"OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT?!" Liz screams out. "Shut it OFF!"
"Everyone awake? Good. Time to begin Day 15, lets get you out of that tube." A blast of air burst through the tube from the back and blows at them all, as soon as Cipher finishes his sentence. The debris scatters across the floor and the darkness opens up in front of Daniel about 3 feet away from his face. The light washes in on them and burns their eyes, like vampires cursing the day light.
"Are you kidding me? We were that close?!" Daniel begins the final crawl out of the tube and falls out on to the floor of the room. "I think we went all around the room?" he staggers to his feet, cramped and reaches down to the opening to assist Liz and the others in getting out and up.
"Oh damn, I feel like a hamster." Liz cracks her back slips her shirt back on and walks into the room. The others begin to file out, and as they do they drag themselves to the center of the room to allow for #15 to leave for the day. Her name is Gina, she's a bank teller back home but she knows when she gets back she's done with that, it never really brought her any satisfaction, it was just a position she landed and never seemed to leave. Liz and Anne walk up with her, they new her briefly, spending some time with her early on when they first got there, but since then with the way the groups have been being divided they haven't seen her much and it easy to get lost in the crowd at this party. She holds up her tag, Cipher does his routine and she leaves via the North wall room. The girls watch her walk out and she turns and waves, they remember how she talked about seeing the world, traveling and not sitting still for a moment longer than a month ever again.
This room had changed her outlook on life, she no longer looked forward to settling down and raising a family, she now wanted to travel the world and live out of a suitcase. This extreme 'cabin fever' of sorts has effected them all in some way, some are actually worried that when they leave they wont be able to sleep in a bed, since they've grown a custom to their surroundings.
"Everyone please give your attention to the eight large objects against the south wall. There are four tubes and four large panels. Please roll the four tubes to the center of the room. The P90s will assist you, and by assist you I mean they will motivate you by aiming their weapons at you. Get the tubes in the center of the room." Cipher snickers and the P90s enter the room and stand on their balconies.
The group rolls the large tubes out on to the floor, the inside of the tube has to be at least eight feet high, they look like a giant toilet paper tubes; they seem to be made of a strong plastic, they're thick but light weight. "Secure the tubes with the stoppers on either side of the tube. Now bring over the planks put one of the edges on the tube and roll it until its like a ramp on the tube." The carry over the long narrow platforms and rest them against the tubes. "Excellent, well done. Now four groups one group in front of each tube, please see the monitor for which group you are in." the monitor switches from Cipher to four lists of names, same number of people in each group. "Please follow the order of the list and stand in single file in front of the boards." They do as told unsure as to what is taking place here.
"Excellent. Now each of you grip hands with one another, make a chain." the group hold hands, some locking fingers, others as if they were shaking hands. "Very good. Now the first half of you begin walking up the plank, be careful, as you cross over the tube in hit the mid way point it should begin to act like a teeter tauter, once the plank begins to raise off the ground the second half of the group will step on, balancing it off until all of you are on the plank, and the plank is balanced on top of the tube." The group does as told and they begin to distribute their weight on either side of the make shift teeter tauter. Some of the groups have some issues and a few of the P90s come down to the main floor and assist with the balancing.
"Very good, very good, you are all in place and yes this is your days event, with just a few more items to add on. See each of the boards have what I call a 'give' in the center, where they can split but still remain attached. The P90s will be splitting the boards now, everyone keep holding on to one an other's hands." The P90s get behind the board and tug down slightly causing the board to split and angle each side just slightly. With everyone gripping on to one another this has changed from a challenge on a balancing board to a tug of war or sorts, with their own arms being the rope. "Now I know what your thinking, all you have to do is hang on and your all set, and even if you do let go and loose your grip its not that big of a fall and then the day is done. But why would I make it that easy."
Tube 1, reminiscent to a crazed professional wrestling match, the P90s walk under the two ends of the board that the participants are balanced upon and dump sack upon sack of small metal tacks under the board. The shiny small tacks sparkle with evil delight, just waiting to do harm to whomever falls upon them.
Tube 2 the P90s pull out sheets of glass from a box and drop them to the ground, making a sea of broken glass below the two men on the end of that plank. Dean and Ken look down below, and begin to sweat as the realization sets in that if they fall not only will they fall into a ton of broken glass, but the rest of the group will fall on top of them.
Tube 3, the P90s turn their boxes upside down and begin to dump rocks on to the floor. Not small pebbles but rocks the size of your fist, laying all underneath the end of the plank and above looking down at those rocks are Liz on one end and Anne on the other. Dead center in the middle of that tube holding on to balance their tube, Daniel and Ross stare at each other and hold on tight.
The last tube, tube 4 the P90s at the end of their planks pull large gallon containers out of their bag and begin to pour the liquid on the floor, until a decent size puddle lays on the ground below them. It has no odor, it seems to be doing nothing as it lie on the floor. "What is it?! What is that?!" The man at the end of the plank shouts out. But gets no response from the P90 or Cipher.
"Excellent, we're all set, everyone just hold on and begin Day 15." Cipher shuts off the monitor.
Day 15 begins.
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