day zero

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dreamland day zero 42 players remaining. [You wake up in a temporary barracks set up behind an amusement park. The weather is chilly but pleasant, and there aren't any lines for the rides - in fact, it seems you have this place to yourself. The entire park appears to have been abandoned some years ago, and though everything is in working order, it is overgrown with plants and seems rusted and unsafe. As for you, something has happened, though you aren't sure what. There's a throbbing pain in your head, and you can't focus, as though you're coming off heavy pain medications. However you think you should look, you look like a human now. Under the bandages wrapped around your temple, old and smelling like blood, you'll find a recently stitched up scar wound and the inability to focus on your memories. You have no knowledge of how you came to be here; you may even have forgotten certain aspects of your life, or feel confused about them. The fact of your missing memories is obvious, a dark blank spot. Under the bandages around your wrist, you'll find a brightly colored bracelet, decorated with the face of the smiling cartoon animal on your wall, embedded into your flesh. It beeps a merry tune and welcomes you to DreamLand Fun Park. Just then, a voice comes over the loudspeaker.] "Good morning to all of our new guests! The park is now open! We'll get started later, but for now, have a magical day with your new friends! Oh, and there may be a few nasty side effects to your medical condition. If you meet someone having trouble adjusting to reality, please be polite!" [In your room, you'll find a small box containing several personal items - no weapons, magical items, or technology advanced beyond the early 21st century, and nothing dangerous, but otherwise anything you would ordinarily find on your person is there. Of course, nothing with cell reception or internet connectivity can manage to pick up a signal. If you swipe your bracelet against the steel door, it unlocks. You may now explore your accommodations, or venture out into the park.] profiles character statuses setting This is an IC mingle covering the first day! Night roles will go up Monday at 4 PM EST, but you are welcome to continue to thread here once that happens. Make sure to follow any updates on plurk!

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[cakelover]

Thank you! Ah, I'm Mitsukuni Haninozuka, although most people call me Honey.

[ From "Haninozuka". ]

[cakelover]

Just Kyo-chan...

[ Who is presumably still creeping around taking notes... ]

[missformed]

You can kick them in the face while I punch them in the stomach!

[And then she goes red, hitting herself on the forehead lightly with her palm.] Hello Megan! Inhibitors, remember? Sorry, I forgot I have to do everything by hand right now.

[jingler]

It is less of a name and more of a pseudonym unfortunately. I have amnesia and I can't recall my real name, so I've simply come to call myself "K".

That aside, it's a pleasure to meet you Patchouli and I do hope you feel better soon.

[sunshade]

A kind offer, but are you truly keen on sitting closely with a stranger in this setting?

[ she's now mentally slapping herself for taking that water, but it was an automatic reaction, really ]

[harepiece]

["But you also seem kinda stuck" except no, he can't say something like that...]

Hm, you're right. [...] But I need some help getting back. I have a bad sense of direction...

[He's hoping that will be enough to soothe her pride!!]

[cakelover]

[ HONEY WON'T JUDGE...he will wipe this store clean and take it to his room...Ciel will never get any of it. EVER. No but really he is stocking up. ]

You, too, Oz-chan! Ah...hey, hey, you're exploring, too?

[ Someone else just as clueless to what's going on...right? ]

[mediumburgers]

If you had said that, I probably would have said something like "Oh, gosh!" and swooned and stuff. But being kidnapped kind of puts a damper on things.

[ Sucks all the fun out. ]

I guess you probably wouldn't know who kidnapped us, then, either?

[cakelover]

[ Someday she will check his profile and be shocked. And of course he doesn't mind that - most people sort him there. ]

Eh?! There are? I didn't see them! Can we pet them, do you know?

[ Wow he's easily pleased... ]

[mediumburgers]

[ Descriptive! Maya will assume she's either talking about herself in third person or has an imaginary friend, but oh well whatever. She follows LET'S DO IT, LET'S DO THE TEACUP THING. She climbs in, looking for a seatbelt. ]

How do we make it start?

barracks

[impheired]

[Well that's a voice Kuzuryuu didn't expect to hear ever again. Clearly he's just having some kind of auditory hallucination as an after effect of-- nope.]

[No that sure is the one and only Ibuki Mioda calling for their classmates over there.]

[Shit just does not stop getting weirder, apparently.]

M-Mioda?!

[This was probably not the "anyone?!" Ibuki had in mind but, too bad, it's the anybody she's getting. He seems a little too shocked to say anything beyond her name at the moment. You'd think he's seen a ghost or something, jeez.]

[glasshole]

You've caught me out, then. It's only that it occurred to me that the amount of food stockpiled might be a good indication of how long whoever is responsible expects us here.

I can't speak to any of your acquaintances, but based on mine, a little attention to detail is comparatively not much of a fault!

[sunshade]

A pleasure.

A pseudonym of Potassium? [ okay, snark aside: ] ...there are gaps in your memory as well. [ although she obviously remembers her own name , she wonders if his maybe had to be more severe...? come to think of it, she doesn't see a scar-- ]

...do you have stitches on your head? Assuming you are a flesh being and not a machine. [ that voice sounded way too human, to her ]

[poyoyon]

Eh?! [ For that matter, so does Ibuki...although she skips over pretty immediately and leans in, going to poke at the eyepatch.

Ah. Yes. SHE WOULD BE CURIOUS ABOUT THAT. ]

Fuyuhiko-chan, are you trying to run for Super High School Level Pirate?! If so, Ibuki will give you a run for your money! She looks ten hundred times better with a parrot on her shoulder than you!

[ #reunions

#everything he dreamed of I'm sure ]

[mediumburgers]

[ "He's only a year younger than me?? WHAT???" is what her reaction will be. ]

Uh-huh! There's a bunch of baby bunnies, even. I'd think we can. I haven't seen anyone around that seems to actually work here say what we can and can't do, anyway.

[ The weirdo checking out the buns earlier clearly doesn't, she's mostly sure. Only mostly, though. ]

1/2

[poyoyon]

...Ah-hah! Oz-chan has a reason for not telling Ibuki?! In that case, it must be...

[ btw she is hauling him into the teacup as she speaks, lock and load in the blue teacup bro ]

[glasshole]

None of these people are students at the Academy, and I can't say I'm familiar with any of their families.

[Which he would be if they were anyone of consequences.]

This is a large scale operation, it can't have come cheap. I can't see how they intend to get any ransom money out of some of these people, so at the least, that can't be their only intention.

[poyoyon]

Ibuki's going to marry Oz-chan?! So sudden!! This must be their honeymoon teacup ride!

[ run

oh wait too late the ride's about to start ]

[loveisanopendoor]

I, um, don't see why not..? It's not like we're all trying to kill each other or anything...and being distrustful of one another probably isn't going to get anyone anywhere, is it?

c. near the lake?

[bacchic]

[ She's easy to spot with all the gesturing and common sense suggests maybe to stay away but he finds himself walking in her direction once he's convinced she's probably not possessed. ]

Excuse me. [ She still hasn't moved from the ground and he's no longer entirely convinced he'd been right but he clears his throat and smiles politely, trying not to look incredibly uncertain. A dozen other questions are set aside for: ] Are you alright?

[poyoyon]

We just shut the door! Ibuki's been on it once or twice already!

[ and indeed HERE WE GO...Ibuki doesn't even bother with a seatbelt.

#safe ride practices ]

[poyoyon]

Yeeeeeeeeees! That's the best part!

[ Anna, you have seen nothing yet. NEXT IS THE COASTER seriously next she will try to take you on the coaster if not stopped. ]

Anna-chan's really never been to a park before?! Teacups are a must-ride!

[harepiece]

[Okay but not even Oz will feel bad once he realizes that their competition for candy is a BIG FAT JERK. bye Ciel... no candy for you.]

I am! [Because despite how unruffled he seems, he is actually Extremely Confused about... everything.] This place is a lot bigger than I thought it would be.

[sunshade]

[ hook, line, and sinker

She is much too concentrated on trying to not hack up her lung atm so she doesn't have time to think about the obvious connotations of suddenly demeaning oneself in this kind of conversation. ]

Children, honestly...Fine. I might as well head back to the barracks, there's nothing of note here anyway.

[poyoyon]

Huuuuuh! So K-chan's got amnesia that severe, huh?! In that case, he can join Ibuki's family! She will take responsibility for him.

[ what ]