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

[ballies]

i. vending machines

[ okay well. don't mind this woman who's just... over by the vending machines. she pushes the button.

nothing happens.


she pushes the button again.

nothing happens. ]

...


Alright, that's it. [ and then she starts backing up from the machine, nothing but Determination plastered across her face.

... she's not going to try and ram it, is she? ]

2. baggage claim

[ woo! her stuff!

which consists of a little black box and a round sphere. she settles herself down on one of the peeling chairs to frown a little thoughtfully at them both, but if you get too close the sphere seemingly vanishes back into her luggage immediately. ]

The whole phone with no reception thing's not looking good.

[ it's probably not fine. ]

3. bathrooms

[ she's just pressing the clown button over

and over

and over

and over

and over

and over





and over... ]

bathrooms

[bulls]

Save some clown for the rest of us...

[ lemme get a clown in there. ]

[ballies]

[ she does not stop pressing the button ]

Let me have this.

2

[findsrisks]

They didn't even give us all of our stuff.

[She definitely had a cute Cobalt Ox phone case before. This phone is inferior because it lacks that.]

[ballies]

I mean, speak for yourself, I don't have a whole lot of stuff most of the t--




[



WAIT




SPIDERMAN POINTING.

3

[bxkautx]

[ watching... ] I don't know that this is gonna get you new results after the first time.

[ballies]

Okay, but the main thing is--


I feel better.

i.

[doublefists]

[

amused: ]

Not to stop you from bruising up your pretty self, but you sure you don't want me to punch it first?

[ballies]

This is going to make me feel so much better though.

[ violence. ]

1

[honourous]

[ watching this, and then holds her hands up like wait wait wait. tama don't do it you are too pretty to die on weekend 0 to a vending machine falling on you. ]

Excuse me, would you like some assistance? I had managed to get a few things, myself, so if it would spare you the trouble.

[ballies]

[ no i yearn for the urn ]

Whatever’s in this vending machine isn’t going to be all that great, I’ll warn you now.

i

[feytality]

Woah!

[ not to interrupt from this ramming vending machine, but maya gives tama a wide-eyed stare ]

You're really pretty!

[ballies]

[ she rams into the machine.

beautifully. ]

Hm? [ oh. ] Oh! Thank you.

[ a hot pocket flops onto the ground with a sad ‘thump’ ]

i.

[foreverphantom]

[ well, he sure as hell isn't going to stop her. he wants to see this play out. and also maybe get some snacks in the process.

something about her is bothering him, though.

catch him staring at her with intense focus, squinting as he tries to place her... ]

3

[siffrin]

[ Watching this happen, with their white chao baby being carried in their arms who just coos curiously at her. ]

2

[shirtbag]

[ the hell is that black thing that just moved ]

What the...?

[ he walks right up and points to where the sphere was! ]

Where the heck did that thing you had go?

1

[toyska]

[Watches this happen]

i!

[nascens]

[Also watches this happen. THE WAY I WAS GOING TO TAG WITH THIS AND THEN SAW FUCKING CHILDE ALREADY HERE THESE HARBINGERS ARE USELESS.]

2

[teenrebellion]

That's nothing new. We didn't have access to much the first time around, either.

[ ...alright yea he's gonna be nosy. ]

What was that thing you had just now?

i

[agleam]

[watches. realization dawns. abruptly:]

—Wait wait wait I feel like there's something else we can try!

baggage claim

[selfimmolation]

[ it actually doesn't matter which of these this is because he's just

:o ]

Tama?!

2

[sixam]

[ her stuff vanishes and that doesn't seem to bother him before he listens to the rest of what she says. meanwhile he has what looks like a large carrier and a cigarette tucked behind his ear. ]

What? No. It's always a great sign when you're locked somewhere with no means of communicating with the outside world and no recollection of how you got here. It's fun, right?

[ he's going to break something. ]

i

[nostradamus]

[joins the crowd of people who are just Watching This Happen]

[frotag]

[ holds the vending machine steady for her! ]

iii

[peakfan]

[ honestly, he's just expecting her to develop a clown nose at this point ]