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TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR meme!

The Trapped in an Elevator Meme

Your character steps into an elevator for... whatever reason, up to and including "meme magic, okay?". Someone steps in with him or her and the door closes. It creaks up a few floors-- and then it stops. The emergency button shocks anyone who touches it.

Well, crap.

Rules
» Make a thread with your character in the trapped elevator. (Assume someone is already in there with them.)
» Another player joins them! And now you know who you're trapped with.
» ???
» ~~Profit!~~ Awkwardness!

(Stolen lovingly from

fountainofcod.)

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[To whoever is with him, he nods and presses the button---]

Ack!

[And he is shocked, forced to yank his hand away and shake it out.]

It looks like we'll have to solve this another way.

[Why oh why doesn't he have his tools or work gloves? Ah well, time to obsessively study every detail of the elevator and look for weaknesses. Unless his companion was better prepared.]

::Elevator? The hell is that? He's not scared, just...puzzled. And sniffing around to try and figure out what this little tiny chamber is. Oh. Locked in?::

Keeey noh do wohrrrk?

There's no key here. Just buttons, and the one that would have summoned help is non-functional.

[Curious, he tries one of the floor buttons---again, he is shocked and yelps.]

::Said yelp engenders a very typical response. Scurry over. Sniff-down!::

[Grits his teeth. It's okay, his hand's only a little singed. He's had worse.]

We can try to repair the wiring or exit through the top, but both present their own challenges. On one hand I'm probably not tall enough to get us through, and on the other I'll need to endure those shocks until I can disable them.

Sho-ck? Eee, Rrrr-enne crrrrawwl uhp?

::Chirps. Ear-flicks. "Shock"? Cue the little wary flash on his skin there::

You can crawl up if you'd like to---there should be a panel on the top that moves with a small push. But if I'm being electrocuted just by touching things in here, I'm worried about what you'll find.

[It's your call, bro. Have a worried look while he keeps trying to think.]

Eeel-cute?

::Squeak. Electricity, it's another of his little-to-not-known areas. Thankfully he's a decently quick learner::

Electricity. It powered most of my former world's machines, and it's used on the ship too. It provides plenty of energy for devices like this elevator to work, but it injures most of us if we touch it without protective clothing. It's extremely painful to be shocked, and it can kill.

[With the way his hand still shudders and throbs, he knows it well.]

Eee....Is mah-gic? Wha-t Eeel-cute ma-de?

::He's got that look on his face, that "I'm thinking now. Spock, eat your heart out" face::

No, it's not magic. It's...everything in the world is made of tiny invisible particles called atoms. Those atoms contain even smaller particles called protons and electrons, and they have opposite charges. If they're in balance, then the atom is table. If something makes them fall out of balance, an electric current is created.

[What's that about, anyway? Renne's better at problem solving now than he is.]

Oooh...At-tum is li-ke Sehll in Hew-mahn? Eel-cute is if tie-nee Sehll is...sick?

::He's making perhaps strange correlations here but he's slowly putting it together::

Atoms actually make up cells. They're the smallest units of distinguishable matter. Cells are made up of many atoms and are the smallest things that can be considered alive.

[Nod] That's close to it, yes. There are certain materials humans can wear, like rubber, that stop the charge fro hurting them.

Oooh...So if Bee tou-ch si-ck At-tum, it hurrr-t Bee?

::Sniff, crawl. He's spider-crawling up one wall already::

Without protection, yes.

[Billy watches anxiously, prepared to jump in if needed.]

Eee...

::That expression remains on his face. After crawling around...somewhat aimlessly for a bit, he finds the button-decorated panel and experimentally noses at each one. Well, until emergency button and nose meet.

It isn't the intense heat that gets him. It's the fact that atoms meet with soemthing that isn't atomic. Why, hello, other wall.::

Eeee!

[Well, that was unexpected.]

RENNE!

[Panicked, Billy jumps back toward the other wall and catches his Renne, absorbing what's left of the shock.]

Was that the reaction to your nature?

Eeee....Hell-loww!

::Chirping. Squeaking. Oh, dear. For all intents and purposes, ah...Sorry Billy but it seems like electric current has a peculiar effect.

In a word? Renne is now drunk::

[That's not the response he expected at all. This is worrisome.]

Do you remember what happened?

[Renne, your bro's starting to feel fear.]

Heee....Wahll is si-ck. Heee....Hell-loww, Beee!

::He's apparently a squeaky happy drunk?::

Yes, it'll shock us. We talked about that...uh, hey?

[He runs a hand over Renne's forehead as if that will provide a clue.]

Never mind. I'll try to fix this.

::Squeak. He's actually just a few degrees cooler than normal. A paw comes up to try and mimic the act on Billy::

Beesick?

[Blush] No, I'm all right. I just have to make sure that you are.

[Clenching his fists, he goes in to at least attempt to pry off the panels---and it hurts immensely, but he eventually falls back gasping for breath with the panel off.]

There. Just---just give me a minute to inspect it.

Beeeeeenoh!

::Yep. Drunk as a skunk but even that doesn't stop him from worrying and...well...ah....drunkenly bumbling to the Human's side::

[At least that about Renne hasn't changed. Billy smiles just slightly.]

I'm okay. The sooner I do this, the sooner we'll be free

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