WEEK ONE

[killerwaves]

WEEK ONE

29 Vacationers

As much as this vacation was unplanned, hopefully you've found some time to enjoy yourself this weekend as you've settled in. The idyllic beach, all inclusive food, drink, and shopping might be almost enough to distract you from that pesky talk of sacrifice. Vacations really are about letting your worries pass you by. Hopefully you've found the time to set up your U-PINION too, because if you haven't, it's been chirping incessantly since the date turned to Monday. And come Monday at noon, everyone's device will let out a pleasant jingle, heralding several announcements across the screen:

Happy Monday! We've hope you've been enjoying your time at Sungem's Peak. The Mermer (intranet) is now fully operational. Chat with your friends and get recommendations for how to best enjoy your vacation, by:

• Reading about your fellow vacationers via their profile
• Chatting on the network
• Asking honest questions via our anonymous poll system
• REQUIRED: Reading the RULES set by the administrators

We're also happy to announce our reward system is live! Complete tasks to receive special items to improve your stay!!! Contact your administrators for any questions or concerns. We hope you have a wonderful week!

The artificial peppiness of the announcement just oozes out from the U-PINION, and soon thereafter everyone will be accosted by a friendly robot that forces a physical copy of the rules into their hands anyway. Just in case. They'll also present a copy of the tasks this week as well, for any interested parties.

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TASKS:

Be Nice
Now that you're acquainted, tell another person one thing you like about them, and why.
(REWARD: RARE!)

Let's Play!
Play a game with someone else. Any type of game: board games, card games, or even a party game! (Reward: Common )

Summer Spooks
Tell a two-sentence horror story in person, or on the network.
(Reward: Common)

((OOC: Welcome to Week 1! This is a peace week, so they'll be no case this weekend. However, we have something for you to chew on Saturday, time to be announced later in discord.

We'll also be playing around with the network and seeing what works as far as formatting goes, so thanks for bearing with us! Also please note, that the poll questions are anon, but any answers won't be. ))

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[microtransactions]

Well, they did eventually admit there were more of them after I pressed. Or whatever you want to interpret 'it's just the two of us now' as, anyawy.

But you could've inferred that anyway from how they said they 'wouldn't ask us to do anything they hadn't.'

[ he's absolutely fingerquoting around that. ]

[immortalpoet]

technically fixers are handymen. just not for machines. for problems.

how bad of a person do you think you are where you assume you'll get killed for it

[immortalpoet]

Yeah, yeah.

[punk]

[finalmix]

You must have some idea~

[ oh, he's absolutely seen the bandages, but he's ignoring them somewhat because kallamar is still answering his questions and he lives to be annoying. ]

[microtransactions]

[ he's not going to say anything but

he is going to glance over for a moment when skywarp says 'unspace', stare for a bit, then look away. ]

[passetemps]

Though it is not a trivial one, I am still merely a person carrying out the *duty* assigned to him. They are under no illusion to the contrary.

[idologue]

The price for their knowledge was paid in blood - Ho-Oh said the same to me. I can't confirm how many lives it took for them to run their experiments, but maybe we do not need to know.

After all, we cannot undo the death that has already occurred.

cw: slight mention of ear damage

[hearnoplague]

A troublesome cult, you say?

[ He may be slowly edging out of the no share corner, but very hesitantly... ]

Funny, my siblings and I were dealing with something similar ourselves...

[ Very, very hesitantly... Okay, he sighs. ]

I suppose no one here would be familiar with the One Who Waits. We had to imprison him in Purgatory to preserve the Old Faith... Which was not easy, mind you. He's the one who tore my handsome ears from my head, after all...

[ He gestures at one of those torn up, bandaged ear nubs of his as he says that. ]

But that's nothing compared to the greater threat he and his latest vessel has posed. Already that vile Lamb who bears his Red Crown has taken numerous followers from us and slain two of my siblings. I recall facing that beast myself before I was summoned here...

[ Another moment of hesitance. ]

... How I appear before you in this form, I cannot say.

[dupiety]

I drew a similar conclusion and asked them if they had usurped the island from the previous keeper, but they denied it. According to them, the island was "close to" abandoned. Cagey with the details, of course.

[townmusician]

Why do you think anyone was doing anything more impressive than “business as usual”?

[Which isn’t a “no” but it kinda is.]

[diabolizes]

i'd like that! the heat is difficult, but i think we'll get used to it the longer we're in it

when would you like to take a look around?

Re: MEET AND GREET

[finalforte]

[Blatantly examining her nails instead of paying attention. She's clearly sulking because as a fellow pelican roommate she couldn't escape.]

[skyworp]

[WORP and he’s a little closer to Zelkov to answer his question.]

The outside and the in-between. Chose the name myself. I think it gets the idea across.

potential spoilers for baizhu story quest

[plunges]

[ Well, after some time, he decides there's no use being cagey about this: ]

Prior to arriving here, I was departing from a conversation that I had with two others: a traveler, and Doctor Baizhu.

We are from the same world.

[ That might be useful information. ]

[necrotiem]

[Hahahahaha yikes. Tough crowd.

She gestures delicately with her hands as she speaks, finally lacing all of her fingers together in front of her in polite poise.]

I am Waltaquin, of House Redditch. After resigning my position with the Blue Foxes, I was en route across Central Field in search of new occupation.

Central Field is not completely landlocked, but I was nowhere near the sea.

[passetemps]

I do enjoy both experiencing and *creating* art, but I am not an artist by trade. It is something I *engage* with in my free time.

[solutionary]

[Ah, there we go.]

I will admit I hadn't originally considered the tingling and smell to be warning signs-- they are not too different to sensations I occasionally experience in my day to day life. My pharmacy is located in Liyue Harbor, along the ocean, you see.

In the days leading up to coming here, I did spend some time investigating a patient who had been poisoned but I don't believe that that would have provided much of a reason to be brought here.

[skyworp]

[He’ll notice Magolor with the same expression of interest as a cat that Just Heard Something, but likewise say nothing. For later, perhaps.]

[hearnoplague]

[ That last sentence earns a second glance from the squid... But he shakes his head. ]

That is true. But now I wonder how that group came to inherit this island in the first place.

[diabolizes]

think of it as me saying you don't have to do something you dislike

[ it's a huge reach ]

[townmusician]

problems is so vague!! there’d be less confusion if you weren’t so vague all the time!!!

i don’t know what your limits are either!!

remember the robot? because i remember the robot

[dupiety]

I never asked for anything more. The key is that I don't know you, therefore I don't know what your "business as usual" is.

[finalmix]

[ a pause. it looks like josh is Thinking. ]

Huh. Interesting......

[ he doesn't elaborate. ]

[immortalpoet]

i have no obligation to explain things to anyone.

and? are you a robot? or are you a human being who keeps shaking in his own skin? stop feeling scared and grow a spine. with an attitude like that, lesser people where i come from would rip you apart in a heartbeat

[dupiety]

[:)]