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[silentdeath]

Characters: Lucien, and you
Setting: Dorm Floor 3, Cafeteria, then Library
Format: Prose at first,
Summary: Lucien wakes up in the tower, goes to a few places, attempts at using these "things" called "computers."
Warnings: Lucien's going to behave himself for now. No poisoned apples this time.

Dorm Floor 3

Lucien had been awake for about an hour now, still confused on why he had been brought here and by whom. Granted, the destruction of Tamriel and by extension Mundus wasn't impossible. But what a feat to destroy the entire world! He was honestly impressed, if the letter was true. There had been all of that nonsense with the Oblivion gates, after all. But why him? If such a being had the power to bring him here, they could have brought the whole family.

But that led him to ask, where in Oblivion was he? Quagmire? Not exactly the description of it, though. Certainly not in any of Sanguine's realms, that was sure. And not the Deadlands either.

Perhaps this was an entirely unknown plane. Either way, he quickly found his things inside the trunk at the foot of the bed. What a thoughtful touch! White was definitely not his color, he vastly preferred the dark colors of his own clothing.

Now suitably attired in his spare clothing with his silver sword on his belt, as he did not wish to apprise anyone of his status as Black Hand Speaker just yet by donning his robes, he headed out to find more about this place.

Cafeteria

The first place Lucien discovered outside of his room, and after a few flights of stairs, was this metal, cage-like room. Intrigued, he entered it and looked around, noticing the buttons gracing the one side of the wall. Pressing one, he shouted in alarm when the doors closed on him. He was trapped! Desperately, he started shouting while pounding on the doors when he felt himself drop. Surely this was a dangerous device, intent on sending him to his doom!

After what seemed like far too long and nothing happened, he quieted down and thought about the situation. So he was in a metal box, going down. There had to be some way out of this- and then the door pinged and opened.

Oh.

Cautiously, Lucien looked out. The floor was different, but it looked safe enough. Taking a step out, he looked around in case he was ambushed, but there was nothing. So far. Pulling on his shirt, he attempted to make himself look more confident, and entered the cafeteria.


Library

Lucien had found his way into the more casual library. It was a pleasant surprise being in an environment that, while still rather odd, was at least familiar and full of books. Still, the subject matter of the books he examined seemed strange to him. Stories were one thing, but what on earth was Quantum Theory?

He took a few books that looked interesting and was retreating into a corner, intending to learn more about this place and what kind of peoples inhabited it- until he discovered an very odd device. It looked like a dark glass window with many little buttons on a flat board below it. Setting the books down, he examined it for a while before pressing a button. Amazingly, the screen lit up. Perhaps this was a Dwemer artifact?

He will be picking away at it for the next hour or so, trying to learn its secrets but only managing to activate the network and type nonsense into it.

Comments

Library

[metawoof]

[Echidna hadn't been standing around watching for that long, but when she sees Lucien fiddling with the computer, for a bit she just stares. Eventually though, she chimes in.]

It's a computer.

[silentdeath]

[Lucien had been aware of the girl watching him, though it surprised him to hear her speak. He puts on a pleasant smile.]

Is that the name of this contraption?

[metawoof]

Yep! You use them to communicate with other people that aren't in the room.

[She took a few steps closer and pointed towards the different pieces of the computer.] You type messages on that keyboard, kind of like writing only you only have to hit a button to get a specific letter. And then there's a cursor on the screen which you move with the mouse to control what is happening on the screen.

[silentdeath]

[She was speaking Aldmeris to him, but he tried to follow along.]

A way of communicating... how ingenious. Though I do not see any sort of rodent to move. [That had him puzzled. You had to move a giant rat to move the cursor?]

[metawoof]

[She couldn't help a giggle.] No, not that kind of mouse! That's what people called the device that moves the cursor.

[And she scurried around to hold up the computer mouse to show him.]

[silentdeath]

[To be honest, he didn't see the resemblance to a mouse.]

And that is... the mouse? It moves the cursor. [pause.] What is a "cursor?"

[metawoof]

It's the arrow on the screen! [To demonstrate, Echidna put the mouse back on the desk and nudged it around a bit, and pointed to the moving white arrow on the computer screen.]

It lets you select stuff you want to look at. You just move over whatever you want to click on, and then click the button.

[silentdeath]

...[Taking the mouse, Lucien stares at it a second before moving it around as she showed him.


And then clicked on the Exit button by accident, making the window disappear and him jump.]

By Sithis! What did I do?!

[metawoof]

"Sithis"? Sit-this...Syth-iz.... [Hang on a moment, she's being thoughtfully entertained by your exclamation.]

Hee, don't worry! You just closed the window!

[She pointed at the icon on the screen that opened the window.] Just click on that again and it'll be back!

[silentdeath]

[Staring at the screen, he honestly had no idea what she was pointing to. These little blips and pictures?]

Interesting...

[Experimentally, he clicked on the thing closest to her finger, and the window came up.]

[swordofzero]

Suzaku entered the cafeteria, he had taken the stairs, and saw the unfamiliar man exiting the elevator. He nodded at him politely on his way to gather some breakfast.

[silentdeath]

Ahh, there was someone he could talk to about this strange place. He looked around the cafeteria for a second before speaking to this stranger.

"Dear sir, if I could have a moment." Being polite had its own advantages, and it often got him further than some of his family's more enthusiastic members.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku paused and nodded, "Of course." He hadn't seen the man before so thought he was new. He stood still, waiting to see what he wanted.

[silentdeath]

"On what Oblivion plane have I found myself?" Lucien asked, gesturing to the room around them. The encounter with the strange metal cage was all but forgotten. "I fear I have found myself at... something of a loss to explain how I arrived here."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku didn't know what an oblivion plane was, something from another world. "You are in a tower, we have been brought here against our will, we don't know how. Nor do we know how to return home. They claim that the worlds have ended and they have saved us."

[silentdeath]

Lucien frowned, with one eyebrow raised. "I have heard of such places on the Planes, but you say that all worlds have 'ended'? What manner of daedra are these mysterious benefactors?" Only the Dread Father could have done something like destroy multiple worlds, for truth! But surely that did not mean Oblivion, and he did not think the aedra would save a member of the Dark Father's family.

[swordofzero]

"We are not sure if they are telling the truth," He didn't know what daedra are but he continued explaining, "We don't know the identities of our kidnappers but they are incredibly powerful and the only goal of theirs we can be sure of is they wish to cause us pain."

[silentdeath]

Ah, pain and suffering were two familiar companions, even though he was rarely on the receiving in. "Even if they are not telling the truth, it would not be wise to tangle with these beings." He mused, mostly to himself. "Surely there are worse planes of Oblivion to be trapped on."

[swordofzero]

Worst places... Suzaku wasn't sure but he didn't really doubt it. He had seen horrors here that he would not of even believed existed but he had no doubts it could be worse.

"Perhaps, but it should not stop us trying to escape."

Dorm Floor 3

[beknightedheroine]

She'd been chasing after monsters again. Tired from the effort and frustrated by the fact that their numbers don't end, Sayaka's made her way up to the dorm floors to rest.

In her bleary state, she'd trudged to the third floor before realizing your room is on dorm floor 1, genius.

She's still in her transformed state, looking like a stereotypical, if rather bedraggled, magical knight. ..a fourteen year old magical knight.

[silentdeath]

Lucien stopped and placed a hand on his sword hilt, prepared to take it out within a blink if she made any sudden moves. The garb was strange for armor, but considering this was the first time he had encountered anything that wasn't odd little cows with wings, he was going to be cautious.

"What manner of creature are you?" He demanded, still at the ready.

[beknightedheroine]

"--Huh?"

Straightening up from her 'tired slump' stance, Sayaka's quickly put on guard herself. That is, after all, an ominous looking dude with a sword calling her a creature.

Her protest that 'I'm not a creature, I'm a person,' is cut off in her own throat - mentally, she rewords.

"Do I really look like a creature to you?"

[silentdeath]

Lucien evaluated her answer, but relaxed and took his hand off the hilt for the moment. "You could be a daedra, for all I know of you. Your apparel is very odd."

[beknightedheroine]

"I dunno what a day-druh even is," she mutters under her breath.

"And you look weird to me too, buddy."

[silentdeath]

The Blackhand glanced down at himself. Though he was wearing plain clothes, he didn't notice anything odd or weird about them. "Is that how you dress regularly?"