wknd0 mingle

[mgtropes]

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

[bxkautx]

Is it?

[ballies]

[ she nods. ]

Give or take a few details, I guess.

[bxkautx]

Makes it sound like hopes are high for how things go this time around.

[ballies]

[ mmmmm. ]

I’d really hope not? I’m pretty sure there was small print. “Never again shall the individual listed in this contract have to experience an event like this one again. Never again shall they have to experience 8 full weeks of murder and misery.”

Or there should’ve been.

[bxkautx]

Even if there was, I doubt this is all headed by the same force as whatever it was last time. I mean, case in point, I was in charge of things before. And I've got no control over any of this.

So any contract they could have hypothetically made would probably... not be upheld.

[ballies]

[ ………. squints. ]

Wait, you ran one of these things?

[ hm. ]

Boo. We’ve gotta figure out some cross management airtight legal contract.

[bxkautx]

Sorta. Or I do all the time, or they're happening all the time, or...

[ learn how to talk. ]

Different realms aren't always on speaking terms, so. Harder than it sounds.

[ballies]

[ please learn to talk. ]

… Maybe we can just get a new hobby, or something like that. Board games? I hear those are pretty fun if you find some of the more experimental ones.

[ … ]

If rich people can use legal loopholes I can figure out an inter-dimensional one. Probably.

[bxkautx]

It's not really a hobby so much as it is a job. But I like games when I've got the time for them?

[ laughing at that second thing though. sure, maybe! ]

It's possible.

[ballies]

Well, if this is what we all think it is, we should have some down time. At least on… one or two days of the week.

[ despair ]

Spite’s a motivator.

[bxkautx]

Optimism's a dry well, at this point. We know what this is.

[ she's just a bit of a know-it-all who puts way too much faith in her own assessments of things... i wish she were wrong solely because it would be funnier, but alas. ]

Yeah, spite's easy. Always close by.

[ballies]

Ugggh. [ she rubs a hand over her eyes ] I really don’t want to do this again.

[ if she has a real reaction to this she’s just going to lie on the ground until the gy takes her so sulking it is. ]

[bxkautx]

Understandable and also... unfortunate. But I know what you mean. Being on this side seems, uhh... bad.

[ballies]

Yeah, it's not fun. Pretty much the complete opposite.

[bxkautx]

Mm... But it is like a game, though. A competition.

[ballies]

Yeah, a painful one where you die? Nothing's fun about that.

[bxkautx]

You kind of get used to it... There'll be fun parts.

[ballies]

[ JUST LOOKS AT HER LIKE NO!!!!!!!!! NO!!! ]

I can't die, Ryuki'll be alone!

[bxkautx]

What happened to the people who died last time?

[ballies]

There's no guarantee we're going to be okay. You know that right? Even if the statistics are high, there's always a chance it won't work out.

[bxkautx]

People die.

[ said like that's just not... that big a deal. ]

[ballies]

Yeah. I know. I look into a ton of cases where they do.

But it's not normally in messed up death games with rules and conditions though. Not supposed to be, at least.

[bxkautx]

Well, hey. That sounds like a skillset that could come in handy.

[ballies]

In theory. I'm kinda nerfed right now.

[ also i, becks, am an idiot ]

[bxkautx]

[ baps you ]

Experience may be a more important factor than... whatever you can usually do.