1st Sand Coffin [Video/Action]

[fifth_kazekage]

[Gaara has read the letters, and thinks this is just another sadistic experiment at the facility. He gets up out of bed and curiously looks around the room, making a mental note of the trunk. Where is the communication device? It might have been misplaced during the transfer. He needs to find a way to access the public network.

He leaves the room and walks swiftly through the hallways in a brief exploration. Eventually, he wanders into the library and finds a computer, recognizing the electronic device from the facility. With some experience, he navigates the functions and figures out how to post a video.

He stares impassively at the screen for a few seconds.] Doctors, Consortium, Val. [Addressing all three to see which one, if any, would actually respond to his call.] This is an amateur tactic. Rather disappointing.

[Now, to figure out what is this week’s experiment. They’re not on schedule for an F3 expedition. Strange.]

Sai. [Brief pause.] Kankuro, Temari. Report in.

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[video]

[absolute_perception]

[A rather impassive stare comes through the network. He doesn't appear to be holding on to any device and he's not in a hallway either. The background shows a green orb and numbers floating in the air scrolling down. Elian is reading everything.]

There is no Consortium that I am aware of. You are the third person to mention Val. I assume you are from Facility.

[video]

[fifth_kazekage]

......

[No Consortium? Gaara narrows his eyes in suspicion. He knows better than to trust anyone he doesn’t recognize.]

Yes. [A vague answer. He pauses briefly before asking.] Are you a new arrival?

[video]

[absolute_perception]

[The question certainly was justified. With all that's been going on, Elian definitely doesn't take any offense.]

If by recent you mean within the last seven days, then yes.

[The violet collar is peeking through from behind the collar of his over-sized jacket.]

[video]

[fifth_kazekage]

I trust the others have explained the circumstances to you?

[The redhead frowns, a bit perplexed by the change in collar and design of his collar. It was always only black, silver, and gold. Why purple now…?]

......

[He reaches toward his own neck and feels the protruding tubes.]

…Have the collars been replaced with more restrictions?

video

[fusedstars]

[Consortium and Val. Oh he knew of those names, yet not of the person talking. Regardless, someone else from the facility? Not sure if this was a good sign, or a bad one. Was certainly helping in linking the tower to the facility.]

You are from the facility as well I take it?

video

[fifth_kazekage]

Yes. [He quirks a brow.] Is that unusual?

[These people could be natives from the F3 location, Gaara reasons logically. There were usually more monsters than civilians, but every location was different.]

Are you a native of this location?

Re: video

[fusedstars]

[If only, Gaara. If only. And Hei's expression doesn't change as he speaks, still deadpan.]

No. We are from the facility. [Or were possibly.]

And before you say anything, this isn't facility 3. Some of have us have been taken out and placed within this tower.

video

[fifth_kazekage]

I wouldn’t have thought otherwise. Unless you had been placed in the F2 location instead.

[That doesn’t shock him because he still thinks they are trapped within the facility.] Another part of the space station, then? Hmph. [He maintains a calm expression.] They can be as ruthless as they choose. They won’t succeed in breaking everyone.

[video] I'll tell you when I'm done >>

[xroyal_bratx]

[ Why the hell did that voice sound familiar and they said Kankuro and Temari. She knew those names from a couple of years ago. She also knew that Temari was still at Facility.

The mention of Sai definitely confirmed to her who it was that she was staring at, and he wasn't a different one. In fact, he was the one she knew. The one she knew from years ago. He was one of the few that had the biggest impact on her. ]

[video]

[xroyal_bratx]

[ This wasn't something she was expecting, but it was a possibility.

A possibility that she hoped for.

Maybe it was time that it was answer...maybe, but why?! ]

[video]

[xroyal_bratx]

[ it shocked her to no end that she was seeing someone she missed for so long. ]

[video]

[xroyal_bratx]

[ Words couldn't be expressed right now. She just had a moment to calm down. ]

[video]

[xroyal_bratx]

[ Then the emotions kind of just came.

She closed her eyes. God, all of this was taking a toll on her right now. ]

[video]

[xroyal_bratx]

[ She just teared up. ]

G-Gaara.

[video] I think I'm done

[xroyal_bratx]

[ There's a few short sobs from her as she tried to calm to calm herself down, not even aware that it was still recording. ]

[video] 1/2 Good fucking God, Ishtar O_O Actually, that wasn’t so bad XD

[fifth_kazekage]

[His stern expression eases a little at the sight of a familiar face.]

Ishtar.

[video] 2/2

[fifth_kazekage]

[Then, the sight of her tears make him tense up immediately. He frowns, fixing her with a very serious look.]

Are you injured? Where are you?

[video] It could have been worse >> 1/2

[xroyal_bratx]

[ She took a moment to calm her nerves, and the sobbing would quickly cease as she wiped the tears from her face.

Hei was right, she couldn't be depressed forever. She had her moment, now it was time to move one.

She wasn't the same anymore. At least, not like how she was in the past. ]

[video]

[xroyal_bratx]

Gaara...no...I'm fine..Where are you?

[text]

[reddeadvirtuoso]

oh shit you caught us!
after we spent all night painting the walls and setting up the beds and the lights too
do you know how long it takes to set up a tower this high?
ill tell you no one fucking slept that night
we were hoping you'd be duped for a little bit longer but i guess thats out the window

[text]

[fifth_kazekage]

[Gaara stares at the screen for a good while, trying to figure out what is this person’s intentions. He doubts the ones holding them captive would really just come out in the open like this.]

Are you exercising sarcasm?

[reddeadvirtuoso]

no seriously
its actually just a really futuristic movie set!
this studio only actually has two floors and the rooftop
they got all sorts of new physics and atmosphere engines to make it seem like youre climbing a lot of stairs when
youre not






tl;dr yes

video;

[decompose]

As far as I can tell, this isn't a trick...

[Not that it's any easier to believe. How can it be? Nigredo is frowning, starkly so.] And I wish I could tell you something other than I hope you find the people you're looking for...

video;

[fifth_kazekage]

[Gaara shakes his head.] They wouldn’t make it that obvious, unless they were trying to accomplish something.

So you are not acquainted with them. [Which isn’t terribly surprising, although Temari has been at the facility the longest out of all of them.]

video;

[decompose]

If there's a rhyme to the reason, I haven't found it, yet, either. [But, then again, this place isn't as logical as Nigredo would like it to be.

A small, polite shake of his head.] I haven't been here that long, myself.