wknd0 mingle

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WKND0 MINGLE

Rise and shine!

Maybe the last thing you remember is back home, whatever "home" is for you. Or maybe it was in a world between worlds, as you left to go home. Either way, when you open your eyes, you're no longer in either of the above. Whoa... talk about déjà vu. Haven't you been through this whole "wake up in a mysterious place" song and dance before? (For those of you who don't have potential memory problems, that is.)

And just like last time, you're not alone. Dozens of other (live) bodies are scattered around you, coming to their senses just as you are. Hey, some of them might even be familiar to you...

Where are we?

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GENERAL

You're in a spacious but dingy windowless room with metal sheet walls, dull concrete floors, and paneled ceilings with visible vents and piping that appears to go nowhere at all. It’s quiet enough that footsteps and voices echo, and the only light comes from the fluorescent lighting hanging from the ceiling. The ceiling panels drip a little, leaving suspicious murky puddles of water pooling on the ground. On the wall are spray painted construction marks and certain parts of the room are covered with dusty tarps.

While this is an open room with a lot of empty space, a part of it taken up by the enormous statue that seems to be being stored here, partially covered in dusty tarps, right in the middle of the place. It is of a blue horse in mid-gallop, and the horse’s head and prancing hooves reach all the way to the tall ceilings. It has an evil energy.

...Well, at least there are rows of connected chairs with peeling leather set up throughout the room for your comfort. There are a few vending machines around. They aren’t exactly working, but if you shake them a drink or a snack may fall out.

Towards the south end of the place is a customer service desk! While the room is currently unmanned, there is a phone available for you to dial the customer service hotline. You’re going to be on hold for a long time, but the hold music is surprisingly catchy and occasionally a recorded voice tells you that your call is very important and a customer service representative will be assisting you shortly.

BAGGAGE CLAIM

In the center-ish of the space is a simple baggage claim. The belt moves rather erratically and in random bursts, sometimes forwards, sometimes backwards. Every so often, you can see luggage jostling by on it. One of them is yours—it has your name on it! Gods know when it's finally going to come by, but once you get a hold on it, it contains: two items familiar to you (one from your world, another from your last rodeo), a phone, a passport, and lastly, a coupon labeled "CONGRATULATIONS: BUY ONE GET ONE FREE."

Should you turn on the phone, you'll find that you have no signal, making the camera, flashlight, passport directory, and memo app the only working functions of value. Yes, that's right, there's a digital copy of everyone's passport for you to flip through on your phone. Nosey. However, the device does have one notification, already saved.

Are you ready for your ultra-exciting competition to win an EXCLUSIVE TRIP to Australia?
Teams will be assigned in a few days, so get to know your future potential teammates and competitors!

BATHROOMS & SHOWERS

You were wondering, weren't you? A fluorescent bathroom sign hangs in one dim back corner. Inside are rows of metal-doored toilet stalls, two long rows of sinks, and an enormous mirror. The mirror has some cracks in it. It's pretty much as bare bones as it comes. On the wall near the exit is a touch panel. The screen reads How do you like our bathrooms? and then shows several smiley faces: 🥳🥹🤔😵‍💫🤡. You can share your enjoyment of this bathroom by selecting one of these smiley faces.

All the way on the other end of the dinky space are two coin-operated showers. You don’t have coins, but that's okay. The mechanism is broken, so the showers will turn on with cold water for a minute at a time and abruptly shut off.

RUNDOWN

• Characters initially awaken only with the clothes on their back.
• Characters can receive their home & game items, alongside with other offered amenities listed above, via the baggage claim.
• At the moment, any attempt to send text messages will not go through, and the network cannot be accessed due to lack of signal. The only working functions on the phone are the camera, flashlight, passport directory, and memo app.
• Profiles are currently active on the phone via passport directory.
• Multiple areas are blocked off and cannot be broken through (marked in red).
• If you are making any notable changes to the locations, please tell us in your mod DM for now!
• There will be A Thing coming up on Saturday @ 4pm PST/7pm EST! OOCly, it will go on for the rest of the weekend, so you do not need to be here immediately.

QUICKLINKS

Status Changes

Passports

NAVIGATION; (FULL NAV)

INFO

PLAYER STATUSES IC PROFILES MURDER PROPOSALS CYOA SIGN-UPS

SETTING

NPC AUDIENCES LOCATIONS ROOMING CURFEW

REPORTING

PC TURN-IN MOD REPORTING EVENT TURN-IN VOTING

Comments

[nascens]

[WHY IS SATAN HERE he just kind of gives her a faintly incredulous look before going RIGHT BACK TO AGITATED.]

I'm not going to jail. [The way Superhell made him cautious about property damage but not KILLING PEOPLE. Anyway, more importantly:] Explain.

[bxkautx]

Think we're already in some kind of jail? But I dunno, I didn't do this. [ HELPFUL. she just shrugs. ]

[nascens]

A jail is only as confining as the people in it. [Pauses. Glances around.] So perhaps.

[ANYWAY JUST EYING HER like he's not sure whether to believe this even though it would be a stupid thing to lie about.]

Not the stunt of a sore loser?

[bxkautx]

... In what sense do you think I lost?

[nascens]

In the literal sense of losing a drinking match.

[bxkautx]

Why would I be upset when I encouraged you to rig it? If anything that's like my biggest success story.

[nascens]

I don't pretend to understand the whims or whimsy of any creature in control of an entire domain.

[WHO'S TO SAY... But he does not seem inclined to get stuck on the possibility that Satan is at fault here.]

Can't get us back out?

[bxkautx]

I can break it down to you if you'd like.

[ but she shakes her head... ] Nope. Can't do anything I usually can. We're outside of my jurisdiction and nothing's uh. Working for me. Probably the same for you?

[nascens]

Might as well.

[He won't waste a chance to indulge in a conversation with someone who was nigh untouchable last he saw her (looks at watch) 2 minutes ago.

He doesn't confirm or deny, but the fact that he doesn't deny is probably enough of a confirmation, anyway.]

Annoying. [Just the situation, in general.] Did you know something like this could even happen?

[bxkautx]

I needed to get my program approved and it got approved. I wanted to let you all go home, and you figured out a way to game the system and get it done. A one-off fluke, but, you know. Win-win, ultimately. It was pretty stressful at the time.

[ it's been 2 minutes for him and 2 years for her... ]

I feel like this shouldn't be able to happen, honestly? But everyone's got blind spots.

[nascens]

[FROWNING....... But fortunately he has a braincell that he decides to activate sometimes, so.]

How long has it been since that "one-off fluke".

[The way he just kills Childe about his brain damage but will give this to Alex. He also just hums in response to her answer because it's true... Everyone does have blind spots. They often lead to death.]

Well. At least it's a blind spot that's been found so you can rectify it.

[bxkautx]

Two years. For me, but... You know how timelines are.

[ does he. anyway thank you for not killing her she is so deeply defenseless here. ]

I'll try to, once I know more about what's going on. But at the moment it's just kinda like. Airport. Good luck.

[nascens]

[HE KIND OF DOES EVEN THOUGH IT'S ACCIDENTAL. Wrong math to get to the right answer etc... He does not have any personal beef against Satan though, so she will remain un-deaded, at least at his hands.]

Huh. Well, I guess that does explain some things.

[Like how her hair has presumably grown out as her icons suggest and she has decided no more green era, tired let the hair grow era now. Glancing around the place again, though!]

This is an airport, then? [HE'S SO GENSHIN.] Hopefully not their idea of a "training wheels" location.

[bxkautx]

[ the ends are still like a faded washed out teal. she just hasn't bothered to cut or re-dye her hair in two years. ]

Well, hey. Better than a jail-cell, right? Even if it's functionally not really any different! [ haha!!!!!! ]

[nascens]

[She said I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR ALL THAT and she is so valid.]

Bigger than a jail-cell, at least, but it's going to start feeling cramped sooner rather than later.

[Gazing out at the chaos...]

[bxkautx]

[ sincerely, yeah. ]

Yeah, no, it's not ideal. I'm sure we'll end up somewhere new soon enough, but... Until then. Ugh.

[nascens]

[Real of her.]

Maybe they'll start throwing enough punches to take each other out for a while.

[Peace and quiet...]

[bxkautx]

That might be funny.

[nascens]

It would be a welcome rest from the caterwauling, if nothing else.

[bxkautx]

But I get the feeling it'd just make people louder.

[nascens]

Only if the punches aren't hard enough to knock someone unconscious, and if you're throwing punches that weak, you shouldn't be throwing punches at all.

[bxkautx]

See, that's why I've gotta leave it to other people.

[nascens]

It doesn't take that much effort to throw a hard punch, especially if you know where to hit.

[Just teaches Satan how to KO people with her noodle arms.]

[bxkautx]

[ she's a twig and i have NO faith in her to throw a good punch. ]

What, like pressure points?

[nascens]

[I BELIEVE IN HER........]

Pressure points, all the soft parts of a human that cave easily under pressure... [WORD IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY.] You know, if you strike from below the nose, it can jam the cartilage right into their brains. Poorly built things.