⇨ POLARIS

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone!
When: Days 102 - 109
Where: Polaris
What: With the Ringmaster kidnapped and the rest of the carnival imprisoned, characters find themselves at the mercy of a Winter Fae called the Mother of Invention.
Warnings: Graphic experimentation in places.

TRIALS & TRIBULATION↴ After a day of cleansing and processing, where all the belongings and attire of their old lives are stripped away and replaced with something newer and more form fitting, the former members of the carnival will find themselves let loose into the Farm for the first time. A sizable green area, filled with orchards growing inorganic looking fruits and field ready for tending, the Farm is where they will be spending their days for the forseeable future. Food and drink are no longer needed, and so every day is an endless cycle of work. Technicians are seen only when necessary, and when being taken from your place of work to your lonesome cells at night. Every day, there are new postings on the "Production Board", where various dire sound scientific trials ask for subjects. The majority won't be forced, at least not yet, but the system is at work to push its participants to the brink and force their hand. After all, volunteers make the best subjects. ► PRODUCTIVITY: As explained elsewhere, characters will be forced to compete to attain enough Productivity Point to be considered Satisfactory. There are literally not enough points to go around for everyone to attain this, which means that at least some people will be deemed "Below Expectations" by the end of the first four-day cycle. What this means has yet to be discovered, but the Technicians have grimly warned against it. Productivity involves many tasks, including orchard picking, tilling, planting, harvesting, watering, maintenance, and more. Any task you can think of that would take place on a plantation is applicable here. Beyond that, the Production Board awaits you, offering precious Productivity Points in exchange for your cooperation. How you become Satisfactory is up to you, but it's every person for themselves. Only one person can turn in the credit for harvesting or preparing fields, and while you can certainly try to help others by letting them take credit for your work, it's a sure fire way to fall behind the herd, especially if you are already in a low Classification. Fruits and fields will miraculously grow overnight, and will be ready for a new day when you are. You've been told not to eat anything you harvest, but right now you aren't hungry anyway. ► POLARIS BY NIGHT: During the night, you are left alone to your thoughts and maybe an annoying roommate. Solo or in pairs, the entire night will be spent in small sleep pods, as shown on the locations post. Is it possible to sneak out? It doesn't seem like it is, but who is to say? The real question is if you want to dare to try. There is one hour of rest before and after seven hours of darkness. Even if you don't usually have to sleep, you'll find yourself oddly weary and inclined to rest. Supernaturally, almost. ► PARTICIPATION: Sometimes participation in experimental trials is manditory, sometimes it isn't. You are free to handwave your character having been pulled aside for minor examinations, such as blood tests or aura scans. Each time, you will be pulled into a separate part of the station and analyzed by a Technician and heavily automated machinery. Anymore more complex than basic check-up level tests will be posted about in a section called "TRIALS" in the body of the post below.

Comments

[spaghettimonster]

Papyrus will doublecheck with Sans before he volunteers this info, since it's hard to explain how he knows without mentioning what Sans knows.... If Sans prefers to be an anonymous source, Papyrus can almost honestly say that he heard about it was from a little talking flower who isn't here with them, and that he believes them because the others he's met from home all remember different events than he does.

Anyway!! He has it under good authority that he's died before, though he doesn't remember it - in a time loop that kept undoing his death. Does that count as resurrection?

[ringleaders]

The Technicians review his data and decide to accept it, as one of the Control Group, to see if it causes any differences in data.

[ringleaders]

This trial ends up starting later Day 104, as it takes a while to get all the necessary volunteers. All subjects are taken in at the same time, but they are dealt with in separate, air tight containment chambers. All subjects will be brought into their chamber and disrobed, with their body suits peeling off and leaving them naked, becoming flat disks of material on the floor. The subjects are sprayed down with another coating of the strange cleansing vapor from before.

Then, they are instructed to lie down on the medical bed, at which point a white, semi-transparent top layer melds around their bodies, holding them down completely for the procedure.

At this point all technicians will clear the containment chamber, and it will be locked down. Cleansing spray will once again be sprayed throughout the room, and then a series of mechanized procedures will begin. Overall, it's hard for the subject to tell what's going on. There are a lot of uncomfortable tingling sensations, and a weird tugging at their soul. Towards the end of initial examination, it feels like some kind of net is being pulled back and fourth through their spirit, splicing it and then allowing it to fall back into shape. This is sort of weirdly literal when it comes to monster physiology.

With the initial readings secured, the mechanisms shift into a new mode: one where additional deaths will be applied, in order to view the affect on various spirits. Unfortunately, as a clean killing blow is applied to Papyrus's chest, his entire body explodes into dust, as is the monster way. The technicians were apparently not prepared to deal with this.

Papyrus will have a hard time following what goes on after exploding, but he's pretty sure that his body is back together at some point, he's being scanned again, and then he somehow turns to dust again. How much time passes in between is completely unclear.

After a very blurry segment of time, he will have the general sense that he is not in his physical form, but that his soul is being held and prevented from fragmenting outside of it, which is difficult for a monster. Life after death is not something they are all that accustomed to experiencing, and the way that unseen forces seem to splice and pull on it is extremely disturbing.

Eventually, he will come back to his senses, in one piece lying on the medical bed. His bonds are released, and his bodysuit is reapplied. Then, he's sent back to his resting cell with no further work for today.