[ 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

[crashout]

And so how do you expect us to follow the contract if we don't know what was in it to begin with? Feels like a pretty big plothole to me.

[murderhost]

I have already told you what you need to do! Get good ratings, for our show. My show. The show.

[ Is it really his show, he has to wonder. ]

[crashout]

Alright. Murder the only way to get good ratings then?

[ dess was right to punch your entire head off. ]

[murderhost]

Nooo. Get ratings by living up the ✨drama✨! Date someone, make enemies with someone, all kinds of things help.

But remember the premise of the game! Someone still will end up dying.

[asimilate]

[Stands behind PB so PB can't see him and shakes his head really hard]

[crashout]

Sure. Reality TV, people eat that shit up. [ annoying... ] What's actually in it for you then?

[murderhost]

Oh, nothing. This is just what I was built for.

[crashout]

Built, huh. [ sure. ] If someone were to murder you, would that count?

[murderhost]

No, they'd just rehost me.

[crashout]

Like the rest of the crew. Fine, next question. How long is this show supposed to go on? Until the rest of us are dead or until we take out your killers? Or a fun secret third option?

[murderhost]

Six weeks. That's how long you have to get good ratings.

[crashout]

Six weeks regardless? Or can it end early? Pretty sure some of us have some pretty pressing business to get back to. And what kind of a prize is "going back home?" No other incentive in play here?

[murderhost]

It can end early! There are... ways for it to end early. If you end up blowing it out of the water one week, why would we drag it out, you know?

And maybe we can give more! I don't know. What do you want?

[crashout]

You mean besides leaving? [ the vague "ways" mostly feels like murder in some degree so sure, fine, understood. he is under zero impression the show would be successful if people were just having dramatic breakdowns everywhere (or maybe tamon can save us after all...?) ]

Depends though. What are the limits of what could be asked? I don't see a reason to say what I want if it can't even be considered.

[murderhost]

[ Ha ha. ]

No, no, you have to earn the right to leave!

But if you earn it, then you can... have a wish? Any wish you want! Granted! Uhm. A bunch of money. Reality altering things. Kill someone you don't like back home. Anything!

[crashout]

Yeah, well, you've got the wrong guy. I didn't sign up to be here.

[ all of this is making him even more suspicious my man. ]

Are you hands off after this little Q&A session or are you actually sticking around?

[murderhost]

[ Oh no! ]

I'll be around. I mean, not around around but if you wanna talk or something, we can. I'll probably be in the production room.

[ He points... down the hallway? Isn't the production room upstairs? ]

[crashout]

Probably...? [ where in the hell else would you go? ]

[murderhost]

Probably!

[ Hehe. ]

[crashout]

So... what, we knock on the door and hope you're there or something?

[ do you wish to open yourself up to dealing with his annoying ass, pb. do you. ]

[murderhost]

[ He super does, actually. ]

Yep! I'll be there! Most likely!

[crashout]

[ cool time to hunt this man (?) for sport. ]

Only slightly better than the last guy. But fine. I'll believe it when I see it.

[ it will be when you least expect it... be prepared. ]

[murderhost]

[ He gives Junpei a thumbs up, of course. 👍 ]