chroma | WEEK ZERO: PIZZA PARTY

SURPRISE!

Sunday morning starts peacefully enough, until around noon, when alarms start going off on your phones informing you of a Pizza Party taking place in the Central Node. You can snooze the alarms at first, but they begin to get a little more insistent after a while if you aren't making progress heading down there. If you're being stubborn, you can probably hold out until right at 1 PM, when an archway opens right in front of you and pulls you in.

The central node is comfortable right now, with blankets laid out on the grass and boxes of pizza are set out. Cheese, Pepperoni, Hawaiian, Meat Lovers, Veggie, I could just keep writing types of pizza all day. A few boxes even contain very weird varieties of pizza, but if you give them a try, some of them might be good! Some are as terrible as you'd expect. Otherwise, the pizzas are all warm and delicious, and there's enough for everyone.

The Residents are all already here, waiting for you! Have a fun and cool day!

... Unless?

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[mood @ everyone]

... how come it's guns? Paintball?

[he crosses his arms, squinting]

But Atsu-san said that those didn't have anything to do with the mystery... Is this the Prism again?

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It wouldn't surprise me if it is, especially if the participants didn't know about it ahead of time.

[ considering no one knew about the planted evidence, either.

trying not to think about the real, actual blood on the pipe right now. ]

[buzen watches the confusion of the two inside - ]

So I guess this one didn't appear on Riff-san's calendar.

... If it's the Prism, I think we need to teach it some new games. Ones that don't involve weaponry, fake or otherwise. Maybe we can play tag.

[ hm, chang geng didn't like that. nobody liked that. ]

Tag could be harmless. I think we ought to veto something like hide and seek, however, for quite obvious reasons after yesterday's foray into "seeking."

[ the idea of someone wanting to hide themselves so well that they just never come back out is - terrible, actually, and seeking would probably be just as bad. ]

Races? Eating competitions? Oh! Garou-san likes karaoke.

[please i want to take garou to karaoke so bad you don't fucking understand]

The first two could work. Explain to me what karaoke is?

[ i want you to take him to karaoke honestly and chang geng would think this is probably safe enough once he knows what it is ]

[hell YES]

You sing! There's words on a screen, and you sing!

[the way i can only use this bc sometimes in toumyu during idols they put lyrics up during theme]

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Ooh, it's been forever since I've done karaoke! Let's do it!

Let's do karaoke! [he's so pleased] My comrades and I know some songs we could all do together too.

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Garou also introduced me to some sort of activity called... M*rio K*rt? It was quite fun.

[spoon started this so i'm sticking with it]

Oh! What's M*rio K*rt, Tay-san?

[please tell buzen so he can play mario kart a thousand times a day bc you go fast]

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[ hiding like that sounds fine actually? ]

[

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Baseball!!!

I've no idea what this is, either.

It's my favorite sport.

[He will explain it.]

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Could we find some Go stones?

Probably. Maybe we can make them? You just need two different sets of pieces with different colors, right?

[yams was going to reply to this but now he's distracted watching the paintballs turn into things and tilting his head]

Do they always do that...?

[he feels like

post-sword warfare would've looked a lot different if they did

but what does he know about the 2000s]

[ . . . . uh.]

N... No? I don't think so...?

[the fact that he can't say definitely for sure bc they don't go to missions in the modern world much]

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Was it...seeing the future or something? Or making plans for the future?

Mm.... I don't know. I can't really tell if they're the same guns from here.

[he squints]

But Percy-san said it's just paint. [pats atsushi's shoulder] So maybe the Prism just wants more color.

[Buzen is trying his best, but Atsushi is just quietly going 'hhhhhhhhhhh' over here while he waits for the other shoe to drop.]

I...guess paint isn't so bad, but it still feels like something is going to go wrong.

[ . . . sweet atsushi. buzen's just going to throw an arm around his shoulders reassuringly]

... let's see.

To be honest, they got me worried with their talk about the Prism reflecting our uncertainty. So while I think a healthy amount of suspicion is good - let's hold onto hope for now.

If something goes wrong, we'll deal with it. Yeah?

I guess we can-

[aaaand there's the barrier. And the truck.

Atsushi is immediately grabbing onto Buzen's arm and shaking it a bit.]

S-something's going wrong!

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