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mgtropes ([personal profile] mgtropes) wrote in [community profile] utried2025-05-27 03:46 pm
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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.
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feminitis: (040)

[personal profile] feminitis 2025-06-01 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
The whole thing was rigged anyway. In addition to those threats, there were also shadows possessing people and getting them to kill. He wanted as much bloodshed as possible, because he wanted as few people as possible to be able to make it back to the lobby to check out at the end.

[she grumbles.]

It would have been better if he hadn't gotten the show he was looking for, but if he'd realized what was going on before the contracts were fulfilled, he would have found some other way to keep them all.
bladeward: (016)

[personal profile] bladeward 2025-06-03 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
This guy sucks.

[ makes note to kill nightman on the spot. ]

Sounds like the type that'd never be satisfied, even if everyone was dead in the end. If you ever see him again, definitely take him down and let me know if you want back up.

[ immediately becomes a nightman anti. ]

How'd he rope you and your crew into it, did you guys also have hostages on the line.
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[personal profile] feminitis 2025-06-03 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
He does. An entity that plays games with people's lives like that doesn't deserve to live!

[she wants to murder the nightman so baaaad]

I'll definitely let you know. And ah, not exactly. One thing led to another and we ended up there before it was meant to begin - and we worked with a few of the original employees to infiltrate the hotel and take out the ones who were really going to make things difficult for the participants. We had to pretend to be the ones he'd originally hired the whole time so he wouldn't figure out why they weren't dying as quickly as he'd expected them to... the participants did all the hard work, though. We just bought them enough time for them to find the loopholes they needed.
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[personal profile] bladeward 2025-06-06 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ he supports her 100000%

listens closely and nods. ]

Really does sound like if it wasn't for you all, the participants would've been dead in maybe a week's time. Managing to drag it out for eight is impressive. You guys did a good job, especially seeing as how you all managed to get out on time.

[ that sounds like an awful time for real. ]
feminitis: (urrrk i hecked up)

[personal profile] feminitis 2025-06-06 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
[she shakes her head.]

I don't think they would have died that quickly. That entity is a sadist... it definitely wanted it dragged out for the whole eight weeks. It just wanted as many of them dead at the end as it could get.

They probably would have found some way to survive, but... it was just so unfair. And many of the original facilitators of the game were awful! [she shudders.] One of them was a cannibal, even! And another had six hundred wives, and from what I saw in the files, was quite terrifying on the battlefield. I can't even begin to imagine what would have happened if they'd been left in charge!
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