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!

Comments

[shortcutter]

Since there's death involved, people are going to be paranoid from the start.

And when push comes to shove, they'll do anything to save their own skins. If these VIPs look like they're winning, then we'll have plenty of people eager to join them. When it's kill or be killed, the choice is obvious. All that's going to matter is which side ends up with the power.

[photoshot]

Aya Shameimaru. It's a pleasure, Miss Koizumi.

[eventhandler]

But the animals didn't give you, er, explicit permission to be their "master", you know...

Are you some kind of...animal authority?

[photonement]

Maybe not, but same difference: we gotta look for these prizes somewhere.

[poyoyon]

Ibuki's just so amazing that she defies math! Ha! Defiance!

[ her ego is very well watered........... ]

[shoutoku_administrator]

I wouldn't describe myself as such, no. One must give up such desires to become a hermit, after all.

[terci]

[He takes a step back from the force of the little shove, but gladly takes his journal and nods.]

Yeah, this is a mystery just begging to be solved! I mean, weird abandoned amusement part? Creepy disembodied voice over an intercom? Having no memory of even arriving here?? [His face lights up.]

This is the case of the century, Mabel! And we're going to be the ones who solve it! [And now he's holding his fist out, for an obligatory fist bump.]

Mystery twins!

[poyoyon]

Tooooooo bad! Ibuki already wooooooooooon!

[ Skipping backwards is just as doable as walking backwards ]

[siggey]

[Being double kidnapped is still better than 1. being kidnapped and 2. being told this isn't actually where you're SUPPOSED to be kidnapped to, apparently in another future the same kidnapping premise winds you up somewhere different entirely


actually both is pretty awful, let's just make a DOUBLEKIDNAPPING support group]

Oh, sorry to hear that...

[ It sucks, but this is awkward. What else can I say? ]

But if you're in school, doesn't that mean it should be September or something? How do you lose track of time going to school, anyway? Shouldn't there be calendars everywhere?

[fanbase]

Do you know from experience or something?

[ It's hard to tell if her tone is curious or concerned. ]

[eventhandler]

A little more complicated than that. It involved...lots of math. Lots and lots and lots of math. Predicative algorithms, integrals...that sort of thing.

The Process, they were...almost like creatures, in a way. Like incarnations of code...

[terci]

Dip. Er. [NO]

[5_9]

We do not comprehend. Our data suggests that getting sick is very unpleasant and should be avoided.

[siggey]

NO.

[ I'm taking the can so I can keep it away from K. There's a good salad that uses kidney beans I think I'll try whipping up later. ]

[cakelover]

[ Oh a small girl!!! Honey is shockingly taller than someone. WOW. ]

Eh...I don't think that's fun at all, but...you're probably right. I won't allow anyone to do something like that, anyway.

[5_9]

We do not comprehend how this is possible.

[ telling a machine you can defy math is like saying the sky is green ibuki... ]

[cakelover]

And that any of the rides are still working, for that matter!

[ And that some things are stocked... ]

[photoshot]

You were working on your paper? [ P-P-PING. ] Would you happen to be a newspaper reporter, as well?

And yes, a few other people seemed to have recovered some of their personal belongings from their boxes. Maybe it's a hit-or-miss kind of thing. [ ... also maybe if she just ignores the wings thing it won't come up!! since like. they weren't supposed to be there even if they are in some of her icons ha ha whoops. ]

[siggey]

No I do not, sir ma'am!

[ I answered a little too quickly, all things considered...

I am also holding both my hands up in the air again. This is the second time I've actually done it in front of this girl... What have I done to deserve this? I was just trying to explain the magic of modern amusement parks to her! ]

Besides, most girls take looking young as a compliment!

[cakelover]

[ RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE TBH............... ]

Usa-chaaaaaaaaaans!

[cakelover]

[ wow ciel wow ]

Usa-chan is much more than that! She's my best friend!

[ sorry takashi ]

[cakelover]

The ones who aren't will definitely look for any of us who are!

[cheats]

[ Flatly, and with an irritated little huff: ] That doesn't make me feel any better about it! Destroy it immediately!

[ oh he lost his temper a little, oops... ]

haha ok!

[royalizing]

Perhaps that's why they chose to hide away instead of facing us. Cowards!

[ She crosses her arms in a huff and takes a deep breath. ] They must be in the park somewhere.

[impheired]

[Wow. Wow. To be even worse than, not only Komaeda but also Souda...you wound him, Koizumi. No, okay, he would completely understand those feelings if she ever actually voices them to his face. It's not like she doesn't have good reason to dislike him, all things considered.]

[But that's beside the point for now. You'd think Kuzuryuu wouldn't be fazed by seeing one of his dead classmates walking around here considering it's already happened a few times by now. But...it's Koizumi. This is a little different. He spins around a little too fast upon being addressed, almost in danger of falling out of the boat and into the super gross lake water.]

Wh-what? [Hold on, give him a minute to fully process what's happening here. Koizumi is not dead and also speaking civilly to him. And not avoiding him. So that can only mean one thing, really.] I mean...r-right...yeah.

[Well this is incredibly awkward. But he's quickly regaining his composure because freaking out isn't going to get him any answers here. He hops out of the boat, sticking his hands in his pockets as usual once his feet are on stable ground again.]