Post by koran on Aug 14, 2007 19:07:47 GMT
All you have ever known is a cage. Rusted steel, bolted together into a 6 foot but 6 foot room with a single, metal, door. Through a small sliding panel food and water is passed to you three times a day and at what you assume is a regular time. Some how you have always known how to speak, the idea of maths and time, for example you have been able to tell that what was imprinted into your left forearm is a number in the gothic style. Despite this knowledge as much as you shout no one ever answers. This was all you ever knew or remembered for so long you can not tell. Untill one day with loud screaching against the rust the door finally opened....
Through it march two figures, much taller than you and covered in metal and wires. They are faceless, each one covered by a mask of tubes and bionics that show none of the flesh that was once beneath. With strong arms they grab you and force you through the door. The bright light there blinds you for seconds as they march you down a corridor. Then you find yourself lifted onto a solid table and one of the figures holds your legs, the other your arms, untill metal cuffes automatically slide into place. Above you a machine with many arms full of needles and blades hovers.
"The subject appears healthy Lord Inquisitor," a mechanical voice says.
"Good," a soft biological voice replies. "Continue the examination."
You make to speak but as you try to shout to the voice one of the needle baring arms swings down and you remember no more. You find yourself back in your cell.
This continues for some time, with you being dragged from your cell by the faceless figures and forced onto the table. Each time you awake with another scar on your pale pink to grey skin. At one time or another you realise that when they take you down the corridor there are a number of other steel doors. Your try to shout to them but there is no responce.
Eventually you grow to the size of the figures that pull you from your cell, but still their mechanically enhanced strength is vastly too much for you to over power. However, it is at this time that when you are being pulled from your room you see someone else being dragged from theirs. They look similar to you, pale grey to pink skin tone, a flat face with black or very brown hair and a small mark on their forehead. You reach up and find a small bump there as well. Possibly another scar from the "examinations" that you could not see (there is nothing bright enough to act as a mirror in your cell). You try to communicate with this person (as he does you) but you are forced away from him and he you.
Soon after you are brought to a new room. One you have never seen before. It is long and thin. You examine it bit there seems to be only one door that is big enough to fit through.
A smaller door slides open and a mechanical voice commands you to retreave what is inside it. You, warily, do. As you do the door shuts and a screen appears from the celing. From this you are taught the basics of weaponry and tactics, with targets falling from the celling.
At first you refuse to take part but once you reallise that if you perform well you recieve more food and sometimes are not "examined" you try your best.
This has been your life, from your first memory to now.
An explosion rocks your room. Then another.... and another. The light goes out in your room but an emergency one kicks in almost imediatly. But during that time the magnetic lock that holds your door closed was released for a second and it has opened slightly and hangs there. You hear another explosion and through the gap around 6 of the mechanical figures rushes past.....
You look outside the door. You see another 4 of the people you have seen before doing the same. The corridor stretches off to both the left and right. The sound of laser fire comes from the left and another explosion.....
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This roughtly is what you all know and have been through......
Through it march two figures, much taller than you and covered in metal and wires. They are faceless, each one covered by a mask of tubes and bionics that show none of the flesh that was once beneath. With strong arms they grab you and force you through the door. The bright light there blinds you for seconds as they march you down a corridor. Then you find yourself lifted onto a solid table and one of the figures holds your legs, the other your arms, untill metal cuffes automatically slide into place. Above you a machine with many arms full of needles and blades hovers.
"The subject appears healthy Lord Inquisitor," a mechanical voice says.
"Good," a soft biological voice replies. "Continue the examination."
You make to speak but as you try to shout to the voice one of the needle baring arms swings down and you remember no more. You find yourself back in your cell.
This continues for some time, with you being dragged from your cell by the faceless figures and forced onto the table. Each time you awake with another scar on your pale pink to grey skin. At one time or another you realise that when they take you down the corridor there are a number of other steel doors. Your try to shout to them but there is no responce.
Eventually you grow to the size of the figures that pull you from your cell, but still their mechanically enhanced strength is vastly too much for you to over power. However, it is at this time that when you are being pulled from your room you see someone else being dragged from theirs. They look similar to you, pale grey to pink skin tone, a flat face with black or very brown hair and a small mark on their forehead. You reach up and find a small bump there as well. Possibly another scar from the "examinations" that you could not see (there is nothing bright enough to act as a mirror in your cell). You try to communicate with this person (as he does you) but you are forced away from him and he you.
Soon after you are brought to a new room. One you have never seen before. It is long and thin. You examine it bit there seems to be only one door that is big enough to fit through.
A smaller door slides open and a mechanical voice commands you to retreave what is inside it. You, warily, do. As you do the door shuts and a screen appears from the celing. From this you are taught the basics of weaponry and tactics, with targets falling from the celling.
At first you refuse to take part but once you reallise that if you perform well you recieve more food and sometimes are not "examined" you try your best.
This has been your life, from your first memory to now.
An explosion rocks your room. Then another.... and another. The light goes out in your room but an emergency one kicks in almost imediatly. But during that time the magnetic lock that holds your door closed was released for a second and it has opened slightly and hangs there. You hear another explosion and through the gap around 6 of the mechanical figures rushes past.....
You look outside the door. You see another 4 of the people you have seen before doing the same. The corridor stretches off to both the left and right. The sound of laser fire comes from the left and another explosion.....
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This roughtly is what you all know and have been through......
