livestage ([personal profile] livestage) wrote2025-05-30 01:25 pm

CIRRUS NETWORK

You find yourselves in a surprisingly sterile room. It's entirely white, almost blindingly so. There are a few beanbag chairs to sit on, though perhaps not enough for your entire family. On one of the walls, there's a laminated poster of a wheel. At the center of the room is a table with a glass case on top. If you lift the case, you'll find a single red button. Behind a glass panel on the wall is a monitor that is currently off.

Curiously, it does not seem as though you can actually destroy anything in this room (save for a simple note by the button), regardless of how much you may try. The glass will never shatter. The poster cannot be torn into pieces. Furthermore, your blessings and powers are off and none of your personal belongings are actually on your person.

A simple note lays by the button on the table, a reminder of your directive: Will you push the button?
endsjustified: (hypersthene.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ok tries to bash his head on the floor and knock him out immediately and efficiently tho

KEYWORD TRIES but he's being pretty ruthless]
mykidisthebest: (burn feelings for twenty summers)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[it does not knock him out but it DOES stun him enough that he's fully out of it for a few long seconds, head swimming]
endsjustified: (hypersthene.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[that's an opening to headlock him just like Booker]
endsjustified: (light up; light up.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[inclines his head]

I'm sorry about that.
thefaultinthestars: (118)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[EXCUSE ME??]

Did you forget what side you're on??

[punches??]
mykidisthebest: (screaming at stars like night lights)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[it's a little harder to get in air but he is scrambling the whole time, trying to tug at his hair or horns or clothes or scratch at him enough for Vincent to decide it's not worth the trouble and let go]
endsjustified: (fresh start with your final breath.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[unfortunately Vincent is just going to lean into tightening his grip and shifting his greater weight so Eugene can't get him off with leverage, not even attempting to dodge damage]
mykidisthebest: (gotta figure out a window to break out)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[KICKS HIM]

Answer me honestly and I might help you. Depending on your answer.
thefaultinthestars: (Default)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ultimately booker is missing his tail and claws AND doesn't actually know how to fight so he will be probably successfully subdued but Vincent WILL bleed at least, but eventually he goes somewhat limp under Vincent]
endsjustified: (moribund mondays.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[HE'LL PAY THE BLOOD TITHE. EYES ON THE PRIZE. Booker probably has feathery keratinous scales stuck between his teeth, yuck

fully does not relax his grip past letting Booker get at least a little air. does not fully trust him to not be shamming]
thefaultinthestars: (080)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
[gasps, wheezing, for air and also tries to awkwardly punch him in the throat]
thefaultinthestars: (219)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Make your own decisions! You're asking--[punches again!] --everyone else and not committing to anything yourself!
mykidisthebest: (love in withdrawal)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
[well he can't escape then but it's not going to stop him from struggling. he DOES at one point try to cover Vincent's nose and mouth to try and make HIM pass out, though]
endsjustified: (⚘ commingling.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[whips his head and bites his hand. cronch]
endsjustified: (Default)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[HACKS AND WHEEZES but sort of full-weight bodyslams him against the ground at the same time. just fully. drops on him]
mykidisthebest: (I can't let this go)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[reels back since other people are holding him down, catches his breath, and then goes to punch him in the stomach]

I'm making my decisions based off of the facts I'm given! So tell me!
mykidisthebest: (But don’t apologize)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[BITES HIS ARM]
endsjustified: (Default)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[makes a muffled snarling gagging noise of pain and

bites down harder]
thefaultinthestars: (113)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
I've given you enough, come up with -[oof, takes the hit but then just returns it in kind]-- come up with a few of your own!
thefaultinthestars: (Default)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] thefaultinthestars 2025-05-31 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ow, will lies here and just. breathe a bit]
endsjustified: (passing.)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] endsjustified 2025-05-31 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
[HE'S SO TIRED, EMOTIONALLY

keeps a grip on him until they run down the clock but his heart's not really in it]
carveitout: (08)

1/3

[personal profile] carveitout 2025-05-31 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ A door opens in the room. What door? Who knows. But the door opens and a flood of cuddly puppies of all different breeds come scampering in. This would be very cute except for one teeny, tiny problem: the puppies all have lasers strapped to their heads.

Fortunately, friendly fire isn't a thing, so they seem incapable of lasering each other. Unfortunately, you are not a friendly to them and they are very rowdy. You can certainly try to pet them as they leap about and laser you in addition to scratching and nipping at you, but you are incapable of actually removing the lasers from their heads. It's fine. They seem happy. They're having fun as they maul you with their lasers.

But it's not over yet. ]
carveitout: (04)

2/3

[personal profile] carveitout 2025-05-31 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ The ceiling opens up and trash falls down. It's any kind of trash you can possibly imagine. None of it is usable, so don't even think of trying to sneak some away for science. Or projects. It also continues to fall. And fall. And fall. To the point where you may grow concerned about actually being buried in it.

Abruptly, the trash flow seems to stop which would normally be a good thing except for the ominous beeping that can be heard. If you're able to get your head above the sea of trash, you'll see that the ceiling is now a rather massive trash compactor — and it's coming down.

Down.

Down.

The crushing sensation seems to last for an eternity, but it's only a few minutes at most. The compactor lifts.

It's still not over. ]
carveitout: (11)

3/3

[personal profile] carveitout 2025-05-31 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ Battered, bruised cut and cauterized, at last, you are back in the sterile room. Nothing happens.

At first, it might be a relief. A moment for the sharp pain to dull, for your pulse to rest.

But you find yourself moving slowly. Breathing slowly. Your pulse stretching between thuds.

The tick of time extends. Seconds become minutes, then hours, then years. You are aware. You are caught here, between time. Moving at such an infinitely slow pace you can feel the impulses of pain as the fine firing of each individual nerve, passing connection to connection, conduction to conduction.

It has been you in your own head, for quite some time.

And then, finally, when you've thought all there is to think about it. When you've tried everything for relief, for motion, for agency.

It's over.

A trap door opens and unceremoniously dumps you all into the endgame. ]
mykidisthebest: (Now don't try to kid me mancub)

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] mykidisthebest 2025-05-31 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
[grabs his cheeks and pulls]

Say you like us and don't want us to get hurt and I'll press the button you shithead

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