((continued from the 4th Announcement )) ---- "Cavery? Is that you?" An alien voice; an echo of a darker time. "Yes. Hello, Botchi." He ripped his gaze from the Fates and focused his attention now on his former colleague - one Doctor Amarant Botchi, of the First Pacific Division ...

12:00 - 48 hours after the game's beginning. That meant two days had passed already, leaving the subjects with only one more to go. Would one of them make it even further? Or would they all die before their time was up? In the next 24 hours, everything was going to end. ---- Down the darkened halls ...

A heartbeat. Rhythmic drumming, steadily playing inside the young man's body as he slept. He didn't know it yet, but out in the world of the awake he was being watched, monitored, observed. There were people checking his vital signs, poking at him with needles and prodding him with knives. They were...

"Found them." ...Huh? "Alright, you take that one." What's going on? "Hey, is he waking up?" "Yeah, looks like it. Did you bring the thing?" The thing? "Right here. Be careful though, we don't know what this one can do." Are they... talking about me?...

(Written by KillerVole) Judy had followed along behind Simon for about five minutes before she realized that something was wrong. Specifically, their group was down a member. Frederick had fallen behind, and, somehow, Judy and Simon hadn't caught on until just now. She stopped for a second, and glan...

On the other island, deep within the organization's base, in the brightest-lit medical office, there sat a middle-aged, portly man wearing a full-length doctor's coat with a golden pen clipped onto his chest pocket like a badge of honour. His face displayed all the features of a man in a senior posi...

The ocean was reaching a peaceful ebb today, with the sun gently warming it as though it were a gigantic bowl of soup. A small, elderly figure sat in his little wash-tub-looking boat, with his hunch hunched over his fishing pole as he strained his eyes looking for something to take back home to eat....