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15 STRANGERS TEST DRIVE
There are 15 strangers in this place. Someone knows why. And its clear the odds are stacked against you.

1. ARRIVAL
You're here, in what can only be described as a primitive bunker. Where are are you? What happened to your powers? Your memories? And who else has been so unlucky as to be brought in with you? And why are the rules so...authoritarian?

2. POWER
You have been, er, "blessed" with a power. Its not a power you want or care for, but its yours now. You might want to try an control it, lest you hurt someone else. That is...unless you want to. Just don't blow up any public property while you're at it.

3. HOME
Nothing says trapped like being in an underground stone prison. But you're here now. Here with no technology or modern convenience of any kind. How in the world will you fare? Aside from just drinking all the time. That's probably what all the booze in the kitchen is for, after all.

4. ULTIMATUM
The Intercessor has announced the motive for the week. Clearly someone has it out for you to kill. How will you react? Will you stand against such an insult and help others to fight the temptation? Or perhaps, you yourself are tempted...?

5. DEATH
One of your own has died - been killed. The Inquisition has started. The body lies before you, and now you must discern the truth from the clues before you. But can you when you mourn? Or, perhaps you don't mourn the dead. Perhaps you're only playing along because you know more than you let on.

6. TRIAL
The Intercessor did warn you that killing is little more than a violent cycle in this game. Now you're here, looking to condemn the responsible killer. If you do, they die. If you don't, you die. Whatever happens, you have to figure out what will happen. And what did happen. But can you?

7. WILDCARD
Perhaps you want to do something else other than the above. A different prompt entirely. Perhaps, then, you will.

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Hmph.

[She wouldn't take off her helmet for the moment, there was no point in it but she eyed him over a little. A villager? From what island? Admittedly she wasn't versed in the many different islands of the Skydom as she probably should have been. She stops.]

My name is unimportant. I'm the Black Knight, Adviser to the Erste Empire and one of the Luminary Knights.

[Though...] Experiment? That's unusual. This area doesn't seem like a normal empire facility.

[Furias, you better not be doing weird experiments behind her back.]

Black Knight. Sure. [He's squinting at basically all of that.]

It's a bunker. We're probably underground... I was in a different bunker like this with a bunch of other people, but we were all part of a simulation for a Mars dwelling, until that Zero psychopath kidnapped us. I have no idea what you're talking about with all of that 'Empire' crap, but this isn't some fantasy game. Some of them might be dead right now!

[Yeah, there was some bark to that last part. He's anxious, the last thing he needs right now is some mysterious person that's just screwing around. Why couldn't she just have given him a name?]

Edited (clarification ) 2017-05-08 23:46 (UTC)

[Look, her real name would get even more squinting.]

Underground...yes, that makes sense. There's no shift in the floor to say that we're--[Mars is an unknown place to her but the idea of simulating a harsh enviroment, well. It makes sense enough. Maybe some unknown island in a different skydom? That is until he speaks the last sentences. Her eyes narrow. Her voice had been annoyed but even before.

Now there's more heat to her words as she glowered down at him.]

Do you think this is a mere game to me?! I feel sorrow that your companions may be dead but my situation isn't any better. Whoever brought us here took something very sensitive from me.

Look, I'm just saying that claiming you're from some place called "Erste" doesn't make it sound like you're that serious. I mean, am I supposed to believe you're really from some country from another world? That's just insane...

[Impossible, too. This place doesn't even look like it has anything that could bring people from such a world. He doesn't want to fight her on such an inane topic, so he'll just move on to the other thing she said in a desperate bid to make sense of things.]

What'd they take from you?

[The only thing he's missing is his bracelet, and well, good riddance to that.]

I've lived in that area for most of my life. I have no reason to make it up nor do I have the lack of pride it would take to do so. [The empire could go away but Erste itself was precious.] There are many things that can't be explained by normal means.

[Probably the work of a primal beast or some other astral weapon, probably. This next part is a little difficult to explain. Her gut reaction is to say 'a doll' but it's clear that it wouldn't fly.]

A girl. [She gestures to about waist high.] She looks young, a blank expression on her face like a doll. You could say she's my charge.

[Urgh. It feels wrong calling that thing a person but she needed it back.]

[Seems like a weak excuse to him, but... it's weird that she'd stick to the story, anyway. He will just move on, like he determined to do. He can come to terms with stuff like other worlds later.]

A little girl, huh... [He hasn't seen one, but it does bring something concerning to mind.]

I'm looking for someone important too. That's why I knocked. Her name's Mira. She's my... she's...

[Before the decision game, he would have only thought to call her "friend." Then she said something that was as good as a love confession in his mind, so he really wants to say "girlfriend." But now there's this ring on his finger and he's not sure what it means. All he knows is the thing that's never changed.]

... my angel.

[Whew. Saying that just makes him even more wired.]

She should be here - did they take both of them?

[She wouldn't press the issue. It was beneath her, anyway. Not when more important things were at stake.]

Yes... [She barely can say it. Calling that shell a person is difficult at the best of times.] She--[Responds to.]--is called Orchis.

[Well. The Black Knight can see the ring and even in a skydom that means one thing. She nods.] I see. Yes, it's possible that they took whoever was in an area and split them up.

[Here, the bitterness comes back.] I doubt the girl would give them much resistance. [She almost says doll again but switching it to girl was still impersonal enough that she felt right saying it.]

Then maybe they're in another bunker! They couldn't have taken them that far.

[Though, he guesses he doesn't know how long they've been out since he doesn't have his watch. But whatever.]

Let's search!

[Knocking on doors isn't doing him much good anyway. He'll turn around and briskly walk back towards what seems to be the exit of the hall.]

Edited 2017-05-09 05:25 (UTC)

That is a possibility. Two sets to compare would be better than one.

[She doubts it but... Well. It's a possibility.]

That's a better use of our energy then standing around, yes.

[She nods her head before taking off her helmet. The Black Knight would prefer to keep it on but it's clear that her vision will need to be clear for this sort of task.]