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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Nui Harime | various

[flatview]

( barracks )
Wow, these are some awful stitches. If these people were gonna crack open my head, they could have at least made it look better...!

[ And those are the first words out of Nui's mouth as she strides out of the barracks, toting a pink parasol over her shoulder. ]

What kind of crappy off-brand amusement park is this, anyway? This mascot isn't a kitten, it's a creepy-looking crab!

( roller coaster/teacups/various other dangerous rides )
[ LOOK WHO HAS ABSOLUTELY NO REGARD FOR HER NEWFOUND HUMAN FRAGILITY, THIS GIRL! She is taking a jaunt on virtually all of the park's open rides, rickety and rotting or not. ]

These aren't half-baaaaaaaaad!

[ Having the time of her life, here. She may have important business to get back to at home, but seeing as there are no visible exits and she's without her main weapon, she figures she might as well kick back before shit goes down. In a place like this, it's almost inevitable that shit would go down. In the mean time, she'll treat this like any other amusement park, hopping around with her parasol like an excited child. ]

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[photonement]

[Mahiru is unsteady on her feet and a lot less stylish but at least she has a camera around her neck.]

My mascot's elephant is called an elephant at least... maybe the owner of the park translated that one wrong because they sound sort of the same?

[flatview]

'Kitten' and 'crab' only have K sounds, that's no excuse. Besides, if this whole park was in a different language, why have such a shoddy translation in the first place?

[ this place reeks to her. Literally and metaphorically. The wording of everything just sounded so off, like a badly translated kid's toy label at the dollar store. ]

[photonement]

I guess it doesn't make that much sense...

[But already in the barracks she's seen other perplexing labels. Moving on, Mahiru points to her own heavily bandaged head.] You don't remember getting here either, do you?

[flatview]

Nope! [ shrugging ] I was in the middle of a fight, back home. How rude to yank me out before I could even finish.

[photonement]

I was just on my way to a curry dinner myself... Is your head super sore, too?

[flatview]

Yep, the cut open my noggin, too! [ she lifts the bandages away from her head completely, showing off the stitches ] With such sloppy threadwork.

[cakelover]

[ HELLO, FELLOW "KITTEN"... ]

Ne, I agree...no matter how I look at it, isn't it definitely a crab? Can a crab even purr?

[flatview]

I don't think they're cute enough to do that...! It would be weird if they did. [ .... ] Crabs aren't supposed to have teeth, either.

[cakelover]

Eh........if we could name it any animal we wanted, I'd rather make it a rabbit!

[ CAN THEY BE THE RABBIT DORM INSTEAD. ]

[flatview]

No way, it should be an actual kitten! [ ... ] If there's any spray paint in this garbage dump, I'll draw over the weird crabs. I am not sleeping with that thing looming over me.

[cakelover]

Would you paint a bunny in my room? Or an actual kitten!

[ property damage sure why not ]

[flatview]

Hmmmmm...maybe if you can give me something in return. An artist can't work for free!

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[shoutoku_administrator]

[ And out comes another Kitten resident! A bit late to start the day, but drawn out of her room by all this racket. She regards Nui carefully for a moment. ]

You... were taken here without being told why or how, yes?

[flatview]

That's right. In the middle of doing something! [ shaking her head ] A sudden blackout, and boom, in this creepy park.

[shoutoku_administrator]

I see... it was the same for me. I've never experienced anything like this before.

[flatview]

[ she leans on her parasol ] Can't say I've ever been kidnapped, either.

Who are you, anyway? [ she is very interested in that cape..... ]

[shoutoku_administrator]

Prince Shoutoku.

[Maybe she'll recognize the name, maybe she won't.]

[flatview]

[ unfortunately, Nui is not a history buff ]

Never heard of you. Was that the intention?

barracks

[murimurimuri]

[Another kitten (and a monkey) leaving the barracks.]

Aren't you scared?

Re: barracks

[flatview]

Not really. Are you? Is that why there's a monkey on your head?

Re: barracks

[murimurimuri]

Er... yes, but those two things aren't really related...

[flatview]

Why else would there be one?

[murimurimuri]

Because I'm his trainer...?

[flatview]

Oh, I thought it was because you were a coward.

[ WHAT KIND OF LOGIC IS THAT YOU LIL PINK SHIT. MONKEY = COWARD??? ]