<Optimal> Strange grinding noises can be heard as the intercom crackles to life. A voice reveals itself on the intercom, but the voice is in no way familiar. «All available personnel. Please report to the broom closet in the commons ASAP.»
<Vivax> Wambles ignores this in service of no plot whatsoever.
<gumbal1> Danielle enters the commons, knuckles red.
<Daedalus> Hermann looks up at the commons and blinks, "Seriously?"
<TesKin> Branko walks into the commons. "What was that announcment about?"
<TeslaTornado> … Commons. He leans out of his wheelchair and inspects the room. "We have a broom closet?"
<Optimal> Doug looks up. "Nope I'm busy."
<gumbal1> "Broom closet. Probably another Audio Demon."
<Daedalus> Hermann glances around the commons, "I wasn't aware we had a closet."
<TeslaTornado> "Another what…?"
<Optimal> «I repeat. Everyone report to the commons broom closet.»
<TesKin> "Audio Demon?"
<gumbal1> Danielel checks to see if the commons has a broom closet.
<TeslaTornado> 4df+5 Ol' Eagle Eyes checks the room for a broom closet.
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<gumbal1> "Oui. One of them once possessed our radio."
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<TesKin> "Sounds… Intresting."
<gumbal1> "It was mostly annoying."
<Optimal> The commons does indeed have a broom closet Danielle.
<Optimal> Right next to the door.
<gumbal1> Danielle looks inside.
<Optimal> The broom closet is rather small. Probably about… 4 feet long, 4 feet wide, and about 7 feet tall. There is no light switch. Just a mop, a broom and a bucket of water.
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<gumbal1> "Pah, nothing. Must be another Audio Demon."
<TeslaTornado> Gavran wheels over to the broom closet and peeeeeeps in as well. "It would seem that we have a broom closet…"
<Optimal> «Everyone please step inside the broom closet and close the door.»
<gumbal1> Danielle turns on the radio and eyes it.
<TesKin> "Should someone actually go in and look?"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran looks at Branko. "I'm not going in there."
<Daedalus> Hermann sighs, "You idiots are seriously considering entering the broom closet?"
<TeslaTornado> "The last time someone told me to Step Into A Room, a man's skull was obliterated."
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<TeslaTornado> "I am not that fucking incompetent, thank you very much."
<TesKin> "I don't think we can all fit?"
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<gumbal1> Danielle, not ffinding the radio interesting, steps in.
<Nemi> Lis peers in from the commons door, stares, and … quietly edges out of sight.
<Optimal> (TesKin, what's your guy's name?)
<TeslaTornado> Gavran doesn't move a muscle. He even turns on the brakes on his wheelchair.
<TeslaTornado> (Branko is his character's name)
<TeslaTornado> (Branko Silvinski)
<TesKin> Branko shuffles, unsure if he should enter the closet as well.
<Optimal> As soon as Branko doubts the size of the room, the back wall of the closet pushes backward, creating more room.
<Daedalus> Hermann stands next to Gavran and peers into the closet.
<TeslaTornado> "WH—" Gavran flails and succeeds in inverting his wheelchair.
<gumbal1> Danielel steps into the closet. "Odd."
<TesKin> "Are you alright?" Branko asks, looking at Gavran.
<Optimal> «Are all available personnel inside the closet?»
<Daedalus> Hermann sighs and puts Gavran right side up.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran just /stares/ at Branko, and then gestures towards his useless noodle-legs.
<TeslaTornado> He thanks Hermann for righting him, then gestures towards the closet. "Agent… Whoever-that-is… Probably should not go unaccompanied."
<TesKin> Branko looks around and walks into the closet.
<ihp> Susan is in her office, writing up a psych report on Fran.
<TeslaTornado> Somewhere in the world, there is the sound of harsh, mocking laughter.
<ihp> Somewhere in the world, Kevin gets more LSD put into his water bottle.
<gumbal1> Somewhere in the world, Danielle slumps over, tired of just punching the punching bag
<TeslaTornado> Kevin trips quietly in his office.
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<Optimal> Strange grinding noises can be heard as the intercom crackles to life. A voice reveals itself on the intercom, but the voice is in no way familiar. «All available personnel. Please report to the broom closet in the commons ASAP.»
<gumbal1> Danielle looks up, shrugs, and reports.
<Optimal> «I repeat. Everyone report to the commons broom closet.»
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<Optimal> «Everyone please step inside the broom closet and close the door.»
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<ihp> Susan frowns. This sounds about as legitimate as the theory that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare.
<ihp> She decides to go check out the intercom booth to see who's doing this.
<Optimal> When she enters the intercom, she discovers that /no one/ is in the room.
<Optimal> «Are all available personnel inside the closet?»
<ihp> "…well, shit." Susan frowns, stepping into the room. "This is worse than having a basket of vegetables here." She gets on the intercom. «Attention, do not go into the Broom Closet. There is nobody at the intercom booth. Repeat, may be a trap.»
<ihp> Does it get through?
<Optimal> (Ye might wanna copy that in ic1.)
<Optimal> It does get through.
<ihp> «Attention, do not go into the Broom Closet. There is nobody at the intercom booth. Repeat, may be a trap.»
<ihp> Susan's voice talks over the radio.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran hears this. He rubs his temples and sighs.
<Daedalus> "How do we know that that isn't the 'Audio Demon'?"
<TesKin> "Wha-?" Branko turns to leave the closet.
<Optimal> The intercom crackles back to life. The same unfamiliar voice is on the intercom. «BY ORDERS OF O5-1. ALL AVAILABLE PERSONNEL ARE TO ENTER THE BLOOM CLOSET AT ONCE AND CLOSE THE DOOR. FAILURE TO COMPLY WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE TERMINATION.»
<gumbal1> Danielle browfurrows, then leaves the closet.
<ihp> «Do not enter the closet!» Susan says. «Do Not Enter!»
<TeslaTornado> "How do we know it is not the audio demon threatening to kill us?" Gavran points at the speaker mounted in the ceiling.
<TeslaTornado> Still not having entered the closet.
<Optimal> The door slams hut, closing in whoever is in there.
<TesKin> Branko looks around, confused.
<Optimal> *shut
<gumbal1> Danielle, just about to leave, is now trapped in the closet.
<gumbal1> "Merde!"
<TesKin> Branko pounds on the door. "What the hell is going on?!?"
<Optimal> (And now I'm Trapped in a Closet…)
<Daedalus> "Shit." Hermann tries to open the door from his side.
<gumbal1> Danielle looks around the closet.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran sighs. "I'll go and get security…"
<Optimal> Once the door is closed, all light that had shone into the closet is now snuffed out. It's a rather tight squeeze. Anyone with claustrophobia would get a little anxious right about now.
<gumbal1> ~Fucking hell, it's dark~
<TesKin> Having worked in trenches and small areas for a good portion of his life, Branko is quite comfortable.
<gumbal1> "So, before I die, I would like to know the name of the man I am currently trapped with."
<Optimal> Whoever is in the closet, or are just interested, please log into #homeimprovement.
<TesKin> "My name is Branko. And you are?"
<gumbal1> <gumbal1> "Danielle Levine."
<gumbal1> <Optimal> To whoever is in the closet, the tightness in the room begins to relax. The walls feel as if they are spreading apart. The walls keep moving farther and farther away from each other until the walls are seemingly gone. The "room" is still pitch black.
<gumbal1> <gumbal1> "Do you have a lighter?"
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<gumbal1> <TesKin> Branko looks around. "Sadly I do not."
<gumbal1> <gumbal1> "Well this is a fantastic situation to be in."
<gumbal1> <TesKin> "Isn't it?"
<gumbal1> <Optimal> (Is it just Danielle and Branko in here?)
<gumbal1> <TesKin> (I think so?)
<gumbal1> <Optimal> (Oh hell no. We need at least one more person. Drastic times call for drastic measures.)
<Daedalus> Hermann bangs on the door, "Frau Levine! Are you in there?"
<gumbal1> (Can she hear this?)
<Optimal> There is no answer.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran wheels to the intercom panel and pages Security.
<Optimal> Is if the door is part of the wall.
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<gumbal1> (> Gavran wheels)
<TeslaTornado> (FUCKER)
<Optimal> The door to the closet swings open again. The closet is empty.
<Optimal> «All available personnel. Please report to the broom closet in the commons ASAP.»
<Daedalus> Hermann looks to Gavran, then back to the closet.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran is shouting into the intercom panel, looking to get Security to send a team.
<Optimal> A strange current of air begins to pull in objects into the closet.
<TeslaTornado> And is now currently being dragged towards the closet because he's in a wheelchair, which is susceptible to ~rolling~.
<Optimal> The current becomes stronger an stronger.
<Daedalus> "Scheiße!" Hermann shouts, trying to get away, only to be pushed into the closet by Gavran's wheelchair.
<Optimal> Slowly, the closet becomes more like a vacuum.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran attempts to wheel away from the door, but gets jostled into the closet by Hermann trying to get out of the way.
<Optimal> Like
<Optimal> a
<TeslaTornado> His facial expression goes from terror to frustration to just :| as he's sucked through the doorway.
<Optimal> GIANT
<Optimal> VACUUM
<Optimal> Gavran and Hermann, despite their efforts, are dragged into the closet. The door slams shut.
<Optimal> Total darkness.
<Daedalus> "If I die, I just would like you to know it is entirely your fault." He says in the darkness.
<Optimal> The closet is a tight fit.
<Optimal> Daedalus and Tesla, please report to #homeimprovement. :)
<Optimal> Danielle and Branko are currently in a wall-less dark place.
<gumbal1> Danielle checks to see if footsteps make noise.
<Optimal> They indeed, don't.
<gumbal1> "This is lovely. If we walk anywhere, we can be assured to lose each other."
<TesKin> "Maybe we shouldn't walk away from eachother then. Just to be safe."
<gumbal1> "That is what I was thinking."
<TesKin> "What should we do now?" Branko asks, looking around the massive dark room.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran squeals across some unspoken threshold and falls from his wheelchair, on top of Hermann. His facial expression is one of frustration and mild inconvenience.
<gumbal1> "Wait."
<TeslaTornado> (Redact?)
<TeslaTornado> (Unredact)
<Optimal> An extremely loud noise that sounds like an out of tune trombone echoes somewhere in the distance.
<gumbal1> "Oh, this sounds new."
<Daedalus> "Gah!"
<TesKin> "Very new."
<Daedalus> Hermann scrambles to his feet and looks around, "Are we dead?"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran makes no noise. He just lays there on the floor.
<Optimal> New guests have arrived. There is still no light. Pitch blackness.
<Optimal> Gavran and Hermann may have noticed the lack of walls.
<gumbal1> "Hopefully not."
<TeslaTornado> His legs are splayed out behind him like limp towels and is wheelchair is inverted in front of him.
<TeslaTornado> "… So. No landmarks and no consistent geological or topographical formations."
<TeslaTornado> "No natural source of light."
<Optimal> …and no light.
<TeslaTornado> "Apparently no flora or fauna."
<Optimal> A sort of "bwoop" sound can be heard somewhere nearby. About 30 feet away from the group, a large humanoid figure appears. The figure is a brilliant white color. So white in fact, it seems to be eminating it's own light. In the light, the group can finally see themselves again, but the surrounding area still remains pitch black.
<TeslaTornado> "Just /wonderful/. The first foreign environment I get to study as a Foundation researcher, and it's a damn oh god what is that."
<TesKin> Branko looks at the large white thing, his mouth slightly open. "WHAT THE FUCK?!"
<gumbal1> "Danielel covers her eyes and looks around. How does the landscape look?
<TeslaTornado> Gavran roll-crawls over to his wheelchair, sets it upright, and lifts himself into it. His evident fear is very calmly portrayed. "Oh god. That thing is terrifying."
<Optimal> The figure does nothing.
<Optimal> Just stands there.
<Optimal> No.
<Optimal> Hovers there.
<Daedalus> Hermann takes his gun out of his holster.
<Optimal> It's hard to tell.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran sits with his hands placidly crossed in his lap.
<Optimal> The humanoid figure is seemingly levitating, with it's feet pointing straight downward. It's arms are outstretched, reaching out to his sides. His head is craned back, looking upward.
<TesKin> Branko slowly pulls his revolver out of its holster.
<gumbal1> "It thinks it's Jesus."
<Optimal> The figure does not move.
<Optimal> It's also not wearing any clothes.
<TesKin> Branko stands there, confused.
<Optimal> But doesn't have any genitalia.
<Optimal> Don't worry.
<gumbal1> Danielle approaches the figure. "Excuse me, monsieur, but where are we?" If it doesn't respond, she repeats in English.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran stares pointedly at the figure.
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<Daedalus> "Jesus had better have a good reason to drag us here," He approaches the thing behind danielle.
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<Optimal> After Danielle speaks to it in both French and English, it does not respond.
<TesKin> Branko glances at Gavran. "Should we follow them?"
<Daedalus> Hermann tries Ancient Greek, Latin, then Ancient Arabic, "Why have you brought us here?"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran continues pouting. "I do not think we should wander off, if that is what you mean."
<gumbal1> ~Show-off~
<Optimal> After the Greek, Latin, and Arabic, the being still does not respond.
<TesKin> Branko walks behind Gavran and grabs the handles on his wheelchair and starts pushing him towards the white… Thing.
<Optimal> A growl can be heard in the distance.
<gumbal1> Danielle reaches out to touch the being.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran scowls, then immediately stops scowling when he hears the growl.
<Optimal> The being is very, very cold to the touch.
<TeslaTornado> "Okay. I rescind my previous statement. There is fauna."
<TeslaTornado> "And it does not sound happy."
<Optimal> The growl is loud. And unforgiving.
<Optimal> Maybe even carnivorous.
<TesKin> "Not at all." Branko stops in his tracks.
<gumbal1> Danielle looks around.
<Optimal> A bengal tiger slowly makes his way to the four from the left of the bring.
<Optimal> Where the hell did it come from? Who knows.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran fishes in a haversack dangling from the—"OH. OH DEAR. OH MY."
<gumbal1> "…well."
<TeslaTornado> "SHERE KHAN."
<gumbal1> Danielle looks at the tiger.
<Optimal> The beast stands there. Growling at the crew.
<Daedalus> Hermann trains his gun at it.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran speaks to it in dulcet, soothing tones, in Serbian.
<TesKin> Branko points his gun at the tiger as well.
<TeslaTornado> 4df+2 (Persuade) Secretly he's saying "please don't eat us"
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<Optimal> The tiger looks at both Hermann and Branko and starts to growl louder… until Gavran begins to speak to it.
<Optimal> The beast slowly walks up to Gavran.
<Optimal> Staring at him.
<TesKin> Branko lowers his gun and stands behind Gavran, one hand still on the wheelchair handles.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran smiles. A bead of sweat hangs from the tip of his nose.
<Daedalus> "Do you plan on persuading the tiger on showing us the way out of here as well?"
<gumbal1> Danielel continues monitoring the Bengal.
<Optimal> The bengal tiger is staring right into Gavran's eyes as he sniffs him over.
<Optimal> Right next
<Optimal> to his face.
<TesKin> Branko stiffens, Hardly breathing.
<Optimal> It's breath smells terrible Gavran.
<TeslaTornado> "Can you think of a better plan?" Gavran smells like lavender soap, roses and disinfectant.
<TeslaTornado> (redact disinfectant).
<Optimal> The terrible beast opens it's mouth…
<Optimal> And licks Gavran's face.
<Optimal> It then steps off and goes around him.
<Optimal> To Branko.
<Optimal> And begins to growl again.
<gumbal1> "…I didn't know tigers acted like housecats."
<TeslaTornado> Gavran's face is frozen in a constant mask of almost screaming, but not.
<TesKin> Branko, still motionless, slowly looks down at the tiger.
<TesKin> "G-good kitty."
<Optimal> The tiger looks Branko dead in the eye. As if he was asking something. Where is you gun?
<Optimal> *your
<TesKin> Branko has his gun at his side. He is still looking at the tiger.
<Optimal> He then growls at Hermann, mentally asking the same exact question.
<Daedalus> Hermann is holding his gun, aiming it at the tiger.
<TeslaTornado> "Hermann, lower the gun."
<Optimal> The beast slowly walks toward Hermann.
<Optimal> Growling louder.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran draws himself up as tall and intimidating as he can for a noodle-haired, noodle-legged dork in a wheelchair.
<Optimal> Showing his not-so-pearly whites.
<Daedalus> Hermann steps back, "This is a tiger. It is not a creature of reason."
<gumbal1> "Indeed it isn't, but it isn't hurting us."
<TeslaTornado> "Apparently you are not a creature of reason either, Doctor Austerlitz."
<TeslaTornado> "Stand down."
<Optimal> The tiger seems offended, and shows it.
<Optimal> It growls even louder.
<Daedalus> He shoots a glare at Gavran, breathes in deep, and lowers his gun.
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<Optimal> The tiger stops.
<Optimal> One person left.
<Optimal> The tiger turns to Danielle.
<gumbal1> Danielel has no gun.
<Optimal> It starts running at her.
<Optimal> And stops right in front of her.
<Optimal> The tiger begins to purr.
<gumbal1> Danielel falls backwards.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran wheels the wheelchair after the tiger, shouting at it to please stop, Frenchwomen are not tasty at all
<Optimal> And runs it's face on her.
<Optimal> *rubs
<gumbal1> Danielle pets its head.
<gumbal1> Hesitantly.
<TesKin> Branko stumbles at the sudden absence of Gavran's wheelchair.
<Optimal> The luminescent being satisfied, the tiger dissolves.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran stops the wheelchair and just grins.
<Optimal> Just the four and the glowing man.
<Daedalus> Hermann raises an eyebrow.
<TesKin> Branko, after catching his balance, looks at the glowing man. "Any ideas on just what this thing is?"
<Optimal> The hovering being's head is still tilted backwards.
<Daedalus> Is it the size of a regular man?
<TeslaTornado> Gavran is incapable of inspecting the man's tilted head.
<Optimal> No actually, it's larger. About 9 feet tall.
<TeslaTornado> 4df+5 (Perc) He is, however, capable of looking where the man's head is looking.
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<gumbal1> "No idea. The Audio Demon was black, so I doubt this is its work."
<Optimal> There is nothing above them, where the being head is facing. Just blackness.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran, in a spark of brilliance, produces his flashlight again and aims it in the direction where the thing is staring.
<Optimal> Nothing. The light beam reveals absolutely nothing.
<Optimal> Just. A forever. Darkness.
<Optimal> A feminine, motherly voice can be heard behind them. "Hello everyone."
<TeslaTornado> "AHHHHHHH, HELLO MA'AM"
<TesKin> Branko turns around. "Wha-?"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran's shriek echoes for a while.
<gumbal1> Danielle looks up.
<Optimal> The face of the woman is only recognizable by one person here.
<Daedalus> Hermann turns around, gun un hand.
<Optimal> It's Laura.
<gumbal1> "…Laua?"
<TeslaTornado> "Who?"
<gumbal1> *Laura
<TesKin> "Who is Laura?"
<Daedalus> "You know this woman, Frau Levine?"
<Optimal> She stands there, adjacent to the glowing man. She is smiling at them all. "Don't you remember me?"
<gumbal1> "Laura Moodie was an agent who died a while ago."
<TeslaTornado> "Oh." Gavran tilts his head.
<TeslaTornado> "Why is she here then."
<Daedalus> "Hmm."
<gumbal1> "I don't know."
<Daedalus> "Perhaps we are dead."
<TesKin> Branko nods, still looking confused. "Is she a ghost?"
<Optimal> Laura continues to smile.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran checks himself for a pulse.
<Optimal> The pulse is indeed there.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran scoots over to Hermann and checks him for a pulse, then to Branko, then to Danielle.
<gumbal1> Danielle swats his hand away.
<Daedalus> Hermann does the same.
<Optimal> Everyone has pulses, well those who you check anyway.
<TesKin> Branko nods and accpects the pulse test.
<TeslaTornado> "… Well Agent Silvinski and I are alive, at least."
<TesKin> "Good to know." Branko nods at Gavran.
<Daedalus> "Frau Moodie. Are you dead?"
<Optimal> Another voice is heard behind them. It's always behind them. Another feminine voice. A french feminine voice. ["Hello Danielle."]
<gumbal1> Danielle blinks a bit.
<Optimal> Another voice is heard behind Gavran. "Daddy!"
<TeslaTornado> "Wh-"
<gumbal1> Danielle turns around.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran flops out of the wheelchair in his effort to turn around.
<Optimal> And another behind Hermann. "Father…"
<Optimal> They all stand there.
<Optimal> Behind Branko is another voice. "Branko."
<Daedalus> Hermann blinks, "Nein. Nein, Nein, Nein, Nein." He turns, "Elise?"
<TesKin> "Wha-?" Branko spins quickly.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran pries his face off the lateral surface serving as the ground at present. "… Ljiljana?"
<Optimal> All of the newcomers stand in there positions, all beaming at their respective friends and femily.
<gumbal1> "Maman?"
<Optimal> Danielle's mother spreads her arms. She wants a hug.
<TesKin> Branko stands there, dumbfounded.
<Optimal> Ljiljana is so happy to see you Gavran. Go over and check her pulse.
<gumbal1> Danielel slowly walks over, blinking, checking to see if her mother is real.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran is currently flopped down on the floor. Good job, legs.
<TeslaTornado> He looks up at Ljiljana. "Well… Er… This is. Hrm."
<Optimal> Branko's father is looking at him. He's proud of you Branko.
<Daedalus> Hermann approaches Elise, "[Why are- What are you doing here?]" He asks in German.
<Optimal> Elise, despite her last known situations, seems happy to see you Hermann.
<TesKin> Branko walks over to his father. He reaches out to embrace him.
<gumbal1> Danielle hugs her mother.
<Optimal> Elise is the first to talk back."[I miss you father.]"
<Optimal> Branko's father gives him a big ol bear hug.
<TesKin> Branko smiles. He steps back and holds his father at arms legnth, looking at him. "How did you get here, father?"
<Optimal> Ljiljana, seeing that her father is in an awkward position, goes over and helps in his wheelchair.
<Optimal> "I miss you dad."
<TeslaTornado> Gavran blushes furiously. "… Thank you, Ljliljana… I miss you too."
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<gumbal1> "How did you…"
<gumbal1> Danielle begins tearing up.
<TeslaTornado> "But why are you here? And how? You are in Belgrade, yes?" He squints. "Did you run away from home again."
<Optimal> Branko's father doesn't give him the answer he wants. "It's been awhile Branko. I'm glad to see you again."
<gumbal1> "I…thought you died back in France…"
<TesKin> Branko nods. "It has father. And it is good to see you, but again I must ask. How did you get here?"
<Optimal> Danielle's mother reassures her. {"Don't worry Danielle. I'm here now."}
<Optimal> "I… I miss you Branko. So does your mother." He hugs harder.
<Daedalus> "[I don't believe it. No, this is an illusion. You're still at institution. The doctors said… you were uncurable.]" Hermann begins to hyperventilate and tear up.
<gumbal1> Danielle smiles.
<Optimal> Elise finally speaks up to Hermann. "[Father. I'm alright. Can't you see me? I'm fine.]" She smiles.
<TesKin> "Mama? Sh-she was.." Branko chokes up and hugs his father harder.
<Optimal> Elise speaks again. ["How are you?"]
<Optimal> "I know Branko. I know."
<Optimal> "She's happy now."
<TesKin> "How have you been? How has the farm been?"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran continues pouting at Ljiljana, arms folded in front of him.
<TeslaTornado> He raises an eyebrow, in Full Daddy Mode.
<Daedalus> Hermann simply hugs her, "[I'm sorry. I should have visited more.]"
<Optimal> Ljliljana starts to pet her fathers hair. She smiles a bit at her daddy's "Daddy Mode".
<TeslaTornado> Gavran makes an odd 'nyergh' noise and wibbles his torso. "Head patting does not answer my question, darling."
<Optimal> Elise hugs back tighter.
<Optimal> "[It's alright father. You're here now, aren't you?]"
<TesKin> Branko just stands there, hugging his father.
<TeslaTornado> "No, it really isn't. Here is unpleasant. It's cold and dark and there's a strange hovering white man impersonating Jesus and I'd very much like to go back to my lab."
<TeslaTornado> "And if you ran off with that Oleg boy again, by God…"
<Optimal> Ljliljana just smiles. "Don't worry about it daddy." She hugs her crippled father.
<Optimal> And then all of the loved ones disappear.
<Optimal> Just the four and the being once more.
<TeslaTornado> "God dammit, I swear, if that Oleg boy shows up next I will belt him."
<TeslaTornado> "Show him what will happen if he lays a hand on my daughter."
<TesKin> Branko stumbles and falls.
<Optimal> His head is now pointing forward, as opposed to the previous upward.
<gumbal1> Danielel falls to her knees from having her hug interrupted so suddenly. She gets up.
<gumbal1> "?"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran turns to the NotMessiah. "Oh, gracing us with your full attention now?"
<Optimal> The NotMessiah is now making eye contact with all four of them.
<TesKin> Branko picks himself up and wipes his face off with his sleeve.
<TeslaTornado> "… Yes. Yes you are."
<Daedalus> Hermann, feeling that he's hugging nothing, falls to the floor on his knees.
<gumbal1> "Why?"
<TeslaTornado> "That's quite unnerving, sir."
<TeslaTornado> "Please stop. I preferred it when you were staring at the whatever-it-is-that-is-above-us."
<TesKin> Branko looks at the NotMessiah's face. What does it look like?
<Optimal> NotMessiah ignores Gavran and looks at Danielle. It's a very….. generic face. It's features are perfect, but bears a more masculine form.
<Daedalus> "It's testing us." Hermann says angrily, getting to his feet and standing, "It's Scheiß-Testing us."
<Optimal> It's also bald. No hair at all.
<Optimal> NotMessiah finally answers Danielle's question.
<Optimal> "Study."
<TeslaTornado> Gavran looks offended.
<gumbal1> "…study?"
<TesKin> "Study?" Branko asks, looking at NotMessiah
<TeslaTornado> "Sir, I am the one who does the studying, not you!"
<Optimal> NotMessiah looks at Gavran. "Why?"
<Optimal> No
<Optimal> Looks at Hermann.
<Optimal> (Sorry.)
<Optimal> NotMessiah stares at Hermann with a very neutral expression.
<TeslaTornado> ('sall good)
<Daedalus> "You show us the ones we love! You threaten us with a tiger! You brought us here for a reason, and I think we are the ones who deserve to fucking know why!" Hermann says rapidly and angrily, his German accent getting thicker.
<Optimal> He continues to stare at you Hermann. "Lab mice."
<TeslaTornado> "Well, yes, but there's no need to shout about—" Gavran frowns. "OKAY THAT'S SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT."
<TeslaTornado> "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM."
<Optimal> He looks at Gavran. "Broken. But capable."
<TeslaTornado> "I AM GAVRAN GAVRILLE, DOCTOR OF XENOECOLOGY, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE. YOU LITTLE SHIT."
<TesKin> Branko steps up. "NOW WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS ABOUT LAB MICE?!?" He shouts loudly glaring at NotMessiah
<Daedalus> Hermann squints at the being, "He is experimenting on us. He wants to see what we do when presented with various situations." He chuckles, "Fuck, he;s doing the same thing we do to mice."
<gumbal1> Danielle lets them talk. She isn't sure she's ever matched this level of shouting.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran squints at Hermann. "I don't use /mice/! It's undignified!"
<TeslaTornado> "And they eat all of my samples!"
<Optimal> NotMessiah waits for them to answer an actual question/
<Optimal> .
<Optimal> *ask a question.
<Daedalus> "Why us? Could you not just have picked some other people?"
<Optimal> NotMessiah looks at Hermann. "Foundation."
<Optimal> "Different."
<Optimal> It's voice is deep, booming. Yet almost robotic.
<TesKin> "Different how?
<TeslaTornado> "Presumably because we're an organization that studies the unnatural and the paranormal, agent."
<TeslaTornado> "Or maybe it's because I'm in a wheelchair, who knows."
<Optimal> NotMessiah looks at Branko and then Gavran. "Yes."
<TeslaTornado> "… That was terribly unspecific."
<Daedalus> "Different." Hermann repeats the word, "It's because we're different."
<gumbal1> "From what?"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran pouts at Hermann. "That's workplace discrimination."
<Optimal> NotMessiah glares at Gavran. He's pretty annoyed with him. If he doesn't change his tune… who knows…
<Daedalus> "Everyone. Relatively speaking, we're all unique."
<TeslaTornado> "Just because I'm in a wheelchair doesn't mean I'm some kind of sideshow freak."
<TesKin> "That's why we're here."
<TeslaTornado> Gavran raises an eyebrow playfully at Not-Jesus.
<Optimal> NotMessiah looks back at Danielle he looks on for awhile. As if he was thinking for the right word.
<Optimal> He says the most he has ever said. "Contain dangerous. Save innocence."
<Optimal> "Why?"
<TeslaTornado> "Because we have to!"
<Daedalus> "Because no one else will."
<gumbal1> "Because they pay me."
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<Daedalus> "Some would use this power to destroy."
<Daedalus> "We simply tuck it away."
<TeslaTornado> "It is the right thing to do."
<Optimal> Not-Jesus considers all these answers, and replies with the same word. "But why you?"
<Optimal> "Protect?"
<TeslaTornado> "Two reasons."
<TeslaTornado> "Because I'd rather my daughter not be raised on a planet ravaged by giant acid-spitting centipedes or something equally obscene."
<TeslaTornado> "And because, to be frank, I'm bored."
<TesKin> "I am new here, but from what I've seen and heard, the people here are the best the world has to offer to protect man from whatever evils pop up."
<Optimal> Not-Jesus begins to project images from his eyes. They are images of war. Images of murder. Images of rape. Images of torture. "Save humanity. Humanity hurts. Does what you contain would do to you anyway."
<Optimal> "You protect yourself from others, but not yourself."
<Optimal> "Why?"
<TeslaTornado> "Yes, but we can't stop people from making their own stupid decisions."
<TeslaTornado> "We just stop other outside influences from making stupid decisions for us."
<gumbal1> "If I wanted humanity to die"
<TesKin> Branko looks away, having seen similar images in his time on duty in Russia.
<gumbal1> "I wound't get so angry at the atrocities comitted against humans.."
<Daedalus> Hermann steps forward, "I've hurt people. I've created weapons that hurt people. Humans hurt other humans, but we cannot stop that. We fight for the ones who are good, who are kind. The ones who are… not like us."
<TesKin> "Wh-" Branko tries to speak, but cannot. He looks back at the ground.
<Optimal> "Why certain?" Not-Jesus shows images of atomic bombs. Shows families having their faces disintegrate in the blast.
<Optimal> "Innocence."
<TeslaTornado> "Eh."
<Optimal> "Destroyed"
<TeslaTornado> "Not innocent, but certainly redeemable."
<Optimal> "Is that a greater good Hermann?"
<gumbal1> "That was the State. The State isn't people."
<Optimal> This is the first time he has addressed a name.
<Optimal> "State is people. People create state."
<gumbal1> "The Satte caters only to the demands of the State. It disregards everyone else."
<Optimal> "You elect state."
<TeslaTornado> "Yes, that is the inherent flaw in socialist rhetoric."
<gumbal1> "I have never voted."
<Optimal> "Fathers elect government. Mothers elect government. Government destroys families."
<Optimal> "Why?"
<gumbal1> "We're working on fixing that, okay?"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran snorts.
<TesKin> Branko looks up. "Sometimes death is required in order to make progress. It may be ugly, and it may be hard on everyone involved, but it happens."
<gumbal1> "Humanity is dumb, yes. But it's slowly learning. Soon we won't need the state to survuve."
<TeslaTornado> "Either that or we'll consume ourselves in a glorious blaze of atomic hellfire and will soon fade into the annals of history."
<Daedalus> "{We killed Jesus. We killed Ghandi. They were good, innocent people.}" Hermann stares the being right in the eye, "{We may be cruel, and hateful, and murderous, but we survive. As long as there is one innocent person left on this planet, Humankind will fight to preserve it. Fuck governments, fuck wars, and fuck you. So why don't you /fucking/ lets us get on with our lives so we can preserve what's left of the good of humanity?}" He says in rapid German.
<TeslaTornado> "Regardless, the problem is solved.
<TeslaTornado> "Herr Austerlitz, please calm down."
<Optimal> Not-Jesus was sooooo close to answering Branko. So close. And so close to letting them go. Until Hermann's statement. It leaves him… satisfied… yet confused.
<Optimal> "But…"
<Daedalus> "It's Doctor." Hermann says, "And I will not calm down. This being as kept us here with the sole purpose of treating us like rats, and I for one would like to get back to reality." He's still a bit pissed about the whole showing-him-his-insane-daughter-sane thing.
<Optimal> Silence.
<TeslaTornado> "Well, your screaming at it isn't helping us get home any faster. At all."
<Optimal> The being's eyes glow red. It's mouth opens wide and let's out a loud screeching sound.
<TesKin> "Fuck."
<TeslaTornado> "DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU DID."
<TeslaTornado> "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS."
<TeslaTornado> "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SCREAM AT THE POTENTIAL DEITY THAT IS CAPABLE OF PULLING US INTO ALTERNATE DIMENSIONS."
<gumbal1> Danielel covers her ears.
<TesKin> Branko raises his hands. "If you kill us, then what does that make you?"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran frowns mightily. He doesn't even bother covering his ears.
<Optimal> "TESTING CONCLUDED. IT IS CONFIRMED THAT HUMANITY DOES WANT SALVATION, BUT BELIEVES VIOLENCE AND SENSELESS MURDER OF OWN KIND WILL ACHIEVE IT. SELFISHNESS AND ARROGANCE CONFIRMED/"
<TesKin> Branko walks slowly towards Not-Jesus and wraps his arms around it in a Big Ol' Russian BEAR HUG.
<TesKin> "Just because one bad person speaks for all of us does not mean that we are all bad."
<TeslaTornado> "WONDERFUL. YOU'VE CONVINCED THIS THING THAT WE'RE A RACE OF KNUCKLE-DRAGGING SOCIOPATHS!" Gavran applauds sarcasticaly in Hermann's direction. "BRAVISSIMO, DOCTOR!"
<gumbal1> ~Oh christ.~
<Optimal> The being turns a bright red, it's eyes are an especially bright red. It glares at the group with a large, seemingly frustrated face. It disregards Branko's attempt at comfort. It has made it's decision.
<TesKin> Branko, noticing the color change, quickly steps back.
<Optimal> It's teeth are clenched. "TESTING CONCLUDED. OPERATION SALVATION IN PLANNING STAGE."
<TeslaTornado> Gavran laughs maniacally and continues applauding Hermann. "GOOD JOB, DOCTOR! GOOD FUCKING JOB!"
<Daedalus> "Is it any further from the truth?" Hermann smiles, then chuckles, then full on starts laughing manically, "Go ahead! Kill us! What are you waiting for?! Fight violence with violence! Kill the violent humans, you omnicient Arschloch!"
<gumbal1> "You know what? Fuck you. Do you think you're any better than us if you kill us for the 'greater good'?"
<gumbal1> "Like you condemn us of doing?"
<TeslaTornado> "I give up!" Gavran tosses his hands up in defeat and starts wheeling his wheelchair away in some random direction.
<TeslaTornado> "I'm done!"
<Optimal> "EVEN NOW THE HUMANS ASSUME THAT WE WILL COMMENCE BARBARIC MURDER. CONFIRMATION THAT OUR FINDINGS OUR CORRECT."
<gumbal1> "You sure aren't doign agood job at convincing us otherwise."
<gumbal1> "Fuck your 'Holier Than Thou' attitude. You kidnap us, amnuipulate us, then call us the evil ones."
<Optimal> A large current has started up in the blackness. The winds start growing to tornado-like proportions. The four agents are beginning to be pulled away by the current.
<TeslaTornado> The current flips Gavran's wheelchair.
<gumbal1> "Then, based on the outburst of a fucking German, you determine we're unsalvageable!"
<TeslaTornado> Again.
<TeslaTornado> "GOD DAMMIT"
<gumbal1> "You're as arrogant and conceited as you call us!"
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<Daedalus> Hermann closes his eyes and is pulled back.
<Optimal> The current blows them all upward and the being glares at the four as they leave. Not-Jesus blurts one final word.
<Optimal> "Godspeed."
<gumbal1> "Eat a thousand goat dicks, you god-wannabe!"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran is rolled ass-over-teakettle up off the ground.
<TeslaTornado> He is completely blank faced.
<TesKin> Branko starts rapidly swearing in Russian.
<TeslaTornado> His legs dangle like streamers.
<Optimal> The four of them are blown out of the darkness at holy-fuck miles an hour.
<Optimal> Time to head back over to #origins-ic.
<gumbal1> Danielel continues screaming at the closet door in French.
<Optimal> Danielle, Gavran, Hermann and Branko are ejected out of the closet at holy-fuck speed.
<Optimal> All of them slam into the adjacent wall.
<Optimal> The closet door slams shut.
<TesKin> Branko, before hitting the wall, slams THROUGH the couch, breaking it in two.
<gumbal1> Danielel tops off her rant witha solid 45 second scream.
<Daedalus> "Gah." Hermann says, trying to get to his feet.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran slams into the far wall and slides to the floor completely noiselessly.
<TeslaTornado> He also attempts to get to his feet, partially succeeds, wobbles, and plummets to the ground again with a meaty FLOOMP.
<TesKin> Branko groans and rubs his head. "Everyone okay?"
<Optimal> The closet door opens again.
<gumbal1> Danielle coughs. "Oui."
<Optimal> Galvan's wheelchair comes flowing through.
<Optimal> The door slams shut once more.
<TeslaTornado> "…"
<TesKin> (offuckingcourse)
<Daedalus> Hermann stands at just the wrong moment and is hit by the wheelchair.
<Optimal> The wheelchair slams into the wall, but suprisingly stays intact.
<TeslaTornado> The wheelchair ricochets off Hermann. Gavran laughs wildly at this before it slams into him as well.
<Optimal> That was totally intentional.
<gumbal1> Danielle just lies on the commons floor. "I give up."
<TeslaTornado> Gavran, who was readjusted by the sudden appearance of Wheelchair, is half on top of Danielle. The sensation is reminiscent of being draped in a large tweed blanket that occasionally groans and curses in Serbian.
<TeslaTornado> Oh, and the blanket is 200 pounds.
<TesKin> Branko stands and stumbles over to Gavran and Danielle.
<TesKin> He leans against the wall and looks at the pile, not even bothering to hide his smile.
<Daedalus> Hermann stands and brushes himself off, still dazed.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran stares at the ceiling.
<TeslaTornado> He doesn't even attempt to move.
<gumbal1> Danielel doesn't attempt to move either.
<Optimal> Frederick watches this entire thing happen from behind a newspaper and is in awe. "What… in the hell…"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran glances down at Danielle. "Miss? I would like you to do me a favor."
<gumbal1> "What."
<TeslaTornado> "In return, I will attempt to remove myself from on top of you."
<TeslaTornado> "Never."
<TeslaTornado> "Let the German."
<TeslaTornado> "Speak on behalf of the human race ever again."
<TesKin> Branko snorts.
<Daedalus> Hermann looks to Frederick, "Hello, Herr Ibel. I hoope you are having a fine evening."
<Optimal> "I was until you gents came barging in. What the hell happened?"
<TeslaTornado> "Hermann brought on the apocalypse."
<gumbal1> "I never intend to let sucha travesty happen."
<TeslaTornado> "The human race is doomed."
<TeslaTornado> "Also I got licked by a tiger."
<TeslaTornado> "That was fun."
<TeslaTornado> "The other part wasn't."
<Daedalus> "Fisrt of all, we do not know what that was. So to say I brought the Ragnorak upon us wouldn't be factual."
<TesKin> Branko walks over to Gavran and scoops him up like a small child. "It was rather intresting to see you get licked by a tiger."
<Optimal> Frederick, never really perturbed by the talk of the apocalypse, y'know being in the Foundation and all. Instead he hears the tiger part. "Well that's nice."
<TeslaTornado> "It was large, and glowing, and looked like an albino Jesus, and it dragged us into what I can only assume was a pocket dimension."
<TeslaTornado> "If it is not the herald of the apocalypse, then it is the herald of Something Very Bad."
<TesKin> Branko sets Gavran down in his wheelchair.
<Optimal> Frederick reassures Gavran. "Probably. But 'Something Very Bad' is our business."
<TeslaTornado> "Yes, but typically the Something Very Bad that is solved by us isn't started by us as well."
<Daedalus> HErmann stubles out and goes back to his lab.
<TesKin> Branko shakes his head. "I think we can handle it."
<TeslaTornado> Gavran :|s.
<TesKin> Branko raises his hand. "My head is rather sore from all this. I think i need to go and rest." And with that he turns and walks out, heading towards his room/
<TesKin> .*
<Optimal> "Good night Branko."
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<TeslaTornado> "Good night, Agent Silvinski."
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<Optimal> Frederick gets up from his recliner and approaches the others.
<Optimal> "So is everyone okay? Does anyone need any help to Medical?"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran is still there, looking frazzled and undapper.
<Optimal> (Seeing as.. you know… I hurled you into a wall. I feel bad about that.)
<TeslaTornado> Gavran looks down at his broken legs, then up at Frederick.
<gumbal1> Danielle is still lying on the floor.
<TeslaTornado> Then back down at his legs, then back up at Frederick. Then over at Danielle, then back at Frederick.
<Optimal> Fred offers Danielle a hand.
<gumbal1> Danielle swats it away.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran scoots over and hauls Danielle into the wheelchair, awkwardly settling her into his lap, and rooooolls off to Medical.
<Optimal> Fred speaks under his breath at Danielle. "Maybe this is what he was talking about…"
<gumbal1> Danielel walks off the wheelchair and proceeds to lie back on the commons floor.
<TeslaTornado> Gavran wheels his chair around.
<TeslaTornado> Squints at Danielle and grabs hold of her wrist with the kind of might that only an annoyed father can smmon.
<TeslaTornado> And literally /drags/ her to Medical.
<gumbal1> Danielle attempts to shake her wrist away.
<TeslaTornado> 4df+5 (STR) Daddy Mode
<Glacon> TeslaTornado: (STR) Daddy Mode: 9 (4df+5=+, +, +, +)
<gumbal1> Gavran's grip dislocates Danielle's arm. "Merde!"
<TeslaTornado> Holy shit
<gumbal1> Danielle gets up and walks to medical with Gavran, glaring at him.
<TeslaTornado> DADDY MODE ACTIVATE
<TesKin> Branko, hearing the noise, pokes his head out of his room. "What in the Hell is going on?!"
<TeslaTornado> Gavran gives you a look of STERN FATHERLY DISAPPROVAL, Danielle.
<gumbal1> Danielle quits looking at Gavran in favor of medical.