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

[sixam]

You mean the "waking up somewhere with no memory and probably having to go along with some stupid gimmick for eight weeks?" Yeah, I'm starting to hear that that was the case for a lot of people here.

[ballies]

No memory of how you got there or what was going on, yeah.

[ … wait ] Or, ew. Did some people entirely lose their memories?

[sixam]

[ thinks of two particular cases... ]

It's a long story, I think, but it's not exactly out of the question.

[ballies]

[ oh, ewww. ]

Gross. Don’t screw with people’s memories AND their potential deaths.

[sixam]

I don't think it was the... games or whatever you want to call them that messed with them. That might've been an outside factor.

[ballies]

[ oh. ]

Ohhh, like disassociation or trauma based amnesia or something like that?

[sixam]

[ . . . ]

Both, and some other personal issues. [ he hates the people he likes. ] It sort of exacerbated the issue and it'll probably do the same thing here.

[ballies]

[ … she spins her finger in a little circle. ]

Wait, they’re here?

[sixam]

[ realizing he has said too much. ]

It's probably better not to... yeah. It's fine, they're with me, technically. So I'll figure out what works best.

[ "they're with me" mostly means "they were in my game and i'm responsible for them still" in jonas's world. ]

[ballies]

Hmmm.

Places like this have a habit of getting stuff out of you whether you want it to or not. Don’t make it easy for it, if you’re trying to keep your secrets.

[ she’s not going to pry. ] I hope they’ll be okay though. Your friend, I mean.

[sixam]

They're not really my secrets to keep, you know? I just figure... if they're both here, and they're both not even totally aware of the problems or how to deal with them, it's not helping them for me to go around announcing them. That's all.

But thanks. I hope so, too.

[ballies]

[ she mimes zipping her lips at that part. ] I know a thing or seventeen thousand seven hundred and eighty four about confidentiality, don’t worry.

[ that’s a lot. ]

[sixam]

[ ... that gets him to crack a grin. ]

That an actual number, or an example?

[ballies]

I'll neither confirm nor deny.

[sixam]

Smart woman. [ funny. ] Guess we all have to keep some secrets to ourselves.

[ballies]

[ hehe. ]

Start a secret trade or something. Permission withstanding.

Besides, places like this always have secrets. It's not bad to have information sharing, is it? [ she says to god who hid in a bar for like seven weeks. ]

[sixam]

A little tit for tat, you mean? I don't think it's a bad way to barter among strangers. [ he finds it a little interesting, but of course he does. he's god who hid in a bar for like seven weeks. ]

Guess it also depends if you want information shared, or if that information helps once it's out there. But overall? No, I don't think it's that bad.

[ballies]

Exactly.

[ she spins her finger in a little loop. ]

And if it's a proper kind of information sharing deal, there's confidentiality. And if it's information that needs to get out there as soon as possible, there's two of you doing the ground work.

[sixam]

[ watches the fingie do a loop-de-loop... ]

Building trust working in sync with building a team. [ because to share secrets, you have to trust someone, and when you trust someone you're more likely to work with them to get other information out there and share amongst the people. ]

Sounds like you've got some experience with this kind of thing.

[ballies]

[ wheee. ]

Well. I have a partner-in-proverbial-crime, so I'm used to working as a team. [ hmmm. ] But, the place I was before here had teams.

Not sure how much of it was about getting along, depending on who you ask, but I think my team got on pretty well.

[sixam]

That'd do it. [ there's a little smile, slightly interested and slightly nostalgic because sometimes you remember when you used to have a partner in crime yourself. but he's more interested in the other piece of what she says. ]

I've heard from a few people about origin games that had teams. Are any of your old teammates here?

[ballies]

[ the way this thread is right after her one with ace. ]

Yup. Ace.

[ uh. ]

Shirtless guy with the hat?

[sixam]

[ that description helps. ]

We've met. Which means you were from the hero game. In, uh, Oceanside? I think that's what he said. [ but oh. ] ... kinda nice you have one of your own teammates with you.

[ballies]

[ sighs. ]

Yeah, that's the one. With the cycles and the moon, all that stuff. And... yeah, it's nice to know someone, but I'm not exactly excited he's probably going through another one of these...

[sixam]

[ he makes a face. ]

One of your other guys mentioned a little about the moon, too. And Ace filled me in. Sounds pretty rough. [ ...but his expression skews a little more sympathetic because he gets that. ]

I get it though. I can't say I'm all that excited for the people I know to go through another one of these, too. Especially when we don't know what it'll be this time. They already went through enough.