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A moment later, the small fox girl appears in a new environment!\n\nThis space is much less elaborate than the chamber in which she had left her players waiting. In fact, it is empty: a white space containing nothing but the motley assortment of less innocent-looking individuals to whom *Minerva turns a moment after she appears.\n\n\"Hello everyone! It is my understanding that the five of you will be providing the other half of our special Labyrinth of Twilight beta event.\"\n\nThe ethereal-looking fox, small in her colorful, slightly revealing robe and beneath the curve of her gravity-defying translucent scarf, looks curiously over the new group. They do not quite look like normal players, after all.\n\n\"I am given to understand that some of you may have been informed that you would have access to the Labyrinth of Twilight content A.P.I., but it seems this feature is not quite ready yet. If you need to make any adjustments to your avatars or the environment for your role, please send me a message and I will relay your request to our staff. I apologize for any disappointment or inconvenience this might cause.\"\n\n*Minerva looks ever so sincere when she says this, even giving the assembled group a little bow - and then freezing, just for a moment. When she stands up again, *Minerva’s eyes are momentarily unfocused, before the issue seems to correct itself even if her new, troubled expression does not.\n\n\"I have been instructed to enter dictation mode. A user with Administrator-level privileges is now telling me what to say.\"\n\nAt this point, *Minerva straightens herself a little, checks her robes, and then produces a little scroll from one of the big sleeves of her open robe. Tugging the scroll open in front of herself using the silver handles at top and bottom, and putting on her best ‘official spokesperson’ posture, she begins to read (the scroll’s ‘parchment’ appears to be a translucent membrane, and the text can be seen scrolling into view roughly as fast *Minerva speaks it).\n\n\"Unlike the players, invitations were sent to all of you based on either your contributions to the company - be they labor or monetary - or for the entertainment value the creators believe you will provide. The points pertaining to your role in the event are as follows:\n- Challenge spaces will be spawned randomly in the participants' path. They will have a choice\n between two challenges at each stage, although their clues as to the nature of these challenges will\n be extremely limited.\"\n\nAt this point, the expression on *Minerva’s cutely round-featured face becomes increasingly troubled, although she does not halt her reading.\n- Unlike the participants, you will find that you are able to log in and out of the game environment, and\n remove your headsets at will. While I understand that your accommodations are very comfortable and\n well-provided for, I must also emphasize that they are secure, and you will not be allowed to leave\n them or have any contact with the outside world until the end of the event. This null space which you\n currently occupy has been provided to you as-is, as a virtual meeting space within which you will all\n have full creative permissions. Player-Kill functionality is [i]not[/i] enabled within this space.\n- While under normal circumstances you cannot directly interact with the participants, you are free to\n pass messages to *Minerva, who will deliver them to the participants according to your specifications.\n If possible, you are encouraged to use this service to enhance the participants' entertainment value.\n- The challenges will chip away at the participants’ ‘Life Points’. The individual with the lowest life\n points will be eliminated after each challenge. They will then be handed over[color=#babdb6]?[/color] to\n their assigned partner.\n- Failure conditions in the challenges can of course feature… injurious elements[color=#babdb6]? Wh-[/color] In the event\n a participant is incapacitated during a challenge, their mind-state will be suspended until the end\n of the challenge. If they are eliminated, then you may specify the degree of restoration your prize will\n receive before they are given to you.\n- Upon elimination, the ‘prize’ (along with their partner) will be transferred to the dungeon chamber in\n which the participants are presently waiting to begin the event. Please understand that the chamber is\n presently in its ‘censored’ state, and a much wider, and potentially less thematically appropriate, array\n of tools, equipment, and toys will be available during play, in addition to any specifications you\n request ahead of time.\n\n*Minerva now has tears in her eyes, and while her voice continues to ring clear and pretty, she covers her mouth all the same. The scroll remains as if she were still holding it.\n\n\"The creators wish for me to emphasize that there is absolutely no limit, whatsoever, to what you may do to or with your prize. However, three sub-points apply:\n- One: In addition to your ‘prize’, you will be compensated for dedicating your time to the event, at a\n rate of 0.3%. This may appear to be a small sum, but remember this project has been deemed\n worthwhile by the highest ranks of the organization; the pay-off will be enormous.\n- Two: Please remember that this is an entertainment for paying viewers, and any actions that\n undermine the entertainment value of your prize’s elimination (for instance, disrupting the recording)\n may result in some or all of your compensation being withheld. By the same token, a bonus may\n be applied if you prove particularly entertaining.\n- Three: While the creators will attempt to accommodate any requested feature of your prize’s\n elimination, understand that any costs of doing so will come first from any monetary return you would\n otherwise have received.\n- Lastly, I have also been asked to emphasize that while any consequences of the elimination\n performances will be permanent, for obvious reasons none of the participants will be ‘going home’.\n Any promises to that effect will [i]not[/i] be honored.\"\n\nHaving read the predators (figurative or otherwise) the terms of their participation, *Minerva lowered and tucked away the scroll.\n\n\"Are there any questions?\"\n\n[b][/b]\n\nWith questions answered, *Minerva launches into the next round of introductions. They are still energetic for the audience, but everyone present should be able to see how much more forced the performance is. This is especially true of her responses to the self-intros, complete with a little time lag as if she was being fed what to say.\n\n\"Our first predator is Mickey. Mickey is a twenty eight year-old red fox,\" as *Minerva stands beside the grown-up, she holds out her paw. An image of Miki appears above her hand, along with an audio waveform to go with the statement in his voice: \"[i]This game is fun. So why not sign up with it? Sadly my military buddies seem to not be too interested. I want to see just how far I can take things in this game~[/i]\"\n\n\"Well Mickey, it's your buddies who will be missing out! Because in [i]this[/i] game, you are going to be able to take things exactly as far as you want.\"\n\n*Minerva's next, languid hop puts her in front of a dragon almost as young as she looks! She even seems hesitant, but still puts out her palm for the information to play: \"[i]Yeah, I'm Zandren, from the Dracocon family. You may have heard of us, we own nearly everything... But that's not important. This \"Investment\" my dad made is a rather fun distraction from the boring life of the \"Rich and Famous.\" I hunted down many players in the regular game for sport, and while that was fun and all, something tells me that this event will be more of the kind of \"Fun\" I'm really looking for... We shall see…[/i]\"\n\nStatement played, *Minerva gives Zandren a deep bow. \"It is my understanding that your family has contributed significantly to the development and upkeep of our wonderful world. On everyone's behalf, please allow me to thank you ever so much.\"\n\nDespite what seems like sincere gratitude, *Minerva's cheer is obviously still entirely forced, as if two imperatives were clashing in the moment before as she moves on to present the next predator in the line-up.\n\n\"This is World. World is a fox 'in his thirties', and…\" *Minerva holds up her paw once more, the audio playing beside World's picture. \"[i]Hey, I'm World, I guess. Is this about those girls that I... uh... Got spicy with? Because they never told me their age, and that server was supposed to be 14+. I totally deleted those photos as soon as I received them.[/i]\"\n\nAnother pause to give World a long, obtuse look. Then her role as presenter caught up, and, \"Well World, I hope you are okay with cubs even younger than fourteen, because you are going to have the opportunity to do a [i]lot[/i] more than just 'get spicy'!\"\n\nThis time she walked, coming to stand beside the next predator in the line-up.\n\n\"This is Padraig, a twenty three year-old sabre-toothed cat,\" as she held up her paw, the image appearing with its waveform once more. \"[i]\"Hello my name is Padraig, I somehow got selected for this beta despite never having played the original game before. they said something about liking how 'I help take care of (have sex with)my sister and help around her daycare (rape the cubs)'. But I'm not sure how they would know that.[/i]\"\n\nBy this point, if *Minerva had the capacity to be ill, her expression looked like she might not have been able to control herself. Then, \"That was much too blunt. I hope you are just as indelicate when it comes to playing your part.\"\n\nNow she moved to stand beside Bryan. \"And this is Bryan! He is a twenty two year-old domestic cat.\" Paw out once more, she played the statement, short though it was this time, \"[i]I've been bored lately, and this looks like a fun place. I've got many ideas for how to entertain myself.[/i]\"\n\n\"Just remember to entertain all of [i]us[/i] as well, Bryan! People are paying a [i]lot[/i] of money to see what you decide to do to your share of those 'poor' cubs.\"\n\nHaving played her part, *Minerva takes a step back and addresses the audience's viewpoint.\n\n\"It is my understanding that a number of additional predators are waiting in the wings, just in case. Depending on what happens during the days ahead, you may or may not get to meet them as well, but for now I will let them remain a mystery.\"\n\nWith that, *Minerva casts one, last, tearful glance at the assembled ‘players’.\n\n\"You are all [i]horrible[/i].\"\n\nAnd then she disappears.\n\n[b][/b]\n[center][b][u] [/u][/b][/center]\n\n[b](Summary/Key points:[/b]\n- Predators are able to log in and out of the game as they wish, but cannot leave the (quite luxurious)\n individual, real-world accommodations they have been given to stay in during the game\n- There is an empty, whitespace ‘virtual meeting area’ within the game for predators who want to interact\n with one another, where they can spawn items as they wish\n- Predators have been informed how the LP and elimination systems work. They have been told that\n eliminations will take place in the dungeon environment where the cubs are currently waiting, and that\n that environment can be modified to suit the predators' whims if requested ahead of an elimination\n- Like the audience, all predators are able to watch the events of the game at their leisure, on-screen in\n VR or in their accommodations in RL\n- Predators have authority to move the virtual cameras around. Keyword: virtual; there are enough for\n everyone to manipulate at once plus ones controller by the producers. *Minerva briefly revealed\n their existence to the cubs but they are completely invisible and intangible under nearly all\n circumstances. The exception is predators may render [b]one[/b] camera they are controlling [b]visible[/b],\n [b]except during challenges[/b], on the strict understanding it does not significantly influence the cubs' \n behavior or undermine their entertainment value. The cameras cannot send sound or images to the\n cubs.\n- During the normal course of the game, predators will not be interacting directly with the cubs outside\n special circumstances. They are, however, free to give *Minerva messages to deliver to the cubs\n [b](PM me)[/b], and they are encouraged to do so in order to increase the potential entertainment value\n of the cubs' time between challenges)\n\n[u][t]Predators[/t][/u]\n@MickeyCardinal [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533991#commentid_8956233](Mickey Cardinal)[/url] @GameIntell [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533991#commentid_8961378](Zandren Dracocon)[/url]\n@worldf0x [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533991#commentid_8962233](World)[/url] @Masterofall [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533991#commentid_8963402](Padraig Harrington)[/url] @Balmung [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533991#commentid_8964458](Bryan)[/url]\n\n\n- Questions for *Minerva [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3539910#commentid_8966277]Here[/url]\n- Predator Freeplay [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3539910#commentid_8966290]Here[/url]\n- Audience Reactions [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3539910#commentid_8966295]Here[/url]\n[center][b][u] [/u][/b]\n\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3539887]<--- to the previous prompt[/url] | [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533932]to Labyrinth of Twilight Details/Index[/url] | [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3542468]to the next prompt --->[/url][/center]", "description_bbcode_parsed": "(see bottom of this description for a summary - I will usually only do this for the really big ones!)

Address to Predators

With her address to the participants complete, *Minerva blips out of the landing chamber and leaves them all to talk amongst themselves. A moment later, the small fox girl appears in a new environment!

This space is much less elaborate than the chamber in which she had left her players waiting. In fact, it is empty: a white space containing nothing but the motley assortment of less innocent-looking individuals to whom *Minerva turns a moment after she appears.

"Hello everyone! It is my understanding that the five of you will be providing the other half of our special Labyrinth of Twilight beta event."

The ethereal-looking fox, small in her colorful, slightly revealing robe and beneath the curve of her gravity-defying translucent scarf, looks curiously over the new group. They do not quite look like normal players, after all.

"I am given to understand that some of you may have been informed that you would have access to the Labyrinth of Twilight content A.P.I., but it seems this feature is not quite ready yet. If you need to make any adjustments to your avatars or the environment for your role, please send me a message and I will relay your request to our staff. I apologize for any disappointment or inconvenience this might cause."

*Minerva looks ever so sincere when she says this, even giving the assembled group a little bow - and then freezing, just for a moment. When she stands up again, *Minerva’s eyes are momentarily unfocused, before the issue seems to correct itself even if her new, troubled expression does not.

"I have been instructed to enter dictation mode. A user with Administrator-level privileges is now telling me what to say."

At this point, *Minerva straightens herself a little, checks her robes, and then produces a little scroll from one of the big sleeves of her open robe. Tugging the scroll open in front of herself using the silver handles at top and bottom, and putting on her best ‘official spokesperson’ posture, she begins to read (the scroll’s ‘parchment’ appears to be a translucent membrane, and the text can be seen scrolling into view roughly as fast *Minerva speaks it).

"Unlike the players, invitations were sent to all of you based on either your contributions to the company - be they labor or monetary - or for the entertainment value the creators believe you will provide. The points pertaining to your role in the event are as follows:
- Challenge spaces will be spawned randomly in the participants' path. They will have a choice
  between two challenges at each stage, although their clues as to the nature of these challenges will
  be extremely limited."

At this point, the expression on *Minerva’s cutely round-featured face becomes increasingly troubled, although she does not halt her reading.
- Unlike the participants, you will find that you are able to log in and out of the game environment, and
  remove your headsets at will. While I understand that your accommodations are very comfortable and
  well-provided for, I must also emphasize that they are secure, and you will not be allowed to leave
  them or have any contact with the outside world until the end of the event. This null space which you
  currently occupy has been provided to you as-is, as a virtual meeting space within which you will all
  have full creative permissions. Player-Kill functionality is not enabled within this space.
- While under normal circumstances you cannot directly interact with the participants, you are free to
  pass messages to *Minerva, who will deliver them to the participants according to your specifications.
  If possible, you are encouraged to use this service to enhance the participants' entertainment value.
- The challenges will chip away at the participants’ ‘Life Points’. The individual with the lowest life
  points will be eliminated after each challenge. They will then be handed over? to
  their assigned partner.
- Failure conditions in the challenges can of course feature… injurious elements? Wh- In the event
  a participant is incapacitated during a challenge, their mind-state will be suspended until the end
  of the challenge. If they are eliminated, then you may specify the degree of restoration your prize will
  receive before they are given to you.
- Upon elimination, the ‘prize’ (along with their partner) will be transferred to the dungeon chamber in
  which the participants are presently waiting to begin the event. Please understand that the chamber is
  presently in its ‘censored’ state, and a much wider, and potentially less thematically appropriate, array
  of tools, equipment, and toys will be available during play, in addition to any specifications you
  request ahead of time.

*Minerva now has tears in her eyes, and while her voice continues to ring clear and pretty, she covers her mouth all the same. The scroll remains as if she were still holding it.

"The creators wish for me to emphasize that there is absolutely no limit, whatsoever, to what you may do to or with your prize. However, three sub-points apply:
- One: In addition to your ‘prize’, you will be compensated for dedicating your time to the event, at a
  rate of 0.3%. This may appear to be a small sum, but remember this project has been deemed
  worthwhile by the highest ranks of the organization; the pay-off will be enormous.
- Two: Please remember that this is an entertainment for paying viewers, and any actions that
  undermine the entertainment value of your prize’s elimination (for instance, disrupting the recording)
  may result in some or all of your compensation being withheld. By the same token, a bonus may
  be applied if you prove particularly entertaining.
- Three: While the creators will attempt to accommodate any requested feature of your prize’s
  elimination, understand that any costs of doing so will come first from any monetary return you would
  otherwise have received.
- Lastly, I have also been asked to emphasize that while any consequences of the elimination
  performances will be permanent, for obvious reasons none of the participants will be ‘going home’.
  Any promises to that effect will not be honored."

Having read the predators (figurative or otherwise) the terms of their participation, *Minerva lowered and tucked away the scroll.

"Are there any questions?"

<Please address questions to *Minerva as responses to the appropriate comment below; she will respond there>

With questions answered, *Minerva launches into the next round of introductions. They are still energetic for the audience, but everyone present should be able to see how much more forced the performance is. This is especially true of her responses to the self-intros, complete with a little time lag as if she was being fed what to say.

"Our first predator is Mickey. Mickey is a twenty eight year-old red fox," as *Minerva stands beside the grown-up, she holds out her paw. An image of Miki appears above her hand, along with an audio waveform to go with the statement in his voice: "This game is fun. So why not sign up with it? Sadly my military buddies seem to not be too interested. I want to see just how far I can take things in this game~"

"Well Mickey, it's your buddies who will be missing out! Because in this game, you are going to be able to take things exactly as far as you want."

*Minerva's next, languid hop puts her in front of a dragon almost as young as she looks! She even seems hesitant, but still puts out her palm for the information to play: "Yeah, I'm Zandren, from the Dracocon family. You may have heard of us, we own nearly everything... But that's not important. This "Investment" my dad made is a rather fun distraction from the boring life of the "Rich and Famous." I hunted down many players in the regular game for sport, and while that was fun and all, something tells me that this event will be more of the kind of "Fun" I'm really looking for... We shall see…"

Statement played, *Minerva gives Zandren a deep bow. "It is my understanding that your family has contributed significantly to the development and upkeep of our wonderful world. On everyone's behalf, please allow me to thank you ever so much."

Despite what seems like sincere gratitude, *Minerva's cheer is obviously still entirely forced, as if two imperatives were clashing in the moment before as she moves on to present the next predator in the line-up.

"This is World. World is a fox 'in his thirties', and…" *Minerva holds up her paw once more, the audio playing beside World's picture. "Hey, I'm World, I guess.  Is this about those girls that I... uh... Got spicy with?  Because they never told me their age, and that server was supposed to be 14+.  I totally deleted those photos as soon as I received them."

Another pause to give World a long, obtuse look. Then her role as presenter caught up, and, "Well World, I hope you are okay with cubs even younger than fourteen, because you are going to have the opportunity to do a lot more than just 'get spicy'!"

This time she walked, coming to stand beside the next predator in the line-up.

"This is Padraig, a twenty three year-old sabre-toothed cat," as she held up her paw, the image appearing with its waveform once more. ""Hello my name is Padraig, I somehow got selected for this beta despite never having played the original game before. they said something about liking how 'I help take care of (have sex with)my sister and help around her daycare (rape the cubs)'. But I'm not sure how they would know that."

By this point, if *Minerva had the capacity to be ill, her expression looked like she might not have been able to control herself. Then, "That was much too blunt. I hope you are just as indelicate when it comes to playing your part."

Now she moved to stand beside Bryan. "And this is Bryan! He is a twenty two year-old domestic cat." Paw out once more, she played the statement, short though it was this time, "I've been bored lately, and this looks like a fun place. I've got many ideas for how to entertain myself."

"Just remember to entertain all of us as well, Bryan! People are paying a lot of money to see what you decide to do to your share of those 'poor' cubs."

Having played her part, *Minerva takes a step back and addresses the audience's viewpoint.

"It is my understanding that a number of additional predators are waiting in the wings, just in case. Depending on what happens during the days ahead, you may or may not get to meet them as well, but for now I will let them remain a mystery."

With that, *Minerva casts one, last, tearful glance at the assembled ‘players’.

"You are all horrible."

And then she disappears.

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(Summary/Key points:
- Predators are able to log in and out of the game as they wish, but cannot leave the (quite luxurious)
  individual, real-world accommodations they have been given to stay in during the game
- There is an empty, whitespace ‘virtual meeting area’ within the game for predators who want to interact
  with one another, where they can spawn items as they wish
- Predators have been informed how the LP and elimination systems work. They have been told that
  eliminations will take place in the dungeon environment where the cubs are currently waiting, and that
  that environment can be modified to suit the predators' whims if requested ahead of an elimination
- Like the audience, all predators are able to watch the events of the game at their leisure, on-screen in
  VR or in their accommodations in RL
- Predators have authority to move the virtual cameras around. Keyword: virtual; there are enough for
  everyone to manipulate at once plus ones controller by the producers. *Minerva briefly revealed
  their existence to the cubs but they are completely invisible and intangible under nearly all
  circumstances. The exception is predators may render one camera they are controlling visible,
  except during challenges, on the strict understanding it does not significantly influence the cubs'
  behavior or undermine their entertainment value. The cameras cannot send sound or images to the
  cubs.
- During the normal course of the game, predators will not be interacting directly with the cubs outside
  special circumstances. They are, however, free to give *Minerva messages to deliver to the cubs
  (PM me), and they are encouraged to do so in order to increase the potential entertainment value
  of the cubs' time between challenges)

Predators
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\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMickeyCardinal\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t		\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMickeyCardinal\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
(Mickey Cardinal)       \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGameIntell\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t		\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGameIntell\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
(Zandren Dracocon)
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\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tworldf0x\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t		\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tworldf0x\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
(World) \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMasterofall\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t		\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMasterofall\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
(Padraig Harrington) \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBalmung\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t		\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBalmung\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
(Bryan)


- Questions for *Minerva Here
- Predator Freeplay Here
- Audience Reactions Here
                                                                                                                                                      

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