event: new and improved; factory day 2

[mayfield_mods]

[Welcome to the Factory.

A blackened, dilapidated building sitting on the edge of town, it seems to have appeared out of nowhere overnight. It is surrounded by an electrified fence; should anyone on the outside (or the inside) try to cross it, they will find themselves repelled by the force with painful electric shocks. No amount of strength, size, magic, or flying ability will get you past the fence.

The Factory itself looks like it's been through hell. It's falling apart on the outside. Half of the building looks collapsed. The bricks are scorched. All of the window frames are rusted. It certainly doesn't look like a place that should be up and running, but it is. Dr. Johnson and her team are scurrying around the building, performing treatments, operations, and experimentations- making 'improvements'.

Following your treatment and/or surgery, you wake up- or don't- in a filthy room. It's nothing like the fairly sterile surgery room had been. You're crammed in there with dozen other 'patients', each in varying stages of recovery.

You're probably in moderate to severe pain. The pain might be so great that you are incapable of moving. Perhaps some of your limbs are missing or maybe you find huge gaps in your memory. Maybe you're very sick with some disease you don't recall developing. Either way, you were sent in for 'improvements', and you've been 'improved' as much as Dr. Johnson thinks you needed.

If they're lucid enough, the other patients will probably talk to you. You'll find that, like you, they're all non-drone townspeople.

You'll be contained here for 24 hours. Following that, you'll be released. When you leave the building, you'll find yourself outside the hospital in Mayfield with the Factory nowhere to be seen.

The Factory rooms are as follows:

Recovery: A large recovery room with dozens and dozens of gurneys and beds. It's filled with equipment like IVs and medical charts. This is where all characters will wake up. It's very unsanitary in here.

Operating room: Where you endured your surgery, treatment, and/or experiment. All operating and medical supplies are still here. Dr. Johnson is nowhere to be found.

Supply room: Standard medical supplies are found here. They include typical doctors' equipment, bandages, medicines, and the like. There's nothing particularly strong or lethal here, nor is there anything sharp which could be used as a weapon.

Lobby: The front lobby of the Factory. Designed like a hospital lobby, it also contains the waiting room. Dated 1950s magazines are strewn everywhere.

Today, January 28th, the following characters will be brought to the factory following their operations:



Wes Janson
Nena Trinity
Hungary
Kenpachi Zaraki
Shion
Sara Mudou
Roxanne Ritchi
Nia Teppelin
Magnus Bane
Kono Kalakaua
Grimsley
Lucifer
Chell
Rin Toshaka
Kanaya Maryam
Lithuania
Koharu Izaki
Olivier Armstrong
Squid Girl
The Kid


[ooc; The Factory post will be used for IC interactions for the 24 hours that your character will be made to stay. They are free to interact with other patients before their release. Only the above characters should reply to this post.

The mods will respond to the sign-up comments of the above characters to let them know the results of their surgery.]

Comments

[kingofshadows]

You are too kind.

[Grimsley scootches over a bit to make some room for her and promptly smashes his knee into a dresser. Curses. Perhaps it's a bit selfish of him, but he's largely forgotten about her demon claims by now, being preoccupied with other matters.]

I suspect I could get used to many things I would much rather not get used to. But thank you. It should be me reassuring you, shouldn't it?

[Just the presence of another person was something he ought to be thankful for. Had he woken up alone, he was quite sure he would have driven himself insane in terror already. He squeezes her hand back in return.]

If it comes down to it, whenever that mythical revival machine is fixed, there's always the hard reset. No need to worry.

[OK, well, that was just not cheerful at all.]

[sara_mudou]

[Sara winces in sympathy as the sound of his knee banging into the dresser.]

Maybe you should just stay still for a while... [Moving around doesn't seem to be working out so well for him, after all.] I can't think of any reason it needs to be you doing the reassuring, though! Unless you get kidnapped and experimented on a lot and you know how it goes by now.

[She does smile when he squeezes her hand back, although of course he can't appreciate it.]

That's kind of a morbid way to look at it.

[For all her words, there's no judgment in her voice. It's just an observation. Partly that's because she's relatively nonjudgmental in general. Partly, it's because she doesn't want to alienate him when she's scared, too.

Sara eventually does try to climb up onto the bed and manages, albiet a little awkwardly and uncertainly. It takes a bit of time to get situated, and she does keep feeling like she's going to fall off.]

[kingofshadows]

Ah... A little girl encouraging an adult man just doesn't seem quite right, does it? You are quite brave, you know.

[There is a brief pause.]

Do you mean to say you're experimented on a lot? You've been blinded before?

[Grimsley shifts a little uncomfortably, choosing to ignore her comments on his viewpoint for now. It was hard not to be a grim sort of fellow with his name, though he rather thought he tempered it well under normal circumstances. As she feels her way up to sit on the bed beside him, he will much more carefully shift to make way, feeling about quite slowly with his uninjured hand.]

Man, oh, man, this is a lot of trouble.

[sara_mudou]

That's kind of you to say. I don't think I'm brave, though. Sometimes you have to keep going forward even when you don't want to, because you don't have any other choice.

[A little laugh.]

Not exactly experimented on, but I'm used to suddenly waking up in weird places. I was in someone else's body for a while, and when I was, I couldn't see anything. Just like now. It's long and complicated to explain. I'm not sure you'd believe me, anyway. I wouldn't blame you if you didn't.

[Although people seem to believe and accept stranger things in Mayfield.]

Yeah. That's putting it mildly. Hey! What's your name? Mine's Sara Mudou. [Beat.] I would bow, but I don't think that's a good idea when I can't see anything. I still feel like I'm going to tumble over the edge.

[kingofshadows]

I've met a man married to his time machine, a demon with an angel for a best friend, and a little gray boy who shoots psychic blasts out of his eyeballs.

I'll take your word for it.

[Grimsley laughs a little and proceeds to introduce himself as well.]

I am Grimsley. Erstwhile citizen of Unova. A pleasure to meet you, Miss Mudou, and I certainly could not allow you to bow to me.

[Grimsley will bow instead. He has a lot of practice with these and so only manages to unsteady himself slightly rather than tumble completely off. Not that she notices.]

You don't mean you can switch bodies at will, I assume?