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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[minogame]

( Shaking his head yeaaaaaa no??? NO!! )

I'm okay, miss...! I'm sorry I ran into you, I'll be more careful, I promise...!

[herbgrace]

[Alright, alright, he does look like a kid. Well, a teenager, but still. He really could be playing some sort of bizarre game.] Listen--it's alright, but do you know what's going on here?

[minogame]

( He looks like a teenager but he's actually the most sheltered, naive, and innocent five hundred year old spirit ever... )

Uhm.... ( He's quiet and bows his head down anxiously, shaking it no, ) I just woke up here all by myself... it doesn't even look like home...

[herbgrace]

[So he actually is pretty young then she knew it!!! Except she does not know it's on a time scale she would be very familiar with.]

The same sort of thing happened to me. [And he looks so anxious about it that she can't help but want to help him.] You woke up in one of the hotel rooms?

[minogame]

( Nodding, )

Mhmm... ( And he'll give her a cautious sort of look, ) The same thing happened to you?

[herbgrace]

[She nods.] I've just begun to look around, so I don't know what dangers there might be. You should be careful.

[minogame]

( Well, since they're in the same messed up situation, he feels a little more relaxed. At least he isn't alone? )

Uhm... ( One step closer, ) I'm... I'm Urashima Kotetsu! ( he already said that. ) What's your name?

[herbgrace]

[He probably wasn't lying about his name, at least.] I'm Lithuania. It's nice to meet you.

[minogame]

( Leans back and makes a horribly confused face. What language is that? Is that a name? )

Lit...uania...?

( Yeah, it sounds off but literally the only way he's able to say it at all is because of jamjar babblefish magic. )

[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?

[minogame]

( It just sounds weirder when she says it slower. )

Li...thu...ania...

( What a strange combination of sounds. )

Ah... ( He nods his head, ) I don't. Should I?

[herbgrace]

Well--it's not that you should so much as--you're speaking Lithuanian? [So in this case maybe he should, actually.]

[minogame]

( what )







Huh? ( Uh? Lituanian? Like Lituania? She has her own language? Is he speaking in code? How does he know her code though? Wait, he isn't speaking in code! ) What do you mean?

I don't know how to speak ( vague hands ) that.

[herbgrace]

[Lithuania's turn to look completely baffled.] But you're speaking it right now.

[minogame]

No?

( Now he's confused? )

I'm speaking Japanese! It's the only language I know how to speak!

[herbgrace]

Ah? But I can't speak Japanese. [And they're obviously communicating just fine as far as understanding words goes.] Are you joking around again?

[minogame]

No! I'm being serious this time!

( Really! )

[herbgrace]

Then-- [Then...?] Are you sure? [What's going on?]

[minogame]

You don't speak Japanese at all? But you understand me...

( Maybe Urashima actually knows Nationese, Lithuania!!! )

Is it magic?

[herbgrace]

[That would be even more bizarre than him magically knowing Lithuanian.] Something like that... [She doesn't like using magic as an excuse.] But I suppose there isn't the technology for an instant translator that works so well.

[minogame]

( Magic is the only thing he can think of, even if he doesn' thave experience with this kind of magic... )

Hm? "Technology?" ( That's still a strange word for him so it might sound a little careful, ) Do you use a lot of that?

[herbgrace]

Of course. [She sounds a little confused by the way he speaks of it like it's a completely foreign concept.] Things like computers and cell phones are in use all over.

[minogame]

( He's quiet. So they aren't in the past? Somewhere in the west... but some where not in the past. So could he be in the present? Or maybe a not so distant past? But why would they be here then? It doesn't really sound like any of his other missions. )

I-I know that! ( Of course? Duh? ) I was just joking!

... Do you know what year it is?

( WHAT KIND OF GAME IS THIS KID PLAYING )

[herbgrace]

[...This kid seems so earnest that for once her first thought isn't immediate suspicion at such strange questions. No, he must have hit his head.]

Perhaps our kidnappers were too rough with you before bringing you here. You should really sit down. It's 2016, by the way.

[minogame]

( But he's a time traveler. )

2016? ( He's doing the math. ) Uwah!

( He's in the past?! He's really in the past! )

No, no, I'm fine!

( Holding up both hands disarmingly. He's good! )