Final Trial.

[legionofmods]

[Eventually, after enough searching, a door seemingly appears from nowhere - leading out to a large circular room. There’s a handful of chairs, but not enough for all of you, meaning some of you might have to walk around for a bit. Which is more than fine - this place seems to be filled up to the brim with knick-knacks. Most specifically the clone pods adorning the wall here as well, as well as some fairly innocent lab equipment and scrap metal. Someone used to work here.

Once you’ve all gathered, a voice calls out to you. From within the area.]

DISCUSS WHAT YOU HAVE FOUND. ONCE YOU BEGIN TO GAIN A SEMBLANCE OF WHY YOU ARE HERE, WE WILL DISCUSS YOUR FUTURE.

Comments

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

This is the messiest lab I've ever seen.

[She has no room to judge, probably, but she's going to anyway.]

[madmadam]

[Leans back in her chair and kicks over a small tray of random junk, spilling it all over the floor.]

[umslay]

I'd like to say to whoever built those hundreds of lifelike robot copies of existing people is a talented engineer and someone who must tell me how they did it.

Yes, I hate you for capturing me, but we have to talk at some point.

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

Copies of the people who've been handing out incentives to kill, may I assume?

[umslay]

And of the dead. Do you know how horrifying it was to see clones of Dennis floating around in egg capsules?

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

We need to burn this place to the ground as soon as possible.

[umslay]

Keep some of the robots for later! If they're not online, they won't hurt us.

[Please. Just let him build his own robot spies at home.]

Oh, and there's some sort of thing for containing spirits? Must reference the ghosts around here.

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

The non-obnoxious robots can live. There is no world or multiverse that needs more than one of that idiot running around.

[umslay]

I could just look at his inner workings, reverse-engineering, and then destroy it. It's not like I'm going to use them.

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

...Fair enough.

By the by, as someone who's studied both science and "magic", what would you make of this?

[And extending the tentacle holding one glowing red Chaos Emerald.]

I'd advise not touching it with your bare hands.

[umslay]

That looks dangerous, but I can't tell what it does by looking at it.

...What is it?

[masterbreaker]

Yeah, hey, what the heck?

[ He found absolutely JACK yesterday. ]

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

This isn't a place of science, it's a failed garage sale.

[umslay]

My workshop started in a garage!

[conditionally]

I found a weird... machine thing in one of the rooms. Whatever it is, it's in kind of disarray.

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

Could you tell what it was meant to do?

[conditionally]

Not for certain, but if I had tp take some kind of guess, some kind of transporter ?

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

...Can you describe what it looked like, physically.

[She could just show him the blueprints and ask if they match.]

[But she's keeping those close to the chest. Literally and metaphorically.]

[conditionally]

[ He does, as best as he can. Pretend the link to the investigation is here. ]

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

That's definitely what brought us all here. I was working on something very similar before we all arrived, but this sounds incredibly condensed.

[Her collider was basically the size of a football stadium.]

[umslay]

[ALES WANTS TO PARTNER WITH THIS MASTERMIND SO BADLY.]

So he found the teleporter, I found the robots. You found the power source. Eggman is missing. There's a lot we're missing here, like why were we brought here alive in the first place?

[liv_nye_the_science_pi]

We know the recruitment excuse was fake. The entire point was to force us into- not necessarily killing, but showing our capabilities? The mastermind called an end to things after the last execution. He was- what was it, "impressed"?

[neednoaccuser]

Oh, I found Eggman.

[Erik has spent like ten minutes dragging a robot corpse to a seat. Where he us now sat, with a decapitated Eggman corpse. Don't worry about it.]

Fucker goes "kill me" and I'm like "seems like a trap" but also what do I care so I jump him and he's a robot.