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

Emoji Time

[noctyourking]

Noct had a frisk walk as he moved through the mall, he had been allowed a fifteen minute break and he used that to rush to the employee break room. He spent five minutes there before he started his trek back to his work station. The Dippin Dots shop. He was wearing a pink shirt, with the logo on it, and a pair of blue slacks. On top of his own head was a curious shape of ice cream (🍨), though he hadn’t noticed it.

What he did notice was the grammatical icon shapes above a man’s head which caused him to stop in his route and stare.

This caused a few icons to form on top of his own head. (❓)

[nonstopnarcissist]

❓❓❓

Tony had only kind of noticed the shape of his own thought bubble and was doing his damnedest to fight and mask it- to no avail. Surface thoughts, misgivings, flickers of emotion- it's all very vague but very there. And apparently he's not the only person suffering this particular glitch in space time or what the fuck ever. "You too?"

[noctyourking]

“Me too?” Noct’s head cocked and he quickly looked up, above his head just in time to see his question marks flash into a bright orange exclamation symbol. “Eh…” The sign melted back into a few question marks above his head and he shook his head before he looked back to the older man. “I don’t understand.. what is going on here?”

Not that he had any real expectation that the brunette would have an answer for him.

[nonstopnarcissist]

"No idea. A few of us have this thing going on that seems to come and go. I don't know how to predict it." Or have any idea how it's happening it just-

Happens.

Quite vexing. "We're trapped in a mall until- fuck if I know."

[noctyourking]

"Okay.." Noct shook his head, a bubble of question marks still above him. He gave the other another glance before he started on his way again. "I got to get back to work.." Which changed the question marks then changed back to the ice cream symbols. If Noct was late, there would be consequences, which also had manifested an exclamation mark behind the ice cream emoji.