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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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diabolizes: (90)

[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-16 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
That's what I've assumed so far. It seems as if there simply may not be spirits to hear.

[ Or he's just lost his ability to hear them in another world but he's not going to assume that!! ]
mysticpowerbroker: (✽ 103)

[personal profile] mysticpowerbroker 2023-05-16 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ Wow! Okay, he sees how it is. ]

What?! I can't let this end with you assuming that I'm not impressive!

[ Merlin... ]

Watch, and be amazed, Haruka!

[ He spreads his hands out again, and then in a swirl of petals, he seems to no longer be standing there (he is just directly behind the area with the sunglasses again, only barely out of sight...) ]

Are you amazed now?
finalforte: ([Think] from the bottom of)

[personal profile] finalforte 2023-05-16 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Um... so basically, you have no idea where we are?
chrysaline: (5)

[personal profile] chrysaline 2023-05-16 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ Peaceful life and a peaceful death... hm. She tilts her head a little as she studies that smile. ]

I can't imagine even a small settlement staying so perfectly peaceful for very long. Maybe if the spirits had someone else to send them along, like you said... It would be a little much if someone built everything here just the group of us.
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-16 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. She's actually letting him? He's surprised, and it shows on his face before he takes a sip of his drink and assumes a serious expression. ]

You're a very serious and very observant woman. You seem incredibly strict, so you probably push others to follow the same internal or external rules that you follow.

[ He's drawing on his experience with strict people for that last part, but there's nothing wrong with putting that assumption out there and seeing where it lands. ]
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-16 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
A different kind of unique and legendary.

[ He grins. No need in being coy about it, as Merlin seems determined enough to draw it from him anyway. ]

I control ghosts.

[ He'll... get into the fierce corpse bit later. ]
finalforte: ([Smile] The #1 princess in the)

[personal profile] finalforte 2023-05-16 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, maybe you aren't so bad after all ♥

[She gets a whole bed to herself, yay!]
finalforte: ([Smirk] Surely you mean "cute"?)

[personal profile] finalforte 2023-05-16 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Bet they won't be as good as Kanon's ♪
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-16 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
I feel similarly. What with these things... [ gestures at the robo-bartenders ] it's unbelievable that we would be the only ones to step foot here.

[ If they were, it would feel sinister. ]

Perhaps they really have had someone here to take care of the supernatural previously. It's a nice thought.
mysticpowerbroker: (✽ 41)

[personal profile] mysticpowerbroker 2023-05-16 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oooh spoopy!

...And yes, he has been a little determined to draw it out of him, hah. ]


Control over spirits! Truly unique and legendary. I mean it; controlling ghosts can be hard business!

But, hey, would that mean your opponents wouldn't have a ghost of a chance?

[ ...

Merlin really thinks he's funny, honestly. ]
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-16 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'll compare them when that creature has it ready, though I'm sure yours will be better.

[ But for now, he'll watch the robot mix his drink up. ]
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[personal profile] passetemps 2023-05-16 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Correct. If I did, I would not have felt the need to lead with the question of whether you knew of it yourself.
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-16 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ That actually gets him to laugh, and he reaches over and pats Merlin's shoulder. ]

Ah, great joke! However, you're right. They stand no chance.
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[personal profile] dakicover 2023-05-16 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
I'll try. And I won't. I think I'm just as aware as you are what the stakes are now.

[ and they sure fucking suck. but might as well try to find some sliver of a silver lining. ]
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[personal profile] mysticpowerbroker 2023-05-16 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ He made someone laugh? What is this? When his shoulder is pat, he practically sparkles...looking so proud of himself. ]

Heheh, I thought so!

But, I see you have good taste and a good sense of humor. I'm not sure if the island can handle the sheer amount of power that we've got going on here~
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[personal profile] dupiety 2023-05-16 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Very good. Then I shan't take up any more of your time.

[He offers a small bow.]

Let's talk later.
conceivesfrenzy: (34)

[personal profile] conceivesfrenzy 2023-05-16 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ huffs. ]

Gross. I wasn't even thinking about that. I just don't want to share a bed with anyone. Having to share a room with you all is bad enough.
conceivesfrenzy: (30)

[personal profile] conceivesfrenzy 2023-05-16 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ wow??? ]

Well, I shouldn't be expected to share.
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[personal profile] dupiety 2023-05-16 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Huh. Temenos didn't expect to run into another person of faith so quickly, let alone one of a completely unknown race.]

Believe me, I completely understand the wariness. The Order has its own enemies that I've had the displeasure of dealing with.

I see no reason to reject you for the time being. You seem just as confused about the situation as I do, after all.
finalforte: ([Think] from the bottom of)

[personal profile] finalforte 2023-05-16 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Kanon definitely won't lose to some dumb robot.
divector: (ⓘ looking forward to your answer)

[personal profile] divector 2023-05-16 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Right, right. I forgot that's a thing.

[ Forgot what? Who knows. ]

Well, I'll leave you to it then? I'm off to get snacks.

[ Now he finally moves. Partly because he was already throwing his hat in with Chuuya for both pragmatic and entertaining reasons, and partly because, well, snacks. ]
finalforte: ([Huh] treat me)

[personal profile] finalforte 2023-05-16 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
That was, like, a suuuuuuper long way to say that!
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[personal profile] felame 2023-05-16 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ hmm. there's a hint of... well, perhaps it's amusement, at several things there. the surprise, his sudden seriousness, and the description itself.

a slight quirk upwards of her lips, hardly visible, until it's gone. ]


Perhaps. I'll allow you one confirmation, in the form of a correction: I would hardly force others to follow the rules I set, save for the ones that are absolutely necessary.

[ a pause, as if she's considering whether she should say more. ah, well. ]

I have found the path widens when you allow others to intersect alongside your own, rather than paving your will over them.
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2023-05-16 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
...I'll take your word for it. I'm no chef.

[He won't even pretend he knows how to cook well. Cook in general? Maybe, actually.]

[He follows along, more curious about the place than anything.]


Are you?
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[personal profile] immortalpoet 2023-05-16 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[NO GOAT FURRIES!!!!!!!]

What's the technology like, then, outside of your amazing goat crew?