week 0 - training facility

[murdergame]

blood match week zero



week zero

When you first wake up in your room, an announcement will play on the television.

You’ll be spending your first week before the game officially starts at a vast facility that has been completely submerged underwater. This facility consists of a central hub surrounded by four smaller spherical buildings. You can get to each subsection by either taking a shuttle or walking across a long glass tunnel.

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[quncertain]

[Despite looking like someone who'd be very comfortable handling large weapons, Iron Bull seems to be outright avoiding picking one up. Instead, he spends most of the time in here casually meandering around. If he sees someone who looks like they're struggling with a weapon, he'll amble on over with a friendly smile. Just ignore the complete lack of shirt here, folks.]

Need some tips on how to use that?

[If you come in here either at the crack of dawn or late at night, however, you can catch him in the middle of training with either a two-handed greatsword or a battleaxe. He's clearly experienced with both weapons, slicing through friendly robot sparring buddies with ease - and then poking cautiously at their remains with a single finger.]

So uh...what exactly are these things supposed to be, anyway?

[thefaceofjustice]

[Bobby greets Iron Bull with a friendly salute.]

Those are robots! I've met a couple of robots on an investigation before, but I think they were built by someone else. They sure are helpful, aren't they?

[quncertain]

[Huh, it's not often that people salute him. A soldier, maybe?]

A little too helpful, if you ask me. You sure these uh...robots won't turn on us?

[temporalguardian]

[Let's see... small furry animal? Check. Trying to use weapons as big as he is? Check. Pile of them just sort of discarded behind him? Check.

And he's currently trying to figure out how the he hell he's supposed to be handling this rapier, trying not to have it slip from his hands and embed into another dummy this time.]

Actually, that... would be really helpful.

[quncertain]

[O...kay. He hangs out with humans and elves and dwarves all the time so it's not like he's not open to other species, but talking walking hedgehog is definitely new.]

Sure, yeah. Uh...just gotta clear up one thing. Are you a demon? [From the way his hand is inching towards a battleaxe, the correct answer here is no.]

[temporalguardian]

[Whoa, whoa there! Silver holds up his hands -- well, hand -- disarmingly.]

Nope! No demon! I'm just a hedgehog.

[existency]

[ Cole has at least been mostly tagging along with Bull, being the shy weird kid he is. He dislikes this place and everything about it, because it's wrong. It's wrong what they want to do, but more than that, it's wrong that it's so quiet. Everything is quiet here, since he can't hear people like he usually does, and so he's quieter than he usually is, fidgeting more than he usually does.

But at least as usual, when someone speaks, Cole feels he needs to answer. ]

Armor people. But they're not people.

[ He tilts his head slightly, then asks, ]

Do they hurt if you hit them? It doesn't seem like it.

[quncertain]

[Bull's more than happy to let Cole tag along with him and provide a nice hulking wall he can hide behind if he gets too weirded out. In fact, he's pretty much been hovering over Cole like a protective mama hen who is ready to peck to death anyone who tries anything.]

Magic can sure do some weeeeiiird shit, huh. You ever seen anything like this before, kid?

[He shrugs.] If they do, they sure aren't showing it. They don't bleed or scream and they seem happy enough getting hit by people, so that's good enough for me.

[existency]

[ Cole shakes his head to the the question. ]

...No. They weren't ever people. There are the ones that were people once, dead, magic made to move but leaving a mark unseen on the ones that makes them move.

[ Well, even without the connection to the Fade, Cole still says weird shit. Of course he does, since he can't turn that part off... But if there was any confusion about what he means, he looks up to Bull before he adds: ]

Like Dorian. [ But with that explained, he looks back to the robots ] ...But maybe it's just magic to make empty armor move.