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chroma2022-02-12 10:24 am
saturations) wrote in chroma2022-02-12 10:24 am
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WEEKEND ZERO: OVERFLOW
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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[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...?
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Not anymore, if I could help it.
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Ohhh. You stopped them? Are you a hero, Estinien-san?!
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. . .
Hero is pushing it, I was merely paid to do the job.
[ Kindly don't call him a hero, those are big boots. ]
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[She
looks at him expectantly.]
You could have taken on a bad one. Like joining the evil lab.
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I'd sooner be shipped back to Ishgard and serve as a foot soldier than work in a laboratory, at any rate.
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[She doesn’t even have morals sometimes. Very funny.]
Is Ishgard like the military…?
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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.
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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…?
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Crossing his arms. ]
It was dragons.
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Dragons…
[Her eyes grow a little wider, and then she
squints at him skeptically. Is he a LARPer?]
You don’t like dragons?
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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.
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Are you an Ishgardian renegade…? [He didn’t say YES to the question.] Did the dragons… um, raze your home?
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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.
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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.
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Inb4 the thing in the tube tiwtches and wiggles at her. ]
Now that I've done what you wanted, might I be allowed to leave?
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[For once, she doesn’t shriek when something scares the piss out of her.
But she does do a great imitation of Elusive Jump when she springs up and back once the thing in the tube squirms.]
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I doubt whatever that thing is, it has the strength to tear through the glass holding it, lest the scientists who made it were idiots.
[ IS HE LAUGHING AT HER? HE'S LAUGHING AT HER. ]
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[DON’T LAUGH AT HER WTF.
She holds an arm up in front of her, looking both embarrassed and offended.]
Let’s just go! I hate it here!
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[ If only it wasn't at Chinatsu's expense.
Right back to the archway it is! ]
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But then very fastly races after him through the archway because she's too worried about retribution.]