A stern look is thrown in the direction of the two most vocal Military officers, the look on Dr. Nadir's face making it clear her displeasure in their outbursts.

"I do believe I requested the brightest minds to attend our unveiling—" a pointed glare in the direction of a nearby scientist, who scuttles away in shame— "but I suppose not everyone is able to appreciate the true majesty of this event. A shame, that Military dogs are not able to grasp the future of the very organization they're working for." A snobby look down the end of her nose at the two officers, before she turns to those that seemed most interested in the spectacle taking place.

"Project X was lovingly created through mutation of the DraC-2 virus, a natural occurrence that we've seen take place over the last eight decades. We've simply mutated it ourselves, and through this practice, we've also been able to reprogram its brain to take our orders."

Dr. Nadir pressed a button on a console closest to her, and suddenly the fortified straps on the chair release their grasp of the Infected, allowing it to slowly move its limbs and proceed to roll off the chair. The screaming stops, as the creature realizes it's now free to move, and begins to curiously crawl around the padded room. Occasionally it stops to sniff — a lack of sight meant it had to rely on other senses.

"Project X proves that the initial trials of Draculin would indeed have been a success to begin with, if only Cypher had held off on its initial public testing for another couple decades. This new super soldier will give the Military the means to expand far past No Man's Land — to reclaim what humanity lost eight decades ago!" Cheers fill the room from those that seem to indulge themselves in the experiment, even if not everyone attending seem so thrilled.

"Thank you, everyone. Now if you would be so kind—"

Dr. Nadir's speech is cut off by a scream.

It's followed by an explosion of bullets as the Infected in the room suddenly stops its pacing long enough to lunge at the guard still in the room, bared fangs quickly ripping the man's throat out. The scientists in the room immediately launch into panic mode, a red light flooding the room as armed guards begin running in the direction of the room's entrance.

"Shit! Shut it down, shut it down now!" Dr. Nadir screams into her comm device.

CHALLENGE ROUND

  The next staff post will be on September 12th.

The entirety of Cypher is thrown into pandemonium, guards rushing to get down the hall and head in the direction of the padded room's entrance — the scientists, quick to try and regain control over Project X, even though it was clearly too late for the guard inside the bloody room.

Dr. Nadir paces back and forth, fear and worry creasing her normally expressionless face. She appears to ignore most of the taunts thrown her way, right up until Micah makes a comment about being on the project, at which point she finally rounds on the most vocal of the group: Asena, Ananke, and Micah. The rest of the event-goers look at one another, unsure of what to do.

"You absolute useless Military buffoons! While you stand there and run your mouths, that thing is doing its best to get out of that room! Have you lost your minds, or do you just not think unless ordered to do something by your superiors?" All previous semblance of stoicness is gone now, lost in a frenzy. "Do you not realize that thing is right down the hall?"

The brutal shriek of metal being torn asunder rips through the air as the Infected tears its way through the heavily armoured doors, making quick work of breaking out from its jail.

There's screams from the guards as the Infected descends upon them, the hallway lit up by gunfire. Dr. Nadir screams incoherently at the scientists in the room as they quickly shut the door behind the guards, but it's only a couple seconds before pounding can be heard on the doors. The event goers are in a frenzy now as they try to scramble out the exit on the opposite side of the room.

You see two options that you can do:

[ DEFEND THE ROOM ]  or  [ TRY TO LEAVE ]

Which do you do?

CHALLENGE ROUND

  The next staff post will be on October 17th.

  Make sure you OOCly specify which of the above actions your character is trying to do.