You find yourself awakening in an unfamiliar location. Even if you don't sleep - even if you weren't sleeping in the Void, or even if you weren't in the Void - you find yourself here now. Your head feels fuzzy and you struggle to remember. Where are you? What were you supposed to be doing? Who are you? The exact extent of this is up to you all, but regardless, waking up is a struggle.
Getting free is going to be even more of a struggle. You're suspended in a glass tube of some kind, bound at the ankles and wrists keeping you aloft by mechanical shackles. Those will break fairly easily even if you aren't the strongest; the glass tube will be the bigger problem. It's thick and not the easiest to break - although those of you with enough strength can shatter it, and if you remember how to use your shards, those could come in handy.
Speaking of, you still retain your shards on the backs of your hands where they should be. You can still make use of them even here... wherever "here" is.
It seems to be a laboratory of some sort; aside from the glass tubes housing all of you individually, there are several more filled with liquid and dark objects within... are they people? Regardless of what they are, they fill you with dread. You don't want to end up like them, do you?
The laboratory is dimly lit. You can only see a few feet in front of you, making it difficult to tell what else this place has to offer aside from your fellow shardbearers and those ominous tubes. Strangely, any attempts at creating light - whether that's through anything you have on your person or through use of your shard powers - will simply fail. You're stuck in the dark, it seems, and even if you were once capable of seeing in it, you aren't able to now.
Focus on getting free first, then let's see where this leads.
[It looks at the man. It’s being addressed, but it can't actually hear. How is it to do whatever it's supposed to be doing if it can’t hear? Maybe that's why they're exiting the tubes. It tilts its head and points at the glass. Should it...?]
[ More doesn't know what's going on or what any of this is, but he's still enough himself to decide that yeah. Big glass tubes to trap people probably are a bad thing.
So after a second to process the implicit question, he nods. ]
[ More has also forgotten all he's learned about the existence of computers, but he can... sort of guess what this means. ]
I do not recall who I am either. But from what I have gathered, we are a pre-existing group and not meant to be here. It'd be best for us to join the others in search for an exit, I'd say?
[It calculates. Logically it should probably just do as it's told, but if the human (horns? It rotates that a little before dismissing it as irrelevant) is also broken...]
...we are not supposed to wait here for repairs?
[Tubes like that are for containment and study. Both are appropriate activities to conduct on a malfunctioning machine.]
[Mmm. Well, alright. It accepts this new information readily enough; what does it know?]
Very well.
[The lack of information's actually...not good, probably. It lacks a current directive, but it knows it's a machine, meant to assist people. These are people. How's it going to assist if it doesn't know what they need?]
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So after a second to process the implicit question, he nods. ]
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[ These are not instructions but it needs to be said. ]
Do you remember who you are?
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[That’s a no!]
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I do not recall who I am either. But from what I have gathered, we are a pre-existing group and not meant to be here. It'd be best for us to join the others in search for an exit, I'd say?
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...we are not supposed to wait here for repairs?
[Tubes like that are for containment and study. Both are appropriate activities to conduct on a malfunctioning machine.]
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No. [ He shakes his head. ] Those who put us here are not our allies.
[ That much seems pretty certain and if he's wrong, well, he can apologize later. ]
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Very well.
[The lack of information's actually...not good, probably. It lacks a current directive, but it knows it's a machine, meant to assist people. These are people. How's it going to assist if it doesn't know what they need?]
...they're your enemies?
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Seeing as they saw fit to imprison us for no apparent cause, that might be an apt description, yes.
[ WHO AND WHY? WHO KNOWS! ]
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Understood. Just tell me what you would like for me to do.
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[ LET'S DUCKLING CHAIN AFTER PERCY... ]
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[It'll follow him around until he tells it to stop!]