unknownseas | COMMENCE EXPERIMENT

Fun fact: Did you know that the Pacific Ocean has a surface area of 62.46 million miles? That's not even accounting for depth.

You awaken to a sharp jolt, like you've just hit the drop on a roller coaster. Then it passes, and you're in a bed, suddenly very clearly awake. Is that right? Were you asleep? Your memory is a little fuzzy as you come down off the adrenaline, but it puts itself into place soon enough. This is not, as one might say, your beautiful house. If you have a beautiful wife, she sure isn't here.

The positioning of the bed inside your new room gives you a very clear indication of where you are - or at least, where the building is. Above you is a decent-sized window looking out on... well, the ocean. But not in a fun beachside resort way, to say the least. Fish swim by pretty frequently, here to keep you company - but they cannot hear your screams, and do not seem particularly bothered if you tap on the glass unless they're right by it. It's thick, man.

On the bedside table, you'll find two things: a key card with a number between 1 and 25 on it (no points for guessing which one is on whose, unfortunately), and a small handheld device, a little like a smartphone but mostly like a blackberry? Remember those? Anyway, accessing it will reveal only a scarce few functions: a list of profiles, a map of the building, and a very ominous set of rules. You might try to ignore that last one! Unfortunately, you'll find them in a frame by your door. And in a frame somewhere in every room of the place, if you go out exploring at all. The tablet also has a message for you when you open it:

Greetings. Please take an hour to become accustomed to the facilities, then proceed to the meeting room north of your dormitories. Attendance is mandatory. - The Professor

But hey, it... it also lets you play Snake! Who doesn't love Snake, huh?

Anyway, head out into the halls! Make some new friends - or maybe enemies, wouldn't that be exciting? Look around a little! Just make sure to be back for whatever this meeting is - after all, you want a chance to face off with your captor, right?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ certainly it's the lights in the halls that are making this guy's skin a very unnatural green color and not because it's his skin color to begin with?? maybe you should ignore the open (?) wounds on his skin though ]

How what?

[uHHH;;;

Is this what Marionette Bones look like before they're bones all the way? Holy shit, his see-through next door neighbor one thing, but this guy is something else.]

...

[But also, so is everything here, so...?]

...How... are the lights not fire-hot. Is what I was wondering.

[Fear not the talking dead, right?]

[ he seems to think about this. and shrugs ]

Could be LEDs.

[ because that clearly answers therion's question ]

[Ellydise?]

What?

[He is beyond capacity.]

The fancy lights.

...Right, of course.

[Therion understands absolutely nothing. Moving on, though, he waves a hand at the rest of their surroundings.]

Besides that, have you ever seen anything like this?

You mean being underwater or a building like this?

Either. Both.

Been underwater before. [ not hard when one of your friends is a merprincess ]

But the building's new. Not like anything I've seen.

[Was he underwater because he died drowning and then ocean creatures ate some of him before his corpse started moving again? That's another one filed under Questions Therion Is Not Asking Today.]

Wonder how deep we are...