Wanted: Any person with a spiritual connection(DE, Hard) ❷✗

[Kiera Bright]

"It seems we have some cowards here, for men and women of science." Keira muttered under her breath as Pamela explained that none of the staff were willing to test the food themselves. The last time that she checked, food was not a simple luxury that should be taken lightly, especially in a place like this. They should be taking advantage of everything they have. She crossed her arms drumming her delicate fingers on her slender arms as she continued to listen. Pamela continued on by saying that hollows become more aggressive and unpredictable once their powers were negated. The average hollow might. It is only natural, but Keira doubted that would be the case with Val. She did not argue the issue. Now's not the time. 

Pamela started shooing her out of the lab as a flower started to bloom. She also mentioned something about dinner, now that she said something, Keira was still famished. She turned to leave as the stench of the flower started to hit her nose. For once, she was glad that her senses were deadened. Keira left the green house heading to the mess hall for dinner. She continued to mull over all the information that Pamela gave her. She didn't like what she heard. Keira didn't have any personal attachment to Valentine, but he was a resource that could prove valuable in one way or another. She would not like to lose that resource if she could help it. 

She entered and approached the dinner table. There was a familiure feeling in the air. She looked around and was able to pin point it to an individual in a lab coat sitting at the end of the table. Keira suppressed an interested smile. She would make her way in his direction and sit close by waiting for the others. "I hope the food isn't from where i think it's from." She said out load to try and engage him in conversation. She waited for the other's to arrive. Dr. West was the last to arrive.  There was something about him that she didn't like. Well the first was that he was a scientist. The one thing she learned before becoming a failure, was that a scientist can't trust other scientists, but there was something else. Something that gave her a mad scientist feeling. So this was what it was like around her. Odd. 

Keira would be the last one to start eating not wanting to be an incidental guinea pig if this food was from the hollow in the green house. She didn't trust any of this. The girl that worked for Kazura asked why spiritual beings were needed for this test. It was a good question. Once that inquiry was satisfied Keira would ask her own. "Tell me Dr. West, if your able to pascify hollows, why the tight security for them? Can't you passify all of them?

[Valentin Acciai]

On the bright side his little attempt at an escapade brought the rest of his fellows some amusement, it wasn't freedom but it put a smile on him behind the mask none the less. ''Come now bullying the new guy is always a fun sport but you all know any hollow who doesn't at least try to break free of his restraints is a pitiable one. As for the attempt i was testing if it were regular tranquilizers that robbed me of my abilities or some reiatsu dampening concoction, unfortunately it seems to be the latter, very unfortunate.'' he babbled onwards in reply as the hatch startled him slightly with the dropping of fruit and when the hollows ate it he giggled, no he wholeheartedly laughed, placing it hands to his belly trying to stem the tide of amusement.


''Oh, now I've seen it all~ vegetarian hollows HAH!'' he jested as the helpful hollow continued to explain the situation they were in, such a nice fellow, if possible he'd help them escape later unless they tried to eat him, then he'd eat them first. But for now he would have to eat... fruits, spherical looking edibles grown from a hollow, hollow balls would be an appropriate name! picking the strange things up he had a bite, testing how awful it could be and trying to get a sense for any substances he might recollect from taste with his great Healing Expertise. He was never one not to try and exploit all his chances to learn more but doubted there was much he could find out about the foreign hollow droppings.

''Why it's lovely to meet you both, Cave, Caroline.'' he said and soon after spat seeds against the glass of the tank in tact to a tune in his head until he was out of said seeds. ''As you probably all heard i'm Valentin Acciai, Doctor Valentin Acciai. My stay here with you will not be long but if you're smart you wont stick around when the fun begins, and you might ask silly questions such as how will i get out of containment? what can you do without my abilities? but asking such is silly. I am an Adjuchas, not a goat at a petting zoo, one way or another i will be free and i invite all of you to the buffet that will be that sorry excuse of a mad scientist Dr East or whatever. Especially you Mr. Cave, no doubt it must irk you that such an unpleasant man is waltzing around like he owns your place, which he technically does but it's besides the point! How did you even manage to hollowify and get caught in your own lab? sounds like something preplanned to my ears, of which there are only earholes.''

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Before any of the questions could be answered by Dr. West someone in a guard uniform came in and rushed to Dr. West. The man spoke something in Dr.West's ear and then looked at Kazura. Dr. West nodded and then in a relaxed tone spoke. “Kazura, it seems that something has come to my attention about your organization, I think it would be better if you left and deal with that issue, I do apologise for having you come here just to leave right away. However I don't think you would appreciate me keeping this from you for the sake of science.” The guard would go to Kazura somewhat forcing the fullbringer up away from the table as well as telling him what was on what was going on. Vesta would be able to pick up the muttering of invasion and attack of UE. With that Kazura would be removed and taken to the outside.

After the door closed Dr. West would clap his hands and say in a loud voice. “Sorry about that, don't worry too much about Kazura or UE. There was an aggressive buyer of companies who was trying to take advantage of his absents and buy up UE. A corporate attack and invasion of sorts. Now then onto more important matters.” Dr. West would raise up a cup in celebration of everyone being here asking for a toast to be had before taking a sip from the cup and setting it back down. Now he had many questions to answer, but which one should he answer first. Both Vesta and Keira would see his eyes gaze over the both of them before settling on Vesta.

“Your question is easier to answer Vesta. I need you all here because we have exhausted the studies we can do on our own. While trying to deal with hell and creating weapons to kill Akki it's hard to test those things on normal humans. What works on humans, doesn't mean that it will work on spiritual beings. For the most part anything we create here is based off of the idea that it can affect a spiritual being, with very little testing being able to be done. By having new subjects we can obtain new samples of reiatsu and better understand it to help create better weapons, which is why normal humans really aren't helpful as they lack reiatsu inside of them. That and I think you have a misunderstanding of what we're testing on you, which is my fault really I asked the others to keep it hush hush.”

Dr. West started to cut into a bloody steak with a sharp knife. Raising a bloodied piece to his mouth and taking a large bite out of it he continued. “For the most part we are studying your reiatsu and how it interacts with the weaponry we have here. The hindering drugs allow us to draw blood richly filled with the reiatsu so much more than normal. With these blood samples we can extract raw reiatsu that we can forge into false dummy bodies that are made up of the reiatsu essentially a testing dummy for weaponry and gadgets we make here. That and we also run basic physicals and questions about how your specific power works as well as limitations based on information we have gotten about other powers.”


With that said and done he turned to Keira  looking at her for a moment before speaking. “Mankind can pascify  a lion yet we still cage it to view and study it. Even if we are able to force a hollow's powers to be negated and hindered hollows have other weapons. Given their size and form most hollows have natural weapons like claws and teeth that could make short work of most folks. It's better to avoid attacks by them by simply keeping them locked up until we have a shingami come by and purify them. It's honestly a more humane way of dealing with them. That and most hollows tend to be naturally aggressive unlike your friend that you brought here.”


With those questions asked Dr. West now took his time to ask his own questions. “So what brings the two of you here? What is it that my letter offered you that enticed you to come and be a subject for a week here in the arctic?” As it had been neither of them had actually asked for their reward or what they wanted as a reward. He had been use to that being the first thing that they would ask him for, this time however not even a peep came about the reward came out of their lips. He was interested in what they wanted, or at least wanted to get out of him.

As they spoke to Dr. West about what they wanted Valentine would have a rather interesting talk with Cave and Caroline. Cave would be first to speak after he finished laughing at everything Valentine said. “Oh, that's a good one, getting out of here. Ahhh.... I built this place so unless god himself smites this place we aren't going anyplace. As for me becoming a hollow, well I already was one before I finished this place. You see this place was supose to be a place for studying two things, the first was destroying akki and the second was finding a way to forcibly turn a hollow back into a human as well as all the souls they had eaten. Well you see most weren't too keen on working for a hollow so Dr. West was the face of this whole place, one night he caought me and Caroline here in this lab with a few guards, claiming that we were escaped hollows. The rest is history, West keeping me around just to taunt me here and there.”

A loud and decisive hmpt was heard from Caroline's chamber. “Your forgetting about the part when you found me and succeeded in restoring my sanity even though I was just a simple hollow. Sorry about Cave, he just gets full of himself, but sweety you should get some rest and try and get some strength back. I haven't seen Herbert that excited to see a new hollow in a long time. I worry about what will happen to you sweety.” With that Caroline's voice started to fade away as if she was to tired to keep talking. “Get some rest Caroline, maybe tomorrow we can try and get your legs back.” Cave's voice was solemn as it was the last thing he said that night.

By the time the questions were all taken care of dinner would be over and Dr. West would say goodnight to them all. He would be the first to leave the dining room, the rest would start to follow and one guard would show the two to their bedrooms. Each room was simple and held a soft warm bed. All of them would be able to get some sleep, that was till around two in the morning when a blaring alarm would sound, the power would be out and the only thing that was working would be the red warning lights that would continue to flash.

[Vesta Zweig]

Vesta watched as Dr. West started to talk to Kazura about something going on with the organization. She immediately perked up at that, trying to figure out what details that the doctor was talking about. Was there an attack at headquarters? Did all UE employees need to leave to go help out with this newfound threat? Straining to hear what the guard was saying, it sounded like he said something along the lines of an invasion and attack. What?! She needed to be there to help Kazura with this invasion.

She would stand up and before she ran out of the room, Dr. West started to speak again, telling the group to not worry about it. It seemed to be something of a financial issue, something along the lines of trying to buy UE out from under Kazura. Sitting down, she was still slightly on edge, but knew that he could handle something like money. He had to be rolling in the dough, from what UE did on a regular basis. Thinking on that, she took a few deep breaths as she tried to calm down and enjoy the rest of her time here.

As the last UE member here, she needed to pay attention to what the doctor was saying while she was eating. She was trying her best to remember what he was saying while enjoying her own steak. It was cooked well and she was making mental notes while he talked. So, it seemed that, from what she remembered, was that he wanted to do was pull out some reiatsu rich blood from them to make dummies filled with it to test their weapons. She didn't know that a certain drug could shut down their powers to put all that reiatsu into their blood.

Thinking on that, she ate while listening to him answer Kiera's question, she picked up a few more things about hollows. She was really only half listening, while she was focusing most of her attention to her food and how hungry she actually was. When the question was answered, he then decided to ask them why they decided to come here. Was there something in the letter that had enticed them enough to come here? She finished up the last of her steak meal and cleaned her mouth quickly before she started to answer.

"If I'm being completely honest with you, first, I felt surprised and somewhat honored that I was even considered for something like this. I figured that since I wasn't a high-ranking member of UE, I wouldn't be personally chosen for anything outside of the organization. Second, the Akki research was rather interesting. My mother was an Akki, hence my half demon side, so I also thought that maybe there would be a chance that I could run into her while this research is going on. I've never seen or talked to her, so it would be interesting to see her."

She stopped talking and thought back to what her father told her she looked like in human form. He had never seen her in her demon form, so she knew this was a longshot. But, it never hurt to try to look and see if maybe she got rather lucky and found her. She would politely sit and listen to Kiera's answer before the doctor said it was time for bed. The doctor wished them goodnight, which she wished back, and immediately went to her room. Once inside, she quickly got ready and went to bed. She wanted to make sure that she was well rested for tomorrow. When the alarm went off, she literally jumped out of bed and stuck her head out the door. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!"

[Kiera Bright]

Keira ate at a passive pace. She was more intent on listening to the conversations around her than actually eating. Though, she would need to put something in her system since the guards did confiscate her rations of salty snacks, sour candies, and passable quick coffee. Maybe she should see if they have any quality coffee in this base. Coffee would be good rousing one to action, especially in this frozen arm pit of the planet. It seemed that there was some kind of trouble going on with Kazura's business, and he was allowed to leave. She half envied, and was half sorry for him. He would have to miss out of the great science going on, but at least got to go back to a warmer climate. Why was she plagued with such situations?

Dr. West started answering their questions in turn. So the girl was some sort of hell spawn after all. She picked up the feeling of hell energy radiating from Vesta before they arrived, but due to her lack of experience with the beings of hell, she couldn't say for sure what kind of hell creature. She had heard of another half demon around Karakura, but as long as they kept their distance from her lab, who they are is inconsequential. Then West answered her own question. Comparing hollows to lions was a...sufficient comparison. She was hoping for a little more of a technical reason, but it really didn't matter. She continued eating slowly. Dr. West would then ask why they were here since no one said anything about their rewards.

Keira didn't pay much attention to the girl's reasons. It didn't matter why she was there, to Keira at least, just the fact that she was there was all that mattered. Though this did give Keira time to think a bit of why she was there as well. Once Vesta was done explaining, Keira would as well. "I happen to be studying hell races as well, and I thought this would be an excellent opportunity for some mutual benefits. We both get the information we desire, and anything else I learn about what goes on here is merely a bonus. I wouldn't say no to any supplies and data you would be willing to share of course." She added with a mischievous smile. Soon after dinner was concluded and off they were to bed like good little girls, how annoying.  

Though Keira was not really tired, having routinely stay up near dawn on coffee, and intense interest alone, she did force herself to get some sleep. She wanted to be sharp to take in everything she could about tomorrow's experiments, and with her dulled senses, she would need to pay extra attention to make up for them. The alarm made Keira's eyes fly open, but she didn't react much more than that. She was alert for the most part, but a large yawn did escape her, as she got up and opened the door. She stopped any personnel she could to get what was going on. "Ok, who or what is breaking in, breaking out, or blowing up?" her tone was rather relaxed if slightly irritated. She would often be woken up like this in her own lab. With this not being hers gave her the leisure to not freak out immediately. 

[Valentin Acciai]

Not the greatest foresight on this hollow by the name of Cave, building a hollow containment chamber and expecting himself not to get kicked into it. That’s what you got for being careless and developing trust… pfft~ Valentin really was the last person allowed to blame another hollow for that, he had several non-hollow acquaintances and he had shown up to this place expecting treatment maybe not quite as horrible. He was plain worse than Cave by at least twice the amount, then again with his high regenerability he could afford a few betrayals, power dampeners not included. It was a pretty sad thing to hear though and the Adjuchas found himself respecting the humane hollow, quite honestly impressed he had made discoveries as grand as restoring the mind of a would be mindless beast. Well fuck, now i can’t really leave his survival up to chance, this guy could really better people’s lives. he decided, West would have to be reduced to second priority although killing him was certainly still a goal.

Caroline would be a problem though, a legless escapee would be a big burden but he doubted Cave would budge without her. An escort mission, everyone’s favourite, right? As for escaping… well, he didn’t trust no gods to help him much. No god would have permitted the existence of hollows to begin with, Kiera though, she might cause some things to happen. Or any of the others but the only one he recognized was Kiera herself who was no doubt getting a much nicer treatment than he was. None the less he kept quiet as he listened in to the two, smiling from witnessing such a sweet exchange from hollows although his mask made it nigh impossible for them to see it. ’’Oh i too am excited to play with him soon, and seriously his name is Herbert? no wonder he was so jelly about you two lovebirds! HAH! bad guys with bad names is just classic. I’m going to tease him so much about that, almost as bad as being named Ajax or someshit.’’ Valentin said as a brief cackle escaped him.

’’Alright i’ll shush now, don’t want to ruin anyone’s sleep.’’ he uttered at last as they all agreed it was time to rest, there was precious little in terms of comfort within his tube so he had to make do with curling himself up against the non-spiked parts of his tail for a makeshift pillow as he rested in a position not too dissimilar to that of a dog. The sleep however didn’t last nearly long enough, the blaring alarms getting him cranky as he twisted and turned ’’shut it offffff...’’ he’d mutter as he was forced to accept the futility of trying to sleep any further, a deep sigh escaping him he stood up in his narrow enclosure and squinted as the flaring lights of red annoyed his eyes. ’’A bit early for an escape attempt but what can you do. HEY CAVE!’’ he shouted in case anyone still tried to sleep on ’’This good enough an opening to start a breakout? or is the security system linked up to their backup generators? i’m not a very technical person but this looks like emergency power no matter how i look at it..’’

[Samael Moreira]

The alarms continued to sound as both Vesta and Kirea stepped out of their rooms and into the hallway. The hallways were dimly lit with only hues of red. The hallways were filled with people running up and down the hallway all of them in the same uniform that the security officers had been wearing earlier that night. As the two of them asked their questions to whoever were running up and down the guards would continue to run without stopping and without saying anything to them. It seemed that the two of them wouldn't get any answers from the guards as to what was going on.

The alarms continued to sound out and finally a prerecorded message started to play instead of the blaring of the alarms . "Warning, Warning breach in bio medical reserach labs. Warning, Warning power failure in all sectors. Warning Warning Noah's ark protocol activated. Warning Warning life support off line total shutdown in five hours." Several more warnings would continue to follow after that then every five minutes the same warnings would scream out. Each time the warnings played more would be added each them making the situation that the two of them found themselves in clear. Shit was going down and the two of them were in the middle of it all.

In the middle of all the people running around one of them grabbed Vesta by the back of the arm. Vesta would see that it was Peter, she would see that he would have a worried look across his face and the goofy laid back attitude was gone. "Vesta we gotta get outa here and to the safe zone." He would be looking to help get the two of them to the second floor panic room, but the two of them could simply wander around till they found someone else to get answers from. The choice was up to them on what they wanted to do.

At the same time Valentine would find that Cave wouldn't answer back to getting out. Only the screams of Caroline would come out from where the two were at. It would be clear that there wouldn't be a point in trying to get her to do anything as the screams that could be heard were hysterical. Not only was this lab shutting down and the doors starting to close a strange gas started to fill the room. If there was a single time where Valentine would listen to fight or flight now was the time to flee. If he didn't he would be trapped in this room as the large metal door was slowly slamming shut.

Valentine if he left the lab he would find himself in the middle of a hallway that read bio medical facility. Down towards the left of the hallway he would see what had caused this power failure, there was a massive creature oozing out black goo that seemed to be a mix of a hollow and possibly an akki. This monster's body started to melt as it grabbed and slammed the sides of the walls of the lab left and right. This thing clearly wasn't sane or talkative as it grabbed a person who was running away and bit down on the man's head. It let out a roar of anger and pain as it started to run deeper into the labs.

To the right Valentine would see the rest of the lab empty and partially destroyed. The sounds of footsteps could be heard as guards started to arrive on the floor. All of them armed and ready to fire at whatever they would see. Valentine would have to be careful now as everything was ready to strike and kill. He would be able to see the first few men rounding the corner before they would see him.

[Valentin Acciai]

This whole situation was just fucked, alarms blaring it felt like every movie ever that starred an experimental lab where shit just got freaky. He hadn’t gotten a reply from Cave so it seemed he wouldn’t get to have any breakout friends after all, a pity seeing as the hollow had seemed interesting. As for Caroline… that laughter led him to assume she was either nuts or in despair, in any case useless as Valentin’s interests had been to Cave specifically, she was dead weight and quite literally so without legs. noting his chances of escape were growing dimmer with the slow closing of the metal gate there was little time to waste investigating what had happened to them.

Instead he instead began to kick and slam his tail against the containment glass and for some reason or other managing to break through! perhaps their cells worked mostly out of some barrier that lost its function with the power outage, just a horrible design begging for a breakout! Still once out he wasted no time, dashing for the exit and sliding through just as the metal door closed behind him ’’Oh shitfuckles, it feels like i’m in a movie. Wonder if i’ll get to do any car chases as well?~’’ he mused just as he noted the big ugly science experiment likely responsible for the power outage as well as the approach of several footsteps which did appear to be human and most likely safety personnel here to kill the goo freak.

Taking a move straight out of nature he harnessed the powers of the MIGHTY opossum and before the soldiers could get a good look at him he rag dolled to the floor playing dead… well what was he supposed to do? stuck in a corridor, nowhere to retreat, his only hope was that they didn’t watch many zombie movies and go for double taps. Luckily the ugly freak was pretty loud, with any luck the soldiers would pursue it and get themselves killed hard as Valentin would continue to bolt out through any path available to him that did not contain hungry science experiments or heavily armed soldiery. He doubted the humans would be able to do anything about the creature nasty as it was, he couldn't sense reiatsu as he were right now robbed of his powers but he had a general idea of how much he didn't want to meet it since it had managed to break containment when the power WAS on.

[Vesta Zweig]

Vesta watched as the hallway was glowing red with the alarms that were going off. She was trying to listen to what the alarm was actually saying. Something happened in the medical labs? Noah's Ark protocol activated? Life support turned off and total shutdown in five hours? Wait.....LIFE SUPPORT WAS TURNED OFF?! WHAT?!?! Why in the hell would they turn the life support off when there were so many people left in here?! It made absolutely no sense to her, but she felt like she needed to go and help where that breach was, then she remembered. Her powers were suppressed and she probably wouldn't be able to help too much.

She tried to stop any guard that crossed her path to talk to them to figure out what was going on. No one stopped for her, sadly, and she was just about ready to give up. That was, until someone grabbed the back of her arm. She was about ready to curse at them until she noticed it was Peter. He seemed to be just as worried about the situation as she was. He told her that they needed to get to the safe zone. She thought to herself, there was a safe zone here? It was then that she remembered about the panic room and that must be what he was talking about. She would quickly look around before speaking, I'll follow you to the safe zone, but shouldn't we head towards bio medical labs to see what's going on and help there?

[Kiera Bright]

Keira didn't get any answers from the soldiers or running staff which pissed her off. They suppressed their powers, making it impossible for Keira to effectively defend herself, and not bother answering Keira's question, as to what is going wrong. She swore that the next time she takes a job that required her to suppress her powers, she will tell them to shut up or fuck off, preferably both, in either order. She may be stabler now, but she will still reduce the place to ashes if she got hurt too much. No one seemed to mind that. A person that the Nakki-Girl must have met grabbed her by the arm insisting that she follow him to some safe zone.

She decided to follow them not saying anything. The girl wanted to see what the fuss was about. If Keira had her powers, she would agree, hell she wouldn't even be here following them. She would just do it. There was no time to dwell on what ifs. The fact was she didn't have them, and there was nothing she could do, but follow them and wait out the storm.

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For Vesta and Kiera following Peter to the safe room was the smart choice as they saw countless solders running down the halls all of them carrying arms and all of them with a serious look across their face. The sheer number of them made it seemed as if this place had it's own private army. There was just something off about a lot of them however as if their faces were all the same, yet slight variations of the same face. Nothing too off when in the middle of a panic, but if either Vesta or Kiera would look at where their nametags should be there would only be a number not a name, but in the panic of trying not to lose Peter it would hard to notice such a detail.

Coming to the safe room they would see a massive door in the shape of a gear starting to close there would be people pushing one another trying to get into the room before it shut close. Fighting with the crowd all three of them would enter safely and be the last as the door slammed shut behind them letting out a loud hiss as it turned locking in place keeping them trapped inside. This safe room was much larger than one would assume, but it was barren of anything say for a few boxes that were filled with what looked like old uniforms. In this room they were safe, tons of people inside, but there wasn't a way out. The blaring alarm seemed to be kept out all except for one. The one calling out that life support was down and total system shutdown would happen in forty five minutes now.

For the next fifteen minuites the room would be filled with people asking one another what was going on, if anyone knew what happened on the lower levels. Was this a drill or was this an actual emergency. Sadly as everyone continued to speak it became clear that no one in this room had any answers as to what was going on. Then the warning for life support said only thirty minutes left till life support would shut down. That's when a loud voice screamed for everyone to shut up. There in the center of the mass of people a small woman no taller than four feet tall stood. "Honestly darlings there are more important matters at hand then arguing like chickens." She stopped to look around almost expecting for someone to give her a cigarette.

"Listen darlings we have a choice to make, that door will only open once after that it will shut until the alarms are shut off. However life support should have been brought back online five minutes after it went down by the people on floor two. Right now if someone left and didn't run into any major complications they could bring up life support back in twenty minutes. If no one does bring back life support then, well we'll all freeze to death ten minutes after it goes down." Her words filled the room as everyone started to mutter what to do, would they wait till the possibility of someone starting up life support or would they actually open the door and brave whatever was out there that caused the alarms to start.

Now while all of this was going on for Kiera and Vesta, Valentine would be going through a very odd experience. The first wave of solders with their guns started to leash the ammo that they had. The monster took the bullets and simply shrugged them off as if they were nothing. With the solders attacking the monster started to run away deeper into the labs. The solders following suit, the sounds of screams could be heard as something else was attacking them. Then the shambling monster came back screaming out covered in blood. Just as before another wave of solders would come down and repeat the same actions as before trying to kill it. It again would draw them deep into the labs to kill. This would continue back and froth however there would be a good ten minutes between each wave chasing down the monster down into the lab away from where Valetine could see or be seen from.

[Kiera Bright]

Keira sat against the wall listening to everything going on around her. People were starting to worry, and the atmosphere was tense enough to cut through. People were talking among themselves asking if anyone had any information about what was going on, or what to do now. The thought of this being a drill came up several times, but the fact that life support was threatening to go down like it was, made that theory less probable by the minute. At this point it didn't matter what happened, or if it was a drill or not, she thought crossing her arms against her chest. What did matter was what are they going to do about it if things go even further south. 

One woman, even smaller than Keira, commanded the rooms attention. She brought up some very important things, and was the first person to give some semblance of a solution for them. Keira liked her. Plus, Keira had no intention of dying in a place like this, sitting around and only hoping that things would get better. No. She would rather die trying to fix the problem, than wait for the things to possibly get better. Of course she would rather not die at all, but that is of course a given. She listened to the woman trying to judge the situation. She had no idea what was out there, and what she would run into here, but at least she might not freeze to death.

"Well I didn't fly down to this artic hell hole to sit on my ass. What needs to be done and where do i need to do it?" She said standing. Her pink hair no doubt making her stand out. "I have been dabbling in all aspects of science and technology all my life, so I think i can bring fix the problem for you." Would be a whole lot damn easier with my powers. She thought a dark scowl taking over as she scanned the crowd for just a brief moment. "So, anyone else going with me, or do I need to save you all single handedly?" She was not impressed with the way things have been handled, and wouldn't it be even sweeter to show up all the scientists here without her powers? Yes, yes it would. Though she would change her mind if shown some competence of any of the staff. 

[Vesta Zweig]

Vesta was huffing by the time that they ran into the safe room. She put her hand against the nearest wall, trying to catch her breath while she saw the door close and lock behind them. Looking around, the room was way larger than she originally thought. But, then again, this seemed to be a rather large facility, so it would make sense that they would need a safe room big enough to accommodate the amount of people that worked here. She then heard the speakers say that life support was still down and that the system would go down in 45 minutes, which pretty much meant they were screwed unless they got the life support back up.

A woman then yelled over the loud crowd who was asking what was going on. She pretty much laid down what needed to be done before everyone died. The door can open one more time before it's permanently locked. Life support would take twenty minutes to get back up and if it wasn't back up, besides not having the air to live, they would all freeze to death. She took a minute to take a deep breath and calm herself to try to listen to the voices that she had grown accustom to. It was then that she remembered that she wouldn't be able to hear them. Being inside her own head with the quiet was....unsettling.

She thought that once Death was silent, she would find true peace. But, now that she was gone, she missed her. She missed her a lot more than she thought she would. Her Dolls, which kept her grounded when she kind of went a little crazy and without them, she felt broken. She knew that she needed to have them back to feel whole. If she didn't help with whatever that was going on, she would be empty forever. So, when the pink haired woman volunteered to go out and fix things, Vesta immediately spoke up as well. "I'll go too. I'm not just going to stand in here and bickering over what's going on outside and do nothing. When do we leave?" She was going to be whole, no matter what it took.

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Thread was reported for grading due to the DM not having posted in 6 months. While this reached 3 pages, the 3rd page was two posts short of being completed. But since the DM dropped the thread, I'll just count it anyways for ya'lls trouble. DE Hard thread comes out to 800 TP per completed page, and those rewards are doubled due to this being a Adventure Event thread. 1,600 TP a page comes out to 4,800 TP earned. DM gets no rewards.

The thread leader also gains rewards based on the success of their threads. For these rewards to be earned, the thread must be seen through to completion and not cut off early. If it is cut off, no rewards can be given to the leader.

[Wycliff]

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