The Wander Island Incident - Night Four - Five For One [13/21]

Day Three: A BLOODY DENOUEMENT

The Assembly’s patience with Airey was wearing thin. Throwing out claim after unbelievable claim, even the most open-minded Assembly member was beginning to doubt that he was anything but a flailing INFILTRATOR who’d been caught out by the steely glare of the Assembly’s more inquisitive members. Voice after voice began to call for his head. On the brink of being relegated to a railgunning, he warned of DIRE CONSEQUENCES should anyone dare cast the deciding vote in the day’s proceedings. A warning that was read and quickly discarded, as more brazen voters volunteered for the honor.

Unfortunately for these headstrong individuals, Granolaman’s patience has run out entirely. They’ve been watching the past two days of deliberations with barely concealed bloodlust, sure that they would be far more effective personally than this farce of a democracy was, and Airey’s chicanery is the last straw.

They walk up to the stage where Airey is defending himself and slam a hidden button under the ADMIN CORE’S podium, before whipping out a massive pistol and pointing it straight at the fast-talking fool. The floor behind the stage slides open in a spray of water and SHARK NOISES. Airey is bug-eyed in shock at this breach of decorum, as is most everyone in the Assembly, but Granolaman is undaunted.

They stare Airey down, smile. Open their mouth to speak.

“Your lies are sweet, Airey, but reality… reality bites.”

And then unload five rounds into Airey’s chest before booting him straight into the SHARK TANK.

Thankfully for the Assembly’s DESIRE FOR KNOWLEDGE, the SHARK TANK (which is slowly closing again) is a flashy alternative to Monomin’s BODY DISPOSAL CHUTE, and the SHARKNET soon feeds the consumed knowledge back to the ADMIN CORE’S now-unaltered MAIN DISPLAY:

Airey was Vitek Vodyanov, DISGRACED SPECIAL FORCES CAPTAIN.

He’d proudly defended his nation for decades, but a shock betrayal on an unauthorized operation saw him banished and forced to resort to demeaning mercenary work to get by. Disgusted by his hollow existence, Vitek looked for some opportunity, some chance to redeem himself with his nation; and in the INFILTRATOR’S plan to bring down the Monomin Research Complex he’d found it. If he managed to return a fraction of the secrets within to his homeland, he’d surely be a celebrated hero once more.

Teaming up with the rest of the INFILTRATORS, Vitek’s hacking skills came in handy for their initial entry into the facility, even if his SPECIAL FORCES TRAINING wasn’t be quite so useful in the strange democratic shitshow the INFILTRATORS found themselves in a short while later. Still, he’d managed to cobble together a hack that would allow him to fiddle with the Admin Core’s display ever so slightly each day.

More importantly, and unbeknownst to Vitek, his homeland had performed CUTTING-EDGE MEDICAL SCIENCE on his body during one of his many stints in SPECIAL FORCES RECOVERY; the BIOBACKUP WEB that they’d installed would reverse any conventional death with little-to-no consequences for Vitek. Unfortunately, the prototype would only work once before it would require a full recharge back in his mother country’s TOP SECRET MEDICAL LABS.

Airey's role action was called INFORMATION WARFARE. As a TOP-TIER SPECIAL OPERATOR AND HACKER, Airey could FREELY ADJUST THE COLOR TAGS on ONE VOTAL EACH DAY. He was also a ONE-SHOT BULLETPROOF infiltrator.

As his only chance for redeeming himself in the eyes his country lay with the success of the team he'd signed onto, he was aligned with the INFILTRATORS and would have won when they made up half or more of the individuals left in the Monomin Research Complex and had eliminated any other threats to their control of the facility.

Granolaman holsters their weapon and walks off the stage, taking up their usual place leaning against a support column near the edge of the ADMIN CORE. The rest of the Assembly pauses for a moment in stunned silence, before erupting into a raucous debate.

It is now DAY THREE. Due to the occurrence of a DAYKILL there is a TWELVE-HOUR DAY EXTENSION. Day Three will end in 36 HOURS, so at 4 AM CET on FRIDAY, September 14.

LIVELIST

1. Solaris
2. Jacquerel
3. Numbers
4. Coldblooded
5. Schazer
6. Seedy
7. TehPilot
8. Palamedes
9. Granolaman
10. x1372
11. Sai
12. Robust Laser
13. beruru
14. Not The Author
15. LordlyHour
16. SleepingOrange