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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[okuri]

Nothing. [A beat.] This is how I am. [ Rotting away from the inside out.]

[unpleasantries]

My mistake, then. I should have specified. My eye has stopped working since I woke up here, and I was trying to figure out if anyone else had similar problems.

[This is normally where someone apologizes, but it's Satori, so...]

[okuri]

Your eye...? [It takes him a moment to notice the anomaly on her chest.

He visibly starts, but stands his ground, looking at her more intently.]

You can see out of that? [Not like he has much manners either.]

[unpleasantries]

In a manner of speaking. I can see into people's minds with it. I haven't ever had to ask for information before.

[Not invading the sanctity of someone's thoughts is a huge pain in the ass, 0/10, would not recommend.]

[okuri]

[For a moment, his heart stops.

There was another woman he knew who could do something eerily similar; the memory isn't pleasant.]

But you can't now. [As if repeating it will ensure that it can never happen.]

[unpleasantries]

[Unpleasant memories are Satori's bread and butter - it's a good thing she doesn't have any access to them here.]

That's right. I'm sure everyone else will be relieved.

[There's a bitter tone to her voice. She's at a disadvantage in every conversation she has, because mindreading is how she communicated.]

And if they've done nothing to you, knowing that not everyone was subject to...to whatever it is that they've done to me only adds insult to injury.