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

[alchemicals]

Maybe it is.

But if you can think of another option, I'd be interested in hearing it.

[fullonbraced]

....

[She looks as though she's deep in thought for a moment.]

Wait, I got it! No one kills anyone and the computer gives up!

[alchemicals]

[...ACTUALLY...]

Hey, you know, you actually might have a point...? This is supposed to be a team-building exercise, right?

[fullonbraced]

Hey! Yeah! If we use teamwork, we can get out of here, right?

[Was she brilliant? She feels like she was brilliant!]

[alchemicals]

[You were so brilliant just now.]

The main problem here is going to be convincing everyone else.

[fullonbraced]

[She wishes she could see the look on Hugh's face now.]

....We could tell them they'd die if they don't do it!

[Which is... technically true.]

[alchemicals]

We could. The problem is more with convincing everybody - if we don't hit one, they're going to start killing and there's a chance it'll go straight downhill from there.

And if we don't tell them right, they're going to assume we're...what was it, Communists? They're going to think we just want to pick them off.

[fullonbraced]

[...If it hasn't gone downhill already you mean.]

Yeah, they'll think were communists, man! What's with that? Why do we have to be communists anyways?

[alchemicals]

[...well, chronologically we're down one Moge-ko body by now anyway, Kimbley's just biding time until he can kill her...]

What...are communists, anyway?

[fullonbraced]

....They're, like, evil Russians, man!

[alchemicals]

[...fuck's a russian]

So this is pretty much just designating some of us as "evil." Yeah?

[fullonbraced]

Yeah! And the evil Russians had all these weird rules and stuff, man! We're not like that, man! We're not communists!

[They're basically having some people be labeled as okay to kill. It turned Robin's stomach in knots.]

[alchemicals]

[That's what he thought.]

Us against the other, then.

[He just rakes his hand back through his hair.]

This is bullshit. I mean, I bet I don't have to tell you that, but...

[fullonbraced]

It is!!!

[She swings her arms down, probably to smash some pottery that she didn't have.]

Where's the sincerity, man?! Where's the way out?!

[alchemicals]

You're kidding, right?

[The words leave him immediately, abruptly.]

There's no fucking sincerity in a situation like this. You just give in to Us Against Them and hope you don't die.

Either that, or like you said, we don't play.

[fullonbraced]

...Ugh... Auuugh!

[She shouts angrily, her brace straining loudly with the exertion.]

Then... we don't play! We have to make everyone not play!

[alchemicals]

...Yeah. Yeah, we won't play.

[This kid's going to get eaten alive; it's gonna be amazing.]

I'm not going to tell you it'll be nice and fine because it probably won't, but try not to hurt yourself in the meantime, you know?

[fullonbraced]

[Kimbley, your psychotic nature is showing. Not that Robin notices.]

I'll be just fiiine! I can handle whatever's gonna happen, man!