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

[sarkazm]

Get the hell back here-!

[as soon as she spots that bag with her name on it she's climbing over the baggage carousel to go get it. PARKOUR. give her that STUFF she WANTS it.

wis'adel drags a large and heavy-looking bag off of the belt, opening it to free the ancestor launcher. it hovers at her back once it's been loosed.]

Oh, shut your yap. If you're going to blame me for this, I can put you right back on the stupid belt.

[ALTERNATELY. you might find her looking contemplatively up at the bigass horse statue... deciding if she wants to be up there...

DOUBLE ALTERNATELY. maybe she's already perched on the thing, scowling down at a bedazzled phone as she finishes typing out a text and then stabs at a button. prods it again. again.]

Oh, great. No service! So much for that one, Doc.

[shirtbag]

[ looks at the horse. looks at her. looks at the horse.

looks at her and points to the horse. ]

What, you want a boost?

[sarkazm]

[she pauses, turning to look him up and down...]

You know what? Sure. How much can you put into it?

[shirtbag]

"Put into it"? You want me to shoot you through the roof, Lil' Red?

[agleam]

[stares for a few seconds from nearby the carousel when she opens the bag.]

...Whoa. Can you talk to - whatever that is?

[sarkazm]

No, I'm saying shit because I felt like it.

[a little roll of her eyes, tail flicking.]

Obviously I can talk to it!

[refractures]

[ Just looking at the fuckin ancestor launcher like ]

Are you going to blow us up again or what?

[ what the fuck ]

[sarkazm]

[studying him for just a second...

oh, right!]

So you're still kicking, huh? It's been a while!

[as for the question:]

I might just get it over with faster if it's as weird as the last time we woke up somewhere.

[siffrin]

[ (This feels a bit familiar, for some reason..)

Just watches her. ]

[sarkazm]

[while they watch, she holds a brief one-sided argument with the launcher, fishing a bedazzled phone out of the luggage after it.]

I didn't dump you anywhere, don't you look at me for this.

[and then mumbling under her breath, as she types something out on the phone:]

Are you... stuck here... somewhere... too...

[...]

What do you mean it won't send!

[riderculous]

[ astolfo is sitting on hippo while looking up at the horse statue only to spot w! ]

Whoa! How did you get up there?

[sarkazm]

[after taking a second to think, since it's been a while for her...

ohhh, yeah, this one was there too, huh?]

Wouldn't you like to know?

[teenrebellion]

You're... talking to that thing?

[ ma'am are you insane. ]

[sarkazm]

More like putting up with all his whining!

[she might be insane, sure.]

[sixam]

[ sorry, he's kind of grinning as he watches her argue with the launcher. ]

You two still aren't getting along?

[sarkazm]

[she pauses in her argument to squint at him, looking him over...

nope. not familiar.]

Explain what you mean by "still".

[nascens]

Just as useless in the air as on the ground, then?

[Good to know he's always right in thinking phones are pointless and he will proceed to never use his again.]

[sarkazm]

Sure looks like it! No messages out, no messages in.

[she flips the phone shut and stows it-- somewhere. it's a very quick motion. wherever that went, it is not the luggage bag.]

What a pain in the ass.

[peripheries]

Wiš'adel-!

[He just stands there, looking like a teenage idiot, baffled by her.]

[sarkazm]

Doooo I know you?

[what is with men coming up to her like oh wis'adel hello! who are you nerds!]

[psynchroneyes]

[ Mizuki is also staring up at the large statue, though probably not for the same reasons. ]

Eugh. It's awful, isn't it.

[sarkazm]

I don't know. Looks like it could make itself useful, if you ask me!

[doublefists]

[ is already sitting on the horse ]

[sarkazm]

[oh in that case she's just parkouring the fuck up there to park her ass on this horse. sup.]

[frotag]

[ looking up at her like the grounded pleb he is. ]

How's the weather up there?