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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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rapt0r: (Default)

[personal profile] rapt0r 2023-05-14 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
I don't see what the big deal is.
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[personal profile] stilllovesyou 2023-05-14 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
I like watching it, it's just... sad that it's possible.
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[personal profile] rapt0r 2023-05-14 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You're talking to the wrong guy about death.
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[personal profile] stilllovesyou 2023-05-15 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
...It's not death, I already said that. It happens all the time.

But anyway. You never told me what Pokemon is. I guess it's a game? What's the game like?
Edited 2023-05-15 00:21 (UTC)
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[personal profile] rapt0r 2023-05-15 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ To them it might be the same thing. Or close enough? Or maybe they're just too sleepy to really grasp the nuance right now. Either way: ]

You collect a bunch of monsters called Pokemon and use 'em to battle to become the best in the land. Typical adventure stuff. But it was the first game where collecting was fun beyond numbers, though it had that too. You could pretty much play it however you wanted, including fighting other trainers in pvp.
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[personal profile] stilllovesyou 2023-05-15 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
My brain isn't very interested in numbers.

Are there dogs in Pokemon? Are they fluffy and nice?
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[personal profile] rapt0r 2023-05-15 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
A bunch, and some of them are fluffy.

[ A beat. ]

I'm not very interested in if anyone or anything is nice.

[ Sometimes, you're rude. Or maybe they're the wrong person to ask. ]
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[personal profile] stilllovesyou 2023-05-15 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I am, so I'll inform you that if it's fluffy and it's a dog then it's nice. I'm nice too. I don't think you're nice but that's okay, I love you anyway.

Can I play Pokemon? Would you like to play it too?
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[personal profile] rapt0r 2023-05-15 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Shut up.

[ That is an exceptionally edgy thing to say, it being paired with the robot turning clearly to face her. ]
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[personal profile] stilllovesyou 2023-05-15 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[She looks at the robot blankly, then zips her mouth shut and nods aggressively. She doesn't seem deeply bothered by being told to shut up, even though she knows that this is about the time that Camilla would have subtly tugged on the knife at her waist to make it visible.]
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[personal profile] rapt0r 2023-05-15 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well after a moment to see that she listened, they'll divert their attention elsewhere.

It's fine (?). ]