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

[withaswing]

i. spooky park

[I didn't ask if she could get in the tree, but there is a teenage girl standing up on the lowest part of the center tree she could feasibly reach without it breaking.

She raps on the clock with her knuckles several times, and then turns around to look out over the park. Too bad you're spotted.]

U-Um, excuse me! Hello? Do you live here? Where are we?

ii. spooky lab

[A very sudden white face appears inside one of the tubes you're looking into, warped and distorted. Very eerie! Very scary! AHHH!

Wait... there's two brownish eyes, and red hair, and... a face? The two eyes blink owlishly at you... from the other side?? WH--

A disembodied(?) voice from the other side says:] Hey.

iii. spooky alley

[She comes bolting out of the alley with her hands on her face and runs directly into whoever happens to be walking by or going in. OOF!

This is a surprise to her, though, as she does not seem to be focused. So naturally--

--she screams.]

iii

[furrier]

[ That's a fair reaction.

And because Garou is very much monkey see monkey do, he screams back: ] Why the fuck are you yelling?!

[withaswing]

[She immediately balls up her fist and socks him right in the chest with it. She's kind of strong? But it probably feels like the jump of his usual fleas.]

You SCARED ME! Why do you think?! I'm not going anywhere with you, weirdo!

ii

[hasteful]

[what do you mean other side buzen is going to talk to this distorted face in the glass

?????

he just echoes back, pleasantly surprised - ]

Hello!

[withaswing]

[BUZEN..... DON'T JUST ACCEPT THIS]

Have you ever been here before?

[they will simply continue to communicate this way like clowns]

iii

[georeject]

[






clarte will reach out to steady her after she crashed into them, but they will. wait for her to stop screaming.]

[withaswing]

[Luckily, it is just a short scream of surprise. She feels a bit better at being righted? Unlike SOME people.]

Sorry, I-- Don't go in there. It's weird like the other places.

ii

[petalbursts]

[ ruby just started looking at this tube, so when a face appears and there's blinking eyes, she jumps! ]

WAH

[withaswing]

[same

She also jumps! The face warbles and vanishes, and suddenly an actual girl appears.]

Don't scare me like that!

iii!

[slashay]

[KASHUU IS ALSO SCREAMING. He catches her, at least!! BUT THEN HE'S SCREAMING. And still talking so much oh my god why is he so chatty.]

What—?! What!! Oh my god, is something weird down there?! Is there some kinda freaky alien thing?? I knew that lab was no good—!!

[withaswing]

[BEGONE YOU

Why is he so chatty when they are both screaming after being startled?! Hers is at least a short scream.]

Stop, don't scare me like that! Nothing is down there! That's the problem!

ii

[naruhodope]

[ neat! he's so tensely wound that he immediately screams and hops away. ]

AHHH!

[ a table of lab equipment topples over in her direction because he will definitely bump into everything behind him. ]

[withaswing]

[i

help]

AH!

[Well, this just kind of startles her more!! She screams, but like a soft one of surprise. But it does at least get her spit out so she isn't a scary, disembodied face! GOOD JOB! Just gonna chassé out of the way, no big deal.]

i

[disingenuous]

I'd say good evening, but there's no telling what time it is.

[ from the lack of color to the lack of hands on the clock. ]

I have no more idea than you do where we are. Can you see anything else from up there?

[ what do your not elf eyes see ]

[withaswing]

[She looks at the clock as if she hadn't just been looking at it while knocking on it. The exact same energy of checking your phone for the time, but not registering it, so you have to do it again.]

Um...

[Her face gets a little flustered. She looks with her not elf eyes.]

There's... a bunch of archways?

i

[theampirequeen]

I don't think anyone lives here. [ she's looking at her in the tree. ] Or in the tree?

[ she looks like she thinks it is hilarious to climb a tree. ]

[withaswing]

[LISTEN HERE!!!!!!!!! She just makes a bit of a face.]

Well, this place is weird, so maybe someone lives in the tree.

iii

[blamed]

[ hewwo??? while vanille is just as shocked at chinatsu bumping into her, she doesn't react as...enthusiastically, merely giving the other girl space as she holds up her hands. the universal symbol for "i'm not going to hurt you!!" ]

Whoa—sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to scare you! Though, um, you probably shouldn't have been covering your face in the first place...

[withaswing]

[She pulls out a gun.

Just kidding. She holds her chest or her heart is going to pop out of it.]

I was just trying to get out of the alley. It's--as weird as everywhere else here.

i

[highrisk]

[ what are you doing up there... ]

Hey, no, and no idea.

[withaswing]

[What are you doing down there?]

Maa. [A sigh.] Does no one know where we are...? [WHY] Have you seen, um... a boy with black hair and bedhead? A girl with short blonde hair?

Tatara and Mako-san...

i.

[gogoghostpowers]

[ dangling awkwardly through a bunch of the tree branches, almost as if he's been woven through them, is Danny, giving her an unimpressed look ]

Do I look like I live here?

[withaswing]

[STOP THAT.]

I don't know! I'm just asking! You're going to fall.

iii!

[pura]

[this is now a scream echo chamber.

nogiku lets out a startled shriek, stumbling back. hello??? ma'am??????? are they going down, anna? are they yelling timber?]

[withaswing]

[So many people have screamed back at her, and I love that.

YEAH, she's got dancer's grace, but not at this moment, so she's going down yelling timber!! At least she lands decently. Both hands raise to shield her head! DON'T KILL HER, MONSTER!

...oh.]