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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?
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!
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
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[ 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, ]
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So I've seen. [In the profiles he nosily read so he could commit anything useful to memory and discard the rest.] Surname?
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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, ]
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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.]
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[ no, that's not it, ]
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[ALL OF THEM.......]
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[ why is this the weirdest thing for him ]
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[NOT AGAIN!!!!! But the ones that are written down seem fine enough.]
I've picked my own names before. There's not anything particularly earth-shattering about it. A name is only a name.
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[ first of all, he won't let that drop, but: ]
Mm... I guess it's different if you don't care about people or being known by them. I wanted people to recognize me for myself, so I've always cared about my name.
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[No one needs to know ANY OF THEM or they'll YELL IT AT HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF TRIAL LIKE AKIRA DID AND HE'LL TRY TO KILL SOMEONE IN FRONT OF GOD AND SATAN AGAIN.
Anyway.]
You care about people or being known by them, then. Why?
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[ he's smarter than akira :( probably :( who knows :(
he. shrugs ]
It's a little petty, but it was to prove the world wrong. I wasn't wanted by the world, so I wanted them to know my name. [ in a kind of wry tone like it's nbd to just say this shit ] I don't care as much about that anymore.
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Shouki no Kami.
[The way he was running from that after failing becoming god in Superhell but he's reclaimed it with a vigor after spitefully deciding to become god anyway and kill Nahida about it for real. Damn though... Imagine wanting the world that doesn't want you to know your name.]
Oh? Achieved the goal already, or set your sights on something new?
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Whole thing like a title?
[ he'll do it. he is just checking. also yeah imagine being a sadsack like that. rip ]
I got infamous, but it didn't mean anything. In the end... Well, you don't seem like the kind of guy who'd get it--it probably isn't your type of thing. I found a place where I belonged, so that kinda settled a lot of it.
[ the part where he says scara wont get it isnt meant as an insult scara has just been very honest about not giving a fuck about people ]
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Preferably. Shouki is fine, though, since some people here apparently don't have enough functioning brain matter to remember two additional words.
[This is a potshot at Jacopo but it also just sounds like it could be a potshot at anyone. He also does not take that as an insult and wouldn't even if it was meant as one, because it definitely isn't his type of thing.]
You're right, it isn't. Infamy is likely better in the long run, but humans will go to extraordinary lengths to convince themselves that the insignificant time they spend in the world is worthwhile.
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[ it's a tease. he will probably use shouki anyway because one piece is japanese enough to know what no kami means and he is not calling anyone a god. not even god (jonas) ]
You're not human, then? [ thinks about it a second longer because that doesn't mean anything to him there are a lot of non-human races, so: ] And probably not mortal.
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I am neither of these things, yes.
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[ are you a sword scara...... ]
I don't think I could stand living forever.
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Not surprising, though. Life goes on as it will, unchanging in all ways that matter. Even for the immortal, it gets tedious.
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[ but he isn't a sword... damn... he thinks talking swords are cool. ]
A tedious, unchanging life... Can't see the point in anyone living like that. [ more as an aside to himself than anything ] Does this type of thing count as unchanging, though?
[ gesturing at. the airport. well maybe being kidnapped is not a way that matters ]
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It's more fun to talk about the fact that eternity is miserable!]
What, being swept off to another idiotic holding pen while we wait for the overseer of the realm to grace us with their presence and explain some stupid nonsense that will inevitably lead to death? It was novel the first time.
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So it's lost any potential interest the second time around? [ wry ] Can't say I disagree, though.