"Good", the TIRE says. "Now we can move on to the main testing facilities. Follow, please."
He leads you to a semitransparent black platform lying on the ground with some sort of beacon in the middle. "This is the... TOAST Industries Transit System. It's based on a contraption called the ScHil Internal Transport System. It's very very fast. Stay about a foot away from the platform."
Suddenly, a large square metal plate flies directly above the platform and then instantly changes direction downward with no apparent intertia. It stops about half a foot above the platform and slowly sinks to the ground. You notice that there are seats welded to the top of the plate and some electronics in the middle.
"Get into a seat, quickly. The transport system only stops for about twenty seconds."
Everyone boards the TI transport system. It suddenly lurches ten feet into the air and begins flying around at an incredible speed, again changing direction without inertia. It appears to remove intertia from its passengers as well, otherwise your head would have come off as soon as it changed direction. The wind is opressive.
After making a few more stops, weaving around and under bridges and other architecture without slowing down at all, the TIRE indicates that this is your stop.
"This is the elevator to the testing facility. The computer will handle everything from here."
You board the elevator. The doors shut and the elevator decends for a few minutes. The muzak is opressive.
The elevator eventually opens onto a large concrete chamber. The wall behind you is bathed in green light. Down the hallway there is an enormous ledge, about fifty meters up. Above it you can see a wall bathed in red light.
A soft, feminine voice speaks. The speech synthesis is clear, but very unrealistic. "Welcome to the TOAST Industries general hiring examination. The objective of each test is to get to the opposite end of the room."
"To the left of you is a TOAST Industries standard technology dispenser and building materials. To the right is a TOAST Industries healing booth. The technology dispenser can be used to replicate most TOAST Industries tools and products."
There is a pause, and the voice suddenly sounds much more natural, and takes on an annoyed tone.
"And no, there will not be any cake at the end of the testing. You are not the first to come up with that joke."
The voice returns to its unnatural monotone.
"Begin testing now."
Statuses:
QuoteXCurly:
RPG: 15 HE 15 I
?Copper Bracelets?
2 22mm pistols, 12 mags (6 bullets each).
Implants:
[YET TO BE CHOSEN]
Explosive:
SCOWTER, C4+Detonator
Implants:
AUTOMEDICAL 0
FLIGHT 0
AIM 0
JakeXanth:
Shotgun: 43
Implants:
AIM 0
AUTOMEDICAL 0
FLIGHT 0
Cyn:
45. Mag: 25
Implants:
FLIGHT 0
AUTOMEDICAL 0
REMOTE CAMERA 0
WedgeOfCheese:
Assault Rifle: 80 KN 5 HE (-2 unfamilarty bonus)
TI Femto-EAGLE
[YET TO BE CHOSEN]
Malpercio:
Implants:
TELEKINESIS 0
FLIGHT 0
AIM 0