First Flame | Video

[unstablepyro]

[When the video turns on, Beck is semi preoccupied with yanking on the collar around her neck.  It's not budging but it's still unwanted.  After a few moments though, she just gives up and glares at the screen.  The anger is also to try and mask her fear, but it's still kind of visible anyway.]

The hell is this crap?  'Be happy here'?  Yeah, right.  I don't know what's really going on here, or what sick game is being played, but I want to go home.

The world can't be destroyed, because I know people who wouldn't let that happen.  There's no way he would-not after we've fought so hard so many times.

So, someone had better show me the way out of here before things get a little too hot for comfort.

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[sou_kigetsuki]

[Sou laughs at the display and he's not threatened by fire. He's a pyrokinetic himself and absorbing heat isn't beyond him either.]

Wow, and I thought I was the hot-head. That's cute, but I think you're missing something here. That collar, if you remove it, well, you die. The way out? Not a chance. I tried even by blowing a hole through the top. It's not happening.

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[unstablepyro]

[Well, that makes her go quiet for a minute as she considers all of that. She still is not fond of that collar at all though.]

So has someone else done it before then? And, you know, died? [She needs solid proof and not just speculation...]

And is this place some kind of, what, impenetrable fortress or something?

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[sou_kigetsuki]

We don't know much about the Tower just yet.

As for the collar, well, it's been on the network in the past, from my research, that it has been tried with some rather...interesting results. I don't recommend it unless you like painting your walls a thick shade of red upward.

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[unstablepyro]

Oh.

[Right then. Collar. She's not touching it any more. She doesn't like it, but she'd rather not die.]

How long have people been brought here?

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[sou_kigetsuki]

[Sou let out a sigh with his eyes upward in thought.]

Oh, I say about a year.

[His indigo collar peeks out from behind his uniform just enough to be seen.]

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[unstablepyro]

Oh. [Longer than she expected. Well, there goes the idea that everyone was just relatively knew and just hadn't figured out things yet.]

Then this place is pretty hard to escape from.

And what's with the collars, anyway?

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[rewindingly]

If we knew a way out of here then I highly doubt you would receive many if any responses.

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[unstablepyro]

[Well, got a point there.]

I wasn't sure if there was anyone else here, or how many people.

[She's been kidnapped before after all, and then it had just been her and George.]

There's really no way out though?

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[blackwitch]

.. Wha-t, you really think you can find a way out of here?

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[unstablepyro]

Well it's better than sitting around and waiting to be rescued.

[Though Beck's solution to just about anything is 'let's burn it!' so, you know...]

[blackwitch]

[ oh, don't worry, evatrice likes this solution a lot.. ]

Not all of us are doing something that pathetic, you know! I like it way too much here to already leave!

[unstablepyro]

[Blowing things up is the best way to deal with something, yes indeed.]

You...like it here?

[blackwitch]

Of course, why wouldn't I? [ mostly since she's new, so she hasn't been experimented on or anything yet.. ]

Su-re, normal people might find this place horrible, but for a great witch like me it's the perfect place!

[unstablepyro]

A witch?

[She's met a witch or two back home, and at least one of them she's sure would have the power to bust out of this tower like it was nothing.]

Why's this place great then? I'm sure a witch could get out of here easily anyway.

[calculatedfire]

So far we have not found a way out, throwing a fit will not help that.

[unstablepyro]

[That's not the kind of thing she wants to hear. There's got to be a way out. They even managed to escape from Mosaic, so whatever this place is, can't be that much harder.]

There's always a way out. At least, in my experience.

[calculatedfire]

There must be, there was a way in. It's just that no one has found it yet, so it will take time.

[unstablepyro]

Then whoever brought us here is really determined to keep us here.

They can't keep us forever, though.

[A beat.]

But why? What do they want with any of us?

[calculatedfire]

That is something that I cannot determine. You may want to talk to those who have been here longer.

It has been hypothesised that it is because of the unusual powers many people here have. Although if that is the case, it would have been strange to select me from the time I'm from.

[unstablepyro]

So there's a lot of people here who are, uhm [she is never going to settle on a word for this that she's happy using.] out of the ordinary?

[permatext]

[chronomancer]

Trust Me
you Dont wwant to go to wwhatevver these people say your "home" is
though the wwhole "be happy here" thing is a monumental load a hoofbeastshit

[permatext]

[unstablepyro]

Why not? Did something really happen to where we came from?

[chronomancer]

i dont knoww if it really happened
wwhere youre from
but if you ask to be sent home
they wwill send you somewwhere that fits wwith their story

[unstablepyro]

Then it's a trick. So that we think we have nothing to get back to. But it can't be real.

wow, did I totally forget my quirk entirely or what

[chronomancer]

gets pretty real after the first feww wweeks