bus

[mgtropes]

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]

[ happy to ruin things for everyone!! ]

Almost thirty? And a dog.

[tactic]

Pickles?

[frostfist]

Hector, actually.

[ wait. ]

You guys also had a dog?

[tactic]

Yeah, he became a good friend.

[ Does not mention how he fell in love with a man in Pickles' body. ]

But sounds like your numbers weren't too far off from ours. We had about forty.

[frostfist]

I'm guessing you weren't losing people every day, with those numbers.

[ unfortunately for me, he does know Math ]

[tactic]

Every day?

[ They'd just lose a bunch of people in one day, actually. ]

Goodness, what were you all doing?

[frostfist]

Enjoying our vacation. [ matter-of-factly. ] It's not our fault some of us happened to get caught in the middle of a fireworks explosion. Or fall off roller coasters.

[ he will not be saying which one happened to him. ]

[tactic]

Huh. You were all killed by accidents, rather than by another participant?

[frostfist]

Most of us. There was one "execution", as I believe it's called, and another accidental homicide, but beyond that the deaths of everyone present were caused either by accidents or other outside forces.

[tactic]

The differences in our experiences are rather interesting.

[ He's not sure which he would have preferred. ]

Two weeks, though. That's not a lot of time to get to know people.

[frostfist]

No, it wasn't. [ he agrees with a shake of his head. ] But apparently it was enough time to temporarily fall in love with multiple people.

[ or whatever the hell was going on there. ]

You'll have to forgive me if something like that happens here as well.

[tactic]

Oh, even the same kinds of curses.

[ The way he wants to grimace but he will keep a straight face. ]

You're in safe hands. I think most of us are familiar enough with these curses to know when someone's affected.

[frostfist]

[ ready to see you love arrowed in two weeks ]

Yes, well, I'd prefer we didn't have to be affected in the first place. But it seems as though someone out there has a particularly twisted sense of humor.

[tactic]

[ RESPECT HIS MARRIAGE ]

If you keep your head down, maybe luck will smile upon you, and you'll be spared from further curses.

[frostfist]

[ no? ]

I've never been particularly lucky.

[tactic]

Well, stick around me and maybe some of my good luck will rub off on you.

[ he rolled two 1s during his cyoa lmao anyway we can end this gooby ]