WEEK ZERO: PIZZA PARTY

[saturations]

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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[pura]

They just... disappeared.

[Putting down her pizza to? Look at her phone?]

[experimint]

See if any of them reply?

[pura]

[She nods, already typing something!

And...?]

They're bouncing back. Try your phone.

[withaswing]

Mine bounced back, too...

[haha...

a]

[experimint]

Oh, fiddlesticks.

[ that's concerning. ]

[pura]

And they say we're overreacting.

[withaswing]

One of them said people like us haven't been here before... so is the Prism... overwhelmed? Maybe it's confused...

[pura]

Maybe... Though I'm getting tired of being told that everything bad that happens is essentially our fault.

[withaswing]

Me, too. It isn't... intentional!

[pura]

Right? None of this has been by our own choice, but we're still getting the blame for it.

[fuck you? prism? but at least, some of the tension seems to go out of her shoulders after damien fires.]

So it's just a paintgun, after all...

[impurities]

If it's used to only supporting the life it's had up to this point, it could be possible that its... adjustments and responses are from being overwhelmed or confused. We are rather different from what was here before in a lot of ways.

[ but, also, stop? ]

[withaswing]

A lot of us are here, and... we're all really different, too.

[impurities]

From different worlds, with different needs.

It would be a lot for even a non-magical place to support.

[daggering]

Maybe. I was talking to one of them last night, and there was a theory like maybe the prism taps into 'echoes' of memories. Feelings. Iunno if they're ours, or someone before us, or what.

[fleshedout]

[Her expression twists to the side at that, as if reminded of something.]

Hope its not focusing on the worst ones.

[daggering]

Yeah, you can say that again.

[ fucking same!! there’s a brief eyebrow raise at hot pants expression, but he doesn’t say anything about it. ]

[withaswing]

[A look of slight recognition pops onto her face. She looks hurried back at the archway where Riff and Damien are.]

[daggering]

[ 0: ]

Chichi?

[georeject]

Well, that's not reassuring.

[daggering]

[ :’) ]

Isn’t it just? [ terrible we would like a refund ]

[pura]

[ah

she just

looks incredibly fucking concerned by that]

[disingenuous]

[ ... ]

I don't know if it'd better or worse if it's ours or someone before us.

[impurities]

[ ... he twists his pendant in his hand hearing that. ]

With how many of us there are here... well, regardless of where it's coming from, if that's the case it could very well escalate if we don't figure out how it works.

[classmate]

[ Why did the shit decide to hit this fan outta all of them. ]

[countermeasures]

...

[maybe they should all start practicing meditation.

jiuqing's expression tightens a little at that, but she takes a breath and tries to force herself to calm.]