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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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microtransactions: (ѕoмeтнιng ѕнιммerιng and wнιтe)

[personal profile] microtransactions 2023-05-15 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yikes. Remind me never to fund whatever eating competition the two of you might get into, hee hee!

I'll take your word for it though, considering this is my first time dealing with this many humans.
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-15 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Most of us aren't meant to be down there.

[...]

Who is Noodle?
divector: (ⓘ activate spectator mode)

[personal profile] divector 2023-05-15 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ No validating gossip? Boo. But he smiles anyway. ]

Sounds about right. Decent human colonies are a fairy tale in the end.
townmusician: (pic#16401050)

[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-15 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Mercy, huh? I don’t buy it.
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-15 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Of course it doesn’t, because I’m not a pudding!! Or some sort of pudding ambassador!!

[Thank god Yotsuba isn’t here, or all this pudding stuff would be even worse.]
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[personal profile] dakicover 2023-05-15 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Is that where you're from?

[ crea doesn't seem very concerned by the comment? he's just beaming. ]

Well, I'm not a pushover either. Maybe I would just prefer to befriend others before fighting them.
townmusician: (pic#16401051)

[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-15 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[…]

Uh.



[………………………………]













Your eyes glow?
immortalpoet: (cardinal)

[personal profile] immortalpoet 2023-05-15 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
...Human colonies? Come again?
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[personal profile] gluttoning 2023-05-15 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
There's pudding ambassadors????

[this is the best thing he's heard all day!]
townmusician: (pic#16454312)

[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-15 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
They’re in the gift shop? You look like someone who’d appreciate what they play, so you should check them out.

[The scars, metal arm, and his general demeanor scream “rock and roll”. Obviously.]
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2023-05-15 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Plenty of people in the City have red eyes.

[Though yes, his are Special, but he doesn't care to get into it.]
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-15 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
What else would you call the brand ambassador for a pudding company?!

[this is a stupid conversation]
divector: (ⓘ how bad can it be)

[personal profile] divector 2023-05-15 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
It means exactly what it means? Is there another definition for human colonies I'm unaware of?
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-15 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
It’s not the color that’s weird! Nanase Riku has red eyes, but his don’t glow!

[Not that Vergilius is likely to know who he is, but red eyes aren’t weird! Red and glowing is weird.]
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2023-05-15 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Still not proof of me being a robot.

[#helpful]
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[personal profile] microtransactions 2023-05-15 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ at least the ease with how he accepts the help up makes it apparent he probably did, in fact, have hands before this. with crea's help he starts up a slow, tentative... awkward shuffle through the sand. ]

... This is such a drag.

[ no pun intended... or is it. ]
immortalpoet: (Default)

[personal profile] immortalpoet 2023-05-15 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
No. It's just...like colonies imply invasion or settling into another place or something.
divector: (ⓘ introductions are in order)

[personal profile] divector 2023-05-15 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I see what you mean now. Humans can't live outside the colonies, because they'll die from the polluted air.
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[personal profile] gluttoning 2023-05-15 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
I'd call them really lucky!!!

[how could they not be, it's pudding!

He's so happy. :)]
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[personal profile] dupiety 2023-05-15 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Goodness, I certainly wouldn't want to be them.

[Anyway...huh. Lack of explanation noted. At the very least, he'll finally lower his weapon and go along with this. Vergilius doesn't appear to be on the same page of threat as the ones he's encountered back home.]

Hah. Well met, Vergilius. My name is Temenos. I am an inquisitor by profession, but you certainly beat me to the punch in asking questions here.
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2023-05-15 03:27 am (UTC)(link)





That's it? Just the air?

[YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE HORRIFIC THINGS TO DEAL WITH OUTSIDE OF SOME AIR PROBLEMS???]
divector: (ⓘ deal with it)

[personal profile] divector 2023-05-15 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Suddenly he sounds...excited? ]

Right? You think so too? It's utterly ridiculous. Vectors are far more equipped than humans to survive in the world.
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[personal profile] townmusician 2023-05-15 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
It’s proof that you’re not a normal person, though.

[Hm.]

A-at least compared to the people where I’m from.

[please don’t stab him mr. mikkelson]
immortalpoet: (ruby)

[personal profile] immortalpoet 2023-05-15 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
....What's a Vector. Someone like you?
immortalpoet: (Default)

[personal profile] immortalpoet 2023-05-15 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's just a given.

[AGREEING?]

No augmentations or the like where you come from?