bus

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BUS? A BUS???

The wheels on the bus (don't) go round and round...

You wake up on a bus.

It's a very nice bus, though. Luxurious, even! The seats are comfy and can be used as beds, with pajamas also available for you to change into. It's stocked with enough food and drink to last a week or so, along with a bathroom that also has a shower and free toiletries to use. The downside, however, is that apparently you have to share—as you're not alone when you awaken.

It seems like you're not where you should be, either. The bus comes equipped with TV screens, but rather than any movie or show, it's reality TV in the most literal sense. You might even recognize a few faces over there in the terminal, but either way, you can watch the participants go about their day. You're as equally confused as they are, after all, even if miles (?) separate you.

For that matter, that's pretty much all you can do. You're stuck on this bus. You can't access where the driver's controls would be, and there's no driver to begin with; in fact, the bus isn't even moving. The doors are shut, and any attempt to break the windows will send you bouncing back. Opening the shutters will treat you to the enticing sight of... outside airport scenery. You're on airport grounds somewhere, but you can't tell anything other than that. If you do some digging around, though, one compartment on the bus contains a random assortment of card games and board games for you to entertain yourselves with.

Better get cozy, because you might be here for a while.

RUNDOWN

• This will be your one mingle post until next Friday.
• You do not have any personal belongings on you. Unlike the other players, you also don't have a phone. Sad.
• The W0 weekly effect, once revealed, will apply to you as well.
• Your characters are able to see anything that takes place on the public mingles, including network posts, via the bus TV screens. You may also handwave them being able to see the initial notification that the players all received on their phones.
• We will have a small, pseudo-mini-event for you on W0 Wednesday at 12pm PST/3pm EST.

NAVIGATION; (FULL NAV)

INFO

PLAYER STATUSES IC PROFILES MURDER PROPOSALS CYOA SIGN-UPS

SETTING

NPC AUDIENCES LOCATIONS ROOMING CURFEW

REPORTING

PC TURN-IN MOD REPORTING EVENT TURN-IN VOTING

Comments

[frostfist]

[ wriothesley walks over with a fun-sized bag of white cheddar popcorn in his hand and takes a seat nearby. he reaches in for a kernel, then pauses when he sees just's what on the screen. ]

Not sure I've ever seen faces like those before.

[ why do they look Like That? ]

[tactic]

[ It's freaky but also kind of cool? ]

The ones from Scawwy just wore masks. This is new.

[frostfist]

[ tf, y'all had npcs?? ]

We just had rabbits and moles.

[ anyway, holds out his bag. popcorn? ]

Though they were about as helpful as these guys seem to be.

2/2

[frostfist]

[ wait a minute. ]

'Scawwy'?

[tactic]

Yeah. That was the name of the village the first time I went through this.

[ Not that he was there long before being sent to fucking Silent Hill!!!! ]

You mean to tell me you didn't have any supervision during your trials?

[frostfist]

[ what kind of name is 'scawwy'....but he shakes his head. ]

It was just us left to our own devices. Though we weren't there for very long to begin with.

[tactic]

[ Uh? ]

How long were you there?

[frostfist]

[ wobbly hand gesture ]

About two weeks? The days started to blur together after people kept dying.

[tactic]

Two weeks...?

[ THEY HAVE THOSE? ]

Try eight weeks.

[frostfist]

Don't think we had enough people to last eight weeks at the rate things were going.

[ there's a bit of humor in his voice, but it's definitely very forced. ]

[feminitis]

In the hotel we wore veils... and I think in the camp it was just difficult to make out their features other than their outfits, for some reason, but by the time I woke up they were already showing themselves. The other two places I was in, nobody bothered to hide their face once they showed up in person though.

...the way these faces look is new to me.

[frostfist]

[ hotel....camp.....hang on a minute. his face scrunches. ]

Is this your third time doing something like this?

[feminitis]

[ah. oops.]

Technically, it's the fifth, but one of those times I was asleep until the very end of it all.

[frostfist]

[ ........







what the fuck. ]

No wonder you seem so calm about all this.

[feminitis]

I will be decidedly less calm once I set eyes on whoever or whatever is responsible for our being here... and once we're not in an enclosed space where I could accidentally hurt someone if I throw a tantrum.

[frostfist]

Noted. I'll be sure to stay out of your way if or when that happens.

[ because after five rounds of whatever this is, he thinks she deserves it. anyway. back to the tv screens!! the bit about auditors catches his attention. ]

Were things like that in all your previous [ still has no idea what to call them ] experiences? Wishes, timelines, milestones?

[feminitis]

[THE WAY I WAS LITERALLY JUST COPYING THAT LINK FOR WHATEVER TAG I DID NEXT]

In some sense, yes. The hotel was more of a fulfilment of a contract, so I wouldn't necessarily say it falls under that, but I'm no auditor, so maybe they have a different definition. [she crosses her arms, considering...] But the very first one I remember, the person who won our competition used a wish to bring us all back to life.

[frostfist]

[ hmm hmm hmmmmmm....he nods slowly. ]

Were you forced to fight as part of the competitions?

[bladeward]

The Eudora crew all wore helmets. [ points at this guy. ]

Artemy was one of them actually, which I'm sure makes him even more thrilled to be in this mess.

[ looks at how wrio is our 2 weeker... ] Guess your experience was pretty different, huh.

[frostfist]

Eudora....the place you were at?

[ he is slowly beginning to Learn as their lone two weeker. (face_holding_back_tears) ]

But yeah, it was. For one thing, we didn't really have to kill each other. [ much. ]

[bladeward]

That was the name of the ship, yeah. We visited different planets each week.

[ wrio you got this man. ]

No freak possessions or other things that made people go crazy and kill? What happened to your group then?

[frostfist]

We did have a few people turn into swans. All the guys had to bark like dogs each time they wanted to talk to someone.

[ fun times!! ]

But otherwise it was mostly a lot of watching people die in new and different ways every day.

[bladeward]

Oh we had things similar to that happen to, but they were different from the murder.... usually.

[ love fun effects. ]

Every day? That's a bit overkill...

[frostfist]

Yeah, it sounds like the rest of you had longer stays with a little less [ headtilt from one side to the other ] dying in sequence.

[ why was his experience different..... ]

Wish I could tell you why ours turned out the way it was, but we never met any of the people behind it.

[bladeward]

Not sure which is worse, a longer stay with weekly deaths or a shorter one with daily deaths.

[ both are bad. ]

Can't be liable if they stay anonymous, I guess. Ours wasn't exactly people, more like a giant alien monster... I'm still processing it.