lights out

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LIGHTS OUT
a dark room meme



Uh oh! Looks like something weird is happening, here! Did someone forget to pay the electricity bill? Or has that storm outside caused a blackout? Who knows! Reasoning aside, you are now trapped in darkness. You can't see anything, anything at all! And you can't even adjust to this darkness, for some reason! There's only black, black, black. Something about this room is odd, for certain!

How this is going to go down
♦ You will post as your character as ANON, because you're in the dark!
♦ There is no putting your character's name in the subject line. However, if you like, you can put your character's series/canon. It's no fun if you know who you're interacting with right away!
♦ You're free to set up your character fumbling around in the dark and such, just so you remember which comment is yours in this anon mess, if anything.
♦ Those who reply to you will roll the RNG for the specifics of the situation!
♦ Yay! In the dark shenanigans!!
♦ When you guys are ready, the lights go on, you can log into your character journals, and it's time to admire the awkward in the light.

♦ ONE: WHY IS IT SO SMALL AND CRAMPED IN THIS ROOM? Wait, this isn't a room, this is a closet. It looks like you've been locked inside for Seven Minutes in Heaven, or just for shits and giggles! The door doesn't seem to be opening, and it sounds like some ... Barry Manilow is playing? Oh, talk about awkward.
♦ TWO: BRR, WHY IS IT SO COLD? Looks like your clothes are missing! For some reason, you're only dressed in your underwear, or even commando if you feel like being really mean to your muse. Are you in bed with someone? Just can't find your clothes? Are THEY wearing your clothes? Up to you, because it really doesn't make it any less awkward.
♦ THREE: A LITTLE HANDSY: Did someone just cop a feel? There's a lot of accidental (or... not accidental groping going on, for whatever reason! Talk about an awkward situation, mmmhmm!
♦ FOUR: OOPS, STUCK! One of you is stuck somewhere in this room, and can't get out! Either in a hole in the floor or tied to a bed or something! Whatever you can think of! Hopefully the other person can help you out in the dark.
♦ FIVE: ON AND OFF! Rather than totally darkness, the lights are flashing on and off, creepily. And it looks like there might be monsters in there with you guys?! Or are those illusions?

If you don't want to roll the RNG, that's fine! Go ahead and create your own situation, if you'd like!

Have fun, everyone!

(originally posted here at memebells)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

[He starts working his way along the wall again, more surely this time.] If I had my phaser I could just melt through the damn thing but it's not on my belt. [Which is bothersome. Where'd his shit go?]

[(Anonymous)]

You used to have it then. Likely was confiscated from our person then. A phaser, you say?

An audio signal processing technique used to filter a signal by creating a series of peaks and troughs in the frequency spectrum - concentrating on one specific point.

A futuristic 'stun gun' of sorts.

[Nope, he doesn't know anything about that at all. Without all the facts, not proper to reach a conclusion.]

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. It can do more than stun, though. [Uh-huh. It seems he knows a lot about phasers. He's sort of thrown by the 'futuristic' part.]

[(Anonymous)]

I meant futuristic from the time I'm from. It's in - ah - my friend's collection of films.

[Continues to feel his way around the lock.]

Appears to me to be some sort of freezer. I suppose we won't die as long as we don't contract Freon poisoning.

[(Anonymous)]

And what time are you from?

[He frowns at the mention of it being a freezer.]

Poisoning. Great. That's another thing I need.

[(Anonymous)]

Two-thousand twelve - I suppose everything in your world goes by "stardate" now?

[There might be a hint of scorn, followed by a thump. He disregards the statement about poisoning. There's more things to be concerned about than Freon poisoning. Dehydration for example.]

End table. Or something like that. No. It's a chest. Locked to - I don't have my tools to pick the lock in the door. If we had something small enough to fit into the hole - if it really is a freezer there is usually a safety feature a small notch that enables one to pop out the bar. Strange that there's furniture in here.

[(Anonymous)]

...yeah, but I know when twenty-twelve was. Sort of a low point in Earth's history. [He's still inching along the wall until he hits something -- and promptly realizes it's the other person.] Wow, you were way closer than I thought. I could have sworn we were in a study? Is it a freezer-study?

[That makes sense, really it does. He should probably just stop talking.]

[(Anonymous)]

Furniture stored in a freezer. Idiots. And because your weapon is gone, we've probably been put in in her for some purpose.

[He'll be trying to pick the lock again with something he's found on the floor, sliding into the small hole, hopefully the bar will pop out and they can escape. He doesn't much like the dark, and the air is getting suffocating.]