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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[fluorospar]

Rules...

[That would be nice, wouldn't it!! Something logical and reasonable and not totally crazy?? But she woke up in an unfamiliar room with unfamiliar technology and a whole lot of dust, so logical and reasonable isn't looking all too believable right now.]

... One can only hope. Ah, forgive me. I don't intend to be too pessimistic. [She's just Frazzled.]

[herbgrace]

Don't worry about it. I'm not sure what's too optimistic or too pessimistic in this situation. [There just has to be logic! She hopes...]

[fluorospar]

From that, I'll take it you haven't had any more luck than I have in trying to understand our situation.

[Kidnapping, okay, sure. She sort of gets it, even if it's somewhat hard to believe.

But... a town they can't really leave??? That's where it gets weird.]

[herbgrace]

Unfortunately. [It turns out glaring at things doesn't solve them.] And so far no one's stepped forward to take credit for this entire situation.

[fluorospar]

[weird, that.]

No... I suppose they wouldn't, even if they were amongst us.

[Well, no use sulking about it. After a moment, she straightens.]

Very well then. Let us pool our knowledge. Where have you searched thoroughly thus far?

[herbgrace]

The hotel and the area outside. [Including the weird void, at least as much as anyone can search that.] I've gone through some of the other buildings, but not in enough detail to call it a thorough search.

[fluorospar]

I see... [what's a hotel.] I have also examined what appears to be a medical building of sorts, but there was not much there in the form of clues.

How troubling.

[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?]

[fluorospar]

[Pessimistic, yes, but also true. It's what Selena would've done if she was in the business of kidnapping dozens of people.]

... Did nobody live here before? Did they clear out an entire town for the sake of their kidnappings?

[She doesn't like that thought at all Selena worry about yourself]

[herbgrace]

The room I woke up in seemed pretty dusty--perhaps it's been abandoned. [Which could mean nothing, or could mean this place is dangerous to stay in. What a super fun mystery!]

[fluorospar]

It was the same for me.

[It's not entirely promising, really.]

Though I suppose there are many ways to clear out a town. [Very few of which she likes.] And many reasons to leave.

[herbgrace]

Yes. [It's difficult to figure out why from their position.] I haven't seen any notices mentioning the town being condemned or dangerous as of yet, at the least.

[fluorospar]

I suppose that is at least one positive.

[In a sea of negatives.]

Though it doesn't entirely dismiss the possibility that there was something dangerous about this town.

[herbgrace]

Yes. [...] Well, there's the black void.

[fluorospar]

...True. I suppose that is the Deathgoyle in the middle of the room, is it not?

[herbgrace]

Er--Deathgoyle?

[fluorospar]

...Yes?

[... Is that a weird saying here.]

You know--of the monstrous, winged variety?