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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afternoon

[fourleafcleaver]

[Pppppausing to absorb all of that, staring incredulously as she does.]

I'm just trying to see what's what. You need to chill the hell out.

[aumygoddess]

[ why are so many of the people in this place some combination of intimidating and loud ]

Au au, I am sorry, I do not know! I woke up in a room in the hotel the same as everyone.

Um, perhaps you could ask Satori-san? She said she also lived underground.

[minogame]

( The shirtlessness runs in the family, okay. )

It's cold outside! Really cold...!

( And he's not dressed for it at all! )

[detanimetion]

Don't 'sup me! [she's so proud that she grabs him firmly by the shoulders and starts shaking him] How are you so calm about all this? We're on the surface! With humans! Tons of them! You're not even freaking out a little? [STOP MAKING HER LOOK BAD SANS GOSH]

Look, do you have any idea how we got here? Did Asgore...? [she trails off, not sure if she even wants to know the answer. she wants the barrier to be broken, obviously, but if it was at the cost of the human's life....]

[jackhole]

[ guess who has two thumbs and feels bruised all over? it's rhys. it's definitely rhys. when she finally stops hitting him and pulls back, he just shoots a glare at her and...

huh, why didn't he fight back? ]

I'm not a pacifist! [ no need to get so defensive, rhys. ] But you're just -- you're a kid! I'm not going to hit a kid.

[ yeah, that makes sense, he thinks. he wouldn't hit a kid. he clarifies then, after that -- ]

You obviously don't know what you're doing.

Saturday

[glorifiedtrash]

[Well. Zelos is here! And looking at her! Up and down and up again specifically.]

Hunh? What?

[Sorry he was focused on those pantsless legs quite blatantly.]

[princessantly]

Symbology... I can't say I've heard of the term before... but I can also really only use my basic artes.

[ And even those make her feel oddly drained. ]

... I was wondering if it might have something to do with this. [ As she points to the talisman around her neck. ]

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.]

[dhaosu]

Interesting. I have not heard of a knight attempting to stop a war; only ever trying to kill their enemy without thinking of possible negotiations.

You were not offered something for your attempts?

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[fourleafcleaver]

[And a response comes in the form of a high-pitched, squeaky shriek from right next door:]

Shut UP!

[SHE'S READY TO HAVE A SHOUTING MATCH DON'T THINK SHE'S NOT]

[okuri]

[ That solves one problem, and poses another. This close, he would definitely be able to hear Zelos, as well as read his lips.

...but he was close. Way too close.]

Get away from me. [ His eyes are like ice, the stare of someone who's brought death everywhere he goes. He doesn't blink.]

[dhaosu]

[ Casually picks it back up. ]

It sounds to me like you would have a hard time taking a 'joke' yourself if you are getting unbelievably irritable over something like this.

[princessantly]

Oh! Forgive me, the wind makes it difficult-- [ A LITTLE LOUDER: ] Would you happen to know where we are?

[ She seems to think he couldn't hear her for perfectly chaste reasons. ]

[detanimetion]

Ugggggh! This suuuuucks! [PUNCHING A HOLE INTO A NEARBY TREE OUT OF FRUSTRATION]

...no, no, I'm fine. [deep breath] I can move past this crushing disappointment. [clenching a fist and RAISING IT TO THE SKY] I will overcome this heartbreak and move on to better things!!

[takanome]

[His eyebrows raise at the altered inflection - she hates being a princess even more than being a queen? Interesting, though apparently both descriptions are inaccurate and irrelevant.]

Yeah, if they wanted a high school basketball player for some reason, you think they'd pick... Well, whatever. [His lips quirk, he moves on. Somebody who got a little better than third place in the winter cup. Who cares, it's obvious just looking at this girl that even a point guard, the most slender position, would be a stretch for her.] Do you play any sports, do any club activities?

[princessantly]

What greater offering could there be than peace between two nations? Generals and chancellors trying to incite each side to battle... it's too deplorable.

[ Yeah, no. ]

[detanimetion]

[Oh good, finally some fun. Undyne laughs eagerly and takes a fighting stance.]

Try it, punk! I'll send you flying!

[herbgrace]

[Lithuania considers for a moment. They really don't have many ingredients, it's true.] I could make baked eggs with bacon. It's still eggs and bacon, but they're not scrambled, and it's not french toast. [Also, technically the eggs are fried, but it's just a name okay.]

[takanome]

Glad to hear you're feeling well yourself. [He was a little tired when he first got up, having had a fairly late night at a party right before, but by now sufficient adolescent adrenaline has kicked in.]

Have you walked the other way yet, by any chance? Is it like this, too? [Seems pretty weird to have this on one side and then just a perfectly normal path on the other. Maybe there's a different boundary like Scylla and Charybdis.]

[dhaosu]

[ He gestures quite easily to beyond the buildings. He had already been outside exploring, and, well... ]

The darkness that coats the outer edge of this location appears to do very well at keeping us in. So for now, we are trapped.

Perhaps if we're lucky, our generous kidnappers will give us one inch more of the land to walk in.

[ That was a terrible attempt at a joke, however sardonic or sarcastic it was. ]

[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 ]

[glorifiedtrash]

[Wow. Talk about harsh. Reaching over he just pulls down the brim of Yoite's hat.]

That's dumb. Where would I go? We're all stuck here!

[americanbeauty]

[Probably what she should have expected as an answer. Even though Lucy is still obviously on edge she moves further into the light of the bonfire. The warmth is tempting considering the coat does nothing for her bare legs.]

They must be important if everyone has them. Why would anyone take so many people and then do nothing but give them a necklace?

[herbgrace]

Lithuania, yes. [She says it more slowly, but she won't hold it against him if she's "Lituania". He tried, that's all she can ask. ...Though, it's odd...] You're speaking my language, but you don't recognize the name?

[lastgirl]

Oh. [Brother. She didn't know what that word meant until Dusty told her about being Brad's son. Buddy nods, trying to smother her own feelings.] What does he look like? I can help you find him.

[She normally wouldn't care, but a brother and a sister protect one another. This girl needs to find and help him.]