chroma | WEEKEND ZERO: MINGLE

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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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[ Lordt. He glances back and sees... a hyuran woman? He looks her up and down briefly and squinting, as if looking for any abnormalities on her but he sees none.

Too normal... ]

What kind of place is this... [ He mutters more to himself than at her actually, speaking as if she's only a vision. And keeps moving along sorry. ]

[DON'T ONCE-OVER HER, PAL. She mean mugs him.

Something hits him in the back. A lil thump. When (if?) he turns around, she is missing a shoe.

And it is on the ground behind him.]

Don't ignore me!

[ Okay yeah he turns around at that. And looks at the shoe.

He's rude so he won't pick it up for her but wrinkles his nose at her. Well, Chinatsu has just proven that she is, at least, corporeal. ]

What do you want, girl? I have nothing to offer you.

[Rather than hobble, she just walks over the ground to retrieve her shoe. She makes him wait while she puts it on, but luckily doesn't, like, drag it out.]

My name is Chinatsu Hiyama. [She peers up at him with scrutiny. Hmmmm. Her turn to once-over him.] Who are you?

[ He just looks down at her like how NPCs will just look at you if you tomfoolerise around them. Think of his neck, Chinatsu. ]

Estinien. [ Like that tells her jack shit. He makes a face as he introduces himself, even, like he would rather not. ] What manner of shade are you?

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Estinien-san.

[I'm sorry.]

I'm not a shade, I'm a girl. What [(him voice)] manner of shade are you? You're way taller than even Sengoku-san. Why are you in armor?

Are you a cosplayer from... that one series. "The Tale of the Rings"?

[A LOTR elf...]

[ It's okay. Weirdly enough based on lore, Estinien has most certainly heard and probably gotten somewhat used to Estinien-san. Why is this canon... ]

I am not a shade. Have you never seen an elezen? Or even roegadyn, an au ra? I'm not the tallest being to walk the earth.

[ YOU SHELTERED, MA'AM? He doesn't even begin to ask what a cosplayer is, that seems like it'll go down a way. ]

[Drew Scanlon blinking gif.]

Elezen...? [Hmmm, hmmm.] There are probably people taller, but the tallest person I know is Sengoku-san. I've never heard of those before.

If I ask if I'm dreaming, are you just going to tell me I'm not because you're a part of my dream?

Completely foreign to me.

[ That's that for poor Sengoku-san. A hyur-range height... ]

I'd prefer that I'm not a figment of someone else's dream. That seems complicated.

[ Chinatsu can take that how she will, a dream that tells her it isn't her dream...? ]

[Estinien is better for it because Sengoku-san would just show Estinien his tits through a sheer mesh Latin top.]

I don't want to be someone else's dream either. [Solidarity. She makes a face and glances over her shoulder.] Have you seen a boy with messy, dark hair? Or a girl with short, blonde hair...?

...

Do clothes in dreams usually not have color?

[ I can't decide if this is sufficiently weird or if this is not weird enough for him, it's FFXIV so it's uncertain. Good for Sengoku-san, hope his tits are good and not cold.

At the prompting, though, Estinien looks down at his own monochrome-fied armour, and just offers a half-assed shrug and drops his arms. Nothing he can do about that. ]

I already told you that I'm not a part of your dream. Maybe if you look around instead of heckling me, you might find them.

[ ...He actually means this as a real suggestion, probably, but. You know. ]

Maybe I should ask you if you've seen some manners instead.

[She puts both hands on her hips. Is she mean mugging him again? Yeah, a little. How does she say he looks like he belongs here without being rude?]

Let's go through an archway.

Why?

[ Really just DOUBLING DOWN ON THE NO MANNERS THING. Go through it yourself??? ]

Because if I go through by myself and something kills me, you'll be the last person who has spoken to me. If you have armor, you're supposed to be in front, right?

[floor tank, dragoon man]

[ Maybe someone will kill me and fulfill the floor tank prophecy. ]

I'm no guard to be picked up off the streets. Are you going to pay me?

[ This ass doesn't work for free? ]

[She actually looks a bit spooked in the surprised sort of way.]

Are you a ronin…?

[This man’s cosplay is very IC, she thinks.]

I don’t have any money right now. I don’t… have any of my stuff actually… Not even my cellphone.

What, like a Doman one? No, Ishgardian. Formerly of the Order of the Knights Dragoon.

[ And then Chinatsu mentions the word cellphone and there's some irritation, like she's speaking nonsense just to mess with him. ]

A what?

"Doman"...? Like... a Japanese one.

[Also JOIN THE CLUB, ESTINIEN. She doesn't understand half of what he's talking about. He's very into his role... She will play along.]

Um. A cellphone. [She makes the shape with her hands.] You talk to other people on it even if they are far away. Or send messages.

... Right.

So, a linkpearl.

[ Linkpearl (derogatory). Communication (also derogatory). However, ]

Do you suppose it'll work in here.

Link...pearl.

[Not a question. She's just saying a weird word she's never heard before.]

...I don't know. It won't work at all if I can't find it anywhere. But every place here just has something... strange going on.

[ Aaah overflow aaah ]

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