utried | bus

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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...

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.

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.

[ both! both are ~~good~~ bad!! you know what else sounds bad? a giant alien monster. ]

Maybe I don't mind the rabbits and moles after all.

[ they were quite friendly...... ]

What do you think about the whole auditing thing? I can't say I like it, but it smells like typical upper management to me.

I think you may have lucked out with those ones, yeah.

[ can't wait to see what horrors are to be faced here. ]

It sounds like an excuse to put us all through this again. [ smells like BS!!! ] And who knows how much of what those guys are telling them is true. With Artemy and them, they're brains had been messed with and affected what they could and could not talk about.

[ makes a sour face. hateful. ]

[ their what ]

Their what?

[ help ]

Their memories had been tampered with and they were all missing different things. [ he holds his right arm up, pulling the sleeve of his jacket down. from shoulder to fingertips, it's prosthetic and pretty sick looking. robo arm... ]

They'd been dealing with the mess before we'd even gotten there, things just got progressively worse once we arrived. [ bc ofc they did. ]

[ wtf i thought i replied to this. that is a pretty sick robo arm though. ]

I'm sorry to hear that. [ genuinely. ] Did you ever manage to resolve the mess?

[ shakes dw. ]

No worries. [ nods ] We did. It took eight weeks, but we eventually figured out how to return everything back to normal. Now we can come and go as we please, the crew included.

I imagine we'll have to do something similar to get out of this mess. It's gonna come down to both sides working together, for us to go back home.

[ he is really starting to feel out of his element as a two-weeker. ]

Seizaburo said something similar, but unless there's some way of communicating with the other side to let them know we exist I'm not sure how that's going to happen.

[ playing the long game now, bud... ]

I imagine that'll come eventually, it'll just be a matter of how. Though us being here from the start does make it more complicated. I just hope it's sooner rather than later...

It's never happened where someone's started on this side to begin with?

[ huh. ]

Not in my experience, no. But we've all experienced different rounds, so maybe this isn't the first time?

[ SHRUGS ]

I suppose it wouldn't do to leave everything predictable, especially for people who have done this before. It might make things too easy.

[ there is some sarcasm on the last two words because he doesn't think any of this should be happening to begin with!! ]

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