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Capital H Mods ([personal profile] capitalm) wrote in [community profile] capitalh2014-04-27 01:14 pm

SCARY JAIL LOG #2

Who: Downtown Los Angeles Captives
Where: A Mysterious Location
When: Starting March 11th, lasting for at least 4 IC days
What: Those that were kidnapped in the downtown hotspot awake in a terrible place and terrible things happen.
Warnings: Violence, body horror, mind control, fucking creepy bullshit.

You awake in the depths of a vast tower, like a tall layered cylinder of steel and black metal. You can see a seemingly endless height above you, and an endless depth below. Each layer is lit by a ring of multi-hued light that seems to bleed into the black material below it, like veins into flesh. A circle is cut through each layer from the tower's top to bottom, and occasionally a vast black form will rise and fall between layers - a mass of black metal with lights like eyes and grasping mechanical hands. Sometimes it takes captives with it.

Cages line the exterior walls like an arena, with other restraints set up on the layered floors outside. There is a tone of clinical order and structure without, though the black metal leaks a substance almost like the sweat of an animal. Cages open and close themselves, and smaller machines and familiar looking cyborgs wander the floors. Entire cage sections can be removed mechanically and taken to lower levels. Muffled voices and the animal cries of captured strays can be heard around the shaft, as well as the rhythmic hum of vast machinery down below.

There is no natural light here, and no sign of easy escape.

[OOC: This is where you go if your character was picked up in the downtown LA area. If they weren't but you want them here for some reason, a limited degree of inter-base movement is possible, so it can be worked out. Just how your characters are set up and who they are caged with is up to you. They can also be cages alone, but within speaking distance of others. It is generally presume that a reasonable degree of care has been used to contain your character if they have powers, but the particular methods of restraint are up to you. Most approximately super sciencey things should be reasonable.

If your character is going to get "worked on" by the machine, the progression in which this occurs is up to you - you can have threads before things happen, and then threads during or after. As mentioned before, please use some discretion with how gruesome you get - this is comic books not a slasher fic. All inhuman characters captured will be lined up for modifications and brainwashing, but it is presumed that the AI is a busy machine and simply won't get to most people. Robots can be brainwashed with either code or implants, but organics should not get to the point of brainwashing because that would generally involve a lobotomy.

Feel free to take creative liberty with layouts and the like. This is a prompt, not a solid limit. AI may drop in occasionally as an NPC to menace you. As a mod if you need the NPC's attention for something in specific.]
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Re: OPEN

[personal profile] goldpaw 2014-05-02 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
As he clangs his way past her cage, her tail swishing in time with his footsteps, Vanessa turns her head to watch him. There's not much else to watch here, after all.

"Hey," she says, eyeing the little robot curiously, "weren't you with the Trailblazers?"
Edited 2014-05-02 23:32 (UTC)
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Re: OPEN

[personal profile] metabee 2014-05-03 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Metabee glanced up as Vanessa called out to him. He vaguely recognized her from some of magazine recently, but he wasn't familiar enough with Vanessa to recognize her by sight.

"Yeah, I'm with the Trailblazers. Why?"
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[personal profile] goldpaw 2014-05-03 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
She thought so – she's been paying quite a bit more attention to local team rosters in recent months, following her decision to start her own one ...

She lowers her voice a little. "Are you undercover?"
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[personal profile] metabee 2014-05-03 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hm. Nope, not undercover." Not right now anyway, he wasn't really concerned with Trailblazer stuff right now, he had more important things to deal with.

"Just helping keep humanity safe and all that."
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[personal profile] goldpaw 2014-05-05 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Vanessa frowns. "You need to be more careful," she whispers. "I don't know if this thing doesn't register inorganic matter as a threat, but whatever the deal is it's dangerous."
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[personal profile] metabee 2014-05-06 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Metabee shrugs, "I don't know about that but it isn't going to hurt me. I'm fine. I mean, thanks for the concern and all but why do you care?"
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[personal profile] goldpaw 2014-05-06 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
... Okay, this is just getting confusing.

"... Aren't you here to rescue people?"
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[personal profile] metabee 2014-05-07 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Metabee paused, crossing his arms with his head tilted to the side, looking a little concerned.

"Why would I be rescuing people? You were all brought here because you deserve it or cause you need to be kept safe."
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[personal profile] goldpaw 2014-05-07 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Her spotted brow furrows, puzzled and increasingly pretty worried.

"Kept safe from what, exactly?" she asks, leaning towards him a little.
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[personal profile] metabee 2014-05-08 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"We're keeping real humans safe from inhuman filth like you." It was hard to miss the disgusted tone, but there was really no reason for his to waste time being polite to her. It was pretty dang clear she did not fit in the definition of ideal human.
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[personal profile] goldpaw 2014-05-10 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Vanessa's eyes widen in shock, her ears folding back a little.

That answers some questions, but it raises a whole lot more...

"Inhuman filth," she repeats, slowly. She looks past Metabee, at what she can make out of the other cages... It makes sense enough for someone like her, but – Baelheit...? "Is that everybody you've locked up, then? Inhuman filth?"
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[personal profile] metabee 2014-05-10 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
Metabee gave a noncommital shrug.

"Not everybody , but for the most part yeah. I'm not the one bringing people im here so don't ask me."