Survival

[Lighthawk]

Test time: 0000

The darkness lifts as Mir come to, his head throbbing slightly. As consciousness returns, he finds him laying in a small room he's never seen before, with no memory of how he arrived there. A single fluorescent bulb lights the tiny space, revealing the scarce features; a single metal door set into the far wall, a backpack laying on the floor nearby, and a long, metal floor locker wedged into a corner. As Mir gets to his feet there is a static crackle, and a computerized voice spills from some hidden speaker in the ceiling.

The calm, soothing female voice states in precise, clipped tones, " Beta test initiating, batch one activated, subjects have two minutes to prepare. Look for the circles. Good luck." As the voice fades, a digital display lights up on the electronic lock set in the door, a bright red 2:00 appearing. As the numbers begin to count down, a new sound reaches Mir's ears, a low, menacing growling, coming just from the other side of the metal door. A sudden blow makes the door ring like a dull gong, and the sharp scrapping sound of nails, or claws, drawn across metal follows as the numbers continue to count down. There is a sharp click, and the floor locker pops open, revealing a pair of long objects within, a gleaming sword, and a rugged looking shotgun. More blows rain against the door as the timer draws nearer and nearer to zero.

[Tyyr]

0000

When the door rings like a gong for another time Mir lunges for the locker, hastily withdrawing the sword and shotgun. He doesn't know why but the actions of picking up the shotgun and sliding its drum magazine home feel oddly right. When whatever it is slams into the door again he scrambles to the black rucksack and hurriedly checking its contents before strapping it to his back. With his sword in its scabbard on his hip he hefts the shotgun with one hand and uses the other to try and pull the footlocker towards the door.

[Tyyr]

0001

"Frak!" Mir yelled as he grabbed the side of the footlocker and tried to pull it. "Who the hell makes a footlocker out of adamantine?" Kicking it in frustration he backs away just in time for the thing to smash against the door again. Backing into the corner he kneels down and brings the shotgun up to aim at the door, waiting for the timer to count down.

[Lighthawk]

Test time: 0002

The timer counts down the final second, and with an electronic click, the door unlocks. The following blow flings it open, and the thing on the other side steps into the room.

It looks somewhat like a man, if a man's arms trailed down to his feet. On the end of the abnormally long limbs, clawed talons jut from stubby fingers, scraping the ground as it walks. A swollen, bulbous head swivels upon it's shoulders, with no neck to speak of. It's single, ichor weeping eye fixes on Mir, and it's jaws open wide to reveal needle like teeth.

The arms raise, and it advances.

[Tyyr]

"Shit!" Mir exclaims as he sees the thing and he triggers his shotgun. Mashing the trigger as quickly as he can he empties three loads of shot into the creatures body and arm.

[Lighthawk]

Mir
Test time: 0002

With a grating shriek, the creature is blasted backwards by the combined force of Mir's shots. Grayish red blood spews in a fountain from it's open mouth as it flies 6 meters backwards out the door, landing in a tangled mass of twisted limbs.


Gaius
Test time: 0000

The darkness lifts as Gaius come to, his head throbbing slightly. As consciousness returns, he finds himself laying in a small room he's never seen before, with no memory of how he arrived there. A single fluorescent bulb lights the tiny space, revealing the scarce features; a single metal door set into the far wall, a backpack laying on the floor nearby, and a long, metal floor locker wedged into a corner. As Gaius gets to his feet there is a static crackle, and a computerized voice spills from some hidden speaker in the ceiling.

The calm, soothing female voice states in precise, clipped tones, " Beta test initiating, batch one activated, subjects have two minutes to prepare. Look for the circles. Good luck." As the voice fades, a digital display lights up on the electronic lock set in the door, a bright red 2:00 appearing. As the numbers begin to count down, a new sound reaches Gaius's ears, a low, menacing growling, coming just from the other side of the metal door. A sudden blow makes the door ring like a dull gong, and the sharp scrapping sound of nails, or claws, drawn across metal follows as the numbers continue to count down. There is a sharp click, and the floor locker pops open, revealing a pair of long objects within, a gleaming bayonet, and a rugged looking shotgun. More blows rain against the door as the timer draws nearer and nearer to zero.




Asyd
Test Time: 0000

The darkness lifts as Asyd come to, her head throbbing slightly. As consciousness returns, she finds herself laying in a small room she's never seen before, with no memory of how she arrived there. A single fluorescent bulb lights the tiny space, revealing the scarce features; a single metal door set into the far wall, a backpack laying on the floor nearby, and a long, metal floor locker wedged into a corner. As Asyd gets to his feet there is a static crackle, and a computerized voice spills from some hidden speaker in the ceiling.

The calm, soothing female voice states in precise, clipped tones, " Beta test initiating, batch one activated, subjects have two minutes to prepare. Look for the circles. Good luck." As the voice fades, a digital display lights up on the electronic lock set in the door, a bright red 2:00 appearing. As the numbers begin to count down, a new sound reaches Asyd's ears, a low, menacing growling, coming just from the other side of the metal door. A sudden blow makes the door ring like a dull gong, and the sharp scrapping sound of nails, or claws, drawn across metal follows as the numbers continue to count down. There is a sharp click, and the floor locker pops open, revealing a pair of long objects within, a gleaming sword, and a sleek looking autogun. More blows rain against the door as the timer draws nearer and nearer to zero.

[Tyyr]

0002

Mir panted as the thing collapsed outside the doorway. He clambered up from the corner and kept the gun aimed at where the cyclops disappeared. He walked to the door and looked down the hallway to where its body rested, its chest a twisted ruin of gore and what he assumed to be blood. He examined the ruined door and grimaced. It wasn't going to shut again, no securely. His room would be a death trap if he stayed. Looking around outside he tried to decide where to go.

[Lighthawk]

Mir
Test time: 0002

Beyond the open door was a long hallway with a heavy industrial feel to it. The walls were made of concrete blocks, the ceiling covered by thick piping, and the floor was a type of metal grating with 1/2 inch spacing. The faint lights set irregularly down the hall did not pierce very far beyond the floor, leaving the space beneath shrouded in heavy shadow. None the less, Mir got an uneasy feeling that the ground was a very long way down. Looking down the hall, he can make out a T junction some 50 meters away.

[Tyyr]

Test Time: 0003

Mir takes a few cautious steps down the hall. When he gets to the corpse of the cyclops he draws his sword quickly and stabs the cyclops in eye to confirm its death. He quickly cleans it and returns it to his scabbard to continue slowly towards the t-junction at the end of the hall.

[Lighthawk]

Mir
Test time: 0003

The beast's limbs jerk slightly as the sword rams home, but it makes no further movements, nor any other sounds save a wet cracking of bone.

Reaching the junction, Mir finds the hallway continues on beyond sight to his left. To the right, an elevator door waits. There is a single button set in the wall with an arrow pointing down. The button blinks slowly in the darkness.

[Tyyr]

Test Time: 0004

Mir looks to the right and to the left. He glances once again down between his feet. Shaking his head he turns to the left and advances slowly down the hall.

[Lighthawk]

Mir
Test time: 0010

After a couple of slow minutes, Mir hears something approaching from ahead. A deep, heavy snuffling sound comes drifting down the hallway, like that of some great animal sniffing it's way along. As he stares into the distance, Mir watches a light sudden wink out. A few seconds later, the next in line also dies, as the snuffling sound draws nearer.

[Tyyr]

0010

Mir halts, at the first hint of something ahead. As the lights start to wink out he begins backing up, keeping his shotgun at the ready. As the lights keep winking out he picks up the pace, hurrying back towards the elevator.

[Lighthawk]

Mir
Test time: 0010

As the sound of Mir's footfalls on the metal echo down the hall, the snuffling sound pauses. An odd crooning noise drifts after him, like a deep throated hum.

[Tyyr]

0012

Mir keeps running, when he gets back to the T junction he dives into the corridor leading back to his original room. He spins and drops to a crouch, bringing his shotgun up to aim back at the junction.