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[killerwaves]

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.

((OOC: Welcome to Last Resort! Poke a mod in the discord if you have any questions. The NPC meet and greet will take place at 5PM EST/2PM PST today! ))

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Comments

[plunges]

[ Don't worry about it.

He doesn't register that the boy below is talking to him, but he looks down anyway, and...ah. He's being addressed.

He sighs and jumps down, lands directly in front of Haruka. ]

You misunderstand. The one I take issue with is here – [ He holds up his phone. ]

[townmusician]

[Oh, that jump was pretty sick.

But also, his ankles??]

...What? What's wrong with the phone? It's not doing anything.

[plunges]

...The "phone"?

[ What? ]

[townmusician]

Well, I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be a phone...

[Huh?]

Do you not know what one is? You barely look any older then me!

[plunges]

Hmph. My lifespan is incomparable to that of a mortal.

[ Anyway, ]

Explain what a "phone" is. I have not seen anything like it before.

[townmusician]

"To that of a mortal"...?

[chuuni?]

Uh, a phone is like - I mean, they're just things you use to talk to people? You can like, call them or text them or use the internet on them...

[plunges]

... You seem surprised.

[ Have you never heard of the Adepti? Or, perhaps, gods and ghosts and all that jazz, sir! ]

Why do I need a phone to cast a net? Can we not simply find one on a place such as this one?

[townmusician]

Of course I’m surprised! Nobody talks like that.

[CHUUNI?!]

It’s not casting a net! How do you not know what any of this is?

[plunges]

...

[ The existence of other worlds isn't new to him, so: ]

It is becoming more clear to me that we are not from the same place. I assume you have not heard of a world known as Teyvat?

[townmusician]

[Gesundheit.]

No? It doesn't sound familiar at all.

[...Hm.]

I'm from Japan.

[plunges]

Then it is as I suspected.

[ ... ]

This is not a world I am familiar with.

[townmusician]

How many worlds are you familiar with?

[plunges]

Teyvat.

[ ... ]

A traveler from another world appeared there. That is how I am certain of the existence of multiple worlds.

[townmusician]

How do you know they weren't just lying to you?

[Suspicious...]

[plunges]

There are a good number of things that point to him being...unusual, at the very least.

[ But those things are too much for your zoomer brain to handle, Haruka... ]

[townmusician]

[If it weren't for Xiao's general demeanor, he would assume that's an insult.]

I-I see...

[This is all such a headfuck.]

But you don't have phones, even with interplanetary travel?