chroma | WEEKEND ZERO: MINGLE

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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That depends on how much you know about the world.

[ uhhhhhhh ]

A lot less than I thought, then.

[ i mean you look 10 so that checks out. ]

Probably a pretty universal feeling right now. Even I don't totally get what the fuck all this is about.

I think you'd be the only one if you did.

[ Tiredly, 9S shifts into a sit. The fire does nothing, but well, he's here now. ]

So now what? We can't just sit here and wait forever.

No, but we can wait for a little while.

Doubt it'll be that long before someone wants to take credit and start bossing us around.

If they're gonna do it at all, they could at least start now.

Tell me about it, kid.

The worst people I know have better manners than this.

I don't care about any manners—I just got better things to be doing than sitting around here.

Don't we all.

[ ... Yeah. ]

Guess so. Whoever did this better have a good reason for it.

It's probably a shitty reason. Like 'gathering data.'

[ He thinks about this for a moment. ]

Yeah, sounds about right, at least.

... And with that laboratory, you have to wonder what kind of data they want, and what they'll do to get it.

Beats me. Nothing in that lab made any sense to me.

Does anything here make sense to you?

... Not really. But you should at least be able to know what a lab is being used for by looking around in it, right?

... I figure it makes more sense to the people who study the same kind of stuff.

Obviously, but even an outsider should get some kind of idea. There were those weird creatures in those tubes, so maybe... they were doing something with biological lifeforms, but that doesn't really narrow it down, does it? Not to mention they were hardly human, so a lot of us being here wouldn't make sense either.

I assume, anyway.

[ damien visibly grimaces. ]

Not comforting...

You got a better theory, then?

No, the horrifying implications of yours are probably spot on.

It's probably not worth focusing on too much. There's the other areas to take into consideration too, but they didn't seem like they'd have anything to do with laboratory work.