The Game
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You attempt to take the screwdriver to a piece of wood and carve, but you give up after a few minutes of butchering a corner and not really accomplishing anything.
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Descending from the desk, and avoiding any yellow stains, you attempt to grab the carpet from the middle, but it doesn't want to move.
You use the screwdriver you're still holding to displace a corner of the carpet and rip out a square foot of poorly designed carpet.
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Bridge wires with screwdriver
Assuming your hand is insulated from the screwdriver
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Examine floor under carpet
OOC: I was expecting you to say 'the carpet isn't in tiles' whereupon I was going to use the screwdriver to make it so. But you pre-empted me.
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OOC: My understanding is that he's here to steal information under the guise of having a job interview
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Holding both the carpet and a screwdriver, one of those really bad ideas enters your mind.
Its one that you think would end up on an episode of jackass or something.
Knowing you need to protect your hands from shock, but literally nothing else about wires, you wrap the carpet around your hand, and then use that like a glove to grab the screwdriver.
You go to touch the metal of the screwdriver to the ends of the wires in order to get a current through, not even thinking about what the current would go to, or even that is useful.
But before you can accomplish this, a spark hits the carpet, and it catches fire.
The sprinkler starts spinning and you get a nice cold shower.
Sounds can be heard from outside the room, and there seems to be some motion. And then nothing but the blaring alarm.
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Check whether fire is still burning. If so, wee on carpet again.
Just in case. You didn't actually say the sprinklers were successful> Remove shirt, roll up, and tie around head as improvised ear defenders
Hate loud noises, hate hate hate.
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OOC: Next step for me was to activate the sprinker
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To be sure, you take the carpet, throw it on the floor. It lands upside down, and you think to add to the rainfall from the sprinkler, but you don't see even a hint of smoke anymore from the carpet.
You strip your top, wrap it around your head to help with the noise. Whatever protection it offered from the water, was less useful than just deadening the sound from outside the room.
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Check door
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You go to check the door. It appears to open fine.
The alarm system must also tie into the security system so that people don't get trapped in the building due to a fire.
It's amazing how many companies haven't figured this out yet, you think.
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Look for stairs other than fire escape
(Elevator would be inoperable)
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As you enter the room, you scan the room for any other source of stairs.
A desk without an attendant.
An elevator with the arrow lit up bright red.
A tilted mirror.
A clock that may be ticking, if you could hear anything else.
A flashing strobe light.
And the door to the escape.
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You grab on the sprinkler and pull it down through the hole in the ceiling.
OOC: sprinkler piping isn't that bendy/stretchy.
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look phone on desk
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Search desk.
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You raise an arm to cover from the water falling.
You pull out the phone from under that cover, and look at it.
Nothing.
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You search through the desk to find a card in the desk.
The computer at the desk doesn't seem to be operable.
Other than that, and a pile of chip crumbs in the chair, you see nothing.That could have come in handy earlier.
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take card
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security card added to inventory.
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look mirror
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push elevator button
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OOC: Elevator's offline, there's a fire.
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OOC: Elevator's offline, there's a fire.
OOC: Unless it's not really an elevator, but a secret access route for the server room. Remember the card slot? And our newly acquired security card?
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OOC: Do we want an OOC thread?
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The computer at the desk doesn't seem to be operable.
> Pick up mouse, say "Hello computer!"
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OOC: Keyboard? How quaint!
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The elevator doesn't respond.
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Maybe you've completely lost your sanity.
Maybe some outside forces are controlling your life and love to make you do stupid things.
Maybe you heard the mouse speak.Nothing responds.
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Go out fire exit...
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> force open elevator door
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>look mirror
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>SMASH OPEN ELEVATOR DOOR?
<oops
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You beat on the elevator door for a bit, and the door responds by laughing at you with a metallic wobble.
If only I was as strong as the hulk.
Well, if this keeps up, you might be as green as he is.
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You look into the mirror and notice that you're sleeves are a little singed at the wrists.
Not having an interview today.
It's time to put that pen testing knowledge to good use.... but, that's the extent of what you know..... starting fake fires.
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>OPEN DOOR
<whynot?
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It's not like I could set the alarm off twice
You go to head out the door, and land on the rails. You see a couple of fire trucks, and what looks like the heads of a large crowd on the opposite side of a hill from the building.
Your phone lights up, and you look at the text on the screen.
Did you get the data?
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Text back: "Not yet. I'm pissed."
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As soon as you can fire the text off, something fires off near your head.
You look to the left to see fresh brick crumbled away from the wall in a small few mm diameter circle.
Phone shows new text.
Warning Shot
another ding.
Welcome to the big leagues.
Shit just got real.... in your pants....
You wonder what the Reese's pieces pattern must look like.
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back inside
read text
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You head back inside.
The text on the phone remains the same. It's probably all the warning you need anyway.
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>GET DATA
<obviously...
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You do not see DATA
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>GO ON THE COMPUTER, LOOK FOR DATA
<broken parser...
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You stand on top of the computer, and look down at it. You do not see data.
cough
Actually, the computer is not responding to anything, including rebooting. Maybe it was damaged by the water.
The sprinklers are no longer raining down on you, and you hear commotion outside.
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>GO TO SECRETARY'S COMPUTER
<asdf
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You are already in front of the computer.
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unscrew elevator control panel
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>LOOK FOR OTHER NON-BROKEN COMPUTERS IN THE GENERAL AREA, ALSO SEE IF MY PHONE CAN GET ON THE WIFI...
<or, you know, surrender to the mafia...
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It comes off easily enough. The button remains there.