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shardmods ([personal profile] shardmods) wrote in [community profile] shardbond2025-01-18 12:00 pm

WEEK 1 EVENT






The passage of time in this place is not easily tracked, not without a clock of some sort, anyway. The days may even begin to blend together, only occasionally interrupted by confrontations with the robot spiders or discussion with whoever is on the other end of that terminal.

It seems like things won't change any time soon. But something is off today, and some of you may notice it sooner than others.

The mind-numbing drone of the nearby builder going about its work has been with you from the very start. Located behind the terminal and far down below, it was the first sound you heard upon arriving here. It has been arranging walkways in increasingly complicated and baffling designs, extending them ever outwards into space. This much has not changed at all during your time here; the drone of the machinery moving and metal being slotted into place may even have become somewhat comforting background noise.

It is completely silent today.

The skittering of spider robots through the vents or patrolling the area is not heard either, and though the atmosphere remains as gloomy as ever, the lack of sound will undoubtedly be noticeable to some of you. Thankfully, you can still hear; it's simply that the machines have stopped their usual tasks, for whatever reason.

Investigate?



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[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2025-01-19 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
Oh - no, this was actually before all that.

[Michael clearly can't help here, but he'll stand aside and keep up some chatter while other people get assessed and maybe Viktor makes his way over.]

It happened when I was first trying to leave Hell. I got the humans out, but I ended up getting caught, and that was the first time Shawn realized everything I'd been doing. I'd been lying to him for a good three hundred years already, and then I turned on everyone and smuggled a bunch of humans out. The only reason he didn't retire me right then is that retirement's a pretty public thing. He'd have to say why he was doing it. And if his higher-ups found out everything that happened under his nose, he'd have been just as hosed as I was. So he was gonna lock me up for a while, then kill me.

I actually thought he'd caught and killed Janet already, but she'd been running around in disguise. Came and got me, and we got out together.