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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[ineptus]

Well after you, Dipper! Though for the record, if we can't find any my arms are still here.

[terci]

[He thinks for a second, before holding out his hand.]

...on second thought, just give me your arms. I don't want to lose my train of thought while we're looking.

[ineptus]

Yes! Mabelpad is go!

[She pulls her sweater off, tying it around her waist and holding out both arms. Tank top today so you have all the way up to her shoulders to work with, Dipper.]

1/?? im breaking it up so its not like ONE HUGE ASS TAG

[terci]

[HECK YES mabel, you are the best partner a mystery hunter/detective/paranormal investigator could ever ask for.]

[He takes her hand and taps the pen to his chin for a second, before using his mouth to take the cap off and begins writing.]

Okay, so let's say we're somewhere only four hours away from us. That would only be possible if we were one of the last stops, or the last stop. We'd be traveling by plane, car, train or boat, but we can probably cross boats off of our list, because they travel like, really slow if they're not speed boats and we'd probably end up in the middle of the ocean.

[He pauses, before writing "(x) = mph" on her arm.]

If x, our variable, is equal to how many miles our mode of transportation travels, then we'd have to multiply it by how many hours we've traveled. [Writing some more. This time he's written a small list. "Car, Train, Plane." He flips her arm over and writes

"Car: (x) = 60, (x) = 70"]

I'm guessing we'd only be able to travel at the most 70 miles per hour by car.

Anyway if we were to multiply sixty by four, we'd have two-hundred and fourty. ["(x) x 4 = 240"]

That means we couldn't have traveled very far. We'd still be in Oregon, Idaho, or Nevada. ["(x) x 4 = 280"]

Even if we traveled two-hundred eighty miles, we'd still be only in Oregon, Idaho, or Nevada. [He stops for a second, placing a hand to his chin, getting ink on his cheek.]

[terci]

["Train: (x) = 80"

"(x) x 4 = 320"]

If we traveled three-hundred and twenty miles, it expands how far our destination is, but not by much. It'd only add North California and most of Washington to our list. ["Plane: (x) = 600"

(x) x 4 = 2,400"]

Traveling by plane, however, could get us pretty far in such a short amount of time. We'd be able to travel to Alabama, Georgia, West Virginia, Kentucky.. most of the middle-east states. Of course there's the possibility of us getting dropped off here and staying unconscious a few hours later, but I kind of doubt it.

[terci]

[He lets go of her hand and switches his writing hand, before taking her opposite hand and starting to write.]

Now let's move onto twenty hours!

["Car, Train, Plane.

Car: (x) = 60, (x) = 70

(x) x 20 ="

He pauses again to do some math, his tongue unknowingly sticking out as he focuses. Which is unfortunate because he's doing the thing where he taps his face with the pen, only this time he ended up marking his tongue.]

i dont have any better icon so enjoy this one also im still not done

[terci]

Ew, are these markers flavoured?!

[terci]

[After wiping his tongue on his arm to get the taste out, he begins writing again.

"(x) x 20 = 1,200

(x) x 20 = 1,400"]

Okay, if we drove for one-thousand two-hundred or one-thousand four-hundred miles we'd be around Kansas and Iowa... ["Train: (x) = 80

(x) x 20 = 1,600"]

Traveling by train would get us as far as Illinois or Missouri.

ok this is the last one

[terci]

Now this is where it gets tricky. ["Plane: (x) = 600

(x) x 20 = 12,000"]

We could go twelve-thousand miles East OR West, which lands us in two different locations. If we travel East from Oregon, we'd end up around Japan, South Korea, or south-east China. But if we travel West we'd end up around France, the United Kingdom, or Spain.

[He lets go of her hand and crosses his arms.]

There's no real way to tell which direction we did go or by what, but I think I have a pretty good idea. I mean, considering what I said earlier about the tourism and signs, I'd say we took a plane and we're now somewhere in China! [He hands the marker out to her then, satisfied with his work.]

[ineptus]

[She takes it back, slipping it into the waistband of her skirt.]

Wow...okay. So. If we're in China, what does that mean? What can we do with this information?

[Just going to admire all this math.]

[terci]

It means!

[..]

It means.....

[....]





I... don't know!

[ineptus]

After all of that you don't know? Then what was the point of figuring that out?

[terci]

Figuring out what country we're in helps us realize just what kind of situation we're in! [A small pause]


...which is a bad one.

[ineptus]

...okay but...what else can we learn from it...surely there's something more! Or where else can we start?

[terci]

Well... I guess it helps us figure out what we're dealing with here. [Hmm]


....have you heard about any kind of amusement-park related accidents in China?

[ineptus]

Ummm...I don't really. Do you?

[terci]

Well there was this one accident on a space ride that was all over the news a couple of years ago, but I'm thinking more on the lines of something that'd get an amusement park shut down. Remember what I said earlier about someone wanting revenge for an accident they were involved in? [He shrugs]

[ineptus]

Hmmmmm....

[Mabel crosses her arms, giving this a lot of thought clearly.]

What if...what if some maniac came in? What if he came in and just opened fire on the whole crowd! Just BLAM BLAM BLAM!! Killed everyone!

Or one of the rides broke down! Like one of the big rides! Or...

Or something...

[terci]

I think if someone came in and shot everyone down there'd probably be blood and white tape everywhere. [Maybe they'd clean it up but by the looks of this park, he's betting they wouldn't.]

I guess the park could've been shut down because of a ride malfunction and they didn't have money to fix it but I don't know.. I feel like there's something BIGGER involved, y'know?

[And then he lets out a gasp and covers his mouth, giving Mabel a bit of a terrified look.]


...what if this has something to do with the Chinese mafia?! [That being said in a whisper.]

[ineptus]

I don't know, the maniac seems like a pretty likely theory.

[Nod nod. But oh wait what.]

The Chinese mafia?! But...what would they want with a couple of kids like us?!

[terci]

[He takes her shoulders and shakes her a little]

Don't you remember the kinds of trouble Grunkle Stan has gotten himself into before?! He's wanted in like, ten different countries!

[ineptus]

But...

[Dipper, don't say something like that. Your sister is not liking where this is going.]

Grunkle Stan wouldn't let this happen to us if it was his fault, r-right? I mean you saw him fighting off those zombies...I-I think he'd protect us from the Chinese mafia too...

[terci]

[His terrified and stressed expression softens at her words, and he drops his gaze to the ground.]


...but if we were kidnapped while he was sleeping......

[ineptus]

[...............

After a moment, she puts her hands on his shoulder and shakes him just a little bit, just to get him to look at her. And she's smiling.]

It's okay. He's going to realize we're gone and he's going to start looking for us. And he's going to find people to find us. So...so even if we're involved with the Chinese mafia or the Italian mafia or whatever mafia we'll be just fine. Plus, we're here together! As long as we're together nothing can get us!

[She's clearly pretty terrified by this idea too but that's not going to get them anywhere, right?]

[terci]

But how are they... [He stops his thought there, knowing it'd only scare both of them more. And instead, he shakes his head to try to not think about it anymore.]

Yeah, we'll be fine as long as we stick together.