Day One: Awakening

[14_cun4]

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.]

Comments

Re: Questions for LACUNA

[movesahead]

[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?

[14_cun4]

Initiate Tanz, you have ventured too far from your predetermined path. Please turn back now.

[LACUNA is nice enough to repeat that twice for him specifically while herding the rest of the group to the large blast doors. While exploration isn't deviant, it is a bit strange considering they are all naked at this point in time.

Humans are strange.

At his questions, she notates that he moves closer to the group and is satisfied to answer his question, despite his tone.]

We are in the Cooler. Currently, you are in the cryopod chamber. Should you join the others, I will open the door to the residential area. :)

[movesahead]

[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'?

[14_cun4]

[Don't worry. It's a strong sentiment in her circuits. Illogical beings require constant observation.

Like this one.]

The question is irrelevant. The Cooler is here. We are here. That is all the data that matters.

[movesahead]

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?

[14_cun4]

Full disclosure is irrelevant at this point in time, Initiate Tanz.

[What matters to LACUNA and her programmers would differ wildly to what their subjects would find important. Besides, these questions have vastly different answers even in regards to the people already assembled.

Files are always going to be notated. :)]

The tests will be varying. I am certain that you will think that everything is a test.

[movesahead]

[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.]