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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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hearnoplague: Hikari Yo (O Light) - Kikuo (🦑Please wake me)

[personal profile] hearnoplague 2023-05-13 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His eyes narrow... ]

If it's sacrifices you are after, your methods seem incredibly inefficient. Special abilities mean nothing if your sacrifices are not loyal to you at all...

What being are you sacrificing these fools to, anyhow?
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[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)
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[personal profile] hearnoplague 2023-05-13 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't remind me...

[ He gives Magolor an irritated glare... Though his tone of voice nearly sounds... Less than confident. More shaken than anything. ]

I know what I am doing.
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[personal profile] microtransactions 2023-05-13 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm...? Oh, I see. If you're sure, then. Don't mind me, go ahead and continue whatever you were doing!

[ or trying to do, anyway, cause haha, kallamar, you don't sound too good. ]
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-14 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You might have heard this saying -- loyalty isn't the mother of invention; necessity is. The group would be using their special abilities for both their own sake and ours. A collaboration.

[There's something overly patient about the way this is said, but maybe that's just the latency.]

We're not a cult. There's no higher being here to offer to, just the cursed reality of where we are.

It might be worse, in a way.
Edited 2023-05-14 19:26 (UTC)
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[personal profile] hearnoplague 2023-05-15 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm.

[ He raises a brow. If not a cult, then...? ]

What do you mean by cursed reality? If we are not appeasing some higher power, than who or what are we sacrificing for? What does this island need blood for?
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-17 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
It's not blood, but what is contained in blood: the supernatural abilities that most of you have. Think of it more like a natural disaster. The reality of the island won't change no matter how you try to reason with it, but you can find the best way to minimize its impact.

Though, I can't think of any other word but cursed for an island that requires this.
hearnoplague: Hikari Yo (O Light) - Kikuo (🦑Please wake me)

[personal profile] hearnoplague 2023-05-22 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
... I would ask why you insist on staying, but you say you have no way of leaving. Why is that?
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-22 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
It's because we've more or less understood the basic mechanism for bringing people here, but the reverse is far trickier. You all wouldn't be here if we had found the means to leave already.