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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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gluttoning: (034)

[personal profile] gluttoning 2023-05-14 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[...

He stops in the middle of his current burger, completely silent as he looks over the teen with a careful nod.

...

...]


Well? What is it?
microtransactions: (goт no тιмe ғor prιvaтe conѕυlтaтιon)

[personal profile] microtransactions 2023-05-14 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Soooooooo ... what else have you figured out that isn't 'this place eats people'...?

Or is this something you'd rather us try to find you in private for?
dupiety: (🌟 sigh)

[personal profile] dupiety 2023-05-14 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[With a huff,]

I enjoy a good storm as much as the next person, but I have a nagging suspicion that I am intended to be caught up in this one. So, no. "Curious" isn't quite the right word.
diabolizes: (84)

[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-14 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, so it seems you understand. I don't care about doing anything other than what I feel like doing. It's really too bad I can't try out this "middle management" any longer.

[ He's dug himself too deep in this patriarch hole to get out of it. ]
skyworp: (speaking in tongues)

[personal profile] skyworp 2023-05-14 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Well. Suit yourself.

[He waves a dismissive hand.]

Who did you say you were, again?
rhythmaction: (093)

[personal profile] rhythmaction 2023-05-14 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It's, uh, kind of a long story? Like, maybe if you have eight to ten hours we can go through it, but the short version is that I got this awesome robot arm-- [Gestures to it, flips the hand down to reveal the magnetic waste grabber (which is just a fancy trash grabber) and shows it to Magolor.] --buuuuut I accidentally got my music player embedded in my chest and got labelled a defect, so loads of robots came after me to 'recall' me. Aaaand along the way, me and my friends took down the evil CEO in charge of the company.

[Chai is very upfront about what's going on with him. It's not like he has anything to hide, except for his embarrassing secrets.]

What about you? What's with the ninja outfit?

[Because that's sort of...what it looks like.]
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[personal profile] dupiety 2023-05-14 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[He will. Enjoy your chaos in the meantime, Skywarp.]

I didn't. [But he'll actually answer now.] My name is Temenos. And you are...?
diabolizes: (57)

[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-14 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He shakes his head. ]

It's no trouble. I'm not keen on sharing a bed with someone I hardly know either. I can only imagine you and your friend feel even more strongly.

[ Let him just grab the comforter off the other bed and shove it onto the floor. ]

See? There's my new bed.
rhythmaction: (101)

[personal profile] rhythmaction 2023-05-14 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Woaaah. You have clones? Are they evil?

[This is obviously the most pertinent and obvious question to the concept of clones.]

My friend Peppermint also knows how to teleport! Well, um, kind of. It's like a temporal...spacial...whatever, she has a name for it. But basically she can sync up someone's augments with 808-- [He picks up the robot cat by the armpits and swings her around lightly.] --and they can briefly teleport to her location! But they, uh, can't teleport me to them.

[He sighs wistfully.]

I wish I could teleport.
rhythmaction: (011)

[personal profile] rhythmaction 2023-05-14 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, yeah, but most vacations aren't powered by sacrifice!
finalmix: (29)

[personal profile] finalmix 2023-05-14 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ definitely raises an eyebrow at that because yes, sonya was interrupting. ]

I would have, if it worked.
divector: (ⓘ she's fleeing from me again)

[personal profile] divector 2023-05-14 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I just never connected it before? I haven't actually seen what a lottery ticket looks like.

[ his fellow gremlin doesn't know what movie theaters are even though he watches a lot of shows, it's totally normal ]
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-14 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
There is a similar weapon back home that emits a purple lightning, but there was no reason for me to be struck by it at the time.

[ That would have been quite the shock to his system... heh. ]

Where I'm from, magic is a lot more abstract than taking the form of fire, lightning, or water. It's largely spiritual, borne from cultivation.
divector: (ⓘ welcome to the new world)

[personal profile] divector 2023-05-14 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Point taken. Either they're in the shop, or we have to raid somewhere for them, since technically they're a hazard.

[ Would he commit a crime for sparklers? Yeah. ]
finalmix: (11)

[personal profile] finalmix 2023-05-14 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he will neither confirm nor deny ♡ ]

It's considered polite to offer your name before asking for someone else's. But, you can call me Joshua.
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[personal profile] rapt0r 2023-05-14 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That eager, huh?

I have a device like the rest of you. You can message me there.
skyworp: (Default)

[personal profile] skyworp 2023-05-14 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[That important he didn’t even notice it, huh.]

Skywarp. And who is Temenos?
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[personal profile] felame 2023-05-14 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ fuck around and find out ]

Ah. So you've met him, then.

[ him, he, the legend, the man himself. ]

I'm certain he vocalized his unfamiliarity [ succinctly, as vergilius does ] so I doubt my own surprises you... though I'll ask more than he did, I'm sure.

[ it's what she was planning to do when she accepted a drink, other worlds or not. ]

What manner of work does being a member of a "cultivation sect" entail, Wei Wuxian?
finalmix: (12)

[personal profile] finalmix 2023-05-14 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ beat. ]

If it helps, you have nothing to worry about from me. I'm not interested.

[ ... in alice? women? people??????? who the f knows. ]
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[personal profile] finalmix 2023-05-14 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe this is just your own personal hell, then?

[ he sounds too cheery for this to be hell. ]
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[personal profile] microtransactions 2023-05-14 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Ninja...? Haha! Oh wow, that's one I haven't heard before. Maybe I should make a headband to go with this outfit and see how many people I confuse?

[ here he thought the rugged workwear look actually made a kind of sense, all things considered, if you looked at it from a certain angle, but— pffft. ]

Anyway, this is just how I normally dress! ... Or what it got turned into, I guess. I don't usually look like this.

[ we will get back to the rest of what they're discussing right after this ninja tangent— ]
divector: (ⓘ how bad can it be)

[personal profile] divector 2023-05-14 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He nods affirmatively before looking a little surprised. ]

Oh, it's not? I should fix that then.

[ Tilting his head, he looks back at the robot. With a slight movement of his arm, the robot starts slowly descending to the ground, probably beeping along the way. And that's how it ends its adventure in the air: with a noiseless touchdown. ]

There we go. Is that better now?
rhythmaction: (048)

[personal profile] rhythmaction 2023-05-14 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow. You were kidnapped? By who?!

[He seems extremely earnest and genuine in his concern, even if he is stupid.

808, meanwhile, pokes her head out a little more, looking up at Chuuya warily. She appears to be made of some strange material that looks both soft and hard. Is she metal? Plastic? Fake fur? The world may never know. Around her neck is a collar with a stylized 響 character.

Carefully, she inches out from under the chair--each step making a pleasant electronic bloop noise--and sniffs Chuuya's shoes.]
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[personal profile] chrysaline 2023-05-14 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I see...

[ PUN JAIL FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS

Psyche is making the wide, attentive eyes of someone who is trying very hard to follow. ]


Um... "Cultivation"? Does that mean you can train it? That's amazing.
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-14 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't mind answering, especially when their robotic bartenders deliver their drinks—two Manhattans. Pulling one of the drinks closer to himself, he grins. ]

Cultivating power within oneself. Many cultivation sects use such power to eradicate monsters, demons, yao, and ghosts.

[ So he was completely serious about those ghosts. ]