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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[naruhodope]

Right. None of them seem to give straight answers about how long they've been here—considering that the clock here doesn't even seem to work, I'm not surprised.

[ he's a little antsy with what's going on, but eats pizza anyway. meanwhile damien out here thinking about shooting riff off a rooftop with a tree or something. ]

We'll just have to keep an eye on what happens, and on each other. [ blah blah truth finding ]

[pura]

... About that clock. It did something weird the other day, like it worked for a moment.

[naruhodope]

[ pauses in the middle of getting more pizza ]

Did it?

[pura]

[nodding...]

For a moment, there were hands on the face. And then it made a noise... about eleven times.

[naruhodope]

Strange...

[ maybe they can check if that's ever happened before. but right now he has to watch with growing nervousness as this paintball fight intensifies. ]

[pura]

[She nods, and... Yeah. Yeah.

The paintball fight sure is getting a bit too spicy.]

... They're going to kill each other at this rate.

[chevaliered]

... Do we just yell at them to knock it off and hope they hear?

[fleshedout]

As if that will work out.

[Her face is so stony.]

Whatever happened with Buzen, Garou, and Vax is happening here. They won't listen. It's overtaken them both.

[daggering]

[ this is HATEFUL

it looks like vax very much wants to bumrush this fucking barrier, but he does not, agitated, glancing back at hot pants instead. ]

The only way we broke out of it was getting out of that fucking passageway. [ and he doesn't have to say it: it looks like riff and damien are trapped in this arch. ]

[chevaliered]

The arch probably isn't breakable. Or, flat out not a good idea if it's gonna trap them inside there with that influence.

[ ... ]

Shit, do we all think really hard that all they have are paintballs and nothing else? We really need to figure out how to manipulate this prism thing to our advantage if this now a whole thing.

[impurities]

[ "think a happy thought!"
> nobody liked that ]

Most of us didn't even know what paintball was before now, so I'm not sure what thought it tacked itself onto for... this. We can certainly try - we can't do much but prepare for medical treatment and stand here, otherwise.

[chevaliered]

Imagine something soft and see if that works. Can't hit someoen fatally from a distance with a pillow.

We have the medbay. We'll just have to move it.

[impurities]

Miss Su has gotten runners arranged for supplies the moment we can get to them. We can carry them if that's not enough, though we'd have to be careful with transport, if it comes to that. [ and if whatever the fuck bass, shale, and presumably steel are doing doesn't work in a way that helps the two of them inside. ]

The thought of pillows, in the meantime.

[gogoghostpowers]

[ hi, danny has been here but i am troy walking in with pizza, what's up ]

I--how did it get so out of hand in the first place?!

[daggering]

[ just to try, because he can't just fucking sit here, vax's hand shoots to his waist and he whips something outwards - a long shard of glass sails through the air, hits the barrier, and bounces off harmlessly, clattering to the ground before britt tries to get hurt with it. ]

Fuck this, fuck this.

[chevaliered]

[ there's not really a whole lot crow can say or do because, wow, vax sure summed that up nicely. also, like, the best he can do is project a NOOOO FIGHTING sign into the sky and hope those idiots see it. ]

[fleshedout]

...At this point, it feels like a train off the rails. Do we really think someone came to this party thinking about this...?

[It seems unlikely but then again...some people were fascinated by the guns yesterday.]

[chevaliered]

No. I don't think it's that simple. [ but if it's not then, wow. what are they meant to do. ]

[thejkdefense]

Nothing to do but let it continue.

[November certainly has been watching with such eerie calmness it's not natural in the slightest. When icicles began flying he raised his eyebrows slightly, feeling a longing for his missing power, but he certainly has no distress in the slightest at what he's seeing]

Just be prepared if after it's over whoever survives turns their aggression towards the rest of us.

[Whoever survives, he says. He already expects this to end in one of them's death]

[fleshedout]

...

[Her fist clenches at her sides as she looks at November, but its not at anger at his words. Its anger at all of this.]

[People being controlled against their will...]

[She nods.]

Yes. We'll have to be prepared. No matter what happens.

[naruhodope]

[ riff eats a bunch of magma and he flinches. ]

W—Why... [ well, he can imagine why. he felt it for himself yesterday, how quickly emotions can go rotten here. ] Can't we do something!?

[pura]

I—

[Oh.

Well, there's Bass. So maybe they can...?]