WEEKEND ZERO: OVERFLOW

[saturations]

WOW

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

[withaswing]

[DON'T JUST SAY THAT WTF.

Also don't share teenage desperation with her about the shrine. But :handshake: anyway.]

Why does everyone else say that, too? What's in there!? Criminals?

[pls she's so normie]

[slashay]

[STOP HE'LL DO WHAT HE WANTS!!! Oh my god though, she really is normie.]

I mean - it's probably a spirit or something, right? Or some kinda god or demon. That's why it'd be in the shrine, y'know?

[withaswing]

Demon...

[IT ISN'T EVEN A QUESTION. She looks like she doesn't know whether to laugh at him, or to start wondering if that's truly the case here.]

There's no way... You really think there's a god or a demon? Like for real?

[slashay]

[HER SKEPTICISM and yet he looks entirely serious, like he's been in there and seen the demon for himself. He hasn't yet BUT HE APPARENTLY WILL SOON.]

Yup! It's not really a huge stretch considering everything else, right? That place feels pretty freaky, too.

[withaswing]

[She is glancing sideways at him uncertainly.]

...Have you ever actually seen a god or a demon?

[slashay]

[Can he answer this question honestly without giving himself away... Probably, right?? There are humans out there that can see the supernatural, right???

So he just sets his free hand on his hip and nods!]

Gods, yeah - minor gods, mostly. I've never really seen a demon, but I've seen things that are pretty close, too.

[withaswing]

[HOLD ON. She slowly comes to a stop.]

...

[Excuse her, he's seen WHAT now? HELLO? She's a little concerned she is following a crazy person around now. (She is.)]

You've... seen a god...? And, um... something like a demon?

[slashay]

[Fortunately(???) he's not Wei Wuxian just smearing blood on the bedroom door haphazardly and saying he's a blood wizard, so hopefully it's a little easier for her to deal.]

Yep! It's not really that hard to believe, right? I mean, you just woke up in a weird place in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of strangers and now you're running outta alleys just in case some spooky shadows decide to show up and cause problems.

[withaswing]

[WEI WUXIAN???? THIS STILL GIVES ME HEARTBURN.]

I—

[Okay. Okay? Shut up. Don’t bring the nature of this jamjar mg into question.]

But this is probably just a dream! Well… I don’t know why I wouldn’t dream about people I knew, but…

[slashay]

[STSOP LOOK he was trying to do good.]

I don't know about you, but this is definitely the most coherent dream I've ever had if it is a dream... Aren't people normally, like, ordering mashed-potato flavored ice cream before leaving the shop in a totally different outfit than what they showed up in?

[Why is this his first example of a dream.]