14_cun4: (Default)
14-🄲🅄🄽4 | Designation: Lacuna ([personal profile] 14_cun4) wrote in [community profile] thecooler2018-09-01 01:38 pm

Day One: Awakening

Who: EVERYONE!
What: Awaking up and Orientation to the Cooler
When: Day 1 (September 1st & 2nd)
Where: The Cryopod hall and Residential Area
Warnings: Mostly nudity and language, please label individual threads if need be

Arrival:

Your last memories are a haze as consciousness drifts back into your mind. You awaken on something hard, but lined, an uncomfortably upholstered bed of some kind, and a hiss of escaped air accompanies a door before you opening and raising slowly upward and out of the field of your slowly focusing vision. The entire surface on which you’re reclined rocks forward and places you on solid ground on shaky limbs and the chill of your surroundings sends gooseflesh swelling across every inch of your entirely bare form.

Naked, confused, and disoriented as you try to assess the situation (like the echoing click so loud in the otherwise silent chamber), a spotlight glares to life before you, washing out your vision momentarily. You’re vaguely aware of others, other cries or gasps of shock, other shafts of light directed at other strange bed chambers much like the one in which you so recently awoke.

Before you’re able to shrug off the initial disorientation, a disembodied female voice chimes through the darkness.Despite its slightly cheery tone, something may seem a bit...off about it, but that may just be nerves…

Residential Area:

When the blast doors open, you can see into an area that resembles…. A rundown college dormitory, complete with kitchen and living areas? Well, thankfully, it’s coed, or the boys would just have to sleep in their pods, right? There are many rooms in a corridor, with names flashing on the displays near the door. Maybe you should try and find your own? How far this corridor goes is hard to tell, as everyone’s rooms seem to be near the top of the hall.

However, should you decide to go further down, there’s no lighting and the temperature will drop steadily. Maybe LACUNA doesn’t want you to go down there.

In the kitchen areas, there appear to be other blast doors that might be able to open, but there’s no indication that they have in a very long time. Where they open out to is impossible to see, since windows seem to have been conveniently forgotten.

[OOC : For more information about what to do and see, click here. Please feel free to make your own top-levels or continue action threads from the test drive here. Or start new ones! Whatever your heart desires is pretty much up for grabs here. Just know that LACUNA is watching and listening to everything you do and say.]
hadthehighground: (Disbelief)

[personal profile] hadthehighground 2018-09-01 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
This whole ordeal is startling to say the least.

Obi-Wan’s senses were foggy as he stepped out of the pod, but he stumbled towards the light anyway. His arms wrapped around himself in attempt to fight off the chill since he literally had nothing else. He could tell there were others around him, but didn’t pay much attention at first.

The strange voice prompting questions was what got him to perk up.

“Aside from the obvious, where are we and why are we here, I would also like to know if you intend to keep us unclothed like this?”

Some clothes would be very much appreciated! Unless this so called LACUNA is truly the deviant here.
hadthehighground: (Bad feeling about this)

[personal profile] hadthehighground 2018-09-01 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Well at least they will have clothing available to them, but Obi-Wan can’t say he’s completely satisfied with the answer.

“I don’t recall agreeing to anything, let alone this.”

He gestures to their surroundings.

“Though it seems your answer was partly cut out. Is there someone controlling you? Why hide it if we supposedly agreed to this?”
hadthehighground: (serious)

[personal profile] hadthehighground 2018-09-01 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
“Then show me this file.”

If you’re hiding nothing then prove it!
hadthehighground: (you don't say)

[personal profile] hadthehighground 2018-09-01 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
“Then I can only assume you are lying and holding ya here against our will.”

She is met with sass.

“When will I be allowed to leave?”

He has important things to do after all.
hadthehighground: (Tolerating)

[personal profile] hadthehighground 2018-09-01 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
“And if I don’t cooperate?”

Because he has a feeling that will be important.

(no subject)

[personal profile] hadthehighground - 2018-09-02 02:27 (UTC) - Expand
movesahead: (3d4e037ff9013a4bd3049b3d2d0ac258)

Re: Questions for LACUNA

[personal profile] movesahead 2018-09-02 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Darius, of course, had not followed like a good little sheep. He'd lingered and poked at the edges of the dark, peering in to see what he could (which, sadly, had been nothing). Eventually, he made his way far enough to hear LACUNA's next comment.

So she had been programmed to answer questions. Answers that were dictated by her programmer's whims in regards to her programming. Which mean probably nothing useful. It was partially a psychological experiment after all. At least that's what he was surmising from the tactics that had already been manifesting.]


Alright LACUNA, where are we?
movesahead: (CBS_SALVATION_103_IMAGE_NO_)

[personal profile] movesahead 2018-09-03 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[If she had expressed that sentiment out loud, Darius would have fully agreed with her. Not that he could really say much about that subject himself. He was, after all, wandering around completely naked and worrying far more about the facility than the fact that he was naked and cold.]

And where is 'The Cooler'?
movesahead: (tumblr_p8ofvpw3yR1sx7idgo3_)

[personal profile] movesahead 2018-09-03 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I see your programmers weren't fans of full disclosure.

[It's expected. After all, even these questions were probably a form of test. Let's see who asks what questions to find out who's going to be a problem.

Darius certainly plans to be an inquisitive problem.]


What are we being tested for, and what sort of tests should we be expecting?
movesahead: (tumblr_pc1mmb3LjG1t075z7o7_)

[personal profile] movesahead 2018-09-03 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Note away LACUNA, he'll be making notes of his own.]

Ah, but will everything be a test?

[He's pretty sure he knows what she's going to say.]
floweroftheslums: (Default)

[personal profile] floweroftheslums 2018-09-03 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Being bossed around by a machine is new and she isn't really pleased about it, considering the alternative wasn't so bad, if she's honest.]

I know you've already answered why we're here and where we are, but can you please answer what you mean when our needs will be met? I doubt that all of us have the same needs.
Edited 2018-09-03 19:27 (UTC)
floweroftheslums: (Default)

[personal profile] floweroftheslums 2018-10-01 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[That is so vague as to not be an answer at all.]

Well, what about our emotional needs? Physical and mental needs are all well and good, but if you ignore our emotional desires and needs, then you risk a lot of trouble.
whereishe: (oh no)

[personal profile] whereishe 2018-09-04 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
[She's listened to the other's questions and the accompanying answers but there is still something that worries her.]

LACUNA. [Her voice betrays her uncertainty.] How did we get here?

[She doesn't remember and while she doesn't doubt that she might have signed something putting her here... for some reason or another, Yuna wonders what it's truly for. Tests or so she's over heard but for what reason.

What is the end goal of all of this?

Question after question buzzes through Yuna's head as uncertainty slips like ice into her stomach.]
overstepping: (11 - B0v0q0Q)

[personal profile] overstepping 2018-09-05 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Grace is a lady of a certain privilege, and more than that, she's a woman who is quite used to being in a position of power. Especially after what she's been dealing with for the last few months. So, she's going to pull that card, even if she is naked as the day she was born and freezing besides. Her voice is authoritative and she is used to having it listened to by powerful people. Grace Barrows is officially going white, suburban mom asking for a manager on this AI and she doesn't give a damn about it. "I demand to speak to whoever is in charge of this experiment and be provided proof of my agreeing to be here when there's so much going on back home. I would never leave my daughter and my planet." Not even with the threat of nukes in the air above the sealed bunker she had been shut in.
Edited 2018-09-05 02:28 (UTC)
overstepping: (20 - 1l2BvsE)

[personal profile] overstepping 2018-09-26 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Are you kidding me?!

There, LACUNA, was that enough of a question for you?