day zero - afternoon

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dreamland day zero 42 players remaining. [Once the announcements are over, there's no further response from the voice over the intercom. The afternoon wears on, demanding nothing more of you. The park will remain open until late in the evening, when the fireworks go off, but you can always go back earlier. In fact, it might be wise to gather your fellow players and discuss what you've learned in the mess hall.] rulebook character statuses private conversations This is a mingle following the plot revelations yesterday! Characters can gather in the mess hall and discuss what they've learned and make plans. Night will go up at the same time, and this post will be backdated.

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[ineptus]

[............give her a moment. She wants to try and get this right.]

Foo...Fooyou-hee-ko? Is that right?

[SHE'S A LITTLE FOREIGN GIRL. SHE'S TRYING. She's not attempting the last name. IBUKI WAS AN EASY NAME WHY DON'T YOU HAVE AN EASY NAME MISTER.]

[impheired]

Fu. Yu. Hi. Ko.

[He'll just...sound it out slowly for her. You can do it, Mabel...]

[Or you can decide that his name is ridiculous and stick him with a nickname instead.]

[ineptus]

[She purses her lips as he sounds it out, repeating him a few times until it sounds as close as she can get it to.]

...Can I give you a nickname? I could call you Hiko! I can definitely say Hiko without any problems!

[impheired]

Are you going to call me that regardless of what my answer is?

[YOU SEEM LIKE THE TYPE TO DO THAT, MABEL. NOT UNLIKE IBUKI OVER THERE.]

[ineptus]

Well Hiko is a really cute name and you're pretty cute yourself so I think it would fit!

[impheired]

N-Ngk!!! [He seems...angry at the use of that word. Putting it lightly. Not even remotely flustered, just pissed. Clearly he's sensitive about his looks.] Don't call me that!

[Don't...call you what, Kuzuryuu?]

[ineptus]

...call you what, cute? [If it was Hiko he would have reacted like this when she said it, right?]

But you are. If I wasn't already involved with someone else I think you and I could make a really cute couple.

[Wink wink.

God this place is filled with so many attractive boys.]

[impheired]

[Kuzuryuu splutters indignantly.]

Are you fucking kidding me?! You're twelve years old!! No way in hell would that happen!

[NOT ON YOUR LIFE, MABEL PINES.]

[ineptus]

Pshh you're maybe five years older than me, Hiko. Is that really such an issue?

[Come on. Like maybe if you were ten years older than her. Maybe.]

[impheired]

It is when you're twelve!!

[Like if you were 20 and he was 25 or something this would not be an issue. But this is just too inappropriate. No. What is wrong with you, why are you hitting on him. CEASE AND DESIST.]

[ineptus]

It won't be later though, right? But like I said, I already have a prince! So don't worry about that.

[But she will still happily wink and wiggle her eyebrows at you a little.]

[impheired]

G...good for you then.

[Mabel why.]

[ineptus]

Okay Hiko, so if we're working together, we should share what we know with each other, right?

[impheired]

That's usually how that goes, yeah.

1/3

[ineptus]

[Mabel, before saying anything, takes off her sweater and ties it around her waist. Don't worry, Kuzuryuu, she has a tank top on underneath! But both arms, top and bottom up to her shoulders, are covered in math and she holds them out for him to see.]

Okay so. According to Dipper's math and theories, based on our circumstances alone, there's a good chance we might be in China! Since, from the last we remember, we went to bed around 2AM and then woke up here around probably 6AM? So that was either four hours - which would mean we were the very last people they kidnapped and we were still in the USA, which seems kind of unlikely - or twenty hours ahead! We figure, from the way the signs are translated in so many languages, we're probably in some country that's big on tourism, right? So yeah, probably China.

[ineptus]

[From there, she puts her hands on her hips.]

Now, we were theorizing about why we'd be in a place like China. One theory we came up with was maybe some accident happened here! Some really big accident that got the whole park shut down, but one guest or a group of guests got mad over it! Like maybe they got hurt but didn't get any compensation, and so that's why they kidnapped us all and are making us kill each other!

[Here she pauses, looking a little conflicted before speaking the next part slowly.]

And um...the other one is that...maybe the Chinese mafia is involved? But I mean, what would the Chinese mafia want with a bunch of people like us, right?

[Kuzuryuu, she's only half looking to you for a 'yeah they wouldn't want me for anything' type answer because they definitely don't want you for anything right Kuzuryuu? Moving on.]

Sooo that's just a ridiculous theory, haha.

3/3!

[ineptus]

Buuuut that's all we've got right now. I think tomorrow we're going to go check out the perimeters and the rides, see if there are any hints to how we got here or if we can leave!

1/2

[impheired]

You know I'm Japanese, not Chinese, right? Just because I'm yakuza doesn't mean I've got any ties to China's organized crime syndicates. You don't have to give me that fucking look.

[He...assumes she's actually looked at her info bracelet by now because WHY WOULDN'T YOU? so he's completely misunderstanding that look there. That was because she's suspicious of him, right?]

[impheired]

[But hey, that aside: that's not a bad theory you've got there, Pines twins!! Sure would be a shame if someone were to poke a whole bunch of holes through it!]

[And by someone, I mean Kuzuryuu.]

Anyway...that's not a half bad theory, there's just one problem: you can't trust your own memories. [He points to the stylish head wound on his forehead that he has no way of covering up since his hair is cut so short.] Remember? Just because the last thing you remember was going to bed at 2am, doesn't mean that was the last thing you actually did. My classmates and I have already noticed time discrepancies ranging from a matter of days to a matter of weeks between the last things we all remember. None of us are on the same goddamn page.

[Or well...Kuzuryuu has noticed this. Some of the others IBUKI apparently have not.]

Chances are, some of us forgot more than just how we were brought here when they cut us open and started fuckin' around up there. [Or at least, this is his theory to explain canon points. It's probably not actually true. He's also under the impression that they might all be dead BUT HE IS NOT GOING TO SHARE THAT THEORY WITHOUT MORE EVIDENCE because that would definitely start a panic and people are already panicked enough.]

Still though, that's not to say you're entirely wrong. But your theory as it stands is too narrow, which is understandable considering you made it from a single shared viewpoint. Who knows how many days have actually passed since we were brought here. Considering how spread out we all seem to be in that regard, it's possible we could have been unconscious for several days before they finally dumped us here.

[ineptus]

[First thing's first:]

What? No, that's not what I meant. I don't really know what a yakuza is? No I was just...hoping that you weren't wanted by the Chinese mafia or anything but that doesn't really matter now because if what you say is true, that means it's not the Chinese mafia, right?

[Poke through their theory? You mean reassure her that their great uncle didn't manage to screw them over somehow! Though she takes the marker tucked into her waistband out to add notes on her arm for Dipper later.]

[impheired]

It's the Japanese mafia, to put it in your terms.

[DO YOU REALIZE YOUR MISTAKE HERE, MABEL?]

Even so, I'm pretty sure I'm not wanted by any Chinese crime syndicates.

[JAPANESE, ON THE OTHER HAND...there are probably a few that would be okay with killing him or something.]

[And not even other crime syndicates. Sorry, Mabel. Your new friend here is, in fact, a wanted criminal and kind of a villain. Not that he knows it himself but...]

[ineptus]

Is that why you're dressed so nicely? [APPARENTLY this does not bother her?]

But that's good! That's good yeah. So that was definitely just a dumb theory. But again yeah we're probably not in China anyway in the end.

[A pause...]

Aw wait. All of that work was for nothing then!

[impheired]

Part of it.

[MAYBE HE JUST LIKES SUITS, MABEL. GOD.]

Well no, like I said. That doesn't necessarily prove that it's wrong. Just that you can't use time alone to figure out where we are. Your point about tourism is still a good one. I wasn't trying to convince you that we're not in China, just that there are more factors you need to consider.

[ineptus]

Well if part of it is because they look nice you have good taste!

[SHE WASN'T SAYING THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT!!]

Well...mmph...still though. If someone from the Japanese mafia isn't wanted by the Chinese one, I still be it's not them.

[Making a note to tell Dipper to ask other people about their memory discrepancies. Also maybe their locations before waking up here??]

We maaaaay have to rethink this, but that's okay!

[impheired]

Thank you.

[HE DOES HAVE GOOD TASTE, HOW KIND OF YOU TO NOTICE. Animal skull tie and all.]

Well that's the whole point of cooperating now, isn't it? The more you talk to other people, the more information you'll get, and the better you can fit the pieces together.