A misting of water sprays, with just enough force to be felt on the skin waking the two men up and they both sit up from the floor. "Oh, my head." Ross wipes his eyes and props himself up, looking over at Daniel. "We're still alive." he says.
"That we are, but still in this room, and those are new, how does he get this stuff in here without us ever hearing anything." Daniel looks over and sees six large pulley systems. The wheels are about eighteen inches big with several gears on the side and underneath them, they have either chains or ropes going over them and there is a handle on the side making it so the wheel can be spun and the rope or chain can be pulled.
"Good morning boys." Cipher appears on screen. "Are we feeling better? All rested? Blood restored and such. Good, because today you have chores to do. See those wheels? The rope or chain that goes over those wheels lead down to the room below where all of your friends are. On one end of the rope a group of your friends will be pulling, on the other end will be an incredibly heavy weight."
"So they have to hold a weight in the air for the day? That doesn't seem so bad, whats the catch?" Ross stands up and hoists Daniel with him.
"The catch Ross is that underneath that weight lies a fellow person of the room strapped to a large steel, bed, for lack of a better term. If the weight falls it drops on the bed and well, from their things get squishy. So yes, 'the catch' is to make sure the weight doesn't fall on one of their friends. There are three men and three women lying on the beds, only the women can help women and the men can only hold for the men. You two get to choose who you help. Problem is you don't know who you're choosing, or if you are in fact even helping or hindering. See the bars on the side of the wheels? I suggest you each pick one, from there you either just hang on and keep it from slipping or you turn it to try and help out." Cipher pauses.
"How do we know if we're pulling up the weight or pulling the chain out of the groups hands?!" Daniel looks at the wheels to get some sort of clue or hint.
"You don't." Cipher quips.
"Which one are the men, and which are the women?" Ross moves around the wheels trying to determine which one he will grab.
"I'm not saying. You just pick." Cipher shoots back.
"Would we be able to lift the weight ourselves?" Daniel positions himself next to one of the wheels.
"Possibly, the gear system on the pulley could help you, your extra push could be the difference that lifts the weight higher up and stops it from falling. Although who's to say higher up is better." Cipher remarks "Are you both ready? Are you going to grip now or wait to see if any of them spin.... I have to admit the suspense is killing me today on this one." Cipher looks back and forth between the two.
"What do you think?" Ross looks over to Daniel
"I think they might put the weak teams in the middle so that the outer groups could jump in, and I'm guessing he's just going to drop the weights, so we should probably just pick and get a good grip." Daniel grabs the middle wheels bar.
"Good idea." Ross grabs the other middle bar across from Daniel. "When does this start?"
"Hold on, B. R. B." Cipher shuts off the monitor. (In the other room as seen in Day 19 part 1: "Oh, my bad, here we go. Ready...set... " he pushes a button on the console and there is a humming noise but nothing happens.)
"What do you think he's doing? Talking to the others?" a loud humming noise interrupts Ross and then a large clank. Immediately they feel the weight hit the wheel and they brace themselves against the bar trying to prevent it from moving but it can't be helped but inch a little. "Oh my God! Is that the weight or them pulling?!"
"I don't know, I can't tell, I thought maybe we..." Daniel stops as he sees the wheel to his left spin incredibly fast. The bar falls off of the wheel and hits the ground the whirl of the pulley sings as the chain rattles away.
"WHICH WAY IS IT GOING!" Ross shouts out over the noise of the chain flying through the wheel.
"I CAN'T TELL, THERE'S TOO MANY GEARS THE CHAIN GOES BACK AND FORTH!" Daniel shouts back trying to figure out which way the chain is going because there's no doubt that the weight is falling and about to crush someone. He thinks for a moment, should he jump over there and grab the wheel, see if he could stop it, slow it down somehow, but before he can move the wheel stops and the chain goes limp.
"Dammit." Ross continues to hold on to his wheel and hangs his head trying not to think of who it might have been that was just killed. "What do we do?"
"You just going to watch us today?" Daniel adjusts his stance, a little sweat forming on his brow.
"I might, could be fun, you know Daniel you and I we are a lot a like, determined, focused, unwavering determination to see this thing through to the end." Cipher leans in closer to the camera.
"We're not the same you and I, and its not just one life, it was someone we knew. They have someone somewhere worrying about them and now you've just let them watch them die. You're a vile disgusting human being, you make me sick, you're a waste of oxygen, you are a such a loathsome person, that ending your life on this planet would only make the world a better place. I'll see you die, I swear I will.You want to put me in a room with one other person, how about you and I." Daniels spits at the monitor.
"You know what... that can be arranged. In the meantime however, hang on to those wheels, I'm about to pull on the ropes.I suggestion you really put your weight into it." the monitor shuts off.
"What's he doing? Is it getting heavier?! He must have a motor on it pull the weight down!" Ross screams out. "Push harder!" He positions himself in almost a football stance, laying all his weight on the bar to try and stop it from moving in the direction towards him. The hum from earlier begins again.
"Ross! Calm down! Just hold the wheel!" Daniel pleads with him trying to steady his panic.
Meanwhile down in the room below, the remaining five groups hear the hum and notice a change.
"It feels like its getting heavier." One of the men in the groups shout out.
"You're just getting tired, just lock on, its the same weight, we'll be fine." Scott reassures him.
"He must be pulling at the weight! We have to pull harder!" Jim screams out. "Liz! Do you girls feel a difference?!"
Before she can answer Scott and his group fall to the floor. "What the hell!" Scott screams out. The chain whizzes by and they try and grab it, one of them is actually able to leap up and grip the chain but the large object above far outweighs him and pulls him into the air. In seconds the weight comes crashing down, slamming into the bed silencing instantaneously the shriek that was coming from the man strapped down.
"What happened?!" Liz screams over to Scott.
"It was like... something or someone was pulling the chain all of the sudden. It ripped it right from our hands." he gets up and runs to one of the other men's groups to assist them and pull down on the chain.
Two lives, two rooms, neither the same. End of Day 19 part two.
