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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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chosenwang: <user name="proverbially"> (🌟42)

[personal profile] chosenwang 2023-05-13 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm the lead character. [ A pause ] Or just another human like the others. Are you from around here or were you brought here as well?
hearnoplague: (πŸ¦‘ roaming about)

[personal profile] hearnoplague 2023-05-13 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
He was gonna complain about you being the main character, but that second question is more important.

I will have you know [ He closes his eyes and tries to muster as much dignity and authority he can muster in his current form. ] if it wasn't for that damned lamb going about raiding our domains and killing us in the name of He Who Waits, I would be content in my temple in Anchordeep!

[ There's another pause on his end. ]

... Not that I am sure the Lamb meant to bring me here, granted, but I certainly would not be stuck as a mere mortal if it wasn't for them!
chosenwang: <user name="proverbially"> (🌟36)

[personal profile] chosenwang 2023-05-18 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ He has main character energyβ„’ ]

Damned lamb? He Who Waits? [ Temple? Much more quietly and while looking away: ] Another cult? Thought I was already done with this chapter.

[ Now turning to look back at the squido ] Maybe it's best if you start at the beginning of your tale.
hearnoplague: (πŸ¦‘Let me wake up)

The first line on my last tag should have been an action. Whoops.

[personal profile] hearnoplague 2023-05-20 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[ He looks absolutely flabbergasted. ] How are you not...

[ He. Really is far from home, isn't he. ]

... Ugh. [ He pinches the area where his nose bridge should be. ] Must I explain everything to you...?