MAZE ONE

[hereyouare]

[You wake up on a cold metal bed in a room that is unfamiliar to you.

How long have you been out for? Why does your head hurt? Why can't you remember how you got here?

Before you find the answer to these questions, you might want to check out that hand-written note. There's one in every room.

Dear [NAME],

Thank you for volunteering to participate in the experiment. With your help, this project should be quite successful. My name is Huey Laforet, and I am the one responsible for this experiment. I will be here observing and the point of my project will be revealed by the end.

Your goal today is to find the exit. To do so, you'll need three card keys. However, to activate them, you will need the item listed on the card to move forward. You might not be able to find everything by searching, but certainly, there are other ways to get what you need. I've left them scattered about,

If you fail to escape by the time the experiment is over, you will have to participate in further experiments with me. If you succeed, then you will be able to successfully leave the maze.

I wish you luck. Try to stay alive.

-Huey Laforet]

[contact|instructions]

Comments

THE SWIMMING POOL

[hereyouare]

[As soon as you sit up, you find yourself inside of an empty indoor swimming pool. You can't really anything above the outer edge, but you can at least examine what's around you. On the floor, there's a lot of grime left with moss starting to grow in patches along the edges. You can see the drain at the very center.

There is a ladder on the left side of the pool and the diving board on the north end of the pool.]

Re: THE SWIMMING POOL

[superunlucky]

[wh



what]

[Didn't he do this waking up suddenly in strange places thing already?]

Is this--?

Re: THE SWIMMING POOL

[outbalance]

[ none of you look familiar but i f you guys are shsls ......... ]

Is something the matter?

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[superunlucky]

[no recognition. he is also HIGHLY BEWILDERED]

I'm just. . . well, I'm pretty sure I wasn't here before? I thought we were leaving. . .

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[outbalance]

That might be normal. It doesn't seem like anyone completely understands how they got here. Ah, but I suppose the note did help with the "why"...

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[earthquaked]

[ ... ah ]

... Not even the courtesy to drop me in a full one? Jackasses.

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[superunlucky]

[person!1]

Um-- hello?

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[earthquaked]

Yo. You look confused.

Re: THE SWIMMING POOL

[superunlucky]

[blinks]

Eh? Are you not?

[affectate]

If you were to be placed within a swimming pool filled with water, then you would drown!

[earthquaked]

Why would I drown when I can swim?

[affectate]

Because it is impossible to swim while you are asleep, Miss! You did wake up in this place as well as myself, didn't you?

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[outbalance]

That'd be a pretty rude awakening, wouldn't it...?

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[earthquaked]

If you're a pussy, yeah.

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[outbalance]

[ haha ]

Well, I guess you could say that.

Would you mind if I asked you something?

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[outbalance]

[ brushing himself off, re-reading the note once before glancing around, particularly at the people. what bad luck. ]

... Honestly, this is just a waste of time, isn't it? Unless . . .

[ hmmm ]

[affectate]

[ Why do you sound like the tiny boy with brown hair tho

Are we sure I'm not hallucinating ]

-- Pardon me!

[outbalance]

[ !! someone whose shsl status i haven't confirmed yet ]

Ah, yes? Did you need something...?

[affectate]

Would you happen to be Huey Laforet, Sir?

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[affectate]

[ ... this is not a bed

after staring out blankly for a while, she sits up, gingerly examining her hands. ]

... But, this is certainly my own body...?

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[hereyouare]

[certainly! right?]

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[affectate]

[ well if it looks like a duck and sounds like you think a duck is supposed to sound when you're kinda lucid? like right now?

but she's not like, sure or anything, maybe this is just the body of some pasty-ass white girl who happens to sound like she thinks she sounds? it would make sense because this isn't her room???


but

what if it is and she's actually not all that lucid? maybe she is hallucinating right now. she should go back to sleep

she's gonna lie back down (but not close her eyes just yet) ]

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[hereyouare]

[you're so weird]

Re: THE SWIMMING POOL

[superunlucky]

[. . . well that's a weird question]

Is there a reason it wouldn't be?

[affectate]

I do, on occasion, exchange my body with one of the Great Race of Yith in order to be granted access to their libraries... I would not think it strange if I were to have performed such a trade and forgotten subsequently, but these hands are certainly human, and of a similar pallor to my own.