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Last Resort Mods 🌊 ([personal profile] killerwaves) wrote in [community profile] guiltrip2023-05-13 11:01 am

WELCOME

INTRO



Whoever you are, wherever you were, the last thing you remember is the salty smell of the sea breeze and a distinct tickle of electricity across your body. Enough to cause alarm perhaps, but in the next moment it all goes black, or blue to be more precise. When you stir into consciousness, those fuzzy sensations are all that you have as an explanation, though there's certainly more to experience around you.

The warm bright rays of the sun, the rhythmic cresting of the waves into the shore, the unfortunate feeling of sand sticking to you everywhere, because you're lying flat on your back on a beach without a beach towel. At least you're not alone, and at least it doesn't seem like you've been completely dumped unceremoniously, as there's orderly space between you and the 27 others who share your predicament. Whoever left you here probably could have dumped you into a pile, but they have better manners than that.

However you decide to react to your sudden vacation, you'll find that you're dressed just as you last recall and that you have at least one possession of yours on hand. Whatever else you had on you appears to be affected by baggage routing, unfortunately. You'll also find a key inscribed with a particular bird and a strange device in your pocket, ostenstibly some type of cellphone from the period when blackberrys were all the rage. A pop-up window will greet you when you turn on the device, prompting you to pick a username (this pop-up can be ignored for up to 24 hours) and also walking you through a basic tutorial on its functions. For now, it seems like the public network isn't running, but the direct message function is availiable. It ends with a cheerful blurb instructing that "For further questions and help, please contact one of the hotel staff!"

As there's nary a soul that seems to actually work here on the beach proper, it might be worth it to explore. Around the resort are robots manning the buffet, sweeping, and even making cocktails if you want to drink your problems away. While they'll answer to basic commands, provide you with a map of the island, or even be happy to tell you the weather, they're incapable of engaging in any meaningful dialogue. Any questions or demands they can't answer will yield the statement to please contact the administrators.

Whoever they may be, but they'll show their faces eventually. Probably.
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townmusician: (pic#16451831)

[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-13 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Boy, he ain't looking forward to finding out what that something is...!!]

I guess... Aren't you worried about it?
dakicover: (pic#16445529)

[personal profile] dakicover 2023-05-13 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ now that he's trying to process ho-oh's news... ]

Maybe you should surround yourself with more people instead of running some bizarre vacation spot that requires sacrifices. No wonder you're so edgy.
ho_ohs: (Default)

[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-13 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
There's no sense in descending into chaos. The island needs administrators.
townmusician: (Default)

[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-13 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[MAN STANDING...

He's pretty close, maybe like two feet away?? :worry:]
finalforte: ([Huh] and so mean)

[personal profile] finalforte 2023-05-13 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
And what if we don't want to? Kanon's a busy girl, you know.
skyworp: (but I also kinda wanted to)

[personal profile] skyworp 2023-05-13 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh this just got interesting.]

A game with high stakes is all the more fun, don’t you think?
gravitys: (ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇʀʏ ʟᴇᴀsᴛ)

[personal profile] gravitys 2023-05-13 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, not really. I can handle myself.

[ And if not, well, sucks to be him. ]
townmusician: (pic#16451847)

[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-13 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Don't "tch" him, grandpa!!]

"That's that"? Like this is just something normal happening?
microtransactions: (ѕoмeтнιng ѕнιммerιng and wнιтe)

[personal profile] microtransactions 2023-05-13 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoa, dude, you're talking like you're not up on the chopping block too! Dig the confidence, but somehow I don't think these two are on the same page as you are!
Edited 2023-05-13 22:01 (UTC)
plunges: (xiao021 (1))

[personal profile] plunges 2023-05-13 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ This is the beach arc that neither of them are trhiving in.

As for her suggestion, Xiao looks confused. Typing? What is typing?
]

I would like a demonstration.

[ He's so clueless. How do you operate this...he has no idea. ]
mysticpowerbroker: (✽ 20)

[personal profile] mysticpowerbroker 2023-05-13 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Because it's ~Merlin Time~ (no, this isn't a good excuse)! ]

Hmm...really? But, that's alright, there are all kinds of people.

Say, what do you think of our chances here, anyway?

[ Merlin wonders if Haruka really wouldn't care, but that's fine even if he did or didn't. He looks like he could do with a real good laugh. Now that the plot is in motion, though...

He puts on a pair of sunglasses and puts a hand under his own chin, looking serious. He is testing to feel if he looks decent in them... ]
finalforte: ([Smirk] and say "My princess")

[personal profile] finalforte 2023-05-13 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, he might want to put some more distance between it and himself because she raises a hand and flicks it almost like she were conducting an orchestra...

And it explodes.
]

Wanna say that again?
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[personal profile] gluttoning 2023-05-13 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe a witch had a bad vacation or something.

Curses aren't that rare.
conchy: (16)

[personal profile] conchy 2023-05-13 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Watching our captors make examples of themselves would make for a fine spectacle... but it's as you say: lâches rarely lead by example.
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-13 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm sure it'll be suuuuper impressive, Rapt0r-san.
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-13 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Aren't they? If they want sacrifices so badly, why don't they try to kill us themselves? Why make us do their dirty work?
microtransactions: (ѕoυnd oғ тнeιr вreaтн ғadeѕ wιтн lιgнт)

[personal profile] microtransactions 2023-05-13 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sure! Maybe! Makes as much sense as anything else.

But now I'm stuck on why anyone would want to keep it running?
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-13 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[MAN STANDING INTENSIFIES

Except he does leap back, because?? What!!]


How did you do that?!

[please he's a normie why is he here]
divector: (ⓘ welcome to the new world)

[personal profile] divector 2023-05-13 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Air pollution. The sky's mostly shades of pink and red. [ There's some blue, but it's far from the shade of blue here. ] I guess that means it's also blue where you come from?
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[personal profile] conchy 2023-05-13 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[The robot gets it!]
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[personal profile] rapt0r 2023-05-13 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
This from the normie who has no special abilities at all?
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-13 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
The whole energy of a living being, Zelkov. Their very essence. Believe me, if we could prolong the use of each individual by keeping them alive, I would. I don't like being wasteful.
gravitys: (ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇʀʏ ʟᴇᴀsᴛ)

[personal profile] gravitys 2023-05-13 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm assumin' that's an insult, so I'll just agree. [ Gratuitous French he doesn't speak... ] Though I guess at least hidin' when you pull people with powers in to try to manipulate ain't the dumbest move. Besides the part where you started out dumb.
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-13 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure me not being able to fight back is just putting a target on me!

[should he be screeching this worry where everyone can hear him? probably not!]
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[personal profile] passetemps 2023-05-13 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
My apologies if I gave you the wrong impression. I assure you I have no nefarious intentions.