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

i.

[damp]

[ Looking noticeably defeated, ] Getting deja vu here...

[bxkautx]

Yeah? [ she's fucking not!! for once!!!! ] I mean, sure, it's kind of like an airport almost, I guess.

[damp]

Tinkering with your radio is how I first met you the last time this... kind of thing happened too.

[ Grimacing. ]

And I was always worried it'd happen again, but...

[bxkautx]

Call it a nervous habit.

... But we've never met, so that was a different Alex. [ which is normal. ]

[damp]

[







:O? ]

... What are you talking about?

[bxkautx]

Other timelines, other timeloops, other Alexes. It doesn't really matter.

[ very dismissive like. yeah whatever alex you knew, specifically, doesn't matter. :) ]

[damp]

... I never really got to learn that much about where you came from.

[ alternate timelines?? okay. ]

So you don't remember me or the Reaper's Game at all?

[bxkautx]

[ that tracks. ]

Nnnnnope. Reaper's Game sounds kinda cool, though.

[damp]

[ Makes a face. ]

I wouldn't say that. We had to form teams and kill each other to win.

[bxkautx]

Aaaaand the message on these phones says we're going to be assigned teams. So. Great. Ready for the repeat?

[damp]

[ wait a second ]

... It even mentions Australia... [ Quieter, ] Did Haru end up becoming a Reaper after all...?

[bxkautx]

[ she has no idea what you are talking about man ]

[damp]

[ free..........

Anyway, tries to lighten the mood. ]

Your team lost the least people, so...

[bxkautx]

... Lucky us...?

[damp]

[ starting to feel awkward

like when you wave at someone and they don't wave back ]

Uh, I'm Rin, by the way.

[bxkautx]

[ she has an attitude problem but is weirdly not that awkward with this situation. sometimes you are just Too Aware of the multiverse to feel weird about it. ]

Alex - but I guess you knew that. [ whatever. ] Still - nice to meet you. Again.

[damp]

[ I really have no idea what Oxenfree is about. ]

Yeah, nice to meet you. [ Glancing at her radio. ] So, did you go through something like this before too?

[bxkautx]

[ that's fine, this is more because she's been in two murdergames than because of canon. but also. also because of canon. ]

... Sort of. I watch people go through this kind of thing a lot.

[damp]

[ oh yes because this is a crau game ]

Watch people? [ o: ] More than once?

[bxkautx]

I run Hell. People die and I've gotta get them ready for their afterlife. Less hands-on than I could be, but I check in sometimes.

[damp]

[ okay



what ]

... I guess you're not just a kid from America anymore.

[bxkautx]

I... was, once.

[ anyway, ] So what's your deal? When you're not kidnapped for these kinds of games.

[damp]

[ It's so weird...

But oh! ]

I am just a kid from Japan. [ He didn't have biblical character development. ] I'm... a competitive swimmer?

[ He is wearing swim jammers. ]

[bxkautx]

... Interesting. What's that like?

[damp]

It's kind of stressful. You know, when you want something so badly that failing to get it might destroy you.

[ ... ]

But it's not as high stakes as running hell.