Orange Team Finale

[voidtreckermods]

Four days of ice maze, four days of cold, four days of wandering lost, falling into traps and slowly getting closer to the centre of the labyrinth.

There is very little warning in the labyrinth, those nearer the outer walls may see the storm get more intense outside but their first real indication that something is wrong is when the world lurches.

Parts of the maze have moved before, passages opening and closing. But now the whole labyrinth moves, shaking and twisting, spinning in the sky, as if it were trying to shake those inside out. They may be able brace themselves, they may be thrown down passageways, into ice walls.

The whole place seems to get colder. An attempt to freeze them out. The shaking only lasts a few minutes, but it is intense.

But even this attempt at getting rid of them isn’t enough it seems, because those close enough will soon find themselves entering through the last gap in the ice. To the machine room itself. Indeed it might be that they were flung closer by the shaking itself.

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Shaking

[voidtreckermods]

Help each other get back on track and care for the injured!

Machine

[voidtreckermods]

The machine is huge. It fills the ice room that houses it. A large sphere sits on a cylinder that is connected to a large console. Inside the sphere there seems to be the storm in miniature, ice, snow and lightning filling the transparent ball.

There are screens, they are all password protected. There are complicated networks of wires. There is panelling that can be removed to reveal more complicated machinery and pipes underneath the console.

Professor Chill has not been kind enough to leave a manual, nor is there any obvious ‘off’ button. Good luck!

(OOC: For the most part tag amongst yourselves to figure out what to do. If your character is attempting an action on the machine please indicate so in the subject line with something like ‘attempt’ or ‘hey mod’ so that I know to come and reply!)

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin finds himself suddenly thrown against a wall of the labyrinth, almost without warning. The passageway twists and he is flung down it, falling past his Orange teammates. There is nothing to hang onto.

He is flattened against a wall for a moment and then thrown against another. He looks around wildly, trying to locate all his teammates and see if they are all right.

[so_dark_a_road]

The shaking comes to an end, and Curufin gets up on his feet and stumbles towards the gap that has just opened at the end of the passageway. He stands in the doorway taking stock of what he sees. Huge transparent sphere on top of a huge cylinder, and the cylinder is like a snow globe with furious activity inside.

He walks gingerly into the room and goes straight to the console and stands looking at the screens. He tries the keyboards and gets no response.

And then he kneels down and looks at the paneling under the console. He feels the edges of one of the panels with his fingertips, grips it, and removes it. Seeing the piping and machinery below, he mutters, "What's all this, now?" to himself and to whomever has entered the machine room with him. He turns to whichever teammate is nearest him and smiles darkly. He unslings his rucksack and drops it on the floor, and then pulls out the smaller satchel of tools he has brought along. "Unless you've got a better idea or want to try hacking the system, I'm going to start disassembling the damned thing."

Attempt at hacking~

[stealsyourheart]

"Let me see." Kaito comes over, all liquid grace and sharp edged smiles.

"Oooh, a computer. Fun times! Let me see what I can do - I've got some skill at hacking."

He considers the screens and touches one. "Hmmm. Needs a password. Don't suppose anyone's been dumb enough to leave a sticky pad somewhere with the actual passowrd? Or any other clues?"

And if Kaito doesn't succeed in hacking the damned thing, Curufn volunteers to WRECK IT.~

[so_dark_a_road]

Even though Kaito might be just joking, Curufin takes a look around the room, searching for anything the machine inventor might have used to make notes on, stickies, notepads, stray sheets of printer paper.

Then he has a thought. "Try ordinary words that relate to the purpose of the machine? Some people, even really intelligent people, are too lazy to think up real passwords and they resort to shortcuts. How about any of these: snow, ice, snowstorm, stormclouds, ice monster. . . words of that sort?"

Meantime, he goes to the wiring network and starts to trace the wires, where each comes from and where each goes.

[voidtreckermods]

The screen lights up when Kaito touches it. A snowflake logo shows before it fades to a text screen.

Authorisation required.

Password:

A keyboard appears at the bottom of the screen. There is no sticky pad though or any kind of paper at all around the machine.

The wires go up to the screens, connecting screen to the console below. Most the wires disappear into the central tube, where they can assume it connects up to the ball at the top.

[deductiongeek]

Conan is thrown across the corridor and into the opposite wall, striking it with the back of his head before falling to the ground below.

Kaito trying a passowrd! ... how many tries does he have lol

[stealsyourheart]

"Hm. Let's see... some sort of snow thing, it looks like. Let's try..."

S N O W F L A K E

CW: Broken bones

[internetsexsymbol]

Reigen, unfortunately, is not able to brace himself against how violent the shaking is, and finds himself tossed down a passageway, hitting a wall, along with the icicles that collapse around him.

He's still conscious, but boy is he in a lot of pain. Attempting to stand up only gives him more of it, and looking down, his leg is bent at an uncomfortable angle that he can't see being able to walk on. At least none of those icicles have impaled him, but he's sustained a few bad gashes from the fall. Great, and right when they made some progress finding the machine. Talk about bad luck.

"Oi! Everyone alright?" Reigen yells out, hoping no one's gotten it worse. Especially none of the kids, he doubts someone like Conan would be able to walk this off.

[voidtreckermods]

There is a second before a text box pops up.

Ice Try.

Snow luck though.

Nine attempts remain.

Try again?

Trying again, and here the mun regrets that *Kaito* might be good at this, but she sucks

[stealsyourheart]

"Oooooh a punster, huh?"

Kaito considers.

"Lesse now. Snow and ice based, doomsday machine, likes puns. Not likely to be something historical or mythological then. Think Mr Freeze... damn it's been a long time since that came out. Hm..."

ICE TO SEE YOU

dw I don't expect you to be an actual hacker!

[voidtreckermods]

Ice to See You too.

Can I alp you?

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin leaves the wires for the moment and comes to look over Kaito's shoulder. He laughs softly. "It seems this machine has a sense of humor. What a punster! Try the names of the Alps? A mountainous region in the nation of Switzerland, on the planet Earth, with some famous, immensely high mountains. I read about them in an encyclopedia. Perhaps there is a connection between this planet and that Earth, or this punning machine would not know of these mountains. Try MATTERHORN, JUNGFRAU, or MÖNCH?"

Thank you mods for being kind <3 <3

[stealsyourheart]

"I sure hope I'm not going to have to do this whole thing in ice puns!" He laughs.

"Lesse..."

Stop! Time to make like ice and freeze.

[voidtreckermods]

Snow can do.

Frost things frost, who are you?

Authorisation Required.

I AM GOING TO DIE OF PUNS AND IT WILL BE YOUR FAULT MODS

[stealsyourheart]

"Drat... well uh his name IS Professor Chill so... let's try..."

Chill it's me

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin is still laughing. Kaito pretending to be Professor Chill? Let's see if it works!

[voidtreckermods]

Favourite ice cream?

ORZ

[stealsyourheart]

"Oh dear Kami." Kaito kicks Curufin absently for the cackling. "Uhhh what sort of ice cream would a snow-themed villain like?"

Snow flavor like vanilla

[deductionrival]

Despite the yelps and curses Hattori let out being thrown around the place, he managed to get through the experience with surprisingly little injury. He wasn't totally immune, of course, but nothing was broken and nothing was bleeding profusely.

His heart stops as he looks at the unmoving form of his best friend. "Oi! Kudo!" He rushed over to the small boy and checked his pulse. Breathing a sigh of relief, he quickly went about checking for injuries but being very careful not to move him much. He didn't know if it was just his head or if he'd.. well, Hattori didn't want to even think about that.

"Conan!" He patted the kid's cheek, desperate for him to wake up.

Re: CW: Broken bones

[deductionrival]

"Oi Reigen! You alright?" He came over to the older boy and winced when he saw the leg. He was going to have a couple nasty bruises, but somehow Hattori had made it through the episode without any serious injuries- clearly, Reigen hadn't shared his luck.

"Sit down, I have some first aid supplies in my bag." He wasn't sure if they could or should move that leg much, but they could wrap it so it doesn't get worse.

[voidtreckermods]

Favourite animal?

Re: CW: Broken bones

[internetsexsymbol]

"Heiji-kun, there you are! I'm--uh, could be better! Where's everyone else?" Thank god Heiji looks fine and is walking. Reigen tries to scoot away from the pile of icicles around him, but he doesn't get far before Heiji insists he sit down.

"Well, not like I can do much besides sit down...you know how to re-set bones or something? You're a sports guy."

Just because Heiji might have dealt with sports injuries doesn't mean he can put your leg back in place, Reigen.

[deductiongeek]

A few moments of unconsciousness, and Conan's expression shifts with discomfort as he starts to wake up. There was a splitting pain in the back of his head, and his hand reaches up to inspect it as his eyes open... and immediately close again in pain at the light.