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Stuck In An Elevator Meme

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.

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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!

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[Pearl has spent the whole ride standing at the opposite end of the small space in total silence. She is quite sure that is the proper etiquette for these situations, and her companion seemed to agree.

Then there is a sudden jolt, a THUNK, and a bweeeeeeeeeeeeee as the streamers start falling]

....What on...

[There's a new definition for the word 'demeaning'. It's 'waiting around impatiently in an elevator when you can simply levitate wherever you want to go'. But that doesn't work when the destination is underground, does it?

Tetsuo's spent the ride staying in a corner, being quiet and looking extremely unwilling to interact with anyone. Fortunately, neither has the other person he's been forced to coexist with for the time being. That's fine. She can keep doing that.

That's when the elevator himself makes Tetsuo jump halfway out of his skin, looking up sharply because what is going on. And then continuing to stare when life continues to make no sense whatsoever.]

Streamers?!

[so, it turns out that there is something more awkward than being warped with your former pseudo-jailers to a nonspecific location for nonspecific fitetimes! and that is being warped with your former pseudo-jailers to a nonspecific location for nonspecific fitetimes and having the pad just fucking stop mid-journey.

they aren't even thrown out of the beam, it just. ceases to move, leaving them standing in a weird cylinder of light and physics abuse. worse, they're still free to move about, meaning that actually discussing the situation at hand is inevitable.

Lapis shifts uncomfortably, looking everywhere that isn't Pearl.]

...is this something that happens now?

[she's been out of the game for a couple thousand years. she has no idea what the hell you weirdos have been doing to the warp pads.]

[Pearl stares at the lowering disco ball, and then at the appearance of the sign] ...Partying...Levels....That isn't a form of energy I am familiar with...

[She glances at her companion] Is this some new human discovery? I mean, it took you so long to even discover electricity, but I suppose you can't be completely ignorant of other ways to power machines.

[if they're stuck in here long enough she's probably going to pretend to have a heart attack and die at some point.]

[Tetsuo shifts from giving the elevator itself a 'what the fuck' look to turning all his increasingly frustrated confusion on the other occupant.

Whatever the hell she's saying, he really isn't fond of her tone there.]

The hell's that supposed to mean?!

[It takes her a moment to realize that they aren't going anywhere anymore-]

Of....of course not! I'm sure this is a mere glitch and should resolve itself any....moment now!

[....it doesn't]

I JUST WANT TO ASSURE YOU THAT THIS IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL.

Oh, well I mean, I suppose that electricity and nuclear power are all very well for the level of technology your species has achieved in the time you have had, but they aren't at all efficient enough to get you even out of your own solar system! And it seems this 'partying' isn't either, as we seem to have run out not even NEAR our destination.

[her shoulders hike up slightly as the volume suddenly skyrockets, more a defensive instinct than any real sensitivity to hysterics. she's still not really looking at Pearl, because honestly she doesn't really know how to properly deal with any of the Crystal Gems anymore, but her mouth scrunches into something mildly perplexed.

to be perfectly honest, she's not sure if being unable to blame the earth gems makes her feel better or worse. similarly, she's not sure if she's brave enough to put a hand onto the warp stream and see if they can still just exit....out into the nothing of space.....]

That doesn't really help much.

[There's always one thing that goes wrong in space, that's just a rule. Or should be a rule. Zeb himself was wanting one smuggling run that included minimal shenanigans and maximum sulking back on the ghost.

As it turns out, his ride never made it to the surface. Some goons are swarming the surface like paranoid Genosians, as he found it. But what he did not want to find out was who was behind the shutdown on space travel, chances are the answer was triangular, grey, and full of lasers.

So the only way off the karablasted planet is some archaic form of travel that Zeb amounts to a big elevator. Already he knows he's a big red flag: six foot plus purple alien with big ears.

He gets on, awkwardly squeezed between the shoulders as he's flug at ridiculous speeds when...it stops.

Right out in space.]

Karablast. Was it too much to ask for somethin' to be functional today?

[Great. Fine. Of all the things that could possibly make this worse somehow... there's this.

First of all, Tetsuo doesn't even need to use elevators. This is just more convenient. At least, this all seemed like a good enough decision, right until Kaneda got on shortly after he did. The only thing that's kept Tetsuo from immediately leaving was complete stubbornness - he's not about to make this whole deal take even longer than it has to.

Of course, just about when he decides that, the whole elevator stops and robs him of the option. There's a sound from somewhere; he can't quite place what it is.

Something hissing.

Tetsuo takes a break from glaring at Kaneda to staring up at the vents, backing up a step from his corner. That's not.. good...]

[Boy I hope you aren't expecting someone who pays attention to other people's reactions, Lapis, because Pearl is going to keep up that 'cheerful' volume]

I am absolutely POSITIVE this will be resolved in a matter of MOMENTS. Of cooourse, someone will have to be at the other warp pad to know that we haven't reached it yet, BUT if they aren't they soon will be! And we will not be stuck here for hundreds of years waiting for a fix to a problem brought on by centuries of neglecting these warp pads at ALL!

[To be honest these things happen all the time with Wander.

Speaking of, there's a little orange Muppet in the elevator. How did that get there? Ain't that the darndest thing?

It's funny too, how he showed up right when the elevator started acting up. He doesn't seem to mind, no he's just pressing buttons left and right.]

[That's a lot of words. All of which spell out BULLSHIT.]

My species -? The hell're you going on about?

[wow, they haven't been paying attention to what ought to be their main method of transportation around that godforsaken rock? what a surprise.]

I can't imagine what being trapped for that long would be like.

[hey, look! Lapis has discovered bitter, angry human sarcasm! and she's even looking Pearl flatly in the face when she delivers it!! that's...that's progress in her reintroduction to society as a whole, right..?]

[Sulking in the corner's a decent alternative to pretending he cares about whatever conversation he could be having. In fact, Tetsuo'd have carried out the entire ride in eerie silence until he realizes that he doesn't feel gravity pulling at him correctly anymore. There's a sudden shift, as if...]

Eh?

[As if they're going sideways now?]

The hell was that?

[He's not actually asking the thing in the corner. He is ,in fact, trying to NOT see something that may or may not be all in his head.]

Edited 2015-09-26 02:45 (UTC)

[The jolt almost knocks Pearl over and she looks out into the vastness of space....the vastness that isn't moving past as it should]

NATurally, trying to copy warp pads without understand the fundamentals behind them means this sort of thing will happen all the time.

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Stuck In An Elevator Meme

Tetsuo Shima | OTA

Pearl

7 BLESS

Ahahaha

9 ofc

riku | ota

Kaneda Shotaro | OTA

no subject

Mewtwo | OTA

Hazel Lockwood | ota

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NATURALLY [1/3]

[2/3] wishing for more faces already

[3/3]

the countdown just sped up

rping su is an exercise in I NEED MORE STUPID FACES UGH sadly

2 ahahah

5 (option 2); well this should be something.

im not in a game i don't need a paid i tell myself as i consider 100 icon slots

8 perdonne

Pearl stop draining fun out of the universe

Gogo Tomago | ota

what is a game, really, but a state of mind? a state of mind that requires 100+ icons.

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THE NO FUN SQUAD IS HERE