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

Food Sector

[standbyrival]

Stop screaming, you sound like a kid.

[dictator_ko]

Oh, looks, a brat who thinks they can call Moge-ko that. ♪ I'd play with you, but it's against the rules. ♪

[standbyrival]

I don't "think" I can do anything, I just did. Don't act like one, and I won't say it again.

[dictator_ko]

I step on and BREAK brats like you all the time.

[standbyrival]

Is that supposed to be a threat? Congratulations, you can kill a kid. Do you want a medal?

If you want to get through this and get back to whatever petty life you were leading before, you're better off redirecting that attitude of yours.

[dictator_ko]

You know, the rules says I can't kill you, but they don't say I can't hurt you. ♪ Moge-ko will forgive you if you say you love her. ♪

[standbyrival]

Ha, fat chance. If you try anything that messes me up? I'll axe myself, and you'll be the indirect cause of it. Just how badly do you wanna gamble those last lives of yours. . .?

[dictator_ko]

I wonder what the real results of that will be. ♪ Maybe you'll just DIE and be replaced with a clone.

[standbyrival]

Are you stupid? Of course I'd die, that's the point. But if it means taking you down with me, maybe it's worth the risk.

What can you even do? Punch me? Big deal. Break a bone? Stab me? My disadvantage IS my advantage. I'd probably die from shock or blood loss even if you didn't mean to. . .but it'd be your fault, with another penalty waiting.

[dictator_ko]

Moge-ko can keep her toys alive for days. ♪

[standbyrival]

Too bad I'm not a toy, I'm a trainer. You're going to have to do better than that.

1/3

[dictator_ko]

You're a toy if I say you are.

2/3

[dictator_ko]

Gonna play with you until you scream. ♪

3/3

[dictator_ko]

Gonna PULL out your FINGERNAILS one by one.

[And she grabs for Paul.]

[standbyrival]

.............

[WELL he sure didn't expect that as an option]

[hella jumping back!! but she can probably still grab his sleeve]

--you're crazy, you sick cat freak!

1/2

[dictator_ko]

[Indeed that sleeve does get grabbed.]

Maybe Moge-ko'll forgive you if you say you love her. ♪

2/2

[dictator_ko]

NO, that's a lie. I'm too PEEVED. Did you know people can survive having their eyes cut out? ♪

[standbyrival]

[INTERNAL SCREAMING. Paul haaaates not being in control, and how some weird meowth girl wants to poke his eyes out?? He does what any kid in this situation would do]

[throw a gd tantrum of course. he FLAILS with his free arm, trying to toss some of the not-food-at-all goop at her]

Didn't know, and I'm not finding out!

[dictator_ko]

[Some of the goop gets in her eyes. That only pisses her off even more.]

Gonna make you SCREAM. Gonna peel the skin off your ears. I'LL MAKE YOU SUFFER! MOGEMOGEMOGEMOGEMOGE!

[Sharp teeth briefly sink into his arm, but her grip on his sleeve does loosen.]

[standbyrival]

[Clearly this is the worst, most violent Pokemon-ginka person ever!! He lets out a yell at that, and reflexively just grabs the WHOLE plate of goop, to splat it at her head, wiggling out of his jacket as he does so. Those teeth did some hella damage tho, HOW DARE U]

[this might be the first time Paul doesn't have a snarky comeback for someone, he's gonna just leap on backwards]

[dictator_ko]

[Moge-ko is definitely not happy about getting even more of that gunk on her. She lunges in his general direction.]

AGYAGYAGYAGYAGYAGAGAGAGAGA!

[standbyrival]

Get away from me!

[COMPLETELY CONVINCED SHE IS SOME POKEMON EXPERIMENT GONE WRONG NOW. dashing away to find a personal unit to hide in, he's a surprisingly fast little dude!! tho he's bleeding too but he will worry about that later. and how to get his jacket back.]

[dictator_ko]

Oh, are we playing tag? I like playing tag! ♪

[And she switches between that upbeat tone and the angry ranting as she chases him, but she isn't as fast as she is dangerous, and soon she loses him.]

So it's hide-and-seek now? ♪

[She continues roaming the complex looking for him for a fair while.]