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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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[personal profile] gravitys 2023-05-13 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Why the hell would we want this resort to maintain its existence and facilities?
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-13 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Would you rather live in the ocean, Chuuya?
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[personal profile] gravitys 2023-05-13 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd rather live at home. Where I live.
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-14 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
That was a small joke.

[The problem is, the voice doesn't particularly inflect when it's supposedly joking.]

There won't be much living going on, or being at home, if the resort isn't kept stable.
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[personal profile] gravitys 2023-05-14 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Can you expand on that part?
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-15 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
If the island destabilizes, we'll be facing something much worse than a few deaths. Even we haven't seen a demonstration of just how bad it can get, but it's not worth taking that chance.
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[personal profile] gravitys 2023-05-15 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you have any fuckin' proof of this?
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-17 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Eyewitness accounts. Which would be us.

[Something vaguely like a shrug in the tone--]

If you're here long enough -- and you will be -- you'll no doubt be able to see it for yourselves.
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[personal profile] gravitys 2023-05-17 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, but how the hell did you connect that to needing sacrifices? You guys kill someone?
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-17 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
That is what we arrived at, yes.
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[personal profile] gravitys 2023-05-27 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Who'd ya kill?
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-14 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid it wouldn't go very well.

[For some reason, they don't bother repeating the clarification that it's a joke. Different strokes for different audiences.]
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[personal profile] stilllovesyou 2023-05-15 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Why not?

Oh, I suppose Noodle couldn't live in the sea... Nevermind, I can't live in the sea.
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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?
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[personal profile] stilllovesyou 2023-05-15 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Noodle's a dog!

[Prompted by this, she picks Noodle up into her arms.]
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-17 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
... The most unexpected things wash up on this island.