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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[decisions]

central node.

[ there is a lump with white hair on one of the benches in the central node with his arms draped over the edge of it with suspicious-looking dark spots and burn marks in his clothing. in the hand that dangles downward, a pair of glasses, with some funky double lenses.

he's just chilling. probably? but upon hearing footsteps, he sighs indignantly. ]

Five more minutes... if you wouldn't mind...

the mansion.

[ they say there's no place like home, but percy is pretty sure he wanted to go back like... an hour ago more or less. but there's shelter here, and even a fire, which is probably the most important thing, even if it's like a colorless facsimile of what it ought to be. he holds his hands out to it, like he's waiting for the warmth to hit, but it never does.

so instead he's tearing off a piece of his already peeling coat and holds out some of the fabric too the flame, watching it eat itself. he blinks. ]

It burns, but doesn't have any warmth to it?

[ look, he's not going to stick his hand in it. how about u do that. ]

the laboratory.

[ well this place is total rubbish, like everything is either too unfamiliar or broken or empty but here he is rummaging around anyways seeing if there's anything salvageable. he has some vials of chemicals in between his fingers, held carefully as he peeks through some of the stranger items. come snoop with him. ]

wildcard.

[ do what you want or pc me!!! he'll explore each area, so his options aren't limited :> ]

mannnnsion

[chevaliered]

Seriously?

[ hold up he's sticking his hand in the fire.




no he's not. but he does stick it close by, rotating it slightly like it's going to magically give off heat from another angle. ]

Could've done with some heat here.

[decisions]

[ how sad, crow, not for science? not for little old me? :( sad.

percy does just sit by and watch a moment, nodding and waving the little piece of cloth briefly so it blows itself out before he flicks it away. ]

Would've been a step in the right direction. Seems like we've been left with absolute shit-all...

[chevaliered]

[ science can suck his dick. but if percy’s so into it, crow’ll happily watch him light himself up. ]

Great observation. They even took colour from us, which is… y’know. Wild. And not normal.

central node

[moonlightbeast]

[Sir? Your glasses?

But yeah Atsushi is standing nearby and peering down at Percy.]

I won't tell you that you have to move, but you might want to see what's going on here.

[decisions]

[ he just slowly blinks up at him and very carefully slides them on, blinking slowly. ah. well. he's going to take this conversation laying down if he won't be made to get up! thanks! he just pleasantly folds his hands over his stomach now, like a corpse. ]

Oh, I've seen quite enough. The decrepit tree? It's useless clock? The fact that the color's been drained from our clothing? I could go on...

[moonlightbeast]

What about the stone archways?

[Not that Atsushi has gone looking down them either, but he might as well mention them now.]

Besides, if we're to find the ability-user causing this and get them to let us all go, laying down won't help with that.

central node.

[meteion]

Are you... hurt?

[ A concerned voice, the bewinged girl looking on worriedly. ]

[decisions]

I have seen some better days.

[ muffled as he slowly extricates himself upwards, though he looks a mess, he seems? stable? he's talking, at least. he looks the girl over, slowly pushing his glasses onto his face, crookedly at first. ]

Just thought I'd take a moment to... gather my thoughts. [ a brow furrowing... the feathers. is she some kind of celestial or...? ] Are you on your own?

[meteion]

Will you .. be okay?

[ Alas, she cannot heal, she does not have the magic capability for that. She fidgets where she stands, pulling at the ends of her monochrome outfit with her taloned feet shifting. ]

I think.. so. I cannot find Hermes. Or my way back to Elpis. I do not know where here... is. [ her wings droop, but she seems to try and pick up her mood. ] But! There are some nice people here. And I might find Hermes! Some said so.

the lab!

[countermeasures]

[she doesn't know shit about the stuff in here, but not knowing something has never stopped her from trying to learn it.

so! once she enters the lab, she looks curiously around.]

Is there anything of use here?

[decisions]

Mmm, nothing of note. The tools are far too unfamiliar to me... all I've found are vials of a few unidentifiable chemicals. Could be of some use?

I figured I would at the very least try to test them later... [ he waves a hand ] somehow.

[countermeasures]

What sorts of things would you need to test them...?

[maybe they can gather some supplies from the other locations!!]

central no no node

[petalbursts]

[ why does this feel so familiar to her...oh right. ]

This doesn't seem like a very good spot for a nap.

[ she's standing at the end of the bench where his head is, hands folded behind her back and peeking over at him. ]

[decisions]

I'm not napping, I'm simply... recalibrating. Yes.

[ with lots of blood on his chest. it's fine. ]

[petalbursts]

That sounds an awful lot like napping.

[ uh. sir? hello??? ]

Uhh...

central

[impurities]

Will the end of this five minutes entail allowing someone to make sure you're at least not at risk of infection?

[ chang geng has the tone of someone... very used to this kind of thing, actually. a note of concern, yes, but also the exasperation of dealing with a misbehaving patient. ]

This place isn't particularly clean, but I've worked with worse before, with worse injuries than what I see at a glance.

[decisions]

If that someone is a cleric or physician of some kind... I would be inclined to perhaps cooperate.

[ i shouldn't be here, is what he means, but he just sort of blinks tiredly and lifts his glasses to get a less blurry picture of the person looking at him. he looks at his clothes briefly, the drained color, then nods. ]

[impurities]

Physician, yes. [ he has no idea what a cleric is.

but he does catch the unspoken meaning, and purses his lips briefly in understanding as he comes closer. the cloak is taken off, here, and folded so that he can lift percy's head and pillow it with the lush fur and fabric instead of the bench. ] Here. We can't do much about the cold, I don't think, but you can at least have some comfort while you're taking a moment.

lab!

[ktiseos]

Surely you do not expect there to be much of real use, in a place such as this.

[hello there is also a very large man here, looking the lab over in a highly critical manner, his brow furrowed beneath his hood. it looks sort of like he tried to cover his face, but... everyone has to look up at him from such an angle that it actually hides nothing.]

[decisions]

[ what the fuck who is this enormous man just walking in here. percy blinks a little and looks up into the hood. yeah it's not doing him any favors in terms of hiding his face so, sorry.

he shrugs. the notes in his hand crumble in a timely fashion and he dusts his fingers off as he speaks. ]

And what, let what can be salvaged sit here and rot? Better to take what we can... it'll be more than what we had in the first place. We can toss what we don't need later if it proves useless.

[ktiseos]

In the absence of anything better, I do suppose one must make do...

[still. his nose wrinkles as he watches the paper crumble.]

But it seems you would be lucky to find anything that will prove useful enough.

Central Node

[thejkdefense]

Sorry but no. The time for resting is long gone.

[Wow. This guy either has absolutely no care in the world or no self-preservation instincts, he thinks. Both are equally bad, in November's opinion]

[decisions]

[ he turns his head in the direction of the voice, squinting because his glasses are still in his hands. there's a little dark splotching on his face, a blood spatter as he gradually sits up with an "oof." what used to probably be a light-colored/white shirt is garishly spattered as well. ]

Oh, well then, pardon me, let me just pick myself up, yes?

[ he has left dark splotches on the bench as well. he just looks mildly miffed, but also somewhat understanding that he should probably. get up. it has been past 5 minutes definitely..... he's just been laying here. ]

What do you propose we do then?

[thejkdefense]

[All that blood...wow, someone was in bloody trouble before coming here! Mood, Percy. Mood. The inside of November's clothes has a lot of blood too, but he hasn't noticed that yet]

Initiative is important. Anything that doesn't involve staying where I was left seems like a good idea, no?

[If anything is going to happen then hey, November doesn't want to make it easier for the kidnapper. Better get moving and gather as much information as possible!]