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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.

((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

[ho_ohs]

... No.

[gluttoning]

Oh. Good, that'd be pretty awful. You can't have much to eat when you're a machine.

At least that means you're out there somewhere.

[ho_ohs]

I almost envy your priorities.

[gluttoning]

Food's important.

At least you can talk to us. If you needed help, you can use that voice to ask. And if you can't ask for help, then it's not like that's your fault. Neither of you sound all that desperate, either.

...

If you're not telling the truth, though, people might start ripping up the island to get more answers. That might get messy.

[ho_ohs]

You really are easily satisfied, in your own way.

[Well, maybe with the qualifier it's true. But it's a bit of a hard sell for a way to qualify Beelzebub. Maybe the voice is just behind the times, or, inadvertently, an optimist.]

This is us asking for help -- and I'm the kind of person who prefers to resolve things before they get truly desperate. [there's a crackle, that might be a laugh, or might be a sigh] I expect at least some mess, either way. Not enough of this group is properly vetted. But just know that wrecking the island would cause more problems than it would solve.

[gluttoning]

Why give the weird names, then? Raptor said they picked theirs. And yours is... uh. A name. I guess.

Maybe people don't want to help because they feel you're hiding too much.

[ho_ohs]

I like to get to know my collaborators, ideally. Since it was harder to do that here, with the way the mechanism works, we're going to spend some time as observers and see how this group works out. You all don't trust us, and we don't trust you.

That's our starting point. To make things a little less hostile, we both chose names that would be neutral. [are they neutral, though] Building relationships takes time.

[gluttoning]

...I don't see how they're any more neutral than a real name. But I'm not an administrator.

At least you're aware you're asking a lot. Just don't expect anyone to be okay with it.

[ho_ohs]

Not too many here have things in common, but most of you should know what a bird is.

[Actual reason, or casual off-the-cuff reason? Who knows.]

And of course. I'm asking for cooperation, not marriage.