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

[aitou]

1. Waking up / wandering

[IT'S A POTATO SWORD!!!

unlike a CERTAIN DRAMATIQUE IDIOT he is wearing his normal outfit! Well, sort of. (Does that chestplate look like fake armor? Maybe. Don't worry about it.) Catch him rubbing at the back of his neck as he looks around, frowning.]

What era is this......?

[He seems pretty calm about the whole color thing, though--at least, until he looks down and sees his sad, desaturated haori.]

--EHHHH?!

2. temple

[well HOT DAMN it's something familiar! Yasusada's immediately nyooming over here across the bridge, though he does pause and lean precariously over the railing to try and peer into the water down below.]

Do you see any fish?

[Alternatively, he can be found hovering anxiously outside the shrine and peeking in the direction of that CREEPY-ASS DOOR. Who is in there. What is that. Is it Oodenta.]

Maybe we should knock back...?

[Even as he says that, though, he doesn't look like he wants to get anywhere near it??? SOMETIMES A YASU CAN HAVE SELF-PRESERVATION SENSES.]

3. carnival

[This place is so creepy but honestly it gives him less spook vibes than the temple does, so he's cautiously exploring. At some point, he stops near the poor impaled horse decorations, frowning.]

Yari...? [No, yams, this is not the work of tkrb spear monsters]

4. wildcard

[HIT ME UP AS I SEARCH FOR MY LOST BRAINCELL]

2...

[slashay]

[HONESTLY HE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE RELIEVED IN HIS LIFE TO SEE THIS STUPID POMERANIAN AND HIS STUPID POOFY HAIR!!! Not that it even occurred to him yet that he's possibly lost contact with like 99% of the wholeass citadel, it's fine, it's fine...

That said, his wonderful planned meeting where he'd just saunter over and be like "oh it's Yasusada, huh, so you're here too I guess" and totally not show how worried or stressed he is is RUINED by the unnerving banging noises.]

Yasusada—!!

[WHY DOES HE SOUND ACCUSATORY.]

[aitou]

[POINTS VIGOROUSLY AT YOU

--which is honestly what Yasusada is gonna do?? After he jumps at the sound of his name, anyway, spinning around to see his dingus partner in his amore dress. GOD. It's been so long since they've seen each other for more than short bursts and yet here Yasusada is, POINTING VIGOROUSLY]

Kiyomitsu!!! What is all this?! [WHY DOES HE ALSO SOUND ACCUSATORY]

[slashay]

[IMMEDIATELY STORMING OVER TO JAB HIS FINGER INTO YASUSADA'S CHEST. Which probably makes a dent in the craft foam.]

—What the hell? [OKAY BUT ALSO SETTING HIS BAFFLEMENT ASIDE--] And why are you asking me like I know?! I just woke up here, same as every other person I've run into!

2

[hasteful]

[





well he'll just start walking toward the door then]

Oh! Like a code?

[morse code knocks]

[aitou]

[BUZEN!!!!

--Yams does not think, because they don't know they're castmates, it's fine.

But if this guy is gonna fearlessly stride on up then Yasusada will stay right where he is, leaning around the doorframe!! He's using one hand to support himself, but the other keeps falling down to his hip and missing, like he's trying to reach for something that isn't there.]

Right, maybe... [Like an idols call and response segment...]

[hasteful]

[if buzen notices he will say nothing about the weird motion. is yams dressed like a samurai at least. he's not dressed like a fabulous divorcee

buzen raises his hand to the door confidently!!!!

and then turns to yams]

Do you know any coded knocks?

3

[petalbursts]

What's a yari?

[ she blinks, looking to where yams is frowning. ]

Oh! You mean the carousel?

[aitou]

[


Oh no a human fck his cover uhhhhh]

Yes! Right.

[he doesn't know what a carousel is]

[petalbursts]

Right...

[ blinks. ]

Have you ever been on one before?

2

[allomantic]

[she's wandering around while trying not to attract much attention, but when she hears him ask about knocking back on the door, there's an alarmed:]

No.

[aitou]

[LOOK... HE KNOWS, BUT...]

Someone could need help, though?

[allomantic]

[crossing her arms]

If we can hear it, maybe it can hear us. Try to talk to it first.

1.

[brotograph]

[ He's sitting there rubbing his eyes. ]

What era is it? Isn't it modern-

[ He's answering as he turns his head to look at the potato sword. ]

Eh? Are you some kind of cosplayer?

[aitou]

[Oh, modern? Wait, what counts as modern to humans--

--oh, a question. He tilts his head, then looks around, as if he's expecting to see... something.]

No, I don't think so?

[he's not talking about the dance costumes, yams]

1

[dms]

Nice costume! The black and white makes it look kind of like one of those old photos - I totally dig it!

[aitou]

[Immediately ignores everything else to zero in on the singular word "nice"]

Oh! Really? Do you like Okita Souji too? [yams please acknowledge the rest of the shinsengumi]

Temple

[thejkdefense]

If you're wary about knocking with your fists you could always throw something at the door.

[November knows very well that's bound to be a very bad idea but hey, he's interested in finding out what's going on with that knocking. Getting someone else in trouble over that is something he's fine with]

[aitou]

[Hmmm...]

I don't really want to make it angry, though.

1.

[godcards]

Era...?

[ yeah we're ignoring the freaking out it's fine ]

It's the "modern" period.

[aitou]

[if only yams knew an egypt]

Oh, I see.

[That's very helpful

uh, to a human, which he definitely is]

temple, creepy door edition

[countermeasures]

...hmm... I'm not certain.

[whatever is on the other side of the door makes some more banging noises.]

If it were a person trapped back there, I'd expect them to use words to ask for help, rather than just hitting the door...

[aitou]

You're probably right...

[If it's a person and they're not talking for whatever reason then that's probably pretty dang scary wow he doesn't wanna think about that]

But they might still understand if we knocked, right?

fishies

[nightchild]

[Itsuki peers over the railing too, but he keeps one eye on Yamato,]

I think we're too high up... That's not an invitation to lean over farther, by the way.

[CAREFUL YAMS, YOU WILL FALL FOR THIRTY MINUTES]

[aitou]

[boops to overflow]