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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[hopefragment]

Oh, uh... I'm Hinata. Hinata Hajime.

[Just going to carefully open the door the rest of the way because it's weird to just talk to someone through a partial opening. At least Hinata seems genuinely apologetic for hitting this guy with his own door.]

Sorry again... I'm just trying to find some answers. Do you know anything about this place? It's a hotel, right?

[herbgrace]

If we look at this [she gestures to the void] as the bars of a cage, I imagine they wouldn't have put anything in here they thought would actually be useful to us. [Now who's being pessimistic?]

[princessantly]

... Ah. [ Oops. ] I'm afraid I was in such a rush to see what lay outside, I didn't investigate my room thoroughly...

[dereban]

I don't. [ She answers this simply, immediately. ]

I'm not surprised, however. Whoever did this is crafty.

[ Like Heartseed. But something like this wasn't done by him. She's almost 100% sure of it, considering that she hasn't seen the other members. ]

[fluorospar]

Selena.

[She'll offer up that much, though she knows it doesn't really explain a lot. And she'll gesture towards the blanket.]

If you are going to avoid that building, at least take care of your health. It is one of few things we still have with us.

[aumygoddess]

Mmmhmm. [ although she hopes she never has to use it again, frankly. getting disemboweled with it kinda killed her drive for swordfighting ] I don't think I've used one of those, though.

[americanbeauty]

[Okay... So he's probably not a ne'er do well. Although he is spouting some weird stuff.]

Are we not in America? This should be New Jersey- [But then again it wasn't the middle of Winter last she checked either. And there is that other little bit of info... Something that she has never even heard of before.]

What's the NBA?

[minogame]

...!

( He's happy to have help and it has an immediate effect on him, getting him to calm down some and give her a small smile, )

Really? ( He's easy to please and he takes a step closer, his trust clearly won in an instant, ) Thank you!

( And... he can definitely talk about Kamekichi? That's easy! )

Hmm... Kamekichi has been with me for as long as I can remember... I don't know what'll happen if he's gone too long...

[herbgrace]

Do you have any idea where to begin when it comes to figuring out the void? [Lithuania certainly doesn't. This is so far from her department.]

I laughed at the last bracket omfg

[takanome]

Right... I'm definitely not walking out there, ma'am.

[He steps back to see the woman a little better and take a vaguely respectful posture. Only his fingertips remain in the void.]

It doesn't feel like anything in particular, though, just so you know. Dark, that's all.

1/2

[sobowtor]

[Now who's being the unreasonable one.]

Uh huh.

[hopefragment]

...Would you believe that I've had weirder?

[His voice is much too dry, but he just shakes his head as if to try to dismiss the topic, taking a few steps into the room to look around. It doesn't look any different from his, so he's not sure what he's expecting to see.]

Anyway... I'm Hinata. Seems like we're in the same kind of situation, huh?

[stupidly]

[Even Gilbert has to give her a look at that... Who could be prepared for tall gangly men stumbling out of the shadows??

But goodness, it's embarrassing that she even has to ask. He glances down at himself quickly as if to make sure he's not bleeding all over the place, and then nods.]

I'm fine. [HE'S FINE!!!!] Just a little surprised... If this is the way that works, then we'll need to find a different exit.

[aumygoddess]

[ IS THIS HOW YOU GET YOUR KICKS, SATORI. INTIMIDATING NERVOUS KIDS. ]

I'm not? What are they like, then?

[ shaking her head ]

No. I woke up in one of the hotel rooms like everyone else.

[lastgirl]

What? [Is she making fun of her?] That makes no sense. You can't be a woman and a dog at the same time. You have to be one or the other, so which is it?

[Ultimatums is all Buddy is capable in thinking of really.]

[symbologic]

[Nope, human! Just...a pointy eared one. And also an alien. But still totally human, otherwise.]

That it is. Assuming each room in this building is occupied by at least one person, that would make thirty six of us, minimum. Kidnapping that many people is no easy feat, to say nothing of whatever they did to make us forget the time that has passed.

[herbgrace]

Yes. [So many people have the same story about waking up.] It has to be a kidnapping, but not the normal sort. [As much as any kidnapping can be normal...]

[hopefragment]

Sorry?

[His literal only language is Japanese, and she spoke so softly... He leans down to get closer to her level so maybe he'll have better luck hearing her, still trying for an encouraging, if uncertain and awkward smile.]

I didn't catch that. You said...?

[stupidly]

[Stop making a mess on the counter... Gilbert moves a couple of plates over to the other side, but it's pretty much reflexive. His attention is on the topic at hand, too.]

...It didn't seem like any of them were. [...] They would have to be good at acting.

[Which is a possibility that he won't discount, at least.]

What do you think?

[dereban]

It's just coffee - no ice, no milk, no sugar. [ That's basically it. ] Might taste a little bitter, but it will at least wake you up. Trust me.

[crazily]

Perfect~! Now it'll at least be drinkable... I personally prefer tea to coffee every time, but! If it's being offered, it'd be rude of me to refuse.

[ He says, and yet Break is definitely rude... He moves to take a seat, though he motions generally her way. ]

Would you mind pouring me a cup? Not completely full, since I have to have room for the sugar.

[ That's also rude, in a way, but this is also practical on his part. Pouring hot liquids when he can't see is generally a bad idea. ]

[lastgirl]

It's a smaller sword. One better for our size. [Hanyuu is a few inches shorter than Buddy as well, so it'd be a lot more suitable.] Keep that sword close to you then. You might need to use it soon. Someone brought us all here and they need to pay in blood.

[takanome]

We sure could be in New Jersey! This definitely isn't Japan. [He remains pretty conversational. All the people he's met so far just seem confident this isn't their respective native country. Lucy thinking it is her country is therefore promising.]

Oh, the NBA is the National Basketball Association. [An acronym! He thought basketball was pretty big in America as the country where it was invented...] They organize all the professional basketball games in America.

[sobowtor]

Did you look at someone the wrong way and make them pissed at you?

[Achoo!]

[crazily]

Ah, yes! Then you have met Gil~bert~.

[ Why does he draw out Gilbert's name in a singsong voice? These are questions better left unanswered. ]

But, yes, Gilbert is an expert on this sort of thing, you know! Despite his timid personality, he has quite a talent. Perhaps we could go find him~?