MOCK WEEK

[strangerpeople]

MOCK WEEK

[Awaken.

Fifteen strangers have been gathered to the Depths. When they awaken, they will feel nauseous in their stomachs. No doubt confused. Perhaps, even terrified. And certainly, there is a good reason for it - they are not where they were before. If they had powers back where they came from, they seem to be all gone. And it appears that someone has left...guidelines for them. Who? Its uncertain. So far, there seems to be no one else save for them in this hot and stuffy place. No...'intercessor' to be seen yet, certainly.

There are a few small graces for this group, at least. Their memories are intact. And, perhaps, they will discover the power that their Title brings to them. But these are only small graces.

So welcome.

There are fifteen strangers in this place.]


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Comments

[crywiththesaints]

That's another one for everybody being from different worlds. Yours must be pre-industrial, before everything went downhill as quickly as it did.

1/2 idk whether it was dw or gmail that decided I didn't need this notif

[daughterofthemark]

Then there are whole other worlds out there?

[daughterofthemark]

...but when you say everything went downhill...

[crywiththesaints]

Simply a theory, and an uncommon one. Though here, it seems, the secret is out. As for your other question, industrialization taxes the world around us. Mass production leads to pollution and waste, better health to overpopulation, development to habitat loss. But any dominant life form, no, any life in general will always want to make things better for themselves, won't they?

[daughterofthemark]

[Okay, she gets... most of that.]

But who would stand to benefit from such things? All of them seem entirely negative.

[crywiththesaints]

By the time people fully understand the side effects of what they've been doing, their way of life is such that they can't just stop. Haven't you observed that even in your own life?

[daughterofthemark]

N-no, I... no.

[...but apparently that was close enough to hit home anyway.]

[crywiththesaints]

[Sakura just nods, watching her.]

It makes me wonder about the nature of the world we're in now. Of course, it could simply be that technology doesn't always develop on a flat level from one world to the next, and innovation has focused in some areas over others. What do you think?

[daughterofthemark]

[Oh good, a subject with 100% less "you caused things without realizing it."]

It seems plausible. It's hard to imagine all technologies depending on each other. If we'd never thought of bridges, for example, that doesn't mean we wouldn't have discovered gunpowder.

[crywiththesaints]

It seems like a place with strange priorities, then, but I can't discard the possibility. Have you found anything about this place?

[daughterofthemark]

I'm afraid not. The Intercessor is likely our best source of information for now.

[crywiththesaints]

Unfortunate. I have tried talking to them, but they are a little... well, that can't be helped, we might all be "a little" something.

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna is certainly "a little" something, and right now it's preventing her from entirely getting it, but after a moment she decides it's probably not important.]

They seem interested in sharing stories once we're "settled in," at least.

[crywiththesaints]

That could still mean once someone's dead.

[daughterofthemark]

--Surely not!

[crywiththesaints]

I'm simply keeping the options open. Given the sort of people we're dealing with...

[daughterofthemark]

You really think someone here would...

[crywiththesaints]

I think the ones who kidnapped us all here think so and are counting on it.