First mini-sessions

So I ran Tasha and Chris through the first room last night.

The idea is that I would read the intro to all my players, then one on one run them through the first room. It's a very simple room - there's almost nothing to it - but I decided last night that I should try and get this out of the way during the week, rather than wait until Sunday to do this for everyone. Part of the reason is that I don't know exactly how long it will take for everyone to get through the room, and I don't want all my other players to be bored while I run someone else.

The room's basic premise is this: it's a small 10 by 10 concrete cell, with a chair, a dome light on the ceiling, and a metal door. The player wakes up in this cell sitting in the chair, wearing white terry-cloth robes, with no memory of who or where they are. Despite the lack of memories, they're capable of speech, locomotion, etc. - they just don't know how they learned these things.

Each room contains one other item as well - a different item for each character, that has some significance to their former life, and although they don't remember that former life, holding the item feels eerily familiar.

Tasha was very introspective during her run. She considered a lot of mental, internal things - how she knows how to think in English, how she knows what a door is, a ceiling, how to walk, etc. She tried the door - locked - then found her item: a small half-size clipboard with 20 sheets of paper, and an attached pen. She spent about 5 minutes writing her introspections down until hearing a loud click at the door. She waited, thinking someone might be coming in, but when nobody did, she went to the door and found it unlocked. She opened the door...

Chris didn't do a whole lot of internal thinking. He took on almost roguish behavior, checking the entire room for traps or secrets before finding his item: a large, heavy flashlight. He shined it around, tried banging the doorknob off the door, then threw the flashlight at the dome light in the ceiling. The dome light turned off, but didn't shatter, so he was left in darkness. He searched around for the light, and found it - but then heard a loud click (the door unlocking). He froze immediately, believing to have triggered a trap, but after a short time with nothing happening, he rolled to the wall. The light began to slowly turn back on, and at this point he got up and continued trying to bash the doorknob off the door. After a few minutes of this pointless activity, he tried the knob again, finding it unlocked. He opened the door...

That's pretty much it for the first of the one-on-one sessions. Colt, Sami, and Sandor will be going through this same bit. Colt will probably do it during the week, but I'll probably still have to wait for Sami and Sandor on Sunday, since their schedule is kinda weird.