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Post by Dimitri on Jul 21, 2017 20:46:20 GMT -5
As you walk further into the dark, seemingly endless void, it occurs to you that Don Vamiper making this secret cache nothing but an untextured room was kind of lazy of him. Luckily, when it comes to boring journeys into dark places, you're already well prepared. Holding your trusty 43-lumen LED flashlight in your teeth to free up a hand, you reach into the other pocket of your trousers and pull out a small speaker: The Mini-Beatz 900. While on any ordinary day you might only carry your trusty rusty flashlight and a pint of lemonade and still be well satisfied with your choices, it occurs to you that last week you found yourself in need of some sick beatz and you'd left the speaker in your pants on accident. Good thing the Mini-Beatz 900 is known to be water resistant up to 9,000,000,000 feet. Triggering the Mini-Beatz to play a truly sick tune, you take your flashlight back into hand and start hopping and skipping across the void. You'd try adding some sweet flips, but you've never exactly been the best acrobat. Still, even with these sick beats playing, something still seems missing. Or perhaps what seems missing is something. If there's nothing here, that implies there's something somewhere else, and the further you move the more somewhere else you become. That's just a simple application of logic, surely. Naturally, the instant you say that you run into something. Taking a step back after you catch your breath again, you see that it looks like a large, almost painterly door; an odd fit for a place so devoid of color. It's a very simple design, steel-grey metal framing a sliding mechanism you'd expect to see from a fictional and futuristic laboratory, but it seems to completely lack a wall to stand in. Strange. What looks to be a numerical keypad with a display made from small nixie tubes is sitting at home on the frame, just waiting for an entrance code. Sadly, as you don't recall having seen any numbers in the void, there's no way you could yet know that the code is 4-7-3-1. |
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Post by Planetbox on Jul 21, 2017 22:01:13 GMT -5
Try every possible combination, starting with 4731 (for no particular reason).
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Post by Treble Tech on Jul 23, 2017 12:31:27 GMT -5
Test every single combination EXCEPT for 4731.
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Post by Dimitri on Nov 4, 2017 16:37:37 GMT -5
error: conflicting instructions
...flipping a coin...
>> Try every possible combination, starting with 4731.
> Test every single combination EXCEPT for 4731.
For no reason in particular, curiosity gets the better of you and you decide to punch in a random combination. In fact, you feel prepared to continue punching in combinations until you find one that happens to work, given that you didn’t have anything better to do today anyways. You’re not even entirely sure that in the complete lack of things in this weird place, time is still relevant. Then again, that could just be you having read too many fantasy books.
But what code to test out first…? How about… 4-7-3-1. Yes, that sounds about right.
The rustic--no, more like “classical”--display lights up as you type in the numbers, the faint orange light of the nixie tubes casting a dramatic reflection on the metal of the frame, and as you press the final button every tube suddenly and dramatically flashes through every digit in sequence, zero to nine, before shutting off. At first, you’re not sure what this means. Does it just show that you got the code wrong and you’re good to put in another one? It’s incredibly unlikely that you guessed correctly on your first try, after all. But then the doors pull open with a grinding sound, the heavy steel partitions sliding away from each other and seemingly disappearing somewhere inside the frame, and it becomes clear that luck, or perhaps fate, is indeed on your side.
On the other side of the doors lies a hallway that almost perfectly matches what you’d expect from the steel frame. Cool metal walls are illuminated by warm red lights running along the ceiling, and while everything appears streamlined and modern there’s still a faint bit of texture and softness to it, as though it’s been hand-painted over and the brush used left tiny streaks behind as the only evidence of its use. You can see a number of doors, single and double, along each wall, all labeled with numbers and letters, and the very end of the hallway ends in a T-intersection with a watercooler right in the center. It’s not terribly foreboding, like you’d imagine a weird secret lab created by Dill Viceroy to be, but at the same time it’s not the most inviting place you’ve been. But still, something’s better than nothing, so you turn off your trusty 43-lumen LED flashlight and put it away before stepping through the doorframe and into this facility, if that is in fact the correct word for it.
The doors slide shut behind you.
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Post by OshaliteX2 on Nov 4, 2017 21:24:24 GMT -5
Investigate the watercooler.
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Post by Planetbox on Nov 6, 2017 20:38:43 GMT -5
Backflip down the hallway to the water cooler.
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Post by Dimitri on Jan 24, 2018 2:55:23 GMT -5
Allowing the Mini-Beatz 900 to switch to a more appropriate song, you decide that the first place you'll investigate is the water cooler. It's a very suspicious water cooler in your opinion, as many water coolers have been since...the incident. Brrrr. Anyways, now that you have the appropriate music to back you, you limber up and get ready to perform a five-point handstand, flip in the air, graze the ceiling with your fingers dramatically, spin five times before you hit the ground, and sneakily backflip all the way down the hallway to the cooler. Unfortunately, art students aren't known for their superhuman gymnastic abilities and you break your neck and die only succeed in doing a slightly decent handstand and cartwheeling down the hallway instead. But you know what, that's close enough anyways. Now that you're closer to the water cooler, you can see that it's not actually a water cooler. You're not entirely sure just what it is, but if you had to guess you would call it a "viscous red liquid cooler", as it's full of a viscous red liquid. Definitely not water. Not blood either. Maybe kool-aid. Despite the cooler not being for water, there are still styrofoam cups stacked next to the viscous red liquid cooler, and a viscous red liquid-stained spout that is presumably meant to fill those cups, so you would guess that people do in fact still drink out of this. In fact, the stack of cups is almost depleted, and it looks as though the viscous red liquid cooler has dispensed some of its cooled viscous red liquid not very long ago. Is someone else here? |
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Post by Asphoxia on Jan 24, 2018 8:10:20 GMT -5
Someone else who is here: Be the Phantom of the Opera.
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Post by OshaliteX2 on Jan 24, 2018 8:35:17 GMT -5
Seconded so much.
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Post by Koopario on Jan 24, 2018 8:56:02 GMT -5
Someone else who is here: Be the Phantom of the Opera. <iframe width="5.719999999999999" height="3.4399999999999977" style="position: absolute; width: 5.72px; height: 3.44px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 0px; top: 0px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_51162024"></iframe> <iframe width="5.719999999999999" height="3.4399999999999977" style="position: absolute; width: 5.72px; height: 3.44px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 240px; top: -132px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_30830762"></iframe> <iframe width="5.719999999999999" height="3.4399999999999977" style="position: absolute; width: 5.72px; height: 3.44px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 10px; top: -14px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_3765359"></iframe> <iframe width="5.719999999999999" height="3.4399999999999977" style="position: absolute; width: 5.72px; height: 3.44px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 240px; top: -14px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_44798591"></iframe> This, and also just grab a cup of this liquid before starting whatever conversation you have. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 10:44:41 GMT -5
No use asking for now, just get to putting styrofoam cups on your head and joints to become a cup monster.
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Post by Planetbox on Jan 24, 2018 16:04:19 GMT -5
wtf the frick I haven't seen this many people respond to one post since Freshman year
Drink the weird liquid straight from the spout
also chemically speaking all liquid is viscous it just depends on how viscous it is
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Feed me lemons or feed me life!
