[ week one: overflow ]

[murderhost]

MINGLE LOG

The way you arrive might vary from person to person. Perhaps, you wake up on the beach, with your pet cat licking your face. Or you wake up tucked away in your bed, an item of yours nearby and a card on the bedside table reading your name and Welcome to the manor!

Either way, you end up in a modern mansion on a empty, lonely beach, with no explanation of why you're there or what's going on. In the driveway, there is a car with keys in the ignition but, unfortunately, no gas in the tank. In the living room, there is a touch screen television featuring a variety of profiles featuring you and the many other lost souls trapped in this mansion alongside with you.

There is also a camera crew. A camera crew? Really? But following the characters along are blank faced mannequins in a variety of colors, dressed in all black, operating cameras to film them. If you try and talk to the crew, they say nothing (as they have no mouth or eyes or... anything) and just continue to film them. Trying to touch them results in the mannequin falling over and going immobile, only to be replaced by a new one that appears from... somewhere? Weird.

The kitchen is fully stocked. There are spare clothes in the closets. There's even a few video game systems with games in the living room as well. There are books to read in the library. There's writing and drawing materials in the office. There's things to do. Just... why? To what end? What's going on here?

For those intrepid folks who decide to walk as far as they can away from the manor and the beach will find themselves blinking at one point and suddenly being back in the front yard of the manor. Huh. Strange.

Answers don't seem to be coming anytime soon. You might as well just... settle in?

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PROPERTY DAMAGE | PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS

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Comments

[changel]

[only in some ways. . .]

. . . your duties as General must be quite unusual. May I ask what kind of "games" you have played in the past?

[calling it all a "game" feels weird, but! if that's how Patriarch says it. . .]

[daseine]

You've heard of tag, haven't you?

[ this seems innocent- ]

[changel]

[. . . pffft. she can't help but hide a smile behind her hand]

Of course. A game I greatly enjoyed as a child.

[daseine]

I've played the version you're familiar with and one you're not. The Empire likes to experiment with all different types of training regimens.

[ it was only half innocent... ]

[changel]

[what does that mean. . .]

I'm a bit afraid to ask, but. . . how did your "game" of tag work?

[daseine]

The rules were the same, but instead of catching the person and letting them go, we were instructed to disable them.

[changel]

[. . . ?]

"Disable?" In what way?

[actually, she almost isn't sure she wants the answer]

[daseine]

Dealer's choice. There's a myriad of ways to accomplish such a thing, some more kind than others.

[ yeaaaaaaaaah, some things are better left unsaid. ]