Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-31401828-20170430110442/@comment-29564364-20170511201444

(Does the Manticore warden have a name yet?)

The long moment of awkward silence spent staring at each other is finally broken when a pair of ears coated in green fur appears at the bottom of the window.

Alpha-Blue: "FINALLY!!! After three weeks, it was about time they sent someone to get us outta these walls!"

Alpha-White: "Three weeks? Lucky you. I've been here for two months."

The locking mechanism is heard unlocking and the heavy steel door slides open, revealing a Gremlin holding a small piece of paper with the same thirteen letters.

???: "What is up with this stupidly impossible code?" She asks herself, scratching the top of her head. "And they expect us to memorize that? Yeah, right."

Alpha-White: "I should have expected that when I saw those ears..."

Alpha-Blue: "ARE THEY TRYING TO KILL US?! It's in a coffin that we'll get outta here!"

Alpha-Black: "Well... Since that's the end of us" I drop to my knees, coughing, before falling on my front. "Tell my family that... *coughs* I love them..."

Alpha-White: "We don't have family."

Alpha-Black: "In that case..." I slowly crawl closer and closer to the Gremlin "Please... *long and forced gasp* promise me you'll... *overly exaggerated coughing* take care of my dog... after I'm gone..."

Alpha-Blue: "Nor a dog."

Alpha-Black: "My... cat, then."

Alpha-White: "Neither."

Alpha-Black: "Nemo... my fish..."

Alpha-Blue & Alpha-White: *shake heads*

Alpha-Black: "Piff, my... *cough cough* magical pet dragon..."

Alpha-White: "Ok, that's enough."

Alpha-Black: "Ok, I stop."

Gremlin: "What was that scene all about?! Kill you? We don't execute prisoners, here. Do you even know where you are?"

Alpha-Black: "Um... Arkham Asylum?" I answer, getting back up.

Alpha-White: "Wasn't it Fort Boyard?"

Alpha-Blue: "No, it sounded more like Fort Ironman or Fort Ironwood or something."

Alpha-Black: "On second thought, I'm pretty sure it was Alcatraz or Azkaban."

Alpha-Blue: "Now that I think about it, I'm sure it was-"

Gremlin: "Enough! It's Fort Ironwall."

The three: "Hmm... Nah, definitely not that."

Gremlin: I know they mentioned such behaviour in their files, but I didn't think it would be that bad... It will just make their rehabilitation more fun to watch. "Anyway. In the past, they thought it was magic, but today, we have witnessed and recorded enough of your little feats to know that they were wrong. This is where I come into play. My name is [Gonna give her one later]. I was hired to keep you three in check and study whatever alien technology you use..."

Alpha-Black: " Before they thought we were wizards and now they think we're aliens... " I whisper to the others.

Alpha-White: " Admittedly, we technically are. "

Alpha-Blue: " Welp. There goes our cover. ...Wait, weren't we four when I arrived? #3171 (Red clothings) didn't leave the cell and- " I throw a quick look back inside our cell. " -he's no longer in there. Where's he gone? "

Alpha-White: " Oh, don't look for him. TheHD found that four duplicates was too many, so he decided to zap him out of the story before he could have a chance to influence the plot. "

Alpha-Blue: " Oh... Sucks to be him. At least, it wasn't a painful death. He just disappeared without anyone noticing. "

Alpha-Black: " Looks like he got sucked in the same plot hole as the lameass way he got here. I mean, seriously. Just walking in the street and he got arrested? That was too lame to be true. "

[I'm not good with names]: "Hey-ho! Are you listening to me?"

Alpha-Black: "No, not really."

Alpha-Blue: "Do I look like someone who was listening?"

Alpha-White: "Besides, the rest of your speech became pretty predictable the moment you mentioned aliens. I've seen this too many times in movies. You'll try to reverse engineer our technology and replicate it to either use it for military purposes or to develop countermeasures against us. Most probably both, am I right?"

[you can even name her if you will]: "You would know that's what I said if you would have listened!"

Alpha-Black: "However, I'm afraid this won't be possible. We were instructed by our superior to avoid having Outsider technology fall into Insider hands at all cost. Should it happen, it would trigger the self destruction sequence which would create an explosion so powerful that a single nanite would suffice to vaporize the entire planet."

[But for now, it'll be "Gremlin"]: "So you use nanotechnology? Interesting..." She scribbles on the notepad she was holding in her left arm. "And we'll have to find a way around that self-destruction too... Or not. Your blatant bluff is easy to see through. Don't let my looks fool you. I may look young, but I'm not half as gullible as a child. There's no way so much energy can fit in such small objects."

Alpha-Black: Maybe I made it too obvious by going overboard...

Alpha-Blue: "It is possible if you can digitize energy."

[Ok, I stop now]: "Oh, you can turn energy into data too?"

Alpha-Black: "Ok, that was bluff. But the part about self-destruction was not. If we die or a piece of technology is taken away against our will, we can activate the safeguard protocol and our nanites will take it apart on an atomic level before destroying themselves."

Gremlin: "So it remains problematic..."

Alpha-Blue: "Well you could neutralize the nanites beforehand with an ele-"

Alpha-White: "I think you guys are getting too talkative. Why not give her the blueprints and coding for our Door Projection System or our Conceptual Switches while you're at it? And if that's not enough, you can always have her sit behind TheHD's keyboard."

Gremlin: "I don't know what those are, but I'd be pleased if you told me more."

Alpha-White: "As if!"