DAY 00

[thecomputer]

[Good afternoon, Citizens!

Your consciousness blurrily returns as the transport tube your comatose body was stored in opens up, admitting you access to an unfamiliar room. One wall is covered by vertical tubes, one occasionally sliding open to admit another confused person. The wall across from you has a sign saying "PROCEED TO CENTRAL HUB", with an arrow pointing at a red doorway in the corner. The wall to your right contains an unlabeled, dusty, and poorly-lit hallway with blue walls, floor, and ceiling. You can't see the end from here.

Somewhere on your person, you will find a thin, smartphone-sized object that wasn't there before. One side of it is lit up with a red background and a number of disabled menu items. Most of the screen is taken up by another message saying "PROCEED TO CENTRAL HUB".

What is this place, anyway? And who are these people stumbling in through the transport tube array?]

[[Beyond the three prompts below, anyone may start their own prompts to mingle or go off and do their own thing or whatever else they want!]]

Comments

[harshwords]

Then you should be glad. The only one I've met who seems relatively pleasant is the selfless idiot over there.

[ She'll gesture to where ever Seryu is, if she's in the general vicinity still. ]

As far as I know, anyway.

[standbyrival]

[he just gives a slow blink over toward her general direction]

Either she'll be the first to kick the bucket or she'll snap when it turns out being selfless won't accomplish anything.

[harshwords]

Well, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if either of those things happened. She told me that she'd give herself up if she were chosen as a Communist.

[ Not that she's taking those words at face value, but with the way she said, well. ]

[standbyrival]

I'm not going to complain if she does. "Citizens" are going to have a major advantage in numbers over the other team, but they're also going to look really stupid if they manage to let five people fool them. It'd be a benefit to everyone if someone so flippant about their own life was eliminated early on.

[harshwords]

I won't either if I'm not on the side of the Communists. I think it's a stupid tactical move to just off yourself just because more people will survive that way.

[standbyrival]

It's not even tactical, it's just stupid all on itself. There's not even a guarantee a sacrifice like that would even work. That kind of thinking is foolish and selfish, no matter how noble anyone thinks they're being.

[harshwords]

It honestly wouldn't work, because the game would still continue regardless unless they were the last Communist alive.

[standbyrival]

Pretty much. [a light snort] I guess it's safe to say a few of you do have some common sense.

[harshwords]

If I didn't, I'd be showing off by now.

[standbyrival]

Showing off?

[harshwords]

Yeah. Like I would say "Oh, I'm the smartest person in the entire planet!"

[standbyrival]

..............................yeah, please don't do that.




Who are you supposed to be, anyway?

[harshwords]

Don't worry, I don't plan on doing things like that.

[ The one who likes to gloat a lot isn't here, after all. ]

Tohsaka Rin. That's all you really need to know.

[standbyrival]

Uh, yeah, that's all I asked.

[harshwords]

Then it's only right for you to introduce yourself in return, isn't it?

[ Names are important, after all. ]

[standbyrival]

It is if you assume I'm that courteous.

But I'm not.

[heeeee is kind of a jerk]

[harshwords]

Oh, great. Someone who wants to stay anonymous. I suppose I can just ask the others for their names and figure it out that way.

[standbyrival]

That's a waste of time. When it's relevant, you'll know.