There are three parties.
Perhaps, you're the first one. Instead of being able to go the unmarked exit door, you get dragged by the TALOS through the door marked "TRASH DISPOSAL". With a cold mechanical arm wrapped around your throat, its incredible strength will drag you, willingly or not, through the door and close it shut behind it. It takes you to a new hallway and it goes through an open set of stairs down. As soon as it pulls you down enough steps, the electronic door to the stairway closes shut. Once you reach the bottom of the stairs, it finally lets go but in the tight corridor, there's no way to get past the hulking machine. Try as you might, but it'll push you back, forcing you to walk down the long tight passage. Should you struggle, it won't hesitate to grab onto you and throw you. It will continue to do so until you finally go past thick metal doors and land on a long conveyor belt. It walks onto the belt with you and slams the doors shut. As soon as you get on, the belt begins to slowly move towards a large block that rises all the way to the ceiling and then falls back down with a deafening crash. It rises then falls. Rises then falls and there's no way you can escape. You can't go through the TALOS. You can't go to your sides, not with the walls extending up so far that no normal human could ever climb it). And you can't go behind you as the heavy block will surely crush you. Just what can you do?
Perhaps, you're the second one. Instead of the TALOS grabbing you, it traps you in the Development Room. The flames from the electrical fire are hot and suffocating. It moves surprisingly fast and begins to move closer and closer. If the flames don't get to you first, the smoke will and no amount of banging on the doors or pleading will get the exits to open. Instead, the previously closed shutters of the windows go up and you can look out to see that the room you're in is positioned high up to overlook a deep diagonal area. Near the centre, you can see four conveyor belts, all leading towards their own falling blocks and then converging in the centre to a black void that goes nowhere but down. You can also see a balcony right outside the room, directly linked to the unmarked door. There, you may see a familiar test subject, standing right before you.
Perhaps, you're the third one. Rather than on a conveyor belt leading to a gruesome death or in a burning room that'd burn you to a crisp, you're on the balcony. When you were forced out of that Development Room, it took you on a path that forced you to stand in front of a different room. You pass by the now-closed set of stairs (the ones that lead the TALOS and one of your fellow test subjects to the belt) and find yourself standing in front a similar but different Development Room with someone inside. Directly in front of one of the windows and on the railing are two round sensors, similar to the ones you've seen on various doors. Above each sensor reads one of the two characters that you are now responsible for.
All at once, a robotic voice speaks out from everyone's bracelets.
"Attention, test subjects. You have now entered a new Decision Game. Please listen carefully to the rules as your lives will depend on them. Some of you are on a conveyor belt. Should you not move, you will have approximately ninety seconds before you are crushed beneath the trash compactor. Calhoun recommends staying where you are instead of running towards it like, in his words, "a complete idiot." For some others, you are trapped inside the Development Room. You will either perish in the flames or die from smoke inhalation. There is no time estimate for your death. Now, the rest are somewhere on the balcony and you will see two sensors in front of you. Calhoun would like to congratulate you for being the "lucky ones" as you will decide the fate of your fellow test subjects.
"You four will decide who will live and who will die. Decide who you want to spare by placing your hand on the sensor. Should you choose someone on the belt, it will come to a stop and they will be allowed back up to where you are. Should you choose someone in the room, the doors will open and they will escape to join you on the balcony. Should you choose neither of them, then you will die.
"You have ninety seconds. Ninety seconds to decide who will live and who will die. Make your choice."
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revivarium2019-05-24 11:06 pm
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He sits himself up with a groan, rubbing the back of his head and looking in Yuusuke's direction with a dazed expression. Also his fingers and knuckles on both hands are pretty beat up and bloody. Sup, dude.]
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That happened.]
Hey, what the hell did you do?
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...Uh... stuff?
[He can probably guess what kind of "stuff" Red (and Akira) did by the condition of that poor old, salty TALOS. It's walking unnaturally and one of its ankles is especially fucked up.
Then Red begins looking around frantically, the direness of the situation quickly beginning to sink in. Shit.]
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[Good job.]
You might want to get a hurry on if you don't want it to finish the job!