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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I said I don't want to talk about it.

Understood!

[SWERVES TOPICS]

Are you cold or hungry at all?

[ he gives a curt lil nod. less in gratitude and more like 'yes, correct response.' ]

Yeah, both. But trying to fix either of those things has been a pretty lost cause.

[hmmmm

he starts to shrug off his vague uniform jacket!]

Well, you can at least hold onto an extra layer if you're cold... and there's some food but - it's not really filling.

Or tasty.

[ sir? ]

... Stop, I don't want that.

[ ? ]

Are you sure? If you're cold, I don't mind.

I said I'm good.

Did I do the wrong thing again already...

Sorry.

... No, don't worry about it.

[buzen trying to determine if this man is a tsundere

but he's just going to tilt his head - he's a little confused, but he won't say sorry again if he's not supposed to]

Well, let me know if you change your mind!

I don't have many remedies for the food either though. I'm really craving something sweet, but everything I find tastes really bad.

[ he's not a tsundere!!! :yell: and he just. ignores that open offer. ]

Not that I love cotton candy to begin with, but the flavor here leaves something to be desired.

Is that what it was? The soft one that I could pull apart?

Is it a common dish where you're from?

Yeah, sort of. It's not something you'd eat every day, but they sell it at amusement parks and carnivals. Places like that.

It's just sugar.

Oh.

.... I thought all the food was supposed to taste like that.

[buzen's never seen a hot dog in his life]

So they even took something good from us...

That's bleak, man.

What do you usually eat...?

Mm, rice dishes. Fish. Lots of vegetables! Someone I know is really good at farming....

I kind of wish he was here - he was able to farm in conditions like this before, so he'd be really helpful...

I don't want to be here so long that farming becomes a desired skill.

Oh - were you in the middle of something important?

No, but weirdly I prefer my apartment to this place.

[he laughs]

Oh? Getting suddenly kidnapped to a place that's cold and has nothing to eat doesn't suit your preferences?

Hah, I just hope we get an idea of how to leave soon.

Just a matter of time before we find out something, right?

Doubt leaving's so easy, though.

That's what people are saying... I hope you're all correct.

[buzen has no idea what's going on he's just going through the motions with his best efforts]

But if you all need to go home, I'll do my best to help out!

Nn?

Don't you want to get home, too?

I do. There's stuff I have to get back to.

But I can last in this type of environment a little better than most I've met here, I think, so I'm not in as much of a rush.

[he's the type to Go Fast but he's also the type to take care of everyone else's needs first]

... Guess running is a good way to keep warm.

[ that's the best guess he has about this kind of behavior. what do you MEAN take care of others? what the fuck is THAT? ]

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