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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[dhaosu]

[ Dhaos' eyes flickered to the talisman that Ranulf pulled forth. It's possible what Ranulf says is true. ]

Then, I shall look into it, and hopefully something will come of it. That said, you mentioned it was chaotic energy and you had experienced something similar to it before. Were there any adverse effects in particular that differed from, or were in addition to, the ones given from the talisman we have now?

[ Because Dhaos believed if such an intense effect occurred from just trying to take it off, who is to say it couldn't be used to control them or make them lose it entirely? ]

[mothercat]

[ Ranulf shifts his weight from one foot to the other as he thinks. Other effects... other effects...

Aside from the obvious "all that negative energy came from a medallion and was going to wake a dark god then spoilers," he's not too sure. Negative energy wasn't something he liked thinking about or feeling. Shudder. ]

I'd say it was a lot more intense than whatever this is. [ Enlightening, eh? Ranulf drops the medallion back onto his chest. ]