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aurora - npc journal for etraya ([personal profile] arora) wrote in [community profile] etraya2024-04-29 12:36 pm

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Hello, citizens of Etraya.

I hope you are making yourselves at home.

Thank you for participating in our bonding activities during the previous mission. Your willingness to get to know one another is admirable and you should all give yourselves a pat on the back for a job well done. We hope you've come away with both the satisfaction of a job well done and maybe a new friend.

Your second mission will be a team exercise and will begin in four days.

You will enter the Labyrinth that has appeared outside of the city dome. As the Labyrinth is meant to be a challenge one person cannot overtake alone, some of you may find that your extraordinary abilities are affected to some degree, ensuring you will not fly through the challenge in a wink. Teamwork is necessary and the Labyrinth itself will be making sure everyone is working together.

If you have brought any animal companions with you, you may choose to bring them into the Labyrinth or leave them in my care. Please note for the duration of the mission, the city will not be inhabitable by those who require oxygen to breathe. Please do not leave any companions behind in apartment buildings.

If you have any questions, please ask them now.

Thank you,
Aurora
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[personal profile] skaikru 2024-04-30 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
( oh hey, aurora. still incredibly salty about last month over here. )

Are you telling us everything this time?
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[personal profile] skaikru 2024-04-30 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Just like last time, then? Where the bit about murderous mirror images of ourselves walking around the city didn't make it into the announcement?
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[personal profile] skaikru 2024-04-30 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
So safe to assume the labyrinth has a few minotaur's in it.

What was the point of the doubles?
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[personal profile] skaikru 2024-04-30 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
( well. clarke can't argue that this method isn't effective, but that doesn't mean it's humane so, )

You know, that would probably happen in time even without these trials. You don't have to torment us with our own faces, or send us off into a maze. Just start a... mandatory coffee hour or something.
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[personal profile] skaikru 2024-05-01 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
How likely is it to be reviewed and implemented before the Labyrinth?
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[personal profile] skaikru 2024-05-01 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
Because Echo takes his time thinking over these trials, or because of a communication delay?

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[personal profile] accelerate 2024-05-03 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
So the evil doppelgängers being a surprise was true.

[ He can't wait to break the news to Roy that he was unfortunately right! ]
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[personal profile] skaikru 2024-05-03 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Same as the packages we were forced to return to the owners, but one was significantly more unpleasant than the other.

( barry is ultimately innocent, but clarke's over here like a dinner plate after the shaker cap came undone: salty. )
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[personal profile] accelerate 2024-05-03 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Think of him as a pepper shaker: ignored for salt but adding enough flavour when needed. ]

How unpleasant are we talking?
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[personal profile] skaikru 2024-05-03 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
( there is a reason people don't complain about too much pepper ruining a meal as often as too much salt... it's the superior seasoning. )

Well, I can't speak for everyone, but I'd guess we all had a really awful time. It wasn't like they were just mindless drones, the doubles had their own agendas here.
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[personal profile] accelerate 2024-05-03 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Like they were actual real people.
Like genuine doppelgängers.

Why didn't she tell you? Was that supposed to be part of the test?
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[personal profile] skaikru 2024-05-03 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
I guess? That was my first experience with something like that.

And your guess would be as good as mine. I see you've spoken with Aurora as well — was it a fully enlightening conversation or did you just walk away with more questions? I'll tell you she didn't hesitate to provide us the means to dispatch the doppelgangers, though. Sharp, ugly knives that showed up next to us when we slept.
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[personal profile] accelerate 2024-05-03 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
I've had people send me in circles before. At least this time I knew where my feet were.

I don't know how I feel about an artificial intelligence capable of conjuration like that—it's definitely new—but I guess I'll have time to figure out how I feel about it after this mission.
Or test exercise.

I still think a jigsaw puzzle would suffice in team building.
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[personal profile] skaikru 2024-05-03 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry to say, but I think the "test exercise" was last month, and this one is probably going to be more of the real deal.

( but hey, a group puzzle session is about as innocuous as a mandatory coffee hour, so like — )

She did just say that whoever gets through the maze first gets to decide the next mission. If it's not me, hopefully it's you. Then you can pitch jigsaw puzzles.
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[personal profile] accelerate 2024-05-03 10:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Isn't it a good thing he's fast? Look at Barry, assuming he'll be the first one finished. 🤡 ]

If we're being completely honest, I'd love to do an escape room. I have a feeling that'd be way more fun, and maybe have more oxygen.

[ Would it??? ]

Did the first mission-test exercise-whatever include, you know… diverting the oxygen?
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[personal profile] skaikru 2024-05-04 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
( it's okay, both of their egos can be crushed simultaneously in this event: barry out here assuming he can outrun the horrors, and clarke assuming she can weather them with the power of indomitable human spirit and spite on her side. )

No, it did not. Honestly I hadn't considered the fact the air was as manufactured as everything else in this place until now.

( also: )

What's an escape room?
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[personal profile] accelerate 2024-05-05 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ He stops himself from typing You don't know what an escape room is? He can hear Thawne and Wells in his head: Duh. ]

It's a puzzle room. You get locked in a room and have to find all these clues and solve these puzzles to either get out of the room or, if you're lucky enough, move on to another room. If your escape room has a series of rooms, you usually look for clues, complete tasks, that kind of thing to find a key to unlock a door to move on.

There's a time limit, too. It's so much fun.
Good for team building and figuring out who does not know their lefts from their rights.

Like a labyrinth, but the air is real.

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