Yuri turned a bright pink at this. She wasn't used to receiving comments like that, at least not in real life; it was actually fairly common in amine. Then again, she also wasn't used to talking to people either. Thankfully, she didn't have to think of a reply, since the girl then introduced herself to the group. While hardly the most extroverted individual there, Yuri figured that she'd best do the same, or risk becoming a background character, and so she stood and stated her name."Yuri Ishimoto."
Younglings. That was what he'd called them. Yuri just couldn't let that slide without a remark. "Yes sir, General Kenobi." she had muttered. All the same, she'd followed without much else in the way of reply. As they walked, her sense of unease grew. While it made sense that these people wouldn't be testing their own game, inviting only six specially selected people to do so did not. What kind of people was this game intended for anyway? In addition to that was the fact that they'd invited a small group, rather than just put out an advertisement stating that they were looking for beta testers.
The fact that the place looked more like a hospital didn't help either, and by the time they were separated, Yuri was about ready to bolt. In fact, she actually tried to after she'd been left alone in "her room", leading her to find out that the door was locked from the outside. In a panic, she searched the room from top to bottom. Not only was the door locked, but there were no windows in the room, and the only vent present had a cover that was bolted to the wall. Now she was really scared."Okayokayokay, calm down Yuri. There has to be a way out. There's always a way out."
Then, in a flash of inspiration, the smallish girl climbed on top of one of the large machines, enabling her to reach the ceiling. Like many modern ceilings, was a dropped ceiling, allowing her to remove on of the panels and, with a bit of jumping, climb space between it and the structural ceiling. Figuring that they probably had cameras in the room, though she hadn't seen any, Yuri decided not to waste time replacing the panel she'd removed, and quickly made her way through the limited space she had available. Of course, she had no idea where she was going, but at least she was in the process of escaping, rather than freaking out back in the room.
After a few minutes of crawling, trying to get as far away from where they'd expect to find her, Yuri noticed a slightly damp smell in the air. Not seeing at the time how this was relevant she continued forward, only realizing her mistake the second that she made it. The smell was water damage. One of the pipes up ahead had at one point sprung a leak, and while the leak itself had been repaired, the ceiling tiles had not yet been replaced. Only just able to support her weight normally, they buckled the moment she put pressure on them, and she came tumbling out of the ceiling, crashing to the ground and leaving herself stunned. Before she could recover one of the people sent to track her down showed up, drawn by the noise, and sedated her.
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"You put an input jack in my head? What are you trying to do, hook me up to the Matrix? She sat up to face him better, when he raised his hand in a gesture to stop. "Lie down." he instructed, and surprisingly she felt herself doing so. Inwardly she cursed. Of course they wouldn't have just stopped at an input jack. Considering the fact that she had almost escaped once already, it would be foolish not to use this technology to prevent it from happening again, assuming you possessed it. Yuri then decided that it would be best not to upset them for the moment, at least until she figured out a way to disable whatever it was they put in her head. "Well actually, you're not far off. Also, about that little stunt you pulled earlier, please don't try anything like that again. We do have other test subjects, and while you are quite valuable to us, you are still expendable."
It would seem that Yuri had misjudged the genre of this little adventure. What she had originally assumed to be an adventure, was taking every opportunity to indicate that it was actually horror. As for what the purpose of all this was, she didn't even bother to ask. They were being made to do what they agreed to do; test a game.