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

[siggey]

I'm thinking about it.

[ I answer honestly before turning around.

...Huh, a guy who looks older than I am. That's surprising, when I've mostly kept running into young teenage girls since morning. ]

Yeah, like how suspicious this entire place is.

[eventhandler]

It is indeed very strange. An abandoned amusement park...I wonder why we've been brought here?

[He folds his arms with a frown.]

Do you have any clue...? Or are you, erm, like the rest of us?

[siggey]

We might find out soon. Our kidnappers wouldn't get all of us just to make us spend the rest of our lives here, right?

[ I shake my head. ]

I thought that cloaked man in a gas mask might be responsible for this, but then someone told me that's apparently supposed to be part of another kidnapping I am GOING to be involved in.

[ Maybe I should grab some of those sandwiches and just go for it. Can't exactly replace liquor, but sugar's better than nothing, right?

...Wait, but one's a depressant and the other's a stimulant... Uurgh, great. How'd I even get THAT mixed up? ]

[eventhandler]

Perhaps. Perhaps not. An amusement park is no place for...spending the rest of our lives.

[He looks intrigued at the mention of this gas mask, tilting his head to the side like a curious owl.]

Wait. Another kidnapper? A man in a gas mask...? Who was the one who...well, brought you here?

[siggey]

Kidnapping over forty people and making them spend the rest of their lives anywhere is screwed up.

[ I'm glad I'm sitting, so I can just slouch on this table. ]

I donno, could be a woman too, impossible to tell with their getup. Last thing I remember was getting in my car at 2AM on college campus. The damn engine suddenly wouldn't start, and just before I was going to punch the console, white gas started spewing everywhere. I couldn't get out either, and only noticed the shady person with the gas mask from the rear murror before I passed out.

[ I rub my face, replaying the events in my head once more. ]

So I assumed the same person brought me here, but then I talked to some girl who said one moment she was home, and the next she was here. Another said she... uh, stepped into something like an elevator, but instead of bringing her to the floor it was supposed to go to, she was dropped off to this park instead.

[ Sheesh. Am I the only one who actually went through the full procedure to a shady kidnapping? Why didn't I get to skip the "be freaked out by a creepy person" part too? ]