[ You are in a classic black suit set with a red and green armband with a capital M around your upper arm. You also hold a clipboard as you stand in this room while facing off against the Singing Machine. It's at a risk level of HE.
The Singing Machine (O-05-30) is a large rectangular industrial meat grinder held up by 4 small legs. On the front, there is a black circular joint which divides the lid from the bottom. The lid has a small pipe where the music comes out. The interior is lined with what appears to be sawblades that grind any object that is thrown inside.
It seems to favor Instinct work! ... Whatever that is. Shu has some choices.
> Perform Instinct work. > Become :man_standing: emoji. > Feed Singing Machine a chair. > Your choice, Becks. ]
[ The Singing Machine seems to be in a neutral mood, almost happy. It yields a decent amount of energy boxes. After some time of doing instinct work, Shu is free to go! He might even peek over at the incident log that's a part of the papers on his clipboard. It reads:
Employee M1840 went missing in the company. 2 days later, on the XXth, part of a corpse was found inside the ‘Singing Machine’. Genomic analysis revealed that the corpse belonged to the missing employee. The employee was a new hire who had only worked for the company for 3 months, and they had no record of an assignment to work with the Abnormality.
The culprit was found to be employee , who was in charge of the ‘Singing Machine’. confessed after extensive investigation. “I know it's crazy, but I had to hear that music again. It was stuck in my head for months. I performed all kinds of experiments.
When the machine takes in a cat, it plays for 1 minute, a large dog, 2 minutes and 30 seconds. But nothing could compare to the music it makes when it eats a human.
...It might sound ridiculous, but I feel satisfied, having heard it once more."
Time to be on break while another employee takes care of the Singing Machine.
[ i love you singing machine. which is code for i hate you, do you know how many times i watched yesod get thrown in that thing in ruina?? aaaa.
music from the machine that makes the listener obsessed… probably a good thing he didn’t throw a chair in the machine earlier, huh? he reads the notes over, feeling appropriately disturbed by the casual admission from the employee in charge of the machine of murdering a new employee just to hear the song the machine made.
he may be on break for a bit, but he’s a little curious. he’ll have a wander, try to gauge a little about the layout of the place and see if he runs into anyone. ]
[ The cold halls of the underground building have Abnormalities behind each metal door. Some coworkers look exhausted, happy, nervous... their emotion range is huge. They have their own clipboards as well. The layout is simple and should be easy for Shu to memorize. There's a clerk here who does their best to smile at Shu when he pass by.
Break time is great, because you can do whatever the hell you want.
Unfortunately for a coworker, they do not. They carry a strange looking sword and attacks Shu. Their eyes are dilated. They don't seem to be able to listen to reason. They look absolutely crazed.
"If I chop off my arm, can I hear that song again...? I want to hear it. Please. More. More. Come with me and let the machine sing!!"
Shu has a red sword like Yuri's! No gun, but he can try stealing one from the clerks. ]
[ well, he has enough experience with hand to hand to keep himself from losing an arm immediately. he WILL try and steal a gun from one of the clerks, yes. but first--
he's gonna swing for the coworker's kneecap, no mercy. ]
[ Well! Shu gets an entire sword pierced through his torso. Bleeding out the mouth. All the fun stuff. The possessed coworker laughs. It's fine they still have one leg. They try to go over to Shu to drag him.
[ The coworker is toppling every now and then. They're not very good at balancing on one leg, so they eventually give up and crawls while dragging Shu. The way they press their open leg to the ground must hurt, but they don't care. They just keep laughing in absolute euphoria.
[ The coworker screams again. The arm sure is sliced off! Cool! But they're at the door where the Singing Machine is. They still have one arm, so they attempt to try and grab Shu by the foot to shove him into the grinder.
Roll a 5 or higher to escape. This person only has two limbs now and is living on adrenaline. ]
[ i like how apart from getting stabbed through the chest, dicemaiden liked me today and rolled me an 11. shu will stab them back through the chest, if he has to. ]
[ The coworker laughs and laughs even after being stabbed in the chest.
"I want to hear it... one last time..."
And they shove their sliced limbs into the Singing Machine first before going in, leg first. They get shredded inside the meat grinder, procuring some sort of "music" that can only be played when it grinds humans. It seems to enjoy that. Three energy boxes for you.
And thus ends the little lobcorp side quest and Shu will find himself in the void with Yuri. Thankfully, he has no injuries as if none of that ever happened. ]
he might be out of the lobcorp void-- yay, three energy boxes for me -- but he does lift a hand to press at where he was skewered through the chest, holding it there for a moment before removing it to check for any blood.
[ he's definitely not stabbed anymore, at least. which is the main thing. after a moment he just lets out a slow sigh and flops backwards to lie back on the ground. ]
[ Yuri sits down next to Shu, wiping his forehead with a handkerchief regardless whether there's sweat there or not. Time to brush his hair a little away from the face to reveal that Shu actually has two eyes (/s). ]
... Yes. While the form it took was of an industrial meat grinder, it often possessed coworkers to have them shove others into the machine to create "music" of the human flesh being shredded, hence "The Singing Machine".
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w3 monday
> Perform Instinct work.
> Become :man_standing: emoji.
> Feed Singing Machine a chair.
> Your choice, Becks. ]
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okay, well... if it favours instinct work, he'll give it a little instinct work. see how it likes that. ]
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He can go to the break room or elsewhere. ]
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music from the machine that makes the listener obsessed… probably a good thing he didn’t throw a chair in the machine earlier, huh? he reads the notes over, feeling appropriately disturbed by the casual admission from the employee in charge of the machine of murdering a new employee just to hear the song the machine made.
he may be on break for a bit, but he’s a little curious. he’ll have a wander, try to gauge a little about the layout of the place and see if he runs into anyone. ]
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Break time is great, because you can do whatever the hell you want.
Roll a d20 for me please :3c ]
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dice maiden gave me a 16. ]
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Unfortunately for a coworker, they do not. They carry a strange looking sword and attacks Shu. Their eyes are dilated. They don't seem to be able to listen to reason. They look absolutely crazed.
"If I chop off my arm, can I hear that song again...? I want to hear it. Please. More. More. Come with me and let the machine sing!!"
Shu has a red sword like Yuri's! No gun, but he can try stealing one from the clerks. ]
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he's gonna swing for the coworker's kneecap, no mercy. ]
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"No! No... I want to hear it again... Please... If my leg is useless now, then..."
They promptly cut their leg off right above the knee that Shu injured.
"There, now please... feed it... Feed it!! To the Singing Machine!! I'll do anything to hear it again!!"
If Shu looks like he'll reject that notion, they'll throw the sword in an attempt to stab Shu's torso. I hope he can roll 13 or higher. ]
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"Time to feed you to the Singing Machine~"
They say deliriously, giggling and laughing. ]
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well, he might be bleeding out the mouth and in a hell of a lot of agonising pain but--
but
the coworker has to lean down to try and drag him, right? ]
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HEHEHEHEHEHEHE!! ]
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he swings the sword up and over, into the arm holding him. ]
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Roll a 5 or higher to escape. This person only has two limbs now and is living on adrenaline. ]
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"I want to hear it... one last time..."
And they shove their sliced limbs into the Singing Machine first before going in, leg first. They get shredded inside the meat grinder, procuring some sort of "music" that can only be played when it grinds humans. It seems to enjoy that. Three energy boxes for you.
And thus ends the little lobcorp side quest and Shu will find himself in the void with Yuri. Thankfully, he has no injuries as if none of that ever happened. ]
Shu! Are you alright?!
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he might be out of the lobcorp void-- yay, three energy boxes for me -- but he does lift a hand to press at where he was skewered through the chest, holding it there for a moment before removing it to check for any blood.
huh. ]
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... It wasn't real. The Singing Machine can't hurt you.
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The Singing Machine?
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... Yes. While the form it took was of an industrial meat grinder, it often possessed coworkers to have them shove others into the machine to create "music" of the human flesh being shredded, hence "The Singing Machine".
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Shredding bodies as music. [ jesus. ] Was that— somewhere in your City?
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[ There's a lopsided smile from Yuri. ]
So I wasn't privy to its details after that moment.
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he sits up. ]
Possessed-- you worked with these things? Like I was doing? [ GIRL WHAT? ]
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[ (yay) ]
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