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The Fifteen Strangers Mods ([personal profile] strangerpeople) wrote in [community profile] 15strangers2020-02-01 11:51 pm
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[The blight would not stop.

The world's leading experts have been trying to find a cure, to no avail. Th blight keeps changing, keeps foiling all attempts at being fully understood. It's almost sentient, or at least more sentient than any disease that's been encountered before. People fear the disease jumping from what's left of the grapes into other plants, into animals, or even humans.

You can only watch as entire economies and ecosystems collapse. You can only bury your head in your hands as your own business comes to its end. The destruction of the clusters of grapes has not simply destroyed the wine industry, either-other businesses are being destroyed by the plague. Food, transport, retail, nothing is untouched.

You look on your own vineyard, its yield almost entirely blackened and dead.

This can't keep going on.



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A week has passed since everyone's arrival. No one has died, yet. But surely no one is holding their breath to see if they would survive this unscathed. They are veterans of the game, and they must know that whoever it is that is in charge demands their pound of flesh. The question is when it will happen.

It is the second week, after all-and when the second week of the game comes, death is not far behind. Not even when you wake up, feeling something different in your mind as you remember the truths you originally woke up with, deep in your mind. You feel...lighter, somehow, when you realize there is a change.


Even so, there are 15 strangers left in this place.]
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[personal profile] katzenpfote 2020-02-07 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
... Those things were not always around in your world, correct? Someone had to come up with them.
touchsensors: (I have been)

[personal profile] touchsensors 2020-02-07 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Oyo? But that was in ancient times-lun. We didn't even have AI back then-lun.
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[personal profile] katzenpfote 2020-02-07 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
You... do realize that there are many different worlds out there, yes? And that not all of them will be like yours?
touchsensors: (On Vulcan the teddy bears are alive.)

[personal profile] touchsensors 2020-02-12 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course-lun. I've been to a lot of worlds-lun. One of them was all water-lun.
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[personal profile] katzenpfote 2020-02-12 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
So some worlds have different technology or magic than others, it seems.
touchsensors: (Not in front of the Klingons.)

[personal profile] touchsensors 2020-02-12 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
And sometimes that makes some of them more advanced than others-lun.