[ 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

[murderhost]

Six weeks!

[ yay! ]

[incurse]

Are you serious?! Lives are at stake, and not just ours!

[ The repercussions of them being stuck here like this...it could be catastrophic. He can't accept this. ]

[murderhost]

Time is paused in your worlds. You'll go back home from the moment we took you. Don't worry about it.

[ Thumbs! Up! 👍 ]

[incurse]

[ Oh! Well in that case--

Nah, that doesn't really make him feel more at ease. ]

If that's even true, that's still holding us captive in your sick game for six weeks.

[ A beat. ]

What did the comments mean? About people doing things in "private".

[murderhost]

Sometimes people will do things not in the main areas of the house. Then we have to switch the camera feeds to keep track of them. It's more fun, and gets higher ratings, if people do things in relative public where others can run into and see them.

[ Aka private conversations get lower ratings. Put it all on blast in public! ]

[incurse]

[ That sounds way too convenient of an answer. So has pretty much everything Butterworth has said. ]

You sure it's not just to keep things secret from the audience for the drama?

[murderhost]

[ A shake of his head. ]

No, no, the audience definitely sees everything. But the drama is better when people in the house can see it too. Like, have you watched any reality TV before?

[incurse]

[ No, actually! ]

And that's what it's all about, huh. What the audience wants.

[murderhost]

Exactly.

[ Yay! ]