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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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Comments

[dakicover]

Then they should ask for help, not for sacrifices.

[gluttoning]

Probably.

[His voice stays pretty monotone.]

If they could, though, why wouldn't they just lead with that?

[dakicover]

One of them named themselves 'Raptor' because they think of themselves as a 'top predator', I don't think that 'asking for help' is in their vocabulary in the first place.

[gluttoning]

Yeah. The cat talks like my brother.

Maybe they're insecure. Asking for help is hard when you're like that.

[dakicover]

It does seem like they're compensating for something, huh...

[ and now they have to pay the price for it? ]

Well, we're protesting now. Maybe they can ask for our help instead of asking for us to kill each other. They could at least come and try to do it themselves.

[gluttoning]

They could. Doesn't mean they will. I guess we could ask them, but they might just double down.

Or maybe they don't have a way to do it themselves. [His eyes flick to the screaming lettuce head boy yelling about not having powers, then back to this other nameless guy.] If they're telling the truth about things not working right.

[dakicover]

Then find a way to bring this down instead! I don't want my body to be used as energy to maintain a resort. What kind of vacation is this?

[gluttoning]

At least the food's good.

[Priorities.]

[dakicover]

We won't be able to try the good food if we're dead.

[ your priorities?!?!?! ]

I could have gone foraging if we needed to anyways...

[ though maybe not for almost 30 people. ]

[gluttoning]

Oh. Yeah, good point.

I don't think you could forage that much, though. You'd never be able to take a break.

[Is he insulting crea's foraging skills? Who knows.]

[dakicover]

For myself, sure I can, no problem. [ shrugs?? ] I can teach others, maybe, but they'd have to do it for themselves.

[gluttoning]

Ah.

[He takes a quick glance at their surroundings. This island isn't too big, and if there's almost 30 people foraging, adding himself in...]

We wouldn't last long.

[dakicover]

Ugh.

[ so one way or another, they might die. whether it's of starvation or because someone wants to power an island is the real question, though. ]

[gluttoning]

...

We'll be fine for now.

We can dig for answers without panicking. Or running out of food yet.

I don't want to get too comfortable here, anyway. Even if the food's good.

[dakicover]

I'm sure you could find better food once we get out of here.

[gluttoning]

Maybe. I don't get to have human-world-style cheeseburgers too often anymore, though, and those robots make so many of them!

I could live in that buffet if it were just a little bigger. For a few days, anyway.

[dakicover]

A few days?

[gluttoning]

Maybe less. It depends how fast the robots can make more.

[Said with the same cadence as though he's talking about the weather.]

The administrators said we'd be fine on food, though.

[dakicover]

What the hell, how can you eat all the food that's being provided for 30 people?!

[ he's so confused. what the fuck. ]

[gluttoning]

[Oh, right.]

I get hungry.

[chomp chomps on his 14th cheeseburger]

[dakicover]

Hungry enough to eat the entire food supply for 30 people.

[ for obvious reasons, this is hard to believe. ]

[gluttoning]

Yeah. People don't eat very much.

[...]

Why are you looking at me like that?

[dakicover]

No reason.

[ it's just so hard to believe that someone would eat the entire food supply?!? for 30 people?! ]

You're not human, right?

[ like he knows no one with that type of appetite. ]

[gluttoning]

Yeah, that's right.

[No point in hiding it.]

I'm a demon.

[dakicover]

That makes it easier to understand.

[ well, at least crea doesn't seem to be put off by it?? there's now a logical explanation as to why this man is eating like 15 burgers and says he could eat the entire buffet. ]

Is there any reason you're hungry all the time, then? Some sort of spell or part of your demon biology...?