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.]

Comments

[incrediblystressedout]

Uh, does giving my measurements to a guy I don't know count for trust, too?

...if it does, can we split the money?

[classmated]

Well, maybe. You're trusting me not to spread them around, right? I think that counts. And I don't mind splitting the money either.

[ A beat! ]

My measurements are 88-72-89. That's in centimeters.

[incrediblystressedout]

Oh right! I forgot guys have suit sizes. Well, I guess I can trust you...

[It's a set of sizes that makes sense for a growing girl who never skips leg day. Sans any letters. Those aren't necessary.]

And uh, that's in inches. I have no idea how to convert that.

[classmated]

Thanks for trusting me!

[ Who said trust was hard to earn here? Psh. ]

Don't worry about it, I don't think they'll be picky about conversions.

[incrediblystressedout]

This does seem more game-like and less something they're going to nitpick over. Just how much money do they have to hand out, though...?

[classmated]

From the sound of it? A lot. Most of these aren't very hard, each of us should be able to get at least seven hundred in prizes. Since there's fifteen of us...

[incrediblystressedout]

...they might be handing out tens of thousands of dollars for free. This is really feeling like the weirdest shopping spree game show ever.

[classmated]

It might be a little more than that. I admit, I'm having a lot of fun with this hunt, but... If you think about it, it isn't much different from the motive. They're just flaunting their money, or worse. They're proving they can make good on what they said on Tuesday.

[incrediblystressedout]

Oooh. You're right. Gee, didn't I just take a jackknife off the last turnip truck to blow through town? Of course it's a demonstration.

Who are these people, anyway...

[classmated]

A what off of what? ... nevermind. [ Strange idiom aside! ] Anyway, that's a good question. The only organization I know that could pull something like this off is AngelMarker, and even then I don't see why they would.

They're helping us save the world, they're not kidnappers.

[incrediblystressedout]

I've never heard of them...

[Which would be enough to get Jude to latch onto them as a conspiracy target who were merely pulling the wool over Wake's eyes and manipulating him, but Joey prefers to leave the conclusion-leaping to him.]

There's plenty of like, big corporations who might have the money to do this, but I don't know how or why they'd pull off the kidnapping. Unless we're actually in a Captain Planet episode. Big corporations do stuff for no reason all the time on that show.