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

[slashay]

[Marceline please be normal. Unlike Kashuu, who is failing at the normalcy-passing test.]

Yup! I've heard she's pretty good, too. [...] Who's Bonnie?

[theampirequeen]

[ have you SEEN her. what the fuck is normal. ]

Bubblegum! You'll recognize her when you see her. She's, y'know. Made of bubblegum.

[slashay]

Ooh! Pink!

[PINK LADY. Jury's out on whether or not he actually got her name in that thread so now he HAS IT.]

She was really into the science lab stuff when I ran into her. [...] Is she a bubblegum spirit?

[theampirequeen]

Pink!

[ she has no reason to repeat it. but here she is repeating it anyway. ]

Yeah, that's Bonnie alright. She's not a spirit though. Just a candy person.

[slashay]

[She's valid and Kashuu approves, even if he's looking at little confused by the notion of someone just being a candy person.]

Like a person who's just... made of candy? Like how humans are made of flesh and blood and all?

[theampirequeen]

Yeah! Exactly like that. [ yay he got it!!! ] Peebs is all pink gum all over the way humans are all fleshy bits and guts.

[slashay]

Wow! I've never met a person made of gum before.

[But he thinks that sounds pretty cool?? If not a little dangerous... He's just out here like damn, what if she gets caught in the rain? Does she melt???]

You guys must be from the same place then, huh? Are you some kinda food-person, too?

[theampirequeen]

[ what kind of gum melts in the rain. anyway she just nods at his guess and: ]

Nope! I'm a vampire.

[ she does not expect to have to explain what this is ]

[slashay]

[Does he look like he knows anything about anything!!

Actually he does know something about something, because unlike his two absolute idiotass compatriots, he reads tabloids and magazines and keeps up with All Things Aesthetic which means he's definitely heard of Western vampires before.]

Woah! Seriously? Like, the full blood-drinking, sun-burning deal?

[theampirequeen]

That's right. I'm a stinkin' blood-suckin' vampire!! [ makes a creepy face. ] I just drink the color red, though. It's a lot better than blood.

[slashay]

[The way Kashuu's blinking at her like he's now gotta worry about color-eating vampires in the world... MAYBE THEY STOLE THE COLORS FROM THIS PLACE.]

Hold on, huh? I've heard of blood-drinking vampires, but I've literally never heard of anything that drinks colors, like, ever.

[theampirequeen]

That's not surprising. All vampires can drink red, they just choose not to because they're super messed up nasties. So no one really knows about it.

[ it's a SPECIFIC color, kashuu, god ]

[slashay]

[Can't believe he's gotta protect his eyeballs from Marceline.]

Yeah, that's definitely not something they ever mentioned in, like, literally any vampire book ever. I'm pretty sure, anyway. That's pretty gross if you guys can really choose between red and blood and some still choose blood, though...

[Kashuu, a sword, used to being covered in blood: but drinking it is so unhygienic??]

[theampirequeen]

Yeah. I said they were nasties. [ disgusting. it is much better to drink pigmentation. ] It's all down to the natural urges too though. Sometimes you get so hungry you just want to rip people apart.

[ don't be casual about this. ]

[slashay]

[He would agree with the sound of that, yes, pigmentation sounds like a much cleaner thing to drink. Also, he would be more concerned about her Very Casual Vibes if he wasn't like old and a sword.]

I mean, I guess even humans can get pretty crazy when they're hungry... But if you can just drink red, it's probably not much of a problem, right? [...] Normally.

[Should he be worried about the lack of red in this world......]

[theampirequeen]

Yeah, normally! [ she does not expand on this. at all. ] Nothing normal about this place though. Cold fire that burns, color drained from our clothes and the scenery, a bunch of arches that portal us places...

[slashay]

[This is where his sense of self-preservation and concern would kick in, if he had any!!]

Yeah, it's definitely not an average walk through the park, that's for sure. We're not gonna have to worry about you tearing someone up for their blood if you don't find any red, are we?

[theampirequeen]

If we're here long enough, maybe! I go into a pretty awful frenzy.

[ oh well!! this is a future problem ]

[slashay]

[THIS FEELS LIKE SOMETHING THEY SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT MARCELINE!! But since he is just a dumb sword, he isn't immediately like "oh my god this is Bad".]

Huuuh... Well, I guess that just means we gotta find a way back outta here before it gets to that point, yeah?

[Oh, to be so assured in a simplistic answer.]

[theampirequeen]

[ no it's fine. let her go on a rampage. ]

Yeah! It probably won't take that long. This place can't be that much of a doorless trap.

[slashay]

[MARCELINE!! Also famous last words in a murdergame but he just nods because that seems reasonable to him!]

Well, if there was a way in, there's definitely a way out. Kind of annoying that it's been so hard to find, though...

[theampirequeen]

Probably need to beat up the boss of this place first.

[slashay]

Normally they're a lot easier to find than this!

[He says, used to the bosses reeking of Evil Boss Energy.]

[theampirequeen]

I know, right?

[ unfortunately, adventure time is cartoon logic, so, ]

What's with the hardcore hide and seek treatment?

[slashay]

[Video games and cartoons out here shaking hands over their big obvious bosses.]

Makes you wonder what kinda boss we're even up against, huh? Like, are they hiding 'cuz they're kinda weak? Or 'cuz they're smart and have something weird planned?