IC Too Early

[Conaldar]

EVERYONE:

A fight begins as Scylla attacks Mueller! She misses Hellstorm but strikes one of his crew sending him skidding across the floor into a table! At that point Mueller's crew rush Scylla with a handful of them forming a tight perimeter around Hellstorm himself but before things escalate further the Guardbots appear from their positions around the cafeteria - their movement was much faster than a normal human's! Mueller's people pause and back off eventually walking out of the area as three Guardbots rush to grab Scylla! In a deep robotic voice a Guardbot says, "Facility violation: Assault and Battery." 

Edited July 1, 2022 by Conaldar (see edit history)

[Oceane]

 Julia Cevahir, "Hecate" 
Luck: 2

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Julia would have cheered if she had the energy for it, or if the bots didn't suddenly spring into action.

 

She got up suddenly, bumping into a chair clumsily, and made her way to Scylla, although with no hope of getting there before those way too fast things. "Hey now, she didn't mean it," Julia said, without a single idea whether or not the robots even understood them. "She's just trying to be nice. She doesn't know her strength." 

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[cbenny]

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Herbert Anderson (The Accountant)

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If the Guardbot which escorted him out of the cell earlier answered his question about what time it was, Herbert backed further away from the conflict and addressed another Guardbot which was not helping to subdue Scylla. "Hey guard, what other facility violations are there and what's the punishment for committing them?" 

 

If the Guardbot which escorted him out of the cell earlier did not answer his question about what time it was, Herbert remained out of the fight with the same readied action.

 

Either way Herbert observed how many Guardbots came to deal with the situation and which areas of the facility they left unguarded as a result.

 

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Edited July 2, 2022 by cbenny (see edit history)

[wtaylorjr2001]

Henry sat eating and watching what had occurred. He decided it was time to eat now, so he did. He wondered if these guard bots ever made mistakes. He wondered if they were processing independently or were they part of a hive mind. Then he turned to his favorite topic. How were they depriving them of their powers. He took another bite. Was it matter or energy based? This thing that deprived them of their powers. Could it be magical? Was it a material or was it some kind of device?

 

The right place at the right time. Luck. This was his power. He wanted to be in a place that would open up the gates of knowledge on how they were achieving this power suppression state. Henry wanted to be able to turn it on or off. The vector of this suppression, was it in the air, their food, some electronic device? These were Henry's thoughts as he ate and watched the entertainment.

 

Using whatever Luck he had, he used Perfect timing to wind up being face to face with whatever or whoever is taking their powers. 

[DecoyGirl]

Scylla

Scylla had to admit that the robots had better response time then she figured they would. That many of them might have actually been a problem for her with her powers. But... The robots had also more or less been her plan for extirpation from the fight. She had balled up and prepared to defend herself long enough for them to get to her, but they had waisted no time, so instead she simply let the robots take her away.

gisul-i na-ege saengmyeong-eul jwossgo gisul-i nae mogsum-eul as-agassda.Technology gave me life and technology took my life. She waxed poetically on her way out. Not sure if anyone but Oleg would even understand her, the robots might understand every language but she doubted they got philosophical.

[Conaldar]

EVERYONE:

The Guardbots grab Scylla one on each arm and a third providing close escort as they march the Insurgent towards a nearby wall - where a door that wasn't there suddenly opens! The droids take Scylla inside just as the doorway slides shut again leaving no trace of a door! Another Guardbot walks to The Accountant saying in a mechanical voice, "Inmates may reference facility guidelines at the Digi-tables located in the main cellblock. Digi-tables may also be used to reference popular books and games for inmate entertainment."

 

The inmates to include Mueller and his crew watch the door close and begin laughing amongst themselves. Hellstorm looks over at the other Insurgents from across the cafeteria and shouts, "BETTER PUT A LEASH ON THAT THING!" At which point the inmates all burst into loud laughter which settles in seconds as more Guardbots enter the cafeteria from the hallway. Two Guardbots attend to the unconscious inmate Scylla attacked as the other cons wander in and out of the area.

 

SCYLLA:

She finds herself in a metal room the size of a small restroom then Scylla senses motion downward. An elevator! In seconds it comes to a stop as the door slides open and the Insurgent is escorted out in a very long hallway similar to the others. After several yards the Guardbots stop and another door appears revealing a cell roughly the size of her own. Scylla is shoved into the cell as a Guardbot says, "First offense: one week" and the doorway slides shut immediately! Inside she sees the doorway fade away leaving her in a cell with a bunk, toilet, bathroom tissue - and NO SHOWER OR NO DOOR! 

 

 

[DecoyGirl]

Scylla

Once the bots got hold of Scylla's arms she would go limp, having them drag her or lift her enough so she was not on the ground. Slumping into a seemingly squishy fur ball on the ground when the robots let go of her in her new cell. Once they left she would stretch a bit taking a look around. The idea that this was punishment was almost laughable. "This is nothing compared to what I grew up with..." She did however make note that the total lack of human staff in the facility did mean that one of her favorite tactics of just being an annoying pain in the ass was not going to work, robots don't care if you make a mess of your cell, they didn't care if you refused to use the bathroom properly. Basically nothing that she would do to her handlers would bother them, heck they most likely didn't care if she attacked or even destroyed one of them...

she would take a short amount of time to look around the cell, making note of everything or rather the lack of anything, looking to see if she could figure out the basic functions of the cell, air vents, how she would likely be fed, that almost certain lack of entertainment. Once she was done with that however she did her best to make herself into a small sleepy pile of fur, while she required no more sleep then a human, her ability to sleep for long periods of time was going to make this go by quick if nothing else.

 

"I wonder, do robot guards get vacations? Do robots dream of electric palm trees?"

Edited July 1, 2022 by DecoyGirl (see edit history)

[Bananaphone]

Zara Darrow, "Siren"

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Having been in the Air Force and participated in Boot Camp, the grilling by Hellstorm and his goons wasn't anything out of the ordinary for Zara. She was used to the hazing and the trash-talking, the machismo atmosphere of a prison only intensifying the bravado that would be shown when groups were put together and the chimp-brain instincts manifested at the surface.

 

But when things started to get nastier, Siren drew her hand up and went to stand to clam her side down...but it was too late. 

 

Pursing her lips and shaking her head, she watched as Scylla threw herself at the group, before the Guardbots themselves intervened. Scylla was carried off to solitary confinement - hey, Zara was getting a cell to herself for a week! - while Hellstorm and his cavemen hollered and and hooted.

 

"BETTER PUT A LEASH ON THAT THING!"

 

"Yo mom's borrowed the leashes from us for their weekly visit to the guards barracks!" Zara yelled back out of reflex, her natural instinct to punch back, looking over and giving a shrug to any of her compatriots who frowned over her action. 

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[Rudolf]

For a moment, Oleg stopped eating. He watched the robots and their super-human speed. The doors were confusing, how had he missed those? How many guards were there? Could a crisis elsewhere be used to draw the guard’s attention away? 
 

the nice thing about robots is that they were not needlessly cruel. Scylla would be okay. Cruelty required a person. 

[cbenny]

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Herbert Anderson (The Accountant)

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Seeing that the fight had come to a close and didn't seem like it would escalate further, Herbert retook his seat. "That was unfortunate, although to be honest I was expecting a much bigger incident. It seems that Guardbots here are pretty quick to respond to violence."

 

"I suppose it would be a waist of time for me to ask you all to just keep your heads down until we figure out how things work around here?" He asked without much hope. Some of the Insurgency could be counted on to agree with him on this, but he knew that some of them wouldn't. "We're not going to be getting out of here in the next day or two, so it'd probably be a good idea to show some patience and try to think long term."

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[Oceane]

 Julia Cevahir, "Hecate" 
Luck: 2

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Whoops. Julia watched Scylla go, but didn't try anything. It seemed like it would be pointless, and that maybe the little beastie wanted this. She was quite prone to shenanigans, after all.

Before she went back to her seat, Julia grabbed Scylla's untouched food tray. She wasn't going to eat that, now, so might as well.

 

She spilled whatever was on her tray onto hers, sliding the now emptied one under the other. She seemed pretty content with all the food she had, despite the mess. "I have no desire to be confined to solitary, Mr. Anderson," she said, agreeing with the Accountant. "So I will keep my head down... until you figure it out." She gave him a satisfied (if exhausted) smile, and returned to eating.

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[Rudolf]

 

Am thinking long-term. We will need table to eat at. Now we have one. Scylla has shown everyone we are not afraid to fight. That is also important for long-term. 
 

You are thinking Herbert that if you are nice guy, then everyone will be nice guy. World is not like that.

[Bananaphone]

Zara Darrow, "Siren"

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Zara quietly ate the rest of the food on her plate, her eyes swapping between Herbert, Hellstorm and the other gangs. She noted how Granny just seemed to float around the area of her own volition, the ill intentions of any who sought to harm her held at bay by the constant presence of the swift-acting and merciless Guardbots. 

 

Herberts words made sense and thankfully for the timid accountant, Zara was the more low-key type anyway. She had the instinct to punch back....as her recent yell proved...but on the whole, she'd prefer to smile and grin and plot revenge than get sent off to solitary.

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ooc:

Zara is paying attention to Granny and the Guardbots. I'm using an Insight and Technology roll to try and notice anything that might be 'helpful' about the Guardbots that others haven't noticed (because they're probably not inspecting in such a way).

 

I'm also using an Insight roll for Granny to try and determine why this fragile old woman is in here with a group of murdering supervillains. 

 

 

[cbenny]

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Herbert Anderson (The Accountant)

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Herbert shook his head and sighed. "Yes we'll need a table but it doesn't really need to be this one, does it? There's a whole cafeteria of tables here. There was no reason to get into a pissing match over something nobody cares about. And there's a difference between showing that you're willing to fight and being goaded into one. You really think Dr. Shirer and Hellstorm aren't willing to fight? They backed down because this wasn't the right time or place for it, and now we're down a team member because they stood back and let one of us make the first move. It's a simple cost-benefit analysis. The cost we needed to pay to take this table was too high compared to the actual benefits. Nobody cares about the table and I'm sure everyone already knows you're more than willing to fight. All we've done is put everyone on the defensive and made it harder to find allies."

 

"If there are gangs running in here you can bet they've got some way of enacting violence that won't result in a ticket to solitary, and we have to figure out how the system works before making any big moves. "

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[Bananaphone]

Zara Darrow, "Siren"

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Zara listened to Herbert and let him finish before she spoke up.

 

Shaking her head slightly, gesturing at him with the plastic fork cutlery in her hand, she spoke easily. 

 

"No one wants a pussy as an ally. Besides," she took a polite bite, chewed quietly and swallowed before continuing.

 

"The Guardbots change everything. In a normal prison you could be shanked for disrespect and the guards might even be in on it. But here? They watch everything. They stop everything. It'll be a lot like kindergarten! Keep your hands to yourself and the decibel level down."

 

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