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february 2020. welcome to the void.

Who: Everyone in Anchor.
What: Seventh Introductory Mingle
When: The Month of February 2020
Where: Around and outside the city.
Warnings: Please add any warnings in the subject lines.

Redshift: Welcome to the v͖͕̺̲̘̱̜͎o̴̦̣̠̦̘̹͞i̯̖d̛̪̬͈̱̦̝͍̕.

Click here to read what characters will experience when arriving in Anchor.

a. the maze.

The sun is back. Only one this time! It is very very large.
But never mind that! Anchorites have a whole new area to explore. With the sun's return and the power surging through Anchor again, the water in the underground area has drained off, revealing a door that leads down to another level. There's only two doors. One that leads to some kind of observation room, the technology waterlogged and largely destroyed. The other leads to a blank hallway, short, with what looks like an open airlock hatch with a door that can be winched shut with a handle on both the inside and outside, leading into a room beyond.

That room beyond is empty, and the door will remain open until it reads more than one life sign inside the room. Then, it slams the hatch shut and starts to turn, rolling clockwise until what was the roof is now the floor. Then doors open. One straight ahead. One to the left. One to the right. One pointed downward. Even odds whether you walk through into another empty room or walk in and find yourself having a no good very bad day. If you do end up in a blank room, you may be sent in an endless zig-zag of empty spaces that either lead you to the door you came in at long last, or, well. End up ruining your day. Regardless of where you go or how you get there, you're aware that every hour on the hour, the rooms move abruptly forward, backward, up, down, without any rhyme or reason. The place is in motion, reshuffling itself, and the only way back out is through.

There are several types of rooms, scattered seemingly at random among the various rooms you can exit through.

ROOM A


The door opens and lets out a billow of cold air. Not just cold, it's freezing. You could take one of the other doors, but at least this one is different, isn't it? It feels like progress. But when you enter, the way back slams shut, leaving you in the dark and the cold with no one but your fellow trapped soul for company. This room won't open again for at least an hour. If you want to live, you're going to have to get nice and cozy.

ROOM B


This room, like the first, closes once you get inside. Crackling beams of energy flash across the room at seemingly random intervals and angles, blocking the way to any of the exits. Put a foot wrong, and you're liable to end up with a hole through it...or your torso. Watch long enough, however, and you might start to see a pattern in the way the energy travels. It still won't be easy to reach the other doorways, but at least now you have a fighting chance.

ROOM C


This room is a puzzle box. Immediately after you enter, the walls start moving, giant tiles sliding into place over the doors. It lurches, turns, spills you against one wall and the next in a dizzying, bruising circle. When it stops, the doors are hidden behind tiles of different sizes, and the only way to escape is to puzzle out how to move the tiles away from one of the doorways. Be quick about it - the longer it takes, the more layers of tiles creep in to make things harder, layer by layer, until the room starts to get pretty small....

ROOM D


Step inside, and the room lurches, dropping downward, then shifting left, then moving upward again. The doors in this room point in all directions except down. There are colored tiles all over the floor and walls. But that floor and those walls are moving, the tiles shifting in nebulous patterns, like some exterior hand is treating the space like a Rubik's cube.

Careful where you step. It's not an obvious puzzle to crack, but once you step on a tile of one color, you can only step on tiles of that color. Step elsewhere and who knows what will happen. The room could fill with toxic gas. It could start playing ear-splitting screams and the lights could start flashing. Or, one of the tiles could simply explode with a small enough charge to take off the leg that stepped there. The consequences vary, but they're never pleasant, and they never leave their victim unscathed.

ROOM E


There are monsters behind the glass walls. Rather, there is one very familiar looking monster. Ropy, plantlike tentacles weave in and out of one another, forming shapes and intricate designs with their tiny flowerlike mouths. They could almost be pretty, if you hadn't seen them for the first time protruding from Creepy Joe's eye.

Holes punctuate the roof and floor, and through those holes, sensing body heat, the tentacles start to crawl. Hunting for bare skin. Hunting for a host.

There's only one door out of here, and it's across the room from where you came in - and the way back is closed. Crossing the room poses the very real risk of infection from the creatures in the walls, but doing nothing is almost a guarantee of ending up with a nasty parasite.

Good luck.

b. matchmaker, matchmaker.

Those who don't venture down into the newly opened lab will suffer a very different kind of torture. The robo-matchmaker is at it again. Even odds as to whether or not it's malfunctioning or it's just bored because of how few people use the intimacy lounge. Either way, it's setting up dating profiles for residents of anchor and broadcasting them over the network to be seen by all and sundry. They might not be accurate, they might not even make sense, but what the 'bot lacks in prose style it makes up with enthusiasm. It's so enthusiastic, in fact, that it's messaging people on behalf of those too shy to do it themselves. The texts it sends are as off the wall as the profiles it creates, so seriously. Go nuts.

Thankfully, this time it's had the foresight to make a version for anyone underage, but where it draws that distinction can vary wildly, and is up to the player.

Robo-Matchmaker (?̵̢̠̀?̷̠͉͍̝̙̕ͅ?̡̢̡̹̩̖̝̞̪̦̘ͅ)

I͎͇̰̺̼͡ ̝̳̼̻͕̩͚á̷̳͍̫͕͞m̱̱̺͍̳̞̖ ̴̥͇̣͎̺̤̩͕̩͜h͖̕͞͠er͉̟͕͈̳̀ḙ͔̼̠̤ ͓̠̰̗̹̘̣͔t͏̸̤̳̙͍͎̮͕̞͢o҉̨̜͖̠̝͙̜̦̜ ̮̠̝̪̩̤̣m̖̻a̤͙̘̲̫̩̗k̮͓̀͜e̶̠͚͞ ̯̯̘̦͜͠you͈̹̟͔͜͠ͅr͈̮̮̗͖̜̠͠ ̮̗̗̹̘̬̠͢d̴̵̯͖̀r̷͇͍̦̗̯͢eaṃ̘͝͞ş̳̺̭̮͜ ̖͚͚͓͙͇͙͓̜c͖͕̰̞̺̟̫ớ͈̖͇̲̗m̶̞̟̣̘͎̘̲̣̕͢é̠̯͞ ̼t͔͢r͢͏̠̙̜̬͖̞̥̜ư̧͈̫͜e̹̮̮̝͝.̗̠̪̭̫͞

Interests: true love, friends with benefits, e͏͇̫m̲̤̬͟ ͉͍͜ǫ̙̟̳̲͘t̬͓i҉̟̼̣͓̯̜̞̼͜ ҉̛̺̪̣͈͖͖̟̥̺o̴̢͔̙̥̠̟̮̮̪̩n̷̗̜s҉̰̖̯͟͠

Assets: I̤̥̙̺̪̪̱͜ ̢̟k̢̰̫ͅn͕̤̳o̤͚͓͓w̲̬ ͠e̸̞̺̳͔̙ve̝̳̭̣̝͠ͅry͏̝̙̠t̲͚̠hi͕̣̯ng̭͓͕̖͈ ̖̣ą̰͖̲ͅbơ̯̥̹̠̱u͉̯̪͟t̜̞̱ yo̹͙ͅu̢̗.̡̪̥̙̱̘̞ ͕̀:̮̩̯̜̗̘)

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circumspector: (xi » how is it you sing anything)

[personal profile] circumspector 2020-02-22 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
I used to practically be the internet. I just meant so I can look you in the eye ever again.
circumitus: I CAN QUIT ANY FUCKING TIME I WANT. (i'm not drunk YOU'RE drunk)

[personal profile] circumitus 2020-02-22 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
oh that?

dont worry about it ok
was just fucking with you anyway
circumspector: (( beam ) » hoping for more)

[personal profile] circumspector 2020-02-22 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
I really was a security surveillance system.

But honestly nothing is worst than mentally connecting with the internet at age 12. They don't have a safe search filter for that kind of download.
circumitus: ...reminded me of a brown stallion horse with skates on. (that way she moved...)

[personal profile] circumitus 2020-02-22 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
[hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm]

know someone who was in a similar situation
tho he wasnt a surveillance system
that was an AI for something else

but hooking his brain up to the net and viewing surveillance systems?
that was easy for someone like him

hope hes ok right now
circumspector: (xiv » or merely hallowing)

[personal profile] circumspector 2020-02-24 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Privately, she grits her teeth. She takes a breath. She eases herself in and out to take the pain out of that sting that Rey has no idea of, so what is the point of saying it all? ]

It used to be for me too. Until the monster stuff happened. Took away my old powers, and ripped out half my cybernetics when the horns grew in. Nothing has worked quite right since... that happened.
circumitus: if you wanna shoot me while I'm shitting. (shotty by the shower)

cw: suicide.

[personal profile] circumitus 2020-02-24 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Rey had no idea what it was like for Tejinder, either. Though she suspected the burden was heavy if it resulted in him nearly taking his own life more than once. But that's not her story, even if Tejinder isn't around to tell it.]

do you miss it?
if you could go back to having those cybernetics and everything, would you?
circumspector: (( siren ) » do you feel like a young god)

[personal profile] circumspector 2020-02-26 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
No. I'll never miss it. It took everything from me.
circumitus: There's my chippy! (where's my chippy?)

[personal profile] circumitus 2020-02-29 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
so between that and being a flesh-eating monster youd pick the latter?
circumspector: (Default)

[personal profile] circumspector 2020-02-29 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
As a flesh eating monster, I can only hurt one person at a time. Maybe three on the outside.

As a siren? I could do the things you were afraid of, to people's mind on a global scale. With a thought, I nearly killed a whole city, once. When I screamed in pain, people around me had their brains melt inside their skull.

I know which one is less dangerous.
circumitus: Then drank our feelings. I feel feminism delivered. (we ate our feelings)

[personal profile] circumitus 2020-02-29 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
[That sure does put things into perspective, both in Angel's case and some matters in her own world.]

thats a good answer

sorry for bringing this shit up
circumspector: (( siren ) » at least i'll be free)

[personal profile] circumspector 2020-03-05 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It's fine. I promised someone I care about very much, I'd do my best to be honest about things.
circumitus: Legit 2 miles, and purchased 7 half gallons. One for each of us. Intense. (we walked 2 miles)

[personal profile] circumitus 2020-03-10 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
been working on that as well
its hard trying to reinvent yourself in a way
circumspector: (xiv » or merely hallowing)

[personal profile] circumspector 2020-03-11 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
I found it easier to know the things I didn't want to be.