thefoundation | Round 4 TDM

0. Calm Before the Storm

All of you have been given notice within the last week: new duties, ones that require you to temporarily relocate to a remote site in California. The actual Foundation site is about what you would expect from the Foundation: functional, but not exactly comfortable. For the week or two it takes for all the Agents to be relocated, you are at that site, waiting for further instructions. Nothing too terrible happens during that time, as this site is primarily for the containment of one large SCP, and any other SCPs at the site are Safe. There is plenty of time to enjoy the nearby forest or lake if you like, the local Agents don't seem to mind if you go outside so long as you're back by dinnertime. There are no towns nearby, though. The site is the only bit of civilization for miles.

Once the final Agents arrive the real work can begin. Until then, just relax and get to know the area, and possibly each other.

1. Meet and greet/ general info

All of the Agents involved in the 'final cut' are brought into a meeting room, where an Agent that may be familiar to some is waiting. He goes over the basics of SCP-6593 and how it operates. A couple dozen Agents will enter the house and live there for a few weeks, completing challenges and living out life in that strange house. He is quick to explain that not everyone present will be participants in the 'game' itself: those not picked as participants from the people at the meeting will be support staff working in the background, making sure everything runs smoothly and ready on standby should anything go wrong. But given the years that it has been since any fatal accidents have occurred, he doubts that this will be anything other than a rather boring containment procedure.

Everyone will have a couple hours to do a 'meet and greet' before heading out to the site to explore it. Say hi to your co-workers, everyone! You're going to be working in close quarters with them for pretty much the whole summer.

2. Site Exploration

The containment site, a short 20 minutes away by truck, consists of two buildings: a house and a large, enclosed studio. The studio is currently closed off- the Agent in charge will explain that final preparations are still being made there- but the house is open for exploration.

Feel free to check out the layout of the house and inspect anything you wish! Be careful though, as the mental effects of the house itself (as listed on the SCP page) will start to slowly affect characters as soon as they set foot inside the house itself.

3. Game Time!

As part of the final testing to see who will be the participants, on-site Agents have set up a trial game. For this game, characters are paired off and each given a small buzzer that attaches to their arm. One half is given a card with a 'password' on it, as well as five-ish related words that cannot be said. The Agent with the card needs to get the other Agent to say the 'password', but cannot say the word itself, nor any of the other listed words. If the Agent with the card says any of those words, their partner will receive a mild electric shock. If their partner guesses incorrectly, then the Agent with the card will receive an electric shock. Once the correct word is said by the partner, the roles will reverse and they will go again. When both sides have done both roles, the game ends.

The shocks are automatically set to be annoying, but not high enough voltage to injure someone. That said, this IS an SCP, and sometimes accidents can happen...

4. A Criminal is Loose

You're only exploring the site, and yet someone has already made a mess of things. Maybe someone destroyed the kitchen trying to make a milkshake. Or maybe they dropped some sensitive equipment into the pool. Or hell, maybe they took all the booze out of the rec room. Whatever the case, someone has committed a heinous crime, and you're tasked with finding out who did it. Someone's going to get reprimanded for the slip-up, and you really don't want it to be you. Not when the lead Agent is known for being a hardass on people.

Track down the booze-thief/kitchen-destroyer/criminal mastermind and make sure they take responsibility for what they have done.

5. Gacha Fun

There is a strange machine in the house. It looks like a vending machine, maybe? But when you put in a dollar, Weird Shit comes out. Sometimes it's booze, sometimes it's a shirt or sandals, sometimes it's pool floaties. Hell, sometimes you even get weapons! And there's these weird fortune cookies in there too.

What does your character get? And are they sharing their strange loot with any acquaintances?

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Threads from this TDM can be counted as canon for the game if you choose. ICly, these threads (except for prompt 0) will all take place on June 7th, 2019.

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[The hedgehog glows green and floats midair, doing an acrobatic little flip before pumping his fist] Yeah!! The weather is just great. Maybe a little hot, but that's what the lake is for, right? Anyway. I don't think we've properly met. I'm Silver, Silver the Hedgehog. What's your name?

[ Omg, Silver, aren't you so precious? But anyway, she nodded - though she knows she'd need to head back to nab a swimsuit because she is not jumping into the lake with all of her clothes as funny as the image would be... ]

My name is Aqua. It's a pleasure meeting with you, and I hope we're able to get along - even when our time here together ends.

[ She looks a little sheepish when she smiles. ]

I also hope it remains as calm as it has, it's been a nice breath of fresh air.

Aqua! You're named after a color, too! That's great. And I'm sure we will, I've been told I'm pretty easy to get along with, heh.

[he nods]

Yeah, definitely. This is way different than my usual missions... have you been with the Foundation long?

[ So that seems like they share a similarity. Or...actually, two of those. ]

What a coincidence, I've been told the same.

[ And from what she could tell of Silver, those saying as much weren't wrong. Granted, it was too early to tell but in her experience the nastiness generally reared its head in the beginning of the meeting with Agents... ]

Yes, I have. It's been about two years, but how about you? How have you been with them for long?

Two years! I've been here for about a year, I showed up right before that camp thing happened in Michigan. I'm... glad I missed out on that. I was still in training when they picked agents for that...

[he heads for the door again] We can walk and talk more! Oh, you should grab a towel or something if you're gonna swim, though... I only have room in my bag for one.

I happened to also miss that as well, simply because I wasn't chosen. I don't envy anyone who had to go through that.

[ She's heard some things and though she wasn't privy to the whole of it, it sounded bad enough. Most things concerning SCP were, anyway. ]

...You're right. I was going to wait until we got back from walking, but it'd be quicker for me to stop by my room and grab my swimsuit now.

If you don't mind waiting, I'll be right back?

Yeah... [he shudders a little bit. He'd heard stories from some of the campers...

Silver gives a little nod]

Sure! No problem! Take your time, Aqua.

[ She comes back with a swim suit soon enough. It looks like this, if someone's curious! ]

I didn't keep you waiting too long, did I?

[SUPER CUTE, Silver approves]

Not at all! Let's go find that lake!

Shouldn't be too hard, right?

[ If she were anyone different she'd even bring up the idea of a race... ]

Shouldn't be! I think the paths are marked around here.

[he zooms off down the path toward the lake!]

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