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From around the corner, Ronike could hear Tom coming.
" I battle any sex or any race. You beatin' me is like Billy Crystal playin' Scarface! I can't see it, blind to the eyes, I came up in your face Oops Pow Surprise! OOOOOoooooohhhh!"
Of course, with those last words, he felt the need to kick in the swinging doors, causing them to swing back and hit him in the face. But he finally managed to get in to find the head scientist from earlier.
“Glad you could make it. Hope you didn’t hurt yourself there. My name is Ronike, please take a sit until the others get here and then I’ll explain everything.”
Rockin walked in and gave Ronike a sour look.
“Consider the $5 dollar debt repaid…”
He groans and rubs his stomach. Ronike shifted a little uncomfortably,
“Course. Hope you feel better soon…”
Marshy and Kev came in at the same time, their strange quotes mixing together to make them even stranger:
Marshy: “for future reference TTT, WT”
Kev: “Wraith awaiting launch orders”
Ronike: “Um… K, and this isn’t a spaceport or anything Kevin, it’s just a medical testing facility…”
Riddle: “Hi guys.”
Nich: “Well, let’s get started.”
Ronike: “Hello, please find somewhere to wait for the others, then we’ll get **** started.”
Mentos walked in, looking none too happy:
“Bah, finally get rid of my super aids and I've gotta go right back to the hospital. My luck”
“I apologize profusely, but we really need you all to be here. Please be patient while we wait for our other guests.”
Karthik stumbles in, looking quite lost:
“Um, does anyone know who I am or why I’m here? Or for that matter what I forgot?”
“Please calm down, there has been a complication, but I assure you, you all still remain healthy.”
"Complications? You've
no idea just how much of a
complication you've created."
Ronike has started sweating at this point. He keeps glancing over his shoulder at the mirror behind him.
“Please calm down Frozenflame, I assure you, the situation is under control.”
Junglefever stumbles in, looking quite inebriated already:
"God ****, and i was just about to sit down and drink my self silly"
Ronike: Looks like you got a good start on that already.
SwordsRbroken and Blazer are the last two to walk in.
Swords: “Let’s get this party started.”
Ronike: “You two are late, I was just about to send out the police to find you. Well now that we are all here, albeit in varying degrees of sanity”
He glances pointedly at Tom and Kevin.
“We can begin. You may or may not have heard earlier, that someone today was murdered by suffocating on ‘green jelly’. Well in reality, the jelly is Panacea. In fact, it was one of the unique strands given to you today. I apologize for deceiving you into thinking you were among the first test subjects, but we have tested the dormant variety previously, just never the sentient variety, not on humans at least.”
You all exchanged confused glances at Ronike’s confusing rambling.
“Oh yes, I guess I should go back more. 7 months ago, there was a meteor strike not a mile away from my house. Ever curious scientist that I am, I had to go check it out. I found the meteor that had struck literally crawling with Panacea. The strange movement soon ceased, but by that point my interest was piqued. I brought some of the substance back to my lab for testing. What I found was that there were completely inanimate sections of Panacea and those that were merely dormant waiting to be awakened. Whether the inanimate substance was simply portions of the dormant Panacea that had died on the way or not, we don’t know. I won’t bore you with the details, but through some ‘lucky accidents’ and experiments it was found that both types of Panacea had great potential for curing diseases, far surpassing anything we had found on earth. However, we found the inanimate type to be very limited and temporary, merely acting as a type of white cell booster, so it couldn’t heal anything major like brain cancer and aids.”
He pointed at Tom and Mentos here. His hands were shaking like crazy.
“In addition, the effects of the inanimate type wore off after only a month or so, while the living Panacea has yet to wear off on any of our subjects.”
Marshy: “But wait, I thought you said we were the first subjects?”
Ronike: “Well, you guys are the first human subjects, but we've had very promising results in animal testing. The sentient variety seems to be able to find what was wrong with the subject, regardless of severity or whether it be a physical problem or mental problem, and fix it. Permanently. It was being hailed as a “Miracle drug” and today was to be the first human testing, the dawn of a new golden age for mankind, one free of sickness. But already something has gone wrong! The other head scientist of the project was killed today by the Panacea. Now here’s our problem. We know the Panacea could not have done this on its own. Someone or some people must have helped it: either working with the drug or being manipulated by it. You know, it’s not that comfy in this little room. Let’s move into the test chamber.”
As soon as everyone had entered the chamber, you heard the door slam behind you, and the Vegas vault strength door lock. Ronike’s hysterical voice comes in over the loudspeaker:
“I’m sorry, but the feds told us we have two weeks to terminate the project and everyone involved. Goodbye all of you…”
The giant laser from earlier descends once more from the ceiling. But nothing happens. 5 minutes pass. A half hour. An hour. Finally Ronike’s voice comes on once again over the loudspeaker.
“We have devised an alternative. The feds say if we can figure out who did it and clarify their reasons, there is a chance we can continue the research and leave at least some of you alive. So here's the deal: I will research the “hows” of this situation, while the 12 of you decide among yourself who is most suspicious. At the end of the day, the radiation emitter ray will be fired at whoever the plurality believes is most suspicious, at which they will be killed. Hopefully we will be able to figure out the who in this way before you are all killed. I shall give you updates if we find any information, but for now Welcome Home.”
Welcome Home begins playing over the loudspeaker.
Day 1 has begun! With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.
