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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] dakicover 2023-05-15 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Is that where you're from?

[ crea doesn't seem very concerned by the comment? he's just beaming. ]

Well, I'm not a pushover either. Maybe I would just prefer to befriend others before fighting them.
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[personal profile] gluttoning 2023-05-15 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
It's where I live right now, yeah. All demons do.

[Weirdo. Oh well. This isn't the Devildom.]

Sometimes it's not a matter of befriending. Some stuff isn't looking to fight you, or to be your friend. You're just a walking snack.

Hopefully you know when to run.
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[personal profile] dakicover 2023-05-15 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Heh.

[ crea snickers at the warning, still not put off by it by any means. ]

I know that very well. I'm just not a big fan of fighting, myself. But if you try to eat me, then just know that I can still put up a good fight. How does that sound?
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1/2

[personal profile] gluttoning 2023-05-15 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds annoying.

[It's hard to eat something that's still moving! So messy.]
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2/2

[personal profile] gluttoning 2023-05-15 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[A beat passes.

He lets out a sigh, shrugging.]


Oh well. At least you've got optimism. And hopefully you're not all talk.

Just don't blame us if you end up as someone's dinner.
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[personal profile] dakicover 2023-05-16 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
I'll try. And I won't. I think I'm just as aware as you are what the stakes are now.

[ and they sure fucking suck. but might as well try to find some sliver of a silver lining. ]
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[personal profile] gluttoning 2023-05-17 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nods!! He can't argue that. Even though it feels they only have a vague sense of the stakes, at least all the people here, for now, are on the same playing field for knowledge.]

Good to hear.

You sound smart. Keep that up.