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

[psynchroneyes]

Then it works out! Maybe you should be asking why everyone else's is so T-L-D-R, huh?

[nascens]

[WHAT THE HELL IS A TLDR he thinks and doesn't ask, mostly out of laziness.]

The bigger question is how people can have so much written for them and yet nothing of worth.

[psynchroneyes]

Eh.

[ waves it off dismissively ]

What'd be worthwhile to you?

[nascens]

Right now? Someone who can break their way out of airports.

[Said knowing that this is just the nerfdome and no one will be able to do that even if they normally could. STILL IRRITATED ABOUT IT.]

[psynchroneyes]

[ le SIGH ]

Normally I could do that for you, but...

[nascens]

An even playing field where everyone is equally useless, at least in terms of leaving the playing field itself, isn't unusual.

[People are unequally useless in other ways, though.]

[psynchroneyes]

I guess not, but it's still a pain in the ass. I don't wanna go back to the totally normie life...

[nascens]

[Girl same.]

The "totally normie" life being, presumably, an average human one?

[psynchroneyes]

—Not that there's anything wrong with being an average guy! It's just.




You know.

[nascens]

I don't. [He has never been an average guy in all his longass life.] The "average guy" is often boring and lacks utility, so I'd say there are a few things wrong with it, actually.

[psynchroneyes]

[ erm ]

For real?

[nascens]

I don't want to hear any inane counter-arguments if you disagree. I don't care.

[psynchroneyes]

Yeah yeah, don't worry. I hear you loud and clear.

[nascens]

[Good because he would have absolutely gotten into an argument about this otherwise since he's just constantly ready to essay battle people even before going to college.]

Feel free to let me know if anyone here proves me wrong, though.

[psynchroneyes]

I dunno, I think it's probably safe to suspect we might have way too different opinions on what makes someone "boring with no utility" to do that.

[nascens]

[A little, sloping shrug.]

What would your definition be, then?

[psynchroneyes]

Definition? Uh... I mean, isn't that kind of subjective to begin with?

[nascens]

That's why I asked for yours and not the dictionary's.

[psynchroneyes]

Well, yeah. I just don't think I've ever thought about it seriously enough that I need to define it... There's like, a thousand different ways someone could be boring, you know?

[nascens]

Top three most boring traits.

[He's just fuckin around for fun now.]

[psynchroneyes]

Oh my god.

[ throws UP HER HANDS ]

Okay, okay! Uh. Jeez. Sucking at conversations? Not having any hobbies. I guess not having a sense of humor, too.

[nascens]

You're right, it really is arbitrary.

[JUST MAKES HER GIVE AN ANSWER AND THEN ROASTS IT. He seems accepting enough, though. A little amused, even.]

[psynchroneyes]

Told ya. So how high are your standards?

[nascens]

High.

[JUST IN GENERAL.]

I've seen a good deal in my time.

[psynchroneyes]

You're going to make yourself sound like an old man at this rate.