WEEK ONE

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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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[felame]

[ hmmm. well, she supposes it doesn't hurt. especially when— ]

... I cannot be sure, besides the sensations others have previously described.

[ —her information is so helpful!!! anyway. ]

But I can divulge that I also share a... [ the way she pauses on this, like this is so weird. because it is? it's so weird. you're all weird. ] ... world with another here. The nature of our work is the same, but the paths we walked did not intersect prior to this moment.

[ she is not naming names out of respect for vergilius' migraine and because she does not find that particularly relevant ]

[solutionary]

Interesting, this could mean whatever brought us here was not something we physically encountered then. Unlike you and your [person? there's definitely a slight pause here] compatriot, the Conqueror of Demons and I did have contact with each other.

[felame]

[ conqueror of demons......... excuse her for making her internal pause over that title more than a little obvious.

is that the little boomer? ]

Perhaps. We can make any number of guesses from the threads of similarity we share with one another, or the threads we do not.

[ hmm. ]

What kind of thing are you envisioning when you mention something you could have "physically encountered"?

[solutionary]

[..........little boomer

oh how the mighty have fallen]

I wasn't thinking of anything specific, necessarily, so much as anything you two might have both come into contact with even if you haven't met each other. The Conqueror of Demons and I had run into each other in the same area where there was a toxic poison. It's been dealt with now, but it was one such thing that both of us interacted with.

[felame]

[ sometimes you're short and bad with technology and your entire x thousand years of reputation gets stepped on ]

I see. I wasn't aiming for specifics, so that is sufficient. I'm simply getting a feel for the kinds of things people have encountered, and what may be possible, given our... [ weird! weird! ] different backgrounds.

[ who knows what other Horrors are out there ]

But, as for that possibility... It would be presumptuous of me to disregard anything from only personal stories. However, our circumstances may have made mutually encountering something like that difficult.

[dysnowpian]

Haha, I think more than "another".

[ He's been in the ceiling the whole time I say, fighting the need for sleep. ]

[felame]

[ GRIPS YOU

just like xiao grips sonya with the side glance that says many things but also no things ]

It would be distasteful of me to refer to you prior to speaking with you personally, Sonya of the Yurodiviye.

[ sussy baka ]

It seems our captors are unexpectedly fond of the City.

[dysnowpian]

[ is gripped into existence n-corp style. ]

Well then, far be it from me to dispute your generosity. [ a smile, slight but visible. ]

I wonder if its because of the potential it holds?

[felame]

[ xiao, of course, does not return that.

putting aside her own personal thoughts on that statement— ]

Do you believe us representatives of such a thing?

[dysnowpian]

[ Hmm. ]

Perhaps, some of us.

And you?

[felame]

[ ... she pauses, as if considering whether or not to dignify that with a response.

"some of us", huh? ]

We all carry some reflection of that place within us, for having lived in it. Whether we have cracked through the shells we have built around ourselves is an answer that I will not give you, just as it is one you would not give me.

[ would not? cannot? she's not about to make that distinction. ]

[dysnowpian]

[ thanks now im wondering what his EGO would/does look like. ]

Of course, there's precious little in the world that is freely given and not earned through hard work and dedication, among other things. Though that does make me curious about the others who hail from a shared locale.

[immortalpoet]

[just doing a little nod here]


[that's it]


[he got nothing to add u go girl (ignores sonya's existence)]