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Lem ([personal profile] followedbylemmings) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2013-10-09 05:31 pm

It seemed legit.

Lab Rat: The Puzzlening


It's a meme in which you're trapped in some enclosed environment and are forced to run around like an idiot whilst playing some kind of game (typically one in which failure means death) and some mysterious gamemaster points and laughs at you. Dangan Ronpa, 999, Portal, you know the drill. And it shall pierce the heavens.

So let's get the formalities over with.

Where are you trapped?

1. An amusement park with deadly rides and booby trapped attractions!
2. A creepy mansion with the obligatory ghosts and cursed objects!
3. A small island that's, thankfully, at least reasonably tropical so you won't have to worry about getting cold!
4. A boat that's slowly sinking even as I type this!
5. A zoo except there's some sort of super creepy twist like the animals exhibited are actually whatever species you are!
6. Something seemingly innocent that you can walk out of any time, like a high school or a Subway or a Walmart- okay, innocentish except the twist is that it's actually VR and there's no escape no matter how far you run!
X. Fuck your number options I do what I want.

What are you supposed to do?

1. Run around and solve puzzles like an idiot for an indefinite period of time!
2. FIND A WAY OUT. That's it. And probably one or more of the other items on this list in the process but mainly just FIND A WAY OUT.
3. Kill other people until you're the last person standing!
4. Find a certain important object that's hidden somewhere in the playing field!
5. Figure out who the douchy gamemaster is and what they want because otherwise you'll probably be stuck doing various forms of 1-4 until you die!
=. I told you. Fuck your number options I do what I want.

Who are you really?

1. Some genuinely innocent bystander who somehow got sucked into this mess but mainly someone confused.
2. Someone who secretly has deep dark ties to everything that's going on.
3. The douchy gamemaster in disguise. Surprise!
~. I reject your numbers and do what I want!

What's potentially going to kill you?

1. Bombs.
2. Some esoteric neurotoxin that was injected into your blood and the douchy gamemaster is the only person who has the cure on them.
3. Some guy with a knife/gun/sword, possibly cursed or hacked depending on your stuck location.
4. Unsure because the methods are myriad and diverse. Who knows.
Q. Do I really have to spell out what this is at this point?

And has anyone died yet?

1. No.
2. Yes, and they're important.
3. Yes but they're just some NPC named Phil, whose grim death underscores what's really at stake but otherwise you can't really give a fuck about him. Sorry.
$. ...I'm not sure how you can take a third option with this given the dying/not dying thing but I have full confidence that you'll be able to do so.
redrobbinghood: (Right. Sure. Okay.)

Matthew | Fire Emblem Rekka no Ken

[personal profile] redrobbinghood 2013-10-10 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
(OOC: "I could be tagging a meme right now but no, lazy," I said, heavily paraphrased. Then my friend immediately logged off. I see how it is. I'm tagging a meme. You know who you are, come back, come back.

And for the record it apparently worked.)
Edited (Who knew tagging memes could summon random people.) 2013-10-10 02:08 (UTC)
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Komaeda Nagito • Dangan Ronpa 2

[personal profile] paving 2013-10-10 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[You rang?]
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ethereal_earth: (Wide like a life)

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Khan / "John Harrison" || [AOS] || all options

[personal profile] sanguinolent 2013-10-10 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[[ooc: if tagging Khan, a likely part of his younger upbringing. Do take caution in putting him in such a situation again. If actual Starfleet Officer John Harrison, well. He's human, isn't he? Maybe he'll be more susceptible.]]
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4 On a boat! And screw the rules for the rest!

[personal profile] ultros_boogie 2013-10-10 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Drats! Looks like we're gonna be all washed up!

[And it wasn't him this time, he swears!]

But looks like my company ain't too shabby~
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Sumia | Fire Emblem: Awakening

[personal profile] flowerfortunes 2013-10-10 03:14 am (UTC)(link)

Carolyn Collins Stoddard//Dark Shadows Movie (2012) f/M but OTA all else. (Cross canon is love)

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{OOC in her canon Carolyn is a werewolf.}
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Kariya Koki | The World Ends With You

[personal profile] lazier 2013-10-10 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Hey look, canon.]

Green Archer | Fate/EXTRA

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Rail | Baccano!

[personal profile] eggsplosion 2013-10-10 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
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1 - 4 - 1 - 4 - 3

[personal profile] eggsplosion 2013-10-10 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Welp, shit got real fast. After Phil was shot down by some mysterious poison arrows, even Rail was starting to take this thing a little more seriously. Other then Phil, everyone else is pretty much alive, but completely panicked. The Gamemaster had given them some kind of riddle for a mysterious object for them to find or else they'd get killed off in horrible ways.

Still, Rail wasn't acting like she was taking this very seriously, despite what was at sake. She got paired off with Archer, and she's got her hands stuffed in her pockets and following along at a somewhat lazy pace.]


So we're gonna end up like that Phil guy if we don't find the Gamemaster's missing socks or whatever?
flowerfortunes: (Wisteria)

6-5-1-3-3

[personal profile] flowerfortunes 2013-10-10 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Fun fact, I rolled twice and RNG really wanted the VR simulation, so I'll listen to the RNG gods.

So they'd started out in a town. No one caught on to what was going on until the thing appeared out of nowhere and brutally knifed Phil, whose grim death underscored what was really at stake. Now they were basically running about like idiots trying to evade the knife-wielding gitched thing whilst unraveling the clues behind the mastermind who had brought them to this place.

Sumia had ended up with Rail, and she was trying to be cheerful! With mixed results.]


Oh, I know we'll find a way out soon. [...] If we could find some flowers I could tell us our fortune.

[In two tags the skies will start blatantly glitching, give or take a tag.]
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Re: 6-5-1-3-3

[personal profile] eggsplosion 2013-10-10 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Phil just can't catch a break in this meme.

Rail has calmed down a little since their last encounter with the weird glitch thing trying to kill them. It wasn't human as far as she could tell - maybe some kind of failed experiment that's running loose and trying to kill them all?

...No, that didn't sound right either. She figures it's best not to think about it and just focus on surviving. They were in a building right now, and the glitch thing hasn't shown up in a while.]


If I had some explosives I could just blow it pieces. What good is flower fortune-telling gonna do for us?
Edited 2013-10-10 04:51 (UTC)
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[personal profile] flowerfortunes 2013-10-10 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Th-they'll give us hope! And tell us what our future is! [This was said with more conviction than she felt. Still. Gotta be brave.]

If my pegasus was here then we could outfly it, but...

[...if she was from a world with TVs she'd be wondering what that static noise was. As she wasn't, she merely wondered what that noise was. It was faint but...]
eggsplosion: <user name="semantics"> (Huh)

[personal profile] eggsplosion 2013-10-10 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Not gonna be much use if it can't tell us where that Gamemaster guy is. Or tell us where that knife-wielding monster is gonna show up. Sounds pretty useless otherwise if you ask me.

[Except no one ever does ask her. That doesn't stop her from giving her thoughts on...well, everything. She's about to ask about the pegasus thing when she hears the static too.]

What the hell's going on now?
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[personal profile] pragmaticality 2013-10-10 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Probably.

[He wasn't really taking it seriously either, honestly. After seeing Phil get shot down by some mysterious poison arrows (which he'd swear had nothing to do with him, stop looking at him like that ...) it was...it was just hard to really be in the proper mindset and go, "Gasp! I need to take this game deathly seriously!"

Especially given the setting. Dinoland was alright, he supposed, but Zippy the Steggy© was everywhere and it was honestly starting to get borderline creepy but in a, "You gotta be shitting me," sort of way. (And the fact the aforementioned Gamemaster was wearing a modified Zippy the Steggy© costume, like...Evil Zippy, think Dark Zippy, just...no. He couldn't take it seriously. He tried but it was impossible.)

There appeared to be some sort of train nearby.]


So where do you want to go? The other guys took the ferris wheel, one of the roller coasters, and...the food court?

[And he glanced back at Rail because fuck if he remembers.]
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Kon Hokaze | Ixion Saga DT | OTA

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[personal profile] flowerfortunes 2013-10-10 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. I'm sorry.

[Why's she apologizing? Because if she was better and more competent then she'd be able to protect the poor, cute Rail and shield her from that weird thing. Logic.]
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[personal profile] eggsplosion 2013-10-10 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
[You're asking the wrong homunculus if you expect her to remember. She shrugs, vaguely remembering where people said they were gonna go.]

Uhh, I don't think anyone suggested that souvenir shop with all the dino junk in it.
eggsplosion: <user name="semantics"> (Shock)

[personal profile] eggsplosion 2013-10-10 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
[It's probably not a good idea to do this, but as the static gets louder she presses her face against the window to see outside. Whatever was going on, it didn't sound like something was in the room with them, so...]

Hey! The sky's all weird!

[personal profile] pragmaticality 2013-10-10 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
[And he gives it a long look. It was an obvious place to lay out some kind of trap given the no doubt copious amount of stuffed animals, mugs, and other generic merchandise to hide all sorts of crap in. But it was also the most promising location out of their options.]

Sure.

[Sounds like a plan.]

So how do you think the souvenir shop's gonna try to kill us? Poison? Knives? Or hey, maybe some guy wearing a dinosaur costume will attack us with an axe and we'll win the award for stupidest way to go in this game.
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Isa (furure AUish) | Kingdom Hearts | ota

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