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The Games: Geography of SS
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The Games: Geography of SS
(OOC: Wow. Wactor must have balls of steel to actually be able to move with a bloodstream full of destructive nanobots. The only reason Winters isn't as affected is because he has fewer.)
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RE: The Games: Geography of SS
(OOC: 12...)
The blade slices his skin, and he screams. The pain triggers a flashback, and he mow thinks Winters is a nurse, injecting him with nanobots. He starts punching him in the face with a newfound intensity, but he's ignoring the knife...
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The Games: Geography of SS
Winters' rage is no less intense as he attempts to mortally wound his opponent, aiming his knife for the upper chest and neck.
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(OOC: 11.)
He aims perfectly, but one punch throws him off and the knife plunges in his shoulder. The GM falls to the ground screaming, and you can hear the people outside the wing begin to stir, and come closer to the door...
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Winters pulls out the knife, grips it firmly, and aims at the GM's neck/torso and stabs at him again (and again, and again, attempting overkill).
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The knife grazes his neck, and the GM begins to bleed severely. He'll die if it doesn't stop...
People in rags start coming in, and they see their guardian on the floor near death. Some start crying, some of them go for their guns...
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Winters presses the knife deeply into the GM's neck, and leaves it there. He smashes the cane with his foot, and the others stop writhing in pain.
He stands to address the people in the room. For some reason, it seems he already knows them, or at least knows of them.
Winters: (PERSUADE) I'm in charge here. Allow me to introduce myself; I am Terrell J. Winters. You may recognize my name, and probably know the names of the other three "prisoners" in this room; we were all assigned to handle research and development here at Dieter Meyers Insane Asylum, for varying reasons, until this failed experiment (he gestures at Carlmen, dying) decided to imprison us before we had the chance to do so to him. I'm here for one reason and one reason only; to investigate and improve the SB formula, one that he, and many of you here, have been subjected to. Any questions?
(OOC: I hope what Winters said makes sense in regards to the plot. If not, I'll change it.)
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(OOC: Well, Carlmen lead these people to the asylum so that they would have a home. He's been protecting them and giving them food, in exchange for helping him in his studies... But you got a 19... so you persuaded them to believe you, and here's their reaction.)
We have no idea what this SB formula is, or what you're talking about. All I know is that YOU stabbed Steve! -Ragged Woman
Hey, maybe he has a point. Let's bandage Steve and then we can talk about this...-Jim Carter
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Winters: Then it's worse than I thought. This building was abandoned, wasn't it? Has been for awhile? And Ca..."Steve" led you here?
If you must save his life, you must, but I should warn you that "Steve" here is not as he appears. He's mentally ill, but not as the result of a medical condition; he was subjected to the prototype of a serum, known only as SB, intended to break his mind. Right in this building, in fact. The results were not as expected; he escaped this asylum and began kidnapping people, subjecting them to torture more brutal than what he experienced, and forcing them to play his deranged games. The four of us here were only his latest victims, though it's clear why he targeted us. I know that he's done some nice things for you, but he is not a good person; if you save his life, nothing will stop him from doing it all again.
Winters helps the others to their feet.
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Listen, we need to save his life now. We can hold a trial for him later, but he can't die here. Please let me help him. -Jim Carter
He.. He's a fukin liar... -The GameMaker
Carter bandages his wounds and gets some disinfectant.
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Winters: As you wish.
Winters, while normally not a moral man, helps the people find medical supplies and treat the GM.
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Molly: Do we go on to the next game after this?
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Winters: I'm done playing games.
He leaves the medical wing and group of worried peasants to go to the abandoned science wing; deep therein, he surmises, is the secret entrance to the FASH facility, possibly the area in which the SB formula was tested before it was abandoned.
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(Activating GM powers) The entrance to the FASH facility appears to have been abandoned for approximately half a year. Winters frowns as he notices scuff marks on the walls and broken containers and crates; some hostile force must have been there, and that same force probably released all of the SB-project prisoners within.
He can't get the secret door open from his side, but he notices an empty, battered ventilation shaft that, he surmises, leads into the underground FASH complex. He gingerly enters the shaft, suspecting that this was the very point of entry of his mysterious foe.
Meanwhile, the other three are in the medical bay while the worried, rag-clothed people tend to Carlmen's wounds. Carlmen is unconscious, but the men managed to prevent him from losing any more blood; it is miraculous that he survived at all. Carter, one of the ragged men, approaches the three cautiously.
Jim Carter: That Winters guy is nuts - what he was saying doesn't make any sense. Anyway, let's start from the beginning: how do you guys know Steve?
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Molly: He kind of...forcefully let us play a couple of games he made.
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Carter: What kind of games? Like, Scrabble?
Some of the others gather around and listen to Molly.
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Molly: Nah. Mind games I guess. Like making another cry through insults or going to Steve while being upside-down on the ceiling in a straight-jacket.
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Carter: Wow, that's crazy. Steve seems like such a nice guy, too. Tell me more about what happened to you, strange corpse-looking person.
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Molly: Another was solving hard math problems while having bugs in your body that cuase pain.
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(OOC: Oh crap. I rolled a 1.)
Carter: That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Look, I've got to get back to taking care of Steve; that crazy guy with the knife really did him in. If I find that Winters man, he's dead. Although you kind of look it yourself...
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(GM powers still operational)
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the abandoned mental hospital, the vent buckles under Winters' weight. One of the shafts collapses, delivering Winters to the ground inside the secret FASH facility.
He was right. The corpses of loyal FASH devotees fill the air inside the fortified entryway with a horrible smell, and Winters grimaces, noting that they are covered in practically hundreds of oozing slash marks. Someone, or something, definitely broke into the compound...or broke out.
Winters examines his surroundings as he walks, confirming that his fellow freedom fighters did not bother to take back the base, and might not have even known it had been taken. He makes his way to the network terminal to find what has become of the hideout's records, and dutifully contact the head of the Capitalistian branch - Clara Watson.
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In the medbay, most of the people present are tending to the GameMaker's wounds.
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Now that Steve is down, Molly sees an opportunity and not wanting to risk it runs away, but to an unknown place. Dun dun dunnnnn.
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(OOC: Hmm. That's probably the smartest move of the century, actually. Not sure why Wactor and Duskshine are still hanging about, aside from Hansy and Kira not checking this thread, of course.)
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