WEEKEND ZERO: OVERFLOW

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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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[withaswing]

Have you ever seen bioweapons...?

[Waow...

Carefully, but not reluctantly, she takes a few steps forward into the laboratory. Once she's sure nothing is going to immediately leap out at her, she starts slowly walking while looking around.]

It looks like a movie set...

[vedrskogul]

I have.

[ Does not elabourate.

Estinien will do her a favour at least and move forward ahead, being far less cautious as he opens a cabinet or two or whatever is in here. Cellphone? Pspsps? ]

But I haven't an idea what you're referring to.

[ Movies? ]

[withaswing]

[ESTINIEN? Explain the bioweapons. She gives him a bewildered look, but doesn't pursue any questioning.

Instead, she watches him rummage for a moment, and then she starts rummaging too. Cellphone pspsps. Oh! Is he still cosplaying? It's fine. She has accepted this.]

A movie? It's like... a play, I guess. This place looks fake to someone like me. We don't have evil laboratories.

[vedrskogul]

[ You must be elf tall to unlock the bioweapons story.

Stop she's not going to glance away for one second and he's going to suddenly be shirtless. Just nothing but his HeatTech and fantasy spandex or whatever, oops.

Reaching into these tall shelves because he has this power, may as well make use of it. ]

None? Do you come from a rural society? [ World? Star?? ]

[withaswing]

[WHY DID YOU MAKE ME HORNY?? I WAS TALKING ABOUT HIM NOT KNOWING A MOVIE. HELP. He can be shirtless if he wants though...]

Eehh? [SHE GIVES HIM AN OFFENDED GLANCE.] I'm not from Shikoku! [She thinks he is calling her a bumpkin.] I'm from Saitama.

[This means absolutely NOTHING to Estinien.]

No one has evil laboratories that look like this. If any laboratories are "evil," you wouldn't know unless you worked there... or unless a whistleblower told on them.

[vedrskogul]

[ HELP NOT WITH THIS ICON. ]

This means absolutely nothing to me.

[ YEAH. They both may as well be the same Doman province as far as he knows. ]

Then how can you say for certain evil laboratories don't exist? Sounds to me that it just means you've never seen one.

[ HE'S JUST SAYING. He doesn't know your world but his world sure do have weird wacky scientists and thaumaturges! ]

[withaswing]

[She actually clicks her tongue at him.]

If there are evil laboratories, they don't look like this at all. This is grossly exaggerated. The less an evil lab looks like an evil lab, the easier it is to get away with it.

[Imagine having a whole empirical facility with bioweapons just on display... Imagine!]

[vedrskogul]

[


]

I thought you'd said you'd never seen an evil laboratory before!

[ How would you know that Chinatsu!!! What are you basing your thoughts on!!! ]

[withaswing]

[The two of them dying in their respective hills.]

There aren't any buildings that would look like this at all! Have you ever seen an evil laboratory, Estinien-san?

[She is waiting.]

[vedrskogul]

[ This is such a funny battle of the stubborns. ]

Of a sort.

[ Not like he has stuff to hide, he just doesn't bother elabourating. ]

Much bigger than this, however.

[withaswing]

Ehhh! Seriously?!

[Well, now she's invested in his story he is not sharing at all with her.]

How big? What was it like? Estinien-san! Were there bioweapons...?

[vedrskogul]

[ Help. ]

Not anymore, if I could help it.

[withaswing]

[He answered literally a single one of her questions. Come ON.]

Ohhh. You stopped them? Are you a hero, Estinien-san?!

[vedrskogul]

[ HE WON'T EVEN ANSWER AYMERIC'S 'how are you' LET ALONE QUESTIONS FROM A STRANGER. ]

. . .

Hero is pushing it, I was merely paid to do the job.

[ Kindly don't call him a hero, those are big boots. ]

[withaswing]

But you still took on a "good" job...?

[She

looks at him expectantly.]

You could have taken on a bad one. Like joining the evil lab.

[vedrskogul]

...Just because I have some semblance of what most would call 'morals', doesn't make me a hero.

I'd sooner be shipped back to Ishgard and serve as a foot soldier than work in a laboratory, at any rate.

[withaswing]

You don’t have to have super powers to be a hero, Estinien-san. Hongou-san is my hero, and she doesn’t.

[She doesn’t even have morals sometimes. Very funny.]

Is Ishgard like the military…?

[vedrskogul]

[ Honest to God you could tell me a character in this ballroom anime is an international spy-assassin and I'd be like OKAY. ]

Right. I know that, but I'm speaking -- objectively. [ Being called a hero is actually too embarrassing for him. Let him work from the sidelines. ]

Ishgard is the city-state I am from. [ Beat pause. ] But yes, we are fairly militaristic.

[withaswing]

[STOP, I PROMISE YOU THEY ARE ALL NORMIES.

Oh……Riku. I can’t believe everyone else is playing my brand of characters the one time I am not doing so.]

You do give off the impression you’ve been in the military for a long time. [Hmm.] What are you fighting…?

[vedrskogul]

[ Stop don't call me Riku I'm already dead. I'd just need the Automata 2B blindfold and Emet-Selch's big robe and I'll be set...

Crossing his arms. ]

It was dragons.

[withaswing]

[YEAH. Riku and Estinien would get along aside from Estinien grimacing every time Riku let out a little Disney friendship.]

Dragons…

[Her eyes grow a little wider, and then she

squints at him skeptically. Is he a LARPer?]

You don’t like dragons?

[vedrskogul]

[ IDK MAN... Estinien 'AIBOU' Wyrmblood Varlineau has gotten pretty Disney Friendship himself. As long as said Disney Friendship isn't aimed at him, maybe.

STOP HIS EARS ARE REAL IS THAT NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU. But wow way to ask a real complicated question, Chinatsu. There is a long silence, and then he just says it like it is: ]

It's complicated.

[withaswing]

[Hmmm. Well, she is Japanese and also like a normie normie, so… she tries to think of what little stereotypical stuff she knows about not Asian dragons.]

Are you an Ishgardian renegade…? [He didn’t say YES to the question.] Did the dragons… um, raze your home?

[vedrskogul]

[ Anna cocking the clown glock, cocking the clock if you will:

But this causes Estinien to pause, looking into a test tube. Tapping at it with an armoured hand briefly, dropping his hand. ]

I see no sign of anything that might be your dropped belongings.

[withaswing]

[Well, unfortunately for Estinien, NOT answering is absolutely the most telling answer she could have ever received. So he has a weird history with dragons. Okay.

Makes a bit more sense of the word "dragoon" to her.

She peers at him in a rather knowing way, but doesn't say anything, and then she idly prods one of the vials near her.]

Oh well. I guess it isn't here.