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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[ Welcome back Buzen my boy. He'll find Estinien in some other completely different place, and honestly, probably on top of a roof of some kind. Doing a survey from atop is much easier than on the ground... though maybe not so comfy for Buzen who has to look up at this. ]

It's Estinien.

[ He has the gall to sound vaguely annoyed when he never shared his name to begin with. ]

[oh!!

well it's alright buzen is just going to climb his way up to where estinien is!! he's athletic, it's fine]

E.... Esti... Estinee....

[ . . . . please he's struggling]

Esti-san!

[NO]

Estinien.

[ HELLO ]

Haha, is Esti-san so bad? Normally I address my comrades in ways like that...

[though he'll try to practice. he's truly just so bad at any name that isn't japanese

(and still shortens japanese names)]

Anyway, I have a report! Oh, and I'm Buzen.

[ If it helps Buzen it's pronounced like E-su-ti-ni-ya-n, or more memeingly, Estinyan. Yes, it's the source of many cat Estinien memes. ]

...Do you, now? [ He'll be gracious enough to hide the mild surprise. ] What is it?

[do you want him to call him nyan-san, lowe. is that what you're asking.]

Well, I've surveyed all the available areas - as much as reasonable... anyway. I haven't been able to locate your lance, but - well, to be honest, I'm missing my sword too. So I think our weapons have been confiscated somewhere.

At some point when I go out, I stop being able to travel much further... like a fatigue hits even though I've never felt that before. And even though I feel like there's still more stuff out there than what I can reach.

So! That's it for now, but I'll be trying again soon. [he glances around from his higher vantage point] Have you managed to see anything from here?

[ If we have enough friendship points, he might be allowed to call him Nyan-san. ]

Troublesome. [ That's underselling it. But it's not just him, huh. And the distance stuff... ]

I suppose that's about the same as much as I've discovered, then. There's naught to see more up here compared to whatever else you can see and touch from the ground.

Grey, greys, and nothing but more greys.

[we will one day try to reach nyan-san]

.... isn't it kind of strange that something has managed to even steal color from the sky?

[like

what the hell]

...I've seen purple skies, black, red. It's not the strangest phenomenon I've seen.

[ Umbral and levinlight weather be weird, man. ]

[ . . . ]

Can I ask what makes a sky purple, black, or red? I'm taking you're not saying it was just a blood moon or anything...

Aether.

And it just being night, I suppose.

[ I GUESS ]

[

help

he's laughing even though that probably wasn't meant to be a joke but also - ]

What's Aether?

[ The unfortunate part was that he wasn't joking. ]

You don't... what?

[ THESE ARE BASIC FUNDAMENTALS EVEN A RAT LIKE HIMSELF KNOWS ABOUT. ]

I don't!

[SHAMELESSLY]

But to be fair, someone else named a different place when I was talking to them, and I'd never heard of it, and it's apparently a really famous capital...

So I think we're all learning new things from each other!

[ Hey, at least he's honest. Tbh. ]

...

[ This tracks with certain things but it doesn't mean he has to like it any. Or like, at all... ]

Would rather that I were in a place where I didn't have to explain everything of every step to strangers.

[he's just laughing a bit at that]

Then don't feel like you have to - I was just curious.

You say interesting things, so I'd like to learn more... but not at the expense of your patience.

[ YOU'RE TOO FRIENDLY... ]

I have not said anything strange.

[ His fantasy ass. ]

[he's really friendly yea]

Ah, I wouldn't say any of it is strange... Just - something I've never heard of before.

I'm a traveler myself, but I still like to learn about new things I haven't encountered.

[ Thrive, Buzen. And don't hurt your neck because Estinien doesn't even try to get down from up here. ]

Right.

But I suppose despite being well-traveled, you don't recognise any of [ just generally gestures to... whatever, all of it ] this.

[he climbed up to join him!!! they're tall friends now even tho estinien is taller it's fine]

... I wouldn't say that exactly.

Some of it is familiar, some of it isn't.

[ Sorry he just DWARFS EVERYONE. Estinien just looks at him. Guess you're... here now... ]

What parts are familiar?

[ Since... for him, the only familiarity is like, the Mansion and the Temple... Shrine... thing. ]

Hm... The shrine across the bridge is the most familiar to me - in terms of architecture and ambiance.

[ . . . ]

But the... lifelessness of everything, and missing people, and strangely barren atmosphere... I've seen that before as well. Though it's strange to see it here.

You have?

[ What in the seven hells? ]

In what manner?

[ . . . ]

Nothing good... But it's a really specific situation where it comes up! Like - unbelievably specific! And none of you should be here if it's the same situation!!

... so I'm gonna keep an eye out for a little while longer, and if it's what I think it is I can share more.

[ Closing his eyes. Gods. ]

There's a word for this somewhere, I know it... [ Muttered more to himself than at Buzen, but he just sighs. ]

And you believe you may be reliving it?

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