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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] conceivesfrenzy 2023-05-13 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)



Oh, so you're both cowards. This makes more sense.
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[personal profile] diabolizes 2023-05-13 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Aren't they? If they want sacrifices so badly, why don't they try to kill us themselves? Why make us do their dirty work?
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-13 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Think what you like. Just remember that we are the ones offering solutions -- if you're not interested in ever getting off this island, you're welcome to sit back and judge.
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[personal profile] dakicover 2023-05-13 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
And how is this a solution? Killing each other until there's no one left is your solution for leaving the island?
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-14 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
We'll be out of here before that happens.
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[personal profile] conceivesfrenzy 2023-05-13 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
What does killing the others have to do with any kind of escape? You said we're here to maintain the island, doesn't that mean there isn't meant to be one?

[ unless you've already mentioned that, in which case wheeeee im blind ]
Edited 2023-05-13 22:20 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ho_ohs 2023-05-14 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
You're here to maintain the island while the escape method is being worked on. This may surprise you, but none of us want to be here.