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

[daggering]

1. rogues doing rogue things

[ the thing about being vax'ildan is this: sometimes you roll so well on stealth you basically write yourself out of the story. by which i mean, in the creepy, dark gray of the central node, you may not even notice it... but there's someone nearby. no hint of a rustle of fabric or trees, no sounds save for the environment existing.

and then, out of fucking nowhere, there's a low voice. ]

Hey. [ and it turns out that voice belongs to a person wearing a hood, standing RIGHT nearby. sorry for the startle! he's actually kind of looking for the reaction. can you see him? ]

2. the temple

[ later on, you might find vax at the temple; he's crossed the bridge and is on the side with the temple itself, hand on the large, locked door.

temples aren't unfamiliar ground, really, especially not now - though none quite like this. stick around long enough and you might see him moving, running his hand over the door and near the bolted area. it is quiet, so, so quiet in this room -

and then there's that terrible banging sound, the feeling of someone screaming inside, and he hisses a - ] Shite! [ and jumps backwards like a startled cat.


fucking doors ]

3. carnival

[ or maybe if you're exploring, you might see a hooded figure perched up on top of the carousel. what's he doing up there? who knows. he wanted to be tall.

glancing down when he hears footsteps though, vax's expression shifts, and after a moment, he pushes his hood back to reveal a young man with pointed ears. ]

You alright down there? Don't tell me you're a local.

4.wildcard

[ or obligatory pc option ♥ ]

3

[hasteful]

I'm the opposite of a local!

[i mean. this is technically true. buzen will look up to the man on the carousel and tilt his head]

Any better sights from up there? Scouting from the ground isn't telling me much except that we might be in trouble.

[daggering]

There's fuckall up here. Just a lot more gray.

[ opposite of a local is one way to say that but - hey! same. we're just a bunch of vaguely colorful (?) foreigners. he turns back to look out a little further, as if something will appear - and then with that vaguely unsettling feeling, shakes his head and hops down to land gracefully on the ground once more so he doesn't have to yell. ]

Think you're right, though. [ about trouble, anyway. ] Don't think there're really any locals at all.

1

[decisions]

Ffffuck—must you!?

[ percy jumps because he's just. been through a lot okay. his shock of white hair just sort of fluffs like an indignant cat from the way he prickles and as he turns on his heel and sees vax, his brow furrows deeply before it immediately breaks upwards.

fuck— ]

Have you seen any of the others?

[ because this was not! where he was before! where they were before, technically, but. it's complicated (tm). regardless, he's facing him now, torn coat and shirt with dark blooms on the fabric, evidence of wounds not actively dripping but, just sort of hanging out there.

his eyes dart out into the dimness of it all, squinting behind his glasses. where are they? where is she? ]

[daggering]

[ well - at first, he's not expecting it to actually be percy. he's not expecting percy to even be able to see him. not anymore, not like this. and, if percy is here, then that means --

that they come to the same realization, at the same time. vax is startled, at first, visibly too, as his eyes search over percy's figure, and then he just reaches out and grabs him by the shoulders. ]

My sister. [ where the FUCK is vex ] Where is she - Percy, where is she.

[ probably not the best greeting for (redacted) considering (redacted) and (redacted) BUT ALSO ]

1.

[chevaliered]

[ AIDIOS WEPT. ]

.....





[ to crow's credit, the most vax'll get out of his little appearing act is a preparatory, reflexive tensing motion, before crow turns to look in the direction of the Mysteriously Appearing Voice. ]

You greet everyone like that, or did I just look like the kind of person who'd freak out at a jump scare?

[daggering]

[ lol ]

Little bit of both. [ nyehehe. he probably shouldn't be amused but here he is! ] You can see me?

1

[highrisk]

[ DAMIEN STARTLES VERY BADLY, flinching away???? ]

Ah, Christ! That's a good way to get the shit kicked out of you, you know?!

[daggering]

[ rest in shit damien

i mean this is kind of funny and he might sound amused as he lifts a hand. ]

Trust me, I'm aware. Just got to be fast. [ terrible ] Didn't think you'd actually be able to see me, anyway.

1

[dms]

[ oh he totally gives the comical scream and flail ]

Dude! You're way too good at this!

[daggering]

[ lmao

immediately amused ]

Whoops. [ he does not sound even remotely sorry ] I get that a lot. You alright, kid?

2

[countermeasures]

[jiuqing doesn't startle at the banging - she's been through here once already to look around and has just doubled back after checking out a few other places to see if anything's changed.

but hearing "shite!" sends her hurrying in, and... well. the door's still shut.

she shoots it a withering look as the banging starts to quiet a bit.]

I see it's still just as noisy as it was earlier.

[daggering]

[ ugh. vax looks deeply displeased, brow furrowed from where he's standing, habitually with his hand at his belt as if he could grab something from it - but with a voice that isn't someone screaming, he shakes his head and drops it. ]

Some kind of illusion, or what?

3. carnival, for variety

[vedrskogul]

[ And also to be nice because I thought about tagging 1 and having Estinien punch Vax right in the face, immediately.

But no, instead it's the soft crunch of dirt under armoured soles as Estinien comes by the carnival in his attempts to finding a way out of here, and he frowns more as the other man reveals his... elf face. ]

Hardly. What are you doing up there? [ Like Estinien doesn't have a terrible habit of climbing on top of shit either I hate him. ]

[daggering]

[ being punched in the nose by a really tall man bc he was doing something shitty is just another thursday for vax

anyway!! he glances down, and that sure is an elf. wow. well, it's not abnormal to him, though why this guy is so tall is a mystery. maybe a half goliath or something? he's not about to think about how that one works.

as for the question, he glances back out, lifting his hand over his eyes like he can see further out that way. ]

Scouting. Not that I can see fuckall up here either, but it was worth a shot.

3

[bestaround]

[ At the voice, he looks up. ]

Hardly. Never seen the place before.

[daggering]

[


....... ]

You sure?


[ how are you


seeing like that ]

1

[classmate]

Kyaa!

[ SPINS AROUND AND SMACKS HIM IN THE FACE -- or doesn't, you can roll on it sisiboo ]

Oh! Stop it, will you? How can you be so cruel!?

[ her heart can't take this!!! stop!!!! ]

3

[impurities]

[ chang geng - does not startle, hearing a voice, and does actually instinctively look up rather than looking around for the source. he's too used to his own corvids to bat an eye at someone calling out from a high vantage point. ]

I don't imagine we've got any locals among the numbers at the moment, unless they're exceptionally good at pretending to be as lost as the rest of us. You spot anything while up there?

2

[aitou]

[blues blues blues except Yams is gray now. Sad.

But at the sound of a commotion, Vax will probably hear someone running; shortly after, a very fluffy head will poke through the doorway!!]

Don't touch that--! [YAMS YOU'RE LATE]

2

[fleshedout]

[Hi. Hot Pants just watches a whole bird man jump into the air like that, and she....raises an eyebrow.]

...It's not going to bite.

1

[moonlightbeast]

[That. That is a choice to make right there.

Atsushi is screaming as he trips over himself trying to get away from Vax. He's scrambling across the ground in a panic, not caring at all about how silly he looks. And since he's not looking at where he's going he's going to crash into the tree too and end up stunned, face-down and ass-up on the ground. I need you to understand that when I googled an image to link for that it came back with at least 30 distinctly different canon images for this exact pose and that fact is slaying me right now.

But yeah, there's your reaction Vax.]

3

[gogoghostpowers]

[ glances up and just gives him a look ]

What? No. What made you think that? Have you actually seen any?

2!

[slashay]

[WHAT A MOOD he'd done that literally like five minutes earlier... For now, he's just perched on some rubble nearby, sitting in a big pile of ruffles and floof and looking Wary but not startled.]

Yeaaah... It does that sometimes. Talk about unwelcoming, right? And this place is so nice, outsida that!

3

[pura]

[How did he get up there... She wants to be tall, too, wtf.

Looking at him with mild distrust, but she sounds polite enough when she responds, shaking her head.]

Of course not. How could anyone thrive in an environment like this?