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[shrinkage]

Who: Ray Palmer and a willing white knight (that's YOU buddy)
Where: A room on a floor as yet undetermined
When: Feb 2
Rating: E for everyone
Summary: You know about holodeck malfunction tropes, right?
The Story:

Uhm. Help?!

[ the dulcet sounds of a man in over his head float out of the room and into the hallway. he sounds more hesitant than panicked, with a dash of confused. he repeats his plea every so often, a little more exhausted and less amused depending how long it's been since he found himself in a predicament. ]

Anyone out there? Could use a hand!

( ooc | not necessary but feel free to prompt me with idk a holodeck setting or theme or word or whatever. otherwise, just poke a head in and i'll give you some sort of wacky shenanigans to "rescue" ray from! )

Comments

YOU GOT IT BABE

[shrinkage]

Babe hold the--!

[ thunk. the door slams shuts and locks once sarah's fully in the room. and here's sarah's husband, dressed in a crisp business suit and surrounded by chrome and leather. it's an office of sorts-- or, rather, an entire floor that looks like it belongs to a single person.

ray looks suddenly sheepish, as if he's been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. ]

Hey hon. Welcome to, uh, to Palmer Technologies?

[blackbirdsing]

...Ray? Are we locked in here now?

[ She raises her eyebrows, then looks around slowly. ]

I mean, not that it isn't impressive but are we locked in here?

[shrinkage]

[ insert panicked nodding here!!!!!! ]

I don't know what happened. This guy keeps bringing me stuff to sign, and a secretary keeps telling me I have board meetings to go to, and this tie is really tight and itchy and if this is really who I used to be? I sucked, babe!

[ a random nerd tech guy shows up out of the blue, wordlessly handing ray a clipboard with a pen on it. in a practiced motion, ray takes the pen and starts signing papers like crazy. ]

I just chose a program to help me try to remember stuff, and suddenly Gideon's voice was telling me the safeties were off and that the program would autorun until I said the termination phrase.

[blackbirdsing]

Hang on.

[ She doesn't know who (or what??) this guy is but she steps in front of him when he tries to leave. ]

If you come in here again I'll figure out something to do to you that will hurt and make you cry. I promise. Disappear, nerd.

[ She waits, expectantly, raising an eyebrow when it seems to be taking too long. ]

[shrinkage]

[ ray pauses mid-sign as both he and his harasser fall silent for a moment. and then the guy pulls the clipboard back to himself and scurries away and ray's eyes are huge because-- ]

That was awesome!

[ and if sarah watches long enough she'll see that the guy doesn't walk into the other room so much as just glitches out of existence entirely. ]

[blackbirdsing]

Nobody messes with you, okay? So. Onto the next problem. How and why are we locked in here, babe?

[ This is much better than thinking about anything that has to do with zombies. ]

[shrinkage]

Well. I think it's a classic holodeck malfunction?

[ he pulls out his device where the program for the holodeck is currently running and blinking angry red at him. ]

You know, you start a program, disable the safety protocols and then there's a power surge and everything goes bad? I was trying to see if this thing could help jog old-me memories and now here I am, stuck in a monkey suit and not smart enough to just science my way out of this one...

[blackbirdsing]

Cool. Nothing to panic over, then.

[ She looks around, and she does have to admit it looks super great, very authentic. ]

Hey, do our Wonderland devices still work? We can just have someone come and let us out.

[shrinkage]

[ he flips through to the undelivered panicked messages he had been trying to send to sarah for the past idk how long make up something hilarious:

babe can you come to the holodeck room
do you know about the holodeck room yet it's mostly built and i started a cool program
hey babe i think i messed up
sarah are you getting these
< missed calls 1 - 56 >
do you know anything about writing up business contracts
or corporate insurancey stuff
or how to tie a windsor knot
ok now they're saying i can't leave until i meet with the board and present next quarter's numbers but they won't let me in to the meeting until i finzalize last quarter's numbers
< missed calls 57 - 74 > ]

Maybe yours will work?

[blackbirdsing]

[blackbirdsing]

[ Pulling out her device, Sarah clears her throat and shakes her head. ]

Nope. So uh, sounds like one of us has to finalize some numbers and then go tell the board to suck it.

[shrinkage]

[ did sarah marry tina belcher????

because ray just starts groaning in response ]

[blackbirdsing]

Come on, you've got this. Unless you think the programming will respond to me.

[ Oh wait. Oh waaaaaait. Maybe she can make this fun.

Sexy and fun?

They're supposed to be getting out of here. ]

How, uh....could I change outfits? Make myself look like I belong in this corporate world?

[shrinkage]

Oh! Easy-- Gideon?

[ from seemingly nowhere drifts that old familiar sassy englishwoman-- "i told you, i'm not gideon." ]

Then why do you sound like her?

[ ray thinks his point is very good, and looks at sarah for confirmation because yeah checkpoint not!gideon!!!! ]

[blackbirdsing]

I mean, definitely sounds like Gideon.

[ She shrugs, then calls out. ]

Yeah, not Gideon? I need some female boss lady clothes. Can that happen?

[ Sarah looks back at Ray. ]

So do the clothes just like, materialize or...