week 0 - arrival

[vicedirector]

seven vices arrival ♫ saturday & sunday 36 players remaining You remember happening upon something awful and nauseating. What it was, precisely, is lost to you, but you have the instinctive feeling that by escaping from it, you've avoided something terrible. When you open your eyes, you find yourself laying in bed in a dark, dusty room, facing a digital alarm clock. Its face, reading 12:01, is one of the only sources of light in the room. The other comes from the window, shadows flickering about. Opening the blinds will reveal that it is nighttime, and what looks to be a massive bonfire has been lit in the street at the front of the building. A wooden talisman hangs around your neck, with one of seven symbols carved on the back. Attempting to take off the talisman will result in a wave of intense dread, and the all-too-familiar nausea. A brass key engraved with a unique room number lays on the bedside table beside the clock, as well. But you won't get any answers just sitting in your room all night. >Investigate? This is an open mingle for arrival in the town. Waking up just after midnight on Saturday, characters will have the weekend to explore and socialize before the plot begins. The profiles and IC rulebooks (both the personal ones and the public one at the chapel) have not been revealed/given out yet. The kitchen will still 'prepare' breakfast on these days, and the bonfire will burn continuously into the daytime. Per items: smaller items that a character could easily carry with them will be in their rooms. Animals and larger objects will either be waiting outside or in the hotel lobby. cast setting

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[muties]

a, saturday

[ Wait what. What. What??? After briefly poking around in her room, Roxy immediately pokes her head outside room 208 and heads out into the hallway, since maybe there's answers out there? Because all her answers are "something dumb" and she'd rather just get the actuality. She's not horribly panicked, because so far all she knows is... well, nothing. She's dressed in what could be navy blue pajamas (sans mask). ]

'Sup?

[ At least she seems friendly. ]

b, sunday

[ She's traded her Rogue top for a sweater and jacket, with a scarf and warmer boots. Still wearing the leggings because they looked cuter don't you judge her.

She walks into the east void aaaand then out of the west void. ]

Well, that's fucked up.

sunday

[aumygoddess]

It's a bit disorienting, isn't it? I tried walking through there earlier.

[ take a stroll into the void of darkness nbd ]

[muties]

For real. It's like it's been... I don't know, cut out of a map and doesn't got anything connected.

[ a perfectly normal reaction to voids of darkness ]

[aumygoddess]

I thought maybe the nighttime darkness was playing tricks on my eyes, but even in the daytime...

[ she looks at the void again, a little agitated ]

We aren't supposed to leave this town, but why?

[muties]

That's the question, ain't it? I'd like to be the optimist and think it's for a good reason, but I can't think of one.

[ peoplenapping to tiny deserted villages they can't leave doesn't scream good things lbr ]

But I can't really think of a reason if it's a bad one, either. Shitty reality tv? Shitty social experiment?

[aumygoddess]

That doesn't really explain the void, though, does it...is it magic of some kind?

[ she waves her hand through the darkness. still nothing but black air. ]

[muties]

I guess so? I mean, really anything unexplainable is technically magic. But this is like, hella magic. Someone would have to have mad skills to do this, I'm pretty sure. Assuming someone did it, 'course.

[ it's kind of irritating for roxy. her aspect is void, this almost looks like the void, but she's got nothing. ]

Either there's nothing out there or someone doesn't want us to know what's out there.

b

[fourleafcleaver]

[glances at the void

at roxy

at the void

at roxy]

...What did you find in there?

[muties]

A whoooole lotta nothing.

[ it was summarily disappointing ]

Like I've literally never seen so much nothing, ever.

[fourleafcleaver]

That's...

[??????????????]

How far did you go? [Because Clover took like five steps in one way and went screw this.]

[muties]

I guess the whole way? I went in the other side of town and came out here?

[ She was going to go for like at least five minutes before giving up, but it only lasted like two. ]

[fourleafcleaver]

[?????????????????

...?????????????????????????????????]

What? How does that—

[looks at the void, then off towards the other side of the town where the rest of the void is, and at Roxy, and at the more immediate void, and at Roxy, and what]

That's not—What the hell?

[muties]

Yeah, it's a bit weird.

[ UNDERSTATEMENT. ]

Have a try yourself, it's just a couple minutes of, like, nothing.

[fourleafcleaver]

...No, I think I'll just take your word for it. [by which she means she's probably gonna question everyone else about this, just to be sure, but like hell she's going on a void adventure on her own]

Have we considered, like...a flashlight or something?

Saturday

[glorifiedtrash]

My luck, looks like. Hi ♥.

[Excuse him while he just liberally tries to hold her hand like a parasite gentleman. Sort of gentleman. There's been an attempt okay.]

[muties]

Hi...?

[ Is he... trying to hold her hand?? That's silly HAVE A HANDSHAKE, FRIENDLY GUY. And a smile. ]

I'm Roxy. You?

[glorifiedtrash]

[Roxy you're making him cry on the inside. Shakes though...!]

I'd say your willing captive, but we seem to be sharing the occupation ♪. You can call me Zelos. Mind if I ask you a few questions, my dear?

[muties]

[ You'll live, Zelos YOU'LL LIVE. At least she's amused by your antics. ]

Go ahead, Zelos. Maybe I'll have answers. But, uh, probably not.