Stuck In An Elevator Meme

[iamtetsuo]

Suddenly, the elevator... stops. You have to deal with whoever's in that elevator for however long it takes for someone to come rescue you or to figure out how to get out. Maybe you'll be there forever.

And no, the elevator can't be destroyed. If you look closely, the new safety rating clearly states it's made out of a plotnium-titanium alloy and rated to survive a small apocalypse.

Need further prompts? RNG or specify-

1. Normal Elevator.
Self-explanatory! It's just one of those days. You're trying to move a ridiculous amount of floors and then the elevator just stops moving. Completely.

2. Space Elevator.
That's right, they've got a geosynchronous tether outside of the Earth's atmosphere and are using it to cheaply ferry things to space. Did you want to get stuck at partial gravity with ground far, far below you? Did you? I bet you did. What will you do?

3. Uh.. you okay there...?
If you choose this option, your character was bitten by something. Who knows what? Could be a snake. Could be a zombie. Could be the other person in the elevator.

4. What's Happening Out There?
All power is out. The elevator is pitch black. There's no sound from the speaker no matter how many times you try to press the 'call' button. Is anyone even alive out there? Hello?

5. Experiment Group A
The elevator stops, and a weird hissing sound can be heard through the vents. Something's being pumped in here, but what?
1: Helium
2: Truth Gas
3: Make Your Own (or it's just the ventilation)
4: Suddenly, you can't hear anything. Figure out another way to communicate.
5: SNAKES?!

6: MORTAL KOMBAT
Not long after the elevator has already started moving, it screeches to a halt. The speaker crackles with static, and then a muffled, computerized voice speaks up. "Multiple occupants detected in the elevator. Please remove one in order to continue." But... the doors are already closed, and show no evidence of opening again. Do you follow through with this order? Try to escape some other way?

7: Party!
Streamers fall from the ceiling, the lighting dims, and disco lights pan across the floor. There's no explanation provided for what's happening, but if you look closely at the inspection notice, it clearly states "Elevator powered by sufficient partying levels." There is no explanation on what 'sufficient partying levels' means, but clearly you haven't reached them.

8: STOP MOVING
The ride never ends. It just keeps going. And going. Where is it taking you? Are you even in the building anymore?! And... wait, is it going sideways now?

9: Teleporting Elevator
Hey, there's this awesome new technology that simply teleports you to wherever you want to go! You decide to try it. It hums, powering up. There's a strange static taste to the air, a sudden pull, and then.. nothing. Not only does the elevator appear to be stuck, it could be stuck anywhere. It could even be stuck in a space between reality and theoretical existence, wherever it is it goes when it's in mid-transit.

...is there a help line for this? Do you dare open the doors to find out if you made it, or are going to doom you and the other person there?

10: Wildcard
Choose your own adventure!

Comments

[iamtetsuo]

So you don't know what you are, huh? I'll tell you...

Deformed freak!

[iamtetsuo]

[MORE laughing]

Oh, this is funny. You just glued a rock to your head!

[rassera]

[Yeah, that's the same question he's asking right now, eyes frantically looking for any discolouration of the air.

An invisible gas was the worst kind.]

I'm not really all that convinced!!!

[iamtetsuo]

YOU WANNA TEST IT?!

[Panic and anger play very, very well together.]

8 oh boy

[steven_no]

[There is soft music playing in the background as the elevator keeps moving up....and up...and up...Pearl starts noticing that the music is on a loop, and keeps track of the measures. There is a small dissonance between the second and third as it changes tempos, and it gets more and more pronounced after the twentieth loop...]

[oceanthief]

I guess it's making up for that now.

[steven_no]

[E X C U S E Y O U]

I DID NOT GLUE a ROCK. TO MY FOREHEAD!

6?

[steven_no]

[Pear stares at the blinking sign]

Surely if we were over the prescribed weight limit, the elevator wouldn't have started in the first place.

[iamtetsuo]

I get it. Did you use tape?

[steven_no]

oh...well...I-I suppose that means we're stuck here if no one can get to the warp pad...Unless they figure it out and send someone on Lion there, but THAT might not be for DAYS...

[steven_no]

I USED a highly complex process that your puny HUMAN mind couldn't even comprehend!

<3

[maglevflash]

[Yeah, Gogo is pretty tiny, herself. There is no way they hit weight limit.]

Is this some kind of joke?

[She feels a little dumb being so cliche, but she tries the door open button anyway.]

1-ish?

[tsundog]

[This is the first time Inuyasha has been in a - what the fuck did they call it? Levitator? something? He just knows it as the metal vibrating teleporter box with little glowy buttons. Don't ask him to explain this shit.]

[The box makes some sort of weird clunky noise and he can feel them stop moving. What the fuck?]

[The hanyo doesn't say anything, but a few minutes after its clear enough that the box was broken, he makes an annoyed little guttural growl in his chest.]

What a useless piece of junk!

[He may as well have just climbed up from the outside! But before getting ready to punch out the roof of the elevator to do just that, he needs to get rid of some baggage first. Sitting cross legged on the ground, he starts to unwrap the takeout he was carrying, breaking the wooden chopsticks in two.]

[Popping one container open, he starts to slurp up the noodles inside. May as well eat this shit before it gets cold.]

[iamtetsuo]

It had adhesive on it before you applied it!

[steven_no]

Bad enough these things are hardly faster than walking, but they can't even seem to get all the way there.

[maglevflash]

Tell me about it. Should have just taken the stairs.

[steven_no]

[puny human laugh at Pearl, PEARL SMASH!


...well no, but she does lift both her hands to her gem, which starts to glow as she summons her spear and points it at Tetsuo

WhAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY TO THAT?

LOUDNESS INTENSIFIES

[spacejackaroo]

I didn't BUILD the karablastin' thing! I'm only visitin' this backwater system!

[oceanthief]

[there is a long silence as Lapis internally struggles with her continued (if moderately lessened) antipathy towards all of the Crystal Gems and...well, just how pathetic Pearl was being, to be honest. for once this had nothing to do with what Steven would think and everything to do with a twinge of something (sympathy) in her chest.

god, she hated this. she hated all of this.]

...then let's just leave now.

8

[resipiscent]

[Oh god, what is happening.

He's been standing with his back against the steel wall for... too long now. Three floors aren't that high, are they? Riku eyeballs his companion, a boy with black hair who looks like he swallowed something the wrong way, and then he looks back down at his feet because he's just not feeling that today.

Why couldn't he have been stuck in an elevator with a friend, at least?]

[steven_no]

Archaic and impractical, but at least almost guaranteed to work...

I don't suppose you have a way to get that panel off?

PUTS IN A TIME OUT

[steven_no]

Then WHY should I be in charge of fixing this?

[steven_no]

[The blankest look]

...What?

the two least likely candidates...

[iamtetsuo]

[Ancient clothing, weird hair.. one of the weird cultists, maybe? Someone that Tetsuo really didn't have much interest in talking to, that's for sure. He's pretty content to stare at a wall instead of dealing with being social. He didn't feel like it.

All that changes when the elevator makes a few more than slightly alarming sound and comes to a grinding halt. Metal groans around them, then settles.

Before Tetsuo can react, the guy's already voiced his sentiments exactly. And then sat down and.. oh, hell no.

As if the smell weren't bad enough when it's IN the container, the guy just has to take some food out and start in. Of course. If he's gonna be stuck here, he's NOT gonna be stuck here smelling reminders that it's been a while since he ate, dammit!]

Hey. Hand some over.

[That's how 'asking' works, right]

[maglevflash]

Never leave home without tools.

[She opens her messenger bag to pull out a case, and leans in front of the panel.]

Prying this open'll be easy, but getting manual control of the elevator will be interesting without an actual control panel.