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

[selfimmolation]

Don't think so. [ opening up the phone to the message ] They've clearly brought us here for some stupid reason, so they won't let us starve to death before we can "play along" with that. I give it a couple of days max before someone shows up to lie to our faces about what we're here for.

[nascens]

You sound like a veteran.

[Thinking about how Superhell was truly the only game where there were no lies or sneaky secret plots, it was just a drinking game from start to finish.]

[selfimmolation]

[ hey no one in heaven lied. they simply had no fuckin idea what was going on ]

I dunno about veteran, but this is the exact same thing I went through last time. Fool me twice an' all that, right?

[nascens]

[THAT IS TRUE. THAT IS TRUE.......]

How many people did you end up cannibalizing the last time?

[selfimmolation]

Should I be worried you're the one speaking from experience about the cannibalism thing?

[ he's really stuck on it. ]

[nascens]

Every blessing and coin in the world wouldn't be enough to convince me to pollute my mouth like that.

[HE DOESN'T EVEN EAT BUT IF HE DID HE'D DIE BEFORE BECOMING A CANNIBAL.]

[selfimmolation]

[ laughs like the disgust at being a cannibal is funny. because it is ]

I'd say pollute's a big word, but it sounds about right. I'm not interested in eating people either.

[nascens]

[DON'T JUST LAUGH ABOUT IT.]

I'll turn the other way if you end up going back on your word, as long as you eat the irritating ones.

[selfimmolation]

Thanks for the discretion, but now I wanna know who made the irritating list for you already.

[ no he thinks scara is hilarious sorry ]

[nascens]

[THINK THAT HE IS LESS HILARIOUS!!!!!]

That noisy fool who started punching things immediately on arrival. The other, noisier fool who started screaming right away. The brown-haired boy lecturing about niceties despite being kidnapped. The purple man. That red-eyed idiot. The list could go on for a while.

[selfimmolation]

Woah, you really don't waste time getting annoyed.

[ he has no idea who so many of these are about ]

Is that usual, or a "stuck in a small space with a bunch of strangers" thing?

[nascens]

[No one ever will because he'll never learn anyone's damn name.]

People are annoying anywhere you go, so it's a usual thing.

[selfimmolation]

[ my only goal is for scara to learn ace's name. it's three letters. ive got a shot ]

Yeah, if you don't like people, you wouldn't like 'em more when they're acting up in locked spaces. [ he doesn't deny the people being annoying thing even though he clearly does not think so ] Sorry, but I probably won't end up eating any of them. If people piss me off, I just punch them.

[nascens]

[THE BAR IS ON THE FLOOR AND YET.]

You might as well make use of yourself and start now, then. The longer these idiots are conscious, the more annoying they'll become.

[selfimmolation]

We're not close enough for me to do you that kind of favor and knock out eighteen people who haven't annoyed me yet.

[nascens]

I don't ask for favors. [He is a GOD THANK YOU he's the one who doles out favors.] Consider it a generous suggestion.

[selfimmolation]

That so? Consider it taken into account.

[ stop sounding amused. he does a little bow though ]

Name's Ace, by the way.

[ he would normally apologize for being rude but

scara was rude first so that means it's ok, ]

[nascens]

[ACE CONTINUES TO BE AMUSED and Scaramouche continues to be rude.]

So I've seen. [In the profiles he nosily read so he could commit anything useful to memory and discard the rest.] Surname?

[selfimmolation]

[ is there truly anything useful in these profiles, scara, ]

Portgas. [ which he also would've seen but ace doesn't point it out ] Which one of yours should I be using?

[ he also can read........... shocker........... he doesn't remember any of them he just saw the 17 names for scara and that stood out, ]

[nascens]

[OF COURSE NOT. It has given him plenty to judge, though.]

Shouki no Kami was the most recent. People took to using Scaramouche again in Hell. They're all equally meaningless to me.

[A sloping shrug. He's so unattached to names, except for the part where he really isn't.]

[selfimmolation]

So the name you wanna be called wasn't on there?

[ no, that's not it, ]

[nascens]

When I say they're all equally meaningless, I mean they're all equally meaningless.

[ALL OF THEM.......]

[selfimmolation]

You seriously don't care what people call you?

[ why is this the weirdest thing for him ]

[nascens]

I didn't say that. [HE'LL NEVER FORGIVE FILBO FOR CALLING HIM BUDDY.] People pick only the most idiotic of names just to prove some nonexistent point, then.

[selfimmolation]

Ha. So you do care, but only about it not being embarrassing. All the ones written down are good enough. [ chinhands ] You've never had one you liked, though? Or thought about picking your own name?