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

[highrisk]

Yeah, time travel's boring anyway.

[ hmm ]

Shape shifting's cool, I guess.

[disestablishment]

'Tis an ability I haven't witnessed myself, nor heard of one who can. At most, mages can transform others into frogs. Of course for half a bell.

[ Hmm. ]

If time travel is a bore, then what of this place? Have you seen such a realm?

[highrisk]

Probably for the better. Seems like the kind of ability that can get you... Stuck.

[ he shrugs... ]

Nah. Never been anywhere like this before.

[disestablishment]

Stuck... Aye. That's a way to put it.

[ Convenient! And conveniently cursed. ]

We were talking about social experiments earlier. How would you pose it to our circumstances? I'm curious to know.

[highrisk]

Some wack job scientist taking notes on how a bunch of strangers react to a horror movie set when we're stuck here and left to our own devices.

[disestablishment]

My apologies as this may not be import, but what is... A "movie?"

[highrisk]

... Like a play. But it's recorded so you can watch it again whenever you want.

[disestablishment]

Most like projections then, though I've never heard of a node projecting a play... Merely instructions or studies.

[ But that's fine. ]

So far, this realm suits the horror genre narrative. If we follow that line of thought, we can expect worse anon.

[highrisk]

Uhhhhhhhh yeah.

[ ... ]

So what, do people just not like art and stories where you're from? [ IF THEY HAVE THE TECH TO MAKE PROJECTIONS? but only use them for information??? ]

[disestablishment]

[ ??? but yeah the ff14 things... funny ]

Of course we do. I imagine all civilizations have a form of storytelling... Orated, painted, or scribed. What led you to such an assumption?

[highrisk]

That you don't record it.

Or is it like... Hard to record stuff?

[disestablishment]

Oh, the nodes... My apologies for not providing further context. They're technology of eld and difficult to acquire, let alone thoroughly understand. I know there are scholars that study the ancient civilization, but even fewer can work the nodes.

[ tldr; yeah. it is hard. ]

[highrisk]

Ancient technology, huh? That's an easy way to fit sci-fi into your fantasy.

[ stop talking like aymeric's world is fictional! so rude... ]

[disestablishment]

[ Aymeric... Supposes this is fine. ]

How would you describe your star?

[highrisk]

... Star? You mean world, or what?

[disestablishment]

[ A nod. ]

We would call it "star."

[highrisk]

Stars and planets are different.

[ damien, assuming his science and terminology applies to other, magic worlds??? ]

[disestablishment]

Take it as semantics, then.

[ Even if Damien is being OBTUSE Aymeric doesn't see it as such and isn't here to argue. ]

[highrisk]

Eh.

[ aymeric is being so patient. ]

... It's a normal world. There's no magic. And no - elezen or whatever. It's pretty boring, honestly.

[disestablishment]

[ He sure is. ]

Boring to you, but interesting enough to me. I only know of one race incapable of conjuring magic. They rely on their technology.

I imagine that's how your civilization prospered?

[highrisk]

Prospered, huh? Yeah, I guess.

Can't imagine we do as well as worlds with magic, though.

[disestablishment]

'Tis ironic to hear... In my star, the empire without magic calls those that practice it savages. To look to a god when one despairs, primitive.

Does your world leave you wanting?

[highrisk]

Not surprising to be afraid of people who can do what you can't.

... Yeah. Well. The grass is always greener, right?