM

There, that's my contribution. Are we volunteering to get fed to a pit beast, now that's the fucking question.

I mean I'll probably do it anyway but still.

[FILTERED TO DECLAN LYNCH]

I need to tell you something and you're not gonna fucking like it. I don't even know what it mea I'm at least 70% sure it's not my fault.

Good to know that ghoul of an interior decorator my grandfather once hired kept getting work after we let him go. Color-blocking was a mistake in the seventies and it hasn't improved with age.

Shitty design choices aside, what the fuck?

I'm not sure what sort of statement all of this wretched yellow is meant to make.