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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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I have! [It's just sitting by his feet, actually, since he doesn't really have anywhere else to put it--this doll sitting on top of a case, which is apparently green because that's all google is showing me.] Just making sure I'm not missing anything.

[That's not what he's doing]

I take it this wasn't another one of your spontaneous decisions?

[ hmm. doesn't believe him but that's fine. she is just rudely picking up this doll to look at it idly. ]

Wasn't me. I've been too swamped with work since the last game to jump back into trouble.

[She's allowed since he assumes she isn't gonna start tearing its limbs off like a psychopath. It says "Teucer" on one of the feet.

He tilts his head slightly.]

Really? I thought we'd been managing alright. [Does he need to lecture you about splitting the workload some more]

[ correct. she's not that crazy... ]

There was a lot of catching up to do. Stuff you can't help with. [ she does appreciate the sentiment though. ] It's whatever, let's just deal with this now.

Can't say that until we try! [Will he ever stop being annoying? No. No he won't.] But you're right, this does take precedence--though, from the look of it, there's not much to do but wait.

[Imagine if Wednesday inexplicably showed up again, how funny would that be]

[ wednesday save us. save us wednesday. ]

Waiting's boring, but maybe it's the calm before the storm so I should be grateful.

[WEDNESDAY WE MISS YOU ALREADY]

Oh, I don't know. It depends on what kind of storm we're dealing with, so I think it's fine to save the gratitude for later. [This is a joke because he is not going to be grateful for this at any point, probably, but she likely knows that.] I don't see Bicker on these phones, so we're off to a poor start already.

Right. You might just like whatever storm is coming up. [ hah. ] Think of it like a social media cleanse. People do that.

It's always worked out for me before! [Hehe. Nudges her gently with his elbow.] A "cleanse"? How do you wash it?

[Sometimes he shows his fantasy origins]

It's... It's a metaphor.

Oh! So it's mental, then. [Nodding along... he understands this concept]

[ pfft. ]

Not that I think either of us needed the cleanse, but we're getting it anyway. Probably temporary. Don't know why they'd give us phones if we won't be able to use them at some point.

You haven't started using it already?

[Childe,]

I've used it to look at the profiles and read that message. But we can't send messages yet.

No, but you can write little notes to save for later!

[Gets out his own phone and shows her the memo app where he has indeed already started writing a letter to Wednesday]

She's part-time, man.

[ please, she's probably busy at school. ]

It's not like I'm going to send her a thousand messages a day...

[He will compile them in a letter because he likes writing letters still, thank you]

Good. She's scary when she's annoyed.

Really? Even after all this time?

[Local lunatic doesn't feel fear, continues to think Satan is a big baby but now it's (fond)]

It's the kind of thing that only gets worse with time.

[ wahhh etc ]

You just need to build up your tolerance.

[Guy who spent 2 months annoying Scaramouche into killing him repeatedly. Give or take about 10 years that he doesn't remember]

I think she enjoys it more if I don't. Likes being scary, you know?

So you'll indulge her, but not me?

[She does indulge him every day he's allowed to run around unnerfed but who would he be if he didn't constantly aim for more]

Should I be afraid of you?

[He could say so many things to this, but he does not.]

Not like that! General indulgence.

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