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Realistic or Modern Survivor’s Tales Ep. 1 ((Always open to new Voters))

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Dr.Nekoshu

Confuse. Improvise. Overcome.
((Greetings my name is Nekoshu and I’m here to give a brief rundown of the works for anyone who needs to know. This here is a Quest Roleplay. Put simply all that is required of you is to read what I post as our Story-teller, and vote on options I will give you to progress the story! Sometimes I may let people suggest a Write-In as a vote and give a randomized roll of a die to see what vote gets in depending on the numbers. But enough from me! Allow me to begin our story!))


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The memories of what happened down there beneath the waves, it all still cycled through your mind. Strange things. You knew what went on down there but, how could it have all gone so wrong. Who were you kidding that was a stupid question to ask, they were messing with things no-one should have. That no Mortal should have. It was only a matter of time until it all went to Oblivion. But, for now you were safe or you felt safer than you did down there at least. Speaking of which, where even were you, your escape from the station had all been a blur near the end.
With this in mind you began to take stock of your surroundings, the most obvious thing you was that you were sitting down at a metal table in a fairly well-lit room. Metal walls too, one particular section held what seemed to be a bulkhead door in it. Were you on a ship maybe? Another section of the wall, up in a corner opposite you held a single small orb with a tiny blue dot in it that seemed to be focused on you. Ah, a camera, you must be in an interrogation room or something of the sort, perhaps debriefing but if that was so… Where was your debriefer?
As if on cue with your thoughts the valve on the door began to turn and push into the room, through it you caught the glimpse of a what you could have mistaken for a normal crew member if not for the logo on his shirt. Two W’s tip to tip, the left one wearing a little wizard’s hat upon it on its free tip. Wizard’s Way, one of the more well-known corporations that nearly ran the world nowadays, and your current employer. Or so you hoped. This man stepped into the room, black hair cut short not unlike a crew cut and his black clothing marking him as what you could only assume as some sort of security officer. The man moved towards you and set a laptop upon the table before taking a seat opposite you and looking you over with curious Cinnamon eyes.
Next he gave a soft and pleasant smile before opening his laptop and starting something up on it. “Greetings, my name is Gerard Vexial. I’m here to debrief you about what happened down in our Deep-sea research station, named…” He glances to his computer for a moment. “…Nyad. For our first order of business I need you to state your name and occupation on the research station before we continue.” With that he looked to you expectantly…
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What was your Occupation in the Station?

A. Edward Belial, Expedition Team (You were a part of some of the most dangerous Men and Women in that station, possibly ex-military. You were built for survival and that proved useful near the end…)

B. Elizabeth Peper, Researcher (You were on the big wigs in the station, you helped research all those strange and interesting things down under the sea. You saw Now the mistakes your teams made, but knowing what those things were helped you escape.)

C. Zachariah Bryant, Engineer (All those big wigs and death squad people, and you still had to help keep the place running and danger-free from the normal deep-sea trouble an underwater habitat suffered. All those times spent where no-one else went, it helped you survive as long as you did.)

D. Subject #947, Contact (You were… One of the expendable people. Perhaps a death-row inmate somewhere, maybe a vagabond looking for good pay, perhaps something… Else. You knew all the ways to stay alive around those things, and there was always something different about you… Perhaps you knew what that was even.)

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(It would seem though that C would be our winner folks. Sorry Paint~)

“Zachariah Bryant…” The security officer ran the name across his tongue. “An engineer you say? Must have known the guts of that station very well. Probably seen what the ocean can do to someone who mistreats her. Tell me, do you fear nature?” He looked at you with once curious eyes now cold as he stared you down. “Don’t answer that, it’s rhetorical. Now I’m here to learn what exactly went on down there and so far, you’re the only survivor we’ve found. So you will have to tell me what you know about the events and the station. From the beginning of the incident please, or at least from the start of what you remember.”

You awoke to the creaking of metallic walls as you looked around in the darkness about you, a small red light rotating and lighting the service tunnel you rested in with a foreboding red. You didn’t quite remember how you wound up here but that was just the grogginess talking though your head did hurt a bit. The last thing you did remember was your Supervisor calling for you over the radio when the sirens began to blare about something going wrong. But where was he, and why weren’t the sirens still going? The emergency power was obviously still on. Nevermind, all of those were questions best saved for later, for now you had to figure out what to do and what had happened.

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What will you do first?

A. Take stock of yourself. (Check for any damage, items anything else.)

B. Look for your Supervisor. (You feel like he wasn’t too far from you, and last you remember something happened… Maybe he had answers. Besides… He was actually kind of a nice guy.)

C. Find your way out of the Service Tunnels. (Something had happened on the station, you either wanted to find out, or didn’t want to bother and just wanted to leave.)
 
First things first, check yourself. You didn’t remember what happened so maybe you had a concussion, but your head felt fine, no major bumps or any bleeding it seemed. No issues there. Center mass was fine, your jumpsuit was alright, undamaged for the most part aside from the normal scuffs. Right arm check, left arm… You looked at your left arm, more specifically the metallic hand. A Wizard’s Way prosthetic, hell, prosthetic wasn’t even right. These guys essentially strapped you with a Terminator arm. Stronger than your right, it made you ambidextrous, sure as hell helped a lot in your line of work. All courtesy of your employer, damn good insurance when you know company secrets after all. All together everything seemed to be fine if a little stiff all over.
Then you took a look at your belt, on your right side sat a small gun-like tool with a little canister attached at the top. Sort of looked like a hot glue gun, your welder, strong enough to meld plasteel pieces together or melt right through them, paid for itself in dealing with leaks and patches. Just beside it hung a pair of what appeared to be sunglasses for whatever reason, but you knew better. A pair of eye-concealing goggles that acted almost like a second set of eyes or vision, helped you see electrical currents and the schematics of machines and was pretty effective at noticing things you didn’t. One of your co-workers kept nicknaming them the HUD for some reason, too many times spent in the recreation departement gaming that one. On the back of your belt hung a small USB of all things, but it was your connection to all the computers this place ran on, while you were no I.T. guy that USB mixed with the HUD made it real easy to communicate with all the computers over half the machines ran. Finally on your left, hanging from a small clip was your- You reached down and patted your jumpsuit, your badge was gone. Well, if things were as bad as they seemed… There’d probably be some unfortunate soul or two willing to relinquish theirs for your benefit.
That seemed to be it though, you were missing a few tools but you could do without for now, it was time for the next course of action…


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What would be your next move?

A. Find your Supervisor (You still had this suspicion he was close, who knows, maybe he could help you.)

B. Find an exit from the Service tunnels (Time to go.)
 
A.

With our engineering tools, we can figure this out on our own! But we should probably make sure the supervisor is okay with us taking the day off.
 
Finding your Supervisor. Yeah, that was a good idea, a man in charge of you who was actually in charge of roughly half the station if not the entire place. He’d know what was going on and he’d be able to get you through most of the station what with your missing badge. Last thing you recalled was the two of you running through the tunnels, he couldn’t have been too far behind you but something must have got him. Despite a sense of foreboding you clenched your fists and began to walk deeper into the station’s guts to find him.
Red warning lights, pipes, darkness, hazardous wires, this had been a place you had spent most of your time on this station, crawling and walking through the guts of this place. You’d call it home if you felt safe enough to do so, but the ever-present crushing weight of the sea around you always made for a bit of unease about being so deep. If you were to die in here, it could be days, maybe weeks before anyone found you. But now you felt there was no-one to come looking anyhow. You were shaken out of your thoughts by this metallic smell, it was, different than all the others you had come to know here. You kept on your path as the smell worsened, nothing to make you sick but enough to be taken notice of in the tunnels.
A few more steps and- You stopped, your foot hit something in the alternating darkness and red light. That didn’t feel like anything metal. You looked down as the red light hit the floor in front of you and there he was, your Supervisor. “Oh, Hi Mark.” You said to the corpse as you stepped back and knelt down to look at him, the floor was caked with a bit of blood but, how did he even die?

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What wounds did your Supervisor have?
(Prepare to decide your fate.)

A. Missing limbs and bite marks (Judges above…)

B. Crackles of electricity and burn marks (Wait… I remember…)

C. Stab wounds (Huh, that’s strange… His eyes…)

D. Holy shi- (Why choose just one?)
 
(Alright, closing the voting for this one with the winner being option D… Whoo boy.)

By the Judges… In the alternating light and dark you caught a better glimpse as you looked down at what you thought was your Supervisor, out of what remains you wouldn’t have been sure it was him if his face wasn’t still relatively intact. His body was covered in blood for one thing, his jumpsuit was ruined for sure but you doubted he’d care too much about that now.
Just to start noticing things, almost his entire left arm was gone, it looked as if it had been torn right off, and his right leg had a chunk taken out of it below the knee. You prayed to the Judge of Morality he had died before either happened to him. Your mind is the first to tell you he likely didn’t feel either of those things happening. But the marks… His leg and arms were riddled with claw marks and bite marks, they almost looked like the teeth of a small shark. That was strange enough but you’d seen people lose parts of themselves in machinery or stupid accidents all the time, This was different.
Next thing that caught your attention was a crackling noise as you reached out to touch him, instinctively you stopped. You’d heard enough live wires to know that wasn’t a good sound, just then you saw the electricity crackle over the wounds of your Supervisor’s Corpse. What the? Even if he was on a live wire it would never show like that. Then you looked to see the burn mark around his neck, much like a handprint upon him. Wait… You remember something about that. Some years back the Station has put you on a team to create a specialized containment unit for some… Thing. It was, you weren’t quite sure what they called it, all you remembered was it needing to be fireproof and they had you put some strange shielding on it that was supposed to keep energy inside. Kind of like an insulator, but that stuff didn’t hold electricity in worth a damn. Then you remembered the name, you had done studies when you saw the thing they put in that unit. You had to get access to the research material from one of the researchers, Judges you hoped she was alright. They called it an Infernal, some blackened Skeleton with two short horns on its head, forever aflame. Sentient and supposedly older than Humans, it claimed they were the ones who gifted magic to the world but… Magic wasn’t real right? Either way, your Supervisor was still dead and there was one more thing that caught your eye.
The last thing you looked at was his face, the one part of him left relatively untouched, it was almost like it was when he told you to run however long ago that was. But something was off, his eyes weren’t right. You got closer to his head but kept a safe distance in case all that electricity did something to you, and looked directly at his eyes. They were lifeless of course, still a soft cybernetic blue you’d gotten used to seeing every day. But in them there were these veins in them, almost writhing and pulsing, what the- Just then you heard metal clattering to the floor behind you, but turning around you saw nothing. You looked back to the eyes of your dead Supervisor and found that the veins were gone… Strange. But for some reason the electricity from whatever before looked more present and so you decided to take your leave just in case it decided to jump to you.

This alone was a sight for you, the poor man didn’t deserve this at all. But obviously he wasn’t going to be able to help you get out of here, time to move on…

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What will you do now?

A. Find an exit from the service tunnels (You’d seen enough of this…)

B. Search your Supervisor (Judges forgive you.)
 

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