INTRO MINGLE

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WHO: Everyone
WHAT: An introductory first day in the game free-for-all extravaganza.
WHERE: One of 3 locations, to be outlined below.
WHEN: October 1
NOTES: Graphic content including physical and psychological horror.



Characters will wake up in one of 3 places, based on the plotting post that went up on Saturday the 22nd. Unless specifically signed up for the Library or the Church, characters by default will be waking up in the Mall.

Please specify your location in the subject line of your top level.

Thoroughly read the plot post and current setting page for details relevant to your introduction.

You do not slowly rouse, but rather abruptly snap into wakefulness, like a light switch being flipped. The world is suddenly bright, white and backlit, roughly one well-placed lens flair away from being a J.J. Abrams movie. It won’t take long to realize both your wrists are securely clamped by a thick metal strap that juts out of the sturdy steel platform you’re laying on, and it's not long after that to realize the same is true for your legs. Even your midsection is strapped down by the world’s most intense seatbelt, leaving nothing to do but to struggle or to wait.

Fortunately, the wait isn’t very long. The curved white space above you flickers with color, and a perfect square, like a television screen, expands before your eyes. It pans over what appears to be a town, something small and simply populated.

“Hello, and welcome to your first setting.” A neutrally cadenced feminine sounding voice begins, riding the line somewhere between human and machine. As she speaks, captions of the text type themselves in neat and perfect Arial font. “The location is loosely based off Bridgton, Maine, United States of America, Earth. The year is 2007. You have been selected to participate. Obedience ensures an enjoyable and immersive experience for our players. If you have been granted a role, instructions will follow. Do not talk about your role. Do not attempt disobedience. If you have not been granted a role, your objective for this round is simple: survive.”

Characters who haven’t been selected to participate in the story will hear a mechanical hissing, the sound of something unlocking, and their metal straps will retract into the flat surface of the printing bay.

Comments

[kiseijuu]

[ Despite everything, Shinichi's starting to feel better bit by bit. Maybe this place has just really been getting to him. There's been so much to take in, but -- sitting here with someone who's a familiar face through it all feels a lot nicer.

It's still so incredible that there are people here from different times, and he listens to her attentively, leaning in to look at the screen. Is that a... a cat meme? It is. He has some recent experience with people who haven't been exposed to the world of memes before -- Migi's constantly finding new things online he doesn't understand and which Shinichi has to explain to him. ]

A cat meme! [ He's smiling, the gesture spreading into a laugh of his own. ] I haven't seen these kind in awhile... Oh, there's the Advice Animal ones you might like, too! Though.. I'm not sure they'll be available online right now since we're in 2007...? [ He's not sure how that works. Will the things they look up be limited to 2007? If so, he's pretty sure that particular meme wasn't around yet. ]

Did he tell you about youtube?

[flowerclip]

A... meme? [She doesn't know what that is, but she can assume it refers to the cat pictures with the text and stuff. That also makes it sound like there's plenty of others beside these cat ones. A whole world of memes is open to her...

Her eyes go wide and she shakes her head slowly at the question.] No. What's a youtube? The internet has more stuff? [It's absolutely boggling her mind to think of just how much information this internet thing could hold.] How much stuff does it have?

[kiseijuu]

It's a place where you can watch a ton of videos of things. There are a lot of cat ones! [ Okay, he's getting excited about this, too... Something so simple as the internet can really make a person happy when they've woken up without their own phone, in a creepy weird mall with seemingly no way to leave.

He leans closer to show Petunia the URL to the website, and then directs her to the infamous Talking Cat video that took the world by storm awhile ago... He can't help laughing as he watches it again after so long, slipping his hand up to stifle the sound, afraid to laugh too loudly in this place. (I mean... he did plenty of screaming earlier though.) ]

It's ridiculous, really... and a little horrifying...