WEEK 1

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 1

[You now know why you're here, Titled. The question now is, is there a way to get out of here without invoking the rules? What will those who brought you here do to get you to kill?

Time will tell.

There are fifteen strangers in this place.]

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MONDAY

[strangerpeople]

Joey

[incrediblystressedout]

[Now that the initial shock has worn off, there's no immediately obvious danger, and going back to sleep hasn't caused her to bolt awake from a nightmare, it's time to get serious about exploring this place.]

[First, there's clothes and other supplies. The GREEN STAR T is obviously her favorite piece of non-dance-shoe clothing ever, and it's paired quite fashionably and practically with her overshirt, skirt, and legwarmers, but she can't wear that every day. Not when she actually has to interact with people, anyway. Therefore she can be found wandering 1E window-shopping at the clothing stores.]

I don't think I've ever had this many options before. The only thing that'd be better is like...a machine that changed your look whenever you wanted it to. I mean, that's impossible, but it's the only way I could get through everything I wanted to look at here...

[Unless someone interrupts her, though, she's just going to settle on something boring from Basic Brown's Ms. rack for now. She has no idea how long this money is going to need to last, after all.]


[For lunch, Joey will head to the food court and immediately get distracted by the video games in Barcade before she has a chance to eat.]

Oh wow, they have everything here. Pac-man, racing games...ugh, gun games, ninja games...wait, what's that? It's...it's beautiful...

[Someone has found Dance Dance Revolution, or some equivalent, and may now need to be force-fed lunch.]


[Once that's over with, though, she's going to put some extra thought into getting out of here before anyone decides to get their stab on. Not that she doesn't trust these random people she met yesterday, but obviously, everyone wants to leave, and she should do her part, right? She decides that Mosaic in the food court looks mightly suspicious, and starts poking around the tarp. She's not quite gutsy enough to poke around too much in an Under Construction area without a buddy or a pursuing monster, though.]

Barcade

[foolishjustice]

[Akechi didn't so much get distracted, as wander into the Barcade while looking around the food court. It's not as though he intends to actually play anything...not while anyone's around to see, anyway. But he can look around...and spot someone staring at the DDR machine like it's God's gift from Heaven.]

Is this the first time you've seen a dancing rhythm game?

[incrediblystressedout]

Trust me, if they had something like this where I come from, I'd have traded my consoles in for quarters in a second. It doesn't look like it's 100% "legit" dancing or whatever, but still, this is a solid two out of three of my main interests in one thing.

Barcade

[thegreenhornet]

...what? It's just the DDR machine. You never saw one in person before?

[incrediblystressedout]

I've never even heard of it. But it looks like a dream come true.

[Just four positions but it's a video game. She's not expecting Full Tap Consequences here.]

Mosaic

[byanyother_name]

I take it you think there's something odd about this area, as well.

[If she's looked at it, his profile says he is Shuuichi Minamino. He seems friendly enough, and fairly calm despite their situation. He offers her a small, pleasant smile as he approaches her.]

I've wondered, when everything else is so thorough, why this space is unfinished.

[incrediblystressedout]

[She's looked at his profile and is now internally cursing the lack of a gender indicator on it when she hears his voice. Wow, that's a pretty man.]

Um. Yeah. The whole place kinda looks like it was redone recently, I think? Maybe this was the last thing they were working on.

barcade

[theirmagic]

[ ... Yeah, she's looking at them too, and-- ]

... I understand how you feel, the gun games are always so visceral and violent. It'd be much better to just have magical training...

[ She sighs. ]

I think that one is a Dancing Game. I've played them once or twice when I used to go to malls like this back home. My parents always used to complain it ate up all my allowance, h-ha...

[incrediblystressedout]

I won't even touch the things. Even toy ones. There's just...too many of them.

This dancing game, though...it does look like it has space for two players...

[She's not the master of the suggestive eyebrow waggle, but Joey can manage a pretty good single eyebrow raised in interest.]

Barcade

[katsufemmefatale]

[Yuuri only emerges from his bedroom cubicle because he's starving. After the shock of waking up here yesterday and talking to the Life Coach, he'd promptly gone back to his space and curled up in bed for the rest of the day. He might have also cried himself out, because today he looks pale and worn out with dark bags under his eyes.

The fast food doesn't appeal to him, and he almost goes to the sushi place except he sees people are already gathering there. He doesn't want to deal with strangers right now, he can barely tolerate the idea of being near the few people he met yesterday. So he wanders into the barcade, figuring maybe he can get a salad or a decent sandwich.

And that's a child staring at the DDR machine. She can't be more than thirteen or fourteen and why did they drag someone that young into this mess?]

Um... are you okay? I mean, you're staring at that pretty hard, but you're really young and why are you here?

[Okay, that was a little muddled, but he's flustered because tiny kid in murder mall.]

[incrediblystressedout]

[Joey's attention is broken after a moment, and she turns to look at this guy, who's asking her if she's okay when he looks like she does after a long string of parent-less holidays and no Jude around the house to not cry for.]

Me? I'm fine, yeah. I was just looking at the dancing video games and wondering why I never thought of one myself.

...are you okay?

[It's a natural question to ask in return, right?]

Mosaic

[strangerpeople]

[As Joey is poking around the tarp, and looks at the strangely abstract painting beneath, a thought comes to her head...an amazing interpretation of what she's seeing, one which feels as natural as any thought she may have come by. Even if she's not seeing much of it at the moment.

The colors and style, frenetic and yet uneven, somehow seem like the person who's working on this was drinking. Maybe still drinking. Heck, like if she went back to, for example, the Barcade right now she'd surely find someone there, passed out in a pile of booze, behind the counter. Indeed, the painting feels representative of a Bacchanalia of some sort, one that is still ongoing, much like the creation of this artwork.

It's weird, but it absolutely makes sense now that the idea's in her head! How subversive, especially in this setting, right?]

[steelmagnolias]

[ Ren doesn't seem to notice Joey when she first arrives, having come to look at those crane games out of boredom. Then he plays one, and... actually manages to snag something? It looks like a Wooper to him, just...with arms.

He eyes it contemplatively before turning around. ]

Didn't see you there, Joey-chan.

[steelmagnolias]

[ Well, um. That was certainly a first day. Ren had later requested some cigarettes, because holy Arceus, he thinks he needs a smoke right now.

His prayers apparently answered, he can be found smoking in the men's restrooms throughout the day, in between searching the home improvement center and the pharmacy center of Yotsukoshi for various sundry items later in the afternoon.

When he's not wandering around talking to other people or doing any of that, he can be found in one of three food places: near Anto Jitos during the day, where he's ordered some coffee and huevos rancheros while looking rather pensive, at the cat cafe in the afternoon, where he's...not eating anything, but just here for a drink and a good hour or two with the cats, and at the conveyor belt sushi place in the evening.

There, he's tried a handful of different things, but has kind of shoved a plate of tobiko over to the side, immediately regretting his decision. They don't have tiny-ass eggs in his world, okay, he had no idea what that even was. ]

Conveyor Belt Sushi

[thegreenhornet]

Isn't that caviar? It looks like caviar, just that it's...orange.

[Britt makes a face of disgust at that. He's thankful his father never was into rich-people food like caviar enough to force it on him]

Sushi!

[foolishjustice]

[You know what one thing is that Akechi can't resist? Sweets. But another thing he can't resist is sushi, which is why he's decided to come into the sushi place for dinner. It's only conveyor belt, but sushi is sushi...and he immediately sits down and grabs a plate of tuna nigiri from the belt. It's only after he's taken a bite of his own food that he notices the plate sitting sad by itself.]

I take it you decided to be a little adventurous and discovered something you aren't fond of?

Someone has to take one for the team and do the men's restroom prompt and that's me so hope this is

[notgentle]

[It's well into their second day here and Dio is stretching the limits of how long he can not-remove the same outfit without drowning. After grabbing a shitload of paper towels, he's been ferrying between a stall and a sink in the men's restroom, using a few dampened sheets at a time on isolated areas. It's in the stall where Dio is standing when he hears footsteps on the tile. At first, he thinks, no big deal, of course someone else would pass through eventually; he'll just make sure to more thoroughly adjust his clothing before his next trip into the main area.

Then the tendrils of smoke permeate through the air, and that has Dio poking his head out, frowning hard.]

Uh, do you mind?

[theirmagic]

[ Closed to Croix: She was worried for Croix, so the first thing she did after she'd gotten an admittedly fitful rest (part of her had hoped this had been a dream, but reawakening to the starry blue and yellow bedroom display of her room confirmed she was still here, and certainly not in Luna Nova. Alcor was not there to wake her up for food as always, and she put her glasses back on. She sorely was in need of a shower, she felt, but she was in more need to find Croix, so she left her room immediately and went looking for her after trying to wrangle her hair with a hairbrush she'd bought earlier. ]

[ It's worth noting that by the time Ursula begins her day, and well after seeing Croix, her hair is now the brilliant shade of blue you can see in her profile on the phone.

She can be found early on during the morning in the various clothing stores, yawning, trying to decide on what she might want or what might... suit her best, and a lot of these are... very unsuiting for her tastes. She eventually ends up in High-Scale, looking at some dresses, particularly the blue ones. She can also be found in 69 Moons afterwards, looking out at the blue clothing selection there curiously, too. She seems to be looking for something... athletic.

After that, she's set about into Yotsukoshi, checking areas that contains a places to buy food and other such things, she can be found searching the varying stores to see if there's any books. She really does have her heart set, and she wants more than anything to find some reading material.

Later, around lunch time, she can be found at Un-Steak My Heart getting a burger and some fries to-go. She seems intent on taking them with her someplace, and that someplace is Cat Nya-Land. She stays there for quite some time, until eventually leaving to go find Croix again, in the hopes of probably aiding her in whatever she's doing.

She returns to Room 5 around eleven at night. Not too late, but not too early, either. She's an in-bed-before-midnight kind of woman, but you can probably catch her then. ]

[scienceofmagic]

[ Ursula catches Croix leaving her room to get back to work. She freezes. Ah. Chariot. ]

...Hey.

[ It's uncomfortable. But she'll keep walking, though Ursula is free to follow. ]

High Scale

[steelmagnolias]

[ Ren is found looking at some shirts and accessories from the 80s and 90s, although he's not buying anything just yet.

He does, however, notice what Ursula's looking at before sliding a dress her way. ]

[foolishjustice]

[Hopefully early risers aren't easily startled, because Monday morning finds Akechi investigating the bedroom cubicles, particularly the barrier doors. He's primarily focused on his own, however, hovering around it and knocking on both the wall and the door as though to test the material. Every now and then, he stops to create a can or small bottle out of nothing, and tucks it into a grocery bag hanging from his arm.

Later, he can be found by the walled off staircases on either of the upper wings, similarly tapping against the barrier. He's also crouching down and peering up, trying to see if he can make out what's at the top of the stairs. He's still carrying his bag of drinks, occasionally adding a new one after checking the time on his phone.

Around lunch time, he makes his way down to the food court...and gets completely sidetracked from his intention to get something healthy by the Cinna-Fun! store. He. He might be staring at the display for the Ginormous size, with an expression that seems to be torn between his stomach and his wallet. His stomach may, in fact, be winning.]

[comesaround]

You know... maybe you should stop staring at it. Buy it already.

[ Karma really was just passing by and noted Akechi was just staring at that display. So naturally he had to encourage this possible bad decision, standing just a bit behind the brunette with a grin on his face. Hands in his pockets and looking rather amused. ]

walled-off area

[theirmagic]

[ Ursula is a very early riser (mostly because on the whole she gets very little sleep), and with her now properly-dyed blue hair, feels much safer leaving her hat behind and actually looking around. She'd already spoken with Croix, so stopping to find Akechi at the walled off staircases is no surprise after the other day. She's hauling a box of... something. Parts or somesuch. Probably for Croix. ]

Oh, good morning, detective. Already trying to investigate, I see! Find anything?

Bedroom Cubicles

[thegreenhornet]

[Good luck with those barriers, Akechi. Luckily for you, Britt seems to be awake already and out of his bedroom. He's near his own cubible, on the opposite side of the area, having noticed what Akechi is doing]

You're so lucky these rooms are soundproof. Anyone would be pissed if you woke them up because you wanted to knock on their walls.

[Just saying, wonderboy.

Still, Britt can't deny this could be useful knowledge, which is why he has no intentions to stop him]