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(( Delta Four is entering from the Beach Travel Thread. ))

Fedora had checked her phone, and almost literally jumped at the chance to get a pendant. Hopefully, it would work for her - she had a feeling. She wasn't sure if it was a good feeling or a bad one, but it was still a feeling.

She felt strange, walking into the large gymnasium in her full gear, and she idly thought that she wasn't dressed appropriately.

Bygones.

She walked over to the pendants, and after a moment's hesitation, took only one and put it on. Fedora had already found out firsthand that it was bad to disregard rules, so she decided to abide by them.

Lifting the necklace, she put it on, and let out a sigh, immediately thinking of the worst. It couldn't be this easy. It just couldn't.

She held up the pendant and stared at it. What if some were fake?

Z2 enters from the Abandoned Town hiding thread.

When Z2 had felt his phone vibrate with a new text, all he needed to see was the word "Pendant" before quickly sending in a text message.

The next thing he knew, he was transported to a large gym with other people who were already there. A bright blue light and a chance at staying alive... it could be a trap, but at this point Z2 didn't care. As long as it meant a chance at survival, he would do anything. He grabbed a pendant from the basket and slipped it around his neck, just like the others.

[ BXI is entering from [LIGHTHOUSE] Inside and Up High ]

Beta Eleven squinted and tripped forward slightly as she was engulfed with blue light and deposited... in a gym? Okay then. She already had one of the remaining pendants halfway around her neck before Dr. Secondly's voice echoed over the intercom. The mannish girl didn't have time to think about what was to come, nor did thinking about much of anything except pendant pendant pendant come very easily anyway. Weren't these things supposed to keep them alive? Sure, there were more than five of them here, it seemed, but maybe someone had found a cloner or something.

Only when the thing was resting against the front of her armor did BXI remember to breathe. For this brief moment, the first one in days, she felt secure.

Several minutes passed as the roomed filled up, but eventually the intercom clicked on again, and Dr. H's voice sounded throughout the gym, "Excellent, this will do. Well then, let us begin." A sudden chill filled the the room, followed by the near electric sense that something had changed. Half the pendants began to glow brighter while the other half...well, they glowed as well. But red. Another shift in the room, and those wearing blue pendants felt a startling sensation not unlike an ice cube being slid down their spine.

"I strongly advise you against taking those pendants off, as the energy in this room tends to have a fairly dire effect on the human body when concentrated to such levels," the doctor began calmly. "Now, to give you a bit of back ground on this test: we've recently had a bit of a pest problem, and a few are still making themselves known. Not to mention a few dozen other such pests now have a means to access this place." He paused thoughtfully for a moment, and then continued, "A few of you may recall the story of one ah...Pied Piper? Yes. That's the one, and my proposed solution to said pest issue is somewhat along those lines."

As the participants are given a moment to digest all this, a few may notice that their weapons and first aid kits in the process of disintegrating. "Half of the pendant should have turned red, they are an altered version of the original pendants. I'll be referring to them as Command pendants. The blue, normal looking ones also have a little extra something in them. It's a highly concentrated form of the energy you now feel in the room. It's difficult to properly explain but..." another pause, "...there are those who call is FEAR."

The weapons and kits are completely gone by now, and the idea that this may have truly been a bad decision looms over the participants. "Although these will be tested out in more specific and also more general ways, for this trial we'll have you in teams of two: one with command and the other holding FEAR. Command users will be able to find their partner by doing just that, issuing a verbal command. Try it a few times, get used to each other, and then the real testing will begin."











Red represents those who have a Command pendant, blue represents the FEAR pendant they're connected to.

B3 + B4
T4 + B6
G11 + Eta12
D9 + G12
B10 + D1
T3 + E7
G8 + Eta11
D4 + T9
Z2 + G5
B11 + B9

Soon after Theta Nine's pendant started to glow a brighter blue, he shivered at the sensation of an ice cube sliding down his spine. He scanned the room quickly, taking in which gas mask troopers had red pendants and which gas mask troopers had blue like him. He felt a sudden jolt of dismay as he recognized some familiar faces bearing red pendants. Was this going to be reds against blues? He hoped not but knew he had little choice in the matter. A by-now reflexive brush of his fingers against his bandages revealed that they were disintegrating, as were his medkits. He groaned in his mind. This was just getting better and better.

The doctor's voice was calm, too calm for Thyme's liking, but the Theta bore the voice's warning in mind even as the man moved on to talk about the pest problem. Considering the chaos and conflict of the past few days, maybe he ought to go and shake those pests' hands. As he listened on, his lips pressed into a thin line. First a meatshield, now a lackey? Great, just great. If he did have authority issues in his past -- and the rising ire within suggested that he might indeed -- he couldn't fault his former self for it. He studied the Command pendant users, wondering which of these held his fate in their hands.

Fedora stared at the line of people and tilted her head at the doctor's explanation, glancing down at her pendant curiously. It changed red, and there were a great many whose pendants were blue. She counted, and they were all even.

"So... issue a command, yeah?" Pursing her lips behind her mask, she didn't really pay attention to the numbers before speaking, and thus didn't catch Thyme in the crowd.

"Okay, so whoever is connected to mine... jump up and down and wave your arms in the air. Just so I know who it is." She shrugged; it was a harmless gesture, and one that would really tell her who was her current partner.

Beta-Six started to panic while their weapons were disintegrating. His trusty (ever-failing) gun!! And that first aid kid had saved his life!

He trembled again when he noticed that his pendant was blue. On one hand he did not want to have to fight anyone but on the other hand he was really grateful not to be the one ordering any attacks.

They would have to fight right? Dr. H didn't say that they would but if he'd learned anything on this island it was that everything ended with a fight. Before looked concerned and he noticed that his team mate was also a blue. Jeez.

"So.. " he waited to hear a command and see how this pendant compelled him to do what he was told. Hopefully his 'Commander' didn't throw him to the wolves like cannon fodder.