WEEKEND ZERO: MINGLE

[saturations]

GREETINGS

Unnerving. That may be the best word to describe how the vibes feel as your sight begins to clear and you find yourself on the ground. The air is chilly, and you don't see anything that may represent the sun or the moon for a sense of time. You look around expecting to find some sort of buildings, wildlife, or anything of use, but your immediate line of vision only shows a sprawling monochrome landscape.

Are you feeling adventurous? As you get to your feet, you have the opportunity to wander further and begin assessing the situation. You'll quickly find that the only thing on your person are the clothes on your back. Traveling will eventually lead you to a few areas, though none of them appear very promising either.

Don't stray too far, however. While there are few hints of plant life (nothing nourishing, nothing satisfying), you won't find much else. There's no food or running water; resources seem scarce. The further you go, the more you begin to feel colder and weaker. Your eyes begin to play tricks on you, and everything ahead of you looks unfocused and even more gray than before. An imminent sense of danger hangs above you...you can't quite pinpoint why, but your gut instinct says there's something else out there just lying beyond your reach.

Perhaps you'll have luck another day. For now, it seems as though your only option is to make use of the areas you do have access to and try to settle in. But don't worry, you aren't alone. There's 35 other people just waiting to see what you'll do next.

Welcome to your weekend zero intro to chroma! While characters have access to the locations available, they do not have access to anything else including their home items. Please note that characters do not know what their primary color or complementary colors are as of yet, and IC profiles are not in-play at this time.

Things of note!

► You can find food (cotton candy, stale hot dog buns with no hot dogs, etc) in the carnival, but none of it is filling. It's monochrome, and you're hungry again five minutes later.
► There's water in the mansion but it's kind of grey.
► Seriously, it's cold.
► You arrive in your canon outfit. It is also monochrome, like someone drained the dye out of your clothes.

Stay tuned for more updates throughout the weekend, and happy settling!

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Comments

[moonlightbeast]

1

[Well. Atsushi sure isn't noticing the monochrome clothes effect at first. Strange tree, unnerving feelings, general chill to the area, this definitely isn't great. But he's not panicked, surprisingly. If anything, he seems more put-upon than worried about this particular situation. It's like being suddenly transported to a strange place is annoying, but not unusual to him.]

Another new ability-user? Can't we get a week off to relax first?

[Just another day in his life, really. Or so he thinks.]



2

[Sure, okay. Investigation time. That's what detectives do, right? He's no Ranpo, but even he can take in the surroundings and at least gather information to give to whatever Brain he finds later.

He'll check out the carnival first. The sounds of children are what draw him there actually. He's hoping to find people, but instead he finds creepy statues and blood. It's the blood that gets him to start worrying honestly, someone obviously got hurt here but he's not finding these hurt people.]

Someone had to be here once, but where are they now?

[He's talking more to himself as he investigates, but he stops looking around when he sees something: a hot dog, sitting on a paper plate on the very top of a trash can.

And as he stares at the hot dog, his stomach gurgles.]

...

W-well it's not in the trash, so...no, I should try to find something else to eat.

[Or will he.]

2

[furrier]

[ Garou picks up the hot dog while maintaining eye contact with Atsushi.

What're you gonna do, twink? ]

[moonlightbeast]

[Wow that is really rude.

Atsushi actually lets his mouth hang open for a moment, like he can't believe Garou just did that.]

[furrier]

[ he eats the hot dog ]

[moonlightbeast]

[Is he dying from the terrible taste? Atsushi is now watching to see if the food is edible or if it's poison.]

1

[hasteful]

Hahaha, are you feeling overworked too?

[though buzen hardly seems exhausted - he's been running around all over the place, sprinting like a madman, but the commentary has gotten him to stop for a bit]

What do you mean 'ability-user' though?

[moonlightbeast]

Just a little.

[He's not so exhausted that he can't move, but he is definitely Tired in his soul and wants a break in life.]

Someone who uses their ability? Kind of like, er, magic. Or superpowers I guess. Superpowers would be closer right?

[That last part is said to himself, but still audible.]

[hasteful]

A... A superpower? Wow...

[that word means fucking nothing to buzen who is literally a sword spirit. i hate this]

Amazing! Do you think we're dealing with someone very powerful then?

[moonlightbeast]

[I'm crying, Atsushi is taking all of this at face value.]

It's possible? Not all abilities are very strong, it matters more how someone uses them.

[Like lemon man.]

We did all get brought here so it has to be strong enough to move people. I know someone else who can do something similar, but her 'space' that she takes people to isn't as big as all of this.

2

[petalbursts]

[ ruby appears just in time to see atushi considering the hot dog. ]

Uh, hey there. [ she holds out a stick of cotton candy as she walks closer. ]

It's not much, but it's better than eating someone's leftovers.

[moonlightbeast]

I wasn't going to eat it!

[What a suspiciously quick denial. But after straightening up and taking a couple steps away from the trash can, he'll scoot over to accept the cotton candy from Ruby.]

But, um. Thank you.

[petalbursts]

Of course not!

[ a suspiciously quick denial indeed, but she'll let that pass, for the most part. ]

You're welcome! This place probably used to be real fun back when it...uh, wasn't abandoned?

[ awkwardly haha's ]

[moonlightbeast]

[Well. Atsushi will chuckle awkwardly too.]

I should think so, yes. Before, er, whatever happened here.

[Let's not talk about the blood everywhere.

Actually he'll stuff the cotton candy in his mouth so he doesn't have to talk anymore, but wow that's gross. He grimaces as he swallows it down.]

[dms]

You must really be starving, huh? Come on, there's gotta be real food out there somewhere! We just have to find it first!

[ up for a little adventure?! ]

[moonlightbeast]

It's fine! I'm not so hungry as to eat from a garbage can!

[He's jumping away from the trash can now. He wasn't about to eat trash food, nope! Pay no mind to his suspiciously specific denial.]

So. Yes. We can find food?

[dms]

Mmm, methinks the lady doth protest too much!

[ laughs but anyway! ]

How long have you been looking out here? There could be something in another area you haven't found yet! Or maybe we could try the cotton candy!

2!

[slashay]

[Oh no. Oh no. He's gotta SAVE THIS HUMAN FROM HIMSELF...

Atsushi will hear the frantic click-click-click of someone wearing heels RUNNING UP BEHIND HIM, at which point Kashuu's immediately plonking a hand on his shoulder and trying to steer him away.]

Hey! Let's go check out the place with the sticky candy stuff - there's probably more food over there, yeah? It's only been a few hours so let's not go total racoon mode yet.

[moonlightbeast]

[Atsushi hears the clicking and quickly whirls around, just in time to meet Kashuu face-on when he puts that hand on his shoulder. But even seeing the man run at him, he still jumps in surprise at the physical contact.]

I-I wasn't going to eat it! I'm not an animal!

[The guilt tho.]

It's just- so weird that it's out there like that! You would think something else would eat it first!

[slashay]

[THE GUILT. He can smell it a mile away...]

I know tons of guys who'd eat stuff outta the trash, you're not alone. [HELP.] But that's why I gotta stop you! Especially since it's probably poisoned or something. Like... a super obvious trap!

[Who would poison a hot dog and just LEAVE IT THERE EXPECTING SOMEONE TO EAT IT.]

[brotograph]

No rest for the wicked. Or anyone really.

[ ... ]

Wait. What do you mean by a new ability user? Are you talking about Ardyn or something else?

[ He hopes there's not another one ]

[moonlightbeast]

I don't know anyone named Ardyn, but if he's an ability-user then I guess so?

[brotograph]

It's better that you don't. Well, he's not that bad, but he's pretty sketchy.

[ He would still give him a chance. Even after everything ]

Wait. How do you know about that stuff anyways? Isn't it pretty rare?

[ Like royalty or creep dude rare? ]

2!

[naruhodope]

[ it's hard to find the gumption to investigate when there's so much wrong with this place, and also because they've apparently been kidnapped or something, but he understands the need(?) to rummage through trash(?) for clues(?).

he assumes this is what atsushi is doing over there, anyway. ]

Hmmm... [ it's not... in the trash...... ] On the other hand, we don't know when we might find food next.

[moonlightbeast]

[At least he's not instantly judging Atsushi for it.]

It...might be best to just leave it. If this is here then there's probably more, right?

[But if there's not...that's a future Atsushi doesn't want to consider.]

[naruhodope]

[ this is a man who's very nearly eaten cheese out of a mouse trap before, so. ]

...Enough to feed some thirty-odd people? I hope so.

[ maybe atsushi is willing to let this trash-food go, but he's seriously considering it. ]