118th ♫ | asking myself over and over – "have i won? has a new me been reborn?"

[phaiinein]

Welcome, Champions, to the Tulipa Residency Station, the #1 top voted temporary home away from home, currently orbiting the beautiful uninhabited planet of Seraphim #52973! You've been given the very exciting opportunity to test out our facilities for free over the next few weeks. All the food fun and relaxation you could ever want alongside a beautiful view, at absolutely no cost! If space makes you anxious, don't fret! We have an on-board therapist, the distinguished Doctor Maruki here to attend to your every need! Oh, you didn't agree to come here? You want to go home? There's a weird rule in your resident ID about murder? Well, I guess there is one teeny tiny catch... Welcome to the murdergame meme: Airlocked Gaiden edition! This is a meme-ified version of the Airlocked sequel/Round 6 AU cooked up by myself and Jess made available for everyone to goof around with. HAVE FUN, GANG TL;DR: we still have airlocked brainrot THE BASICS: This meme is for threads/plots/mingles/whatever set in an Airlocked-based AU as outlined above. You don't need to be Airlocked alumni to play here but some familiarity with the game's vibes and mechanics is useful! The game's setting is Tulipa Residency Station, a high class space station orbiting an unoccupied planet. It's basically a cross between a super fancy hotel and a super fancy cruise liner so feel free to make up fitting locations as you see fit. AND YES, YOU CAN HAVE ROOMMATES. Slap up a toplevel quickly outlining what's going on with your character in the tradition of murdergame memes gone by – you can also outline your character's role in the game, how long they last and maybe give ideas for progressive CR, memory reveals, that sort of thing! TAG AROUND AND HAVE FUN THAT PART IS NOT OPTIONAL PROMPTS: Downtime 1. Excuse Me, Who Are You? You've just woken up in this weird place and you have no idea what's going on. But hey -- maybe this stranger's more informed than you. Or maybe you can put your heads together and investigate what's going on. 2. Social Link Go! Well, if you're going to be stuck in here for however long, you might as well get to know the people stuck in here with you. You've got plenty of rooms to explore together and there's enough to do to keep you occupied. How do you plan on passing time without killing each other? 3. Vending Machine Woes Somewhere in this place there's a mysterious vending machine that spits out all manner of bizarre items and occasionally dispenses items that belong to you and the other people trapped here. You've got a fat stack of tokens and nothing to lose. 4. The Corners of My Mind So as it turns out, your lovely hosts have been fiddling with your memories. Maybe you're just discovering this now or maybe you've had a particularly upsetting memory regain you're dealing with. 4. Wildcard! GO WILD AND BE FREE (or as free as you can be here, anyways) PUTTING THE MURDER IN MURDER GAME 1. Motive Your mysterious overseer has decided there's not nearly enough murder going on and so they've ~helpfully~ given you a little push to do the deed. Maybe one of your loved ones is in danger, maybe they're offering more money than you could ever dream of or they're threatening to reveal your deepest darkest secrets. Whatever is it, would you kill for it? 2. Murder WELL APPARENTLY, YES. Are you a killer or are you being killed? Either way, someone's not walking away from this alive. 3. Body Discovery Rise and shine, murdergame! It's a brand new day and someone's dead. Better get investigating! 4. Trial You know how this one goes. Line up all your evidence and sniff out the killer -- or sit there and sweat and hope no one works out you're the murderer. Will they go down with a confession or put up a fight? 5. Afterparty You've survived another trial, but more of your friends have died. Even without the executions, trials are a stressful enough affair. It's time to destress and lick your wounds and support each other. 6. Mastermind It's the end. It's time to uncover all the mysteries behind this murder game -- and find out just who trapped you here. Are they really an unconnected party, or is the mastermind someone among you...? 7. Freedom Just as it says -- you're finally free, but at what cost? Have those you love been returned to you, or are you still reduced to just those who made it to the end? Are you on your own, or is anyone here to help you? And more importantly, how the hell are you going to get home? CHAMPION PROFILE CODE: <center><b>Name:</b> NAME | <b>TITLE (Super High School Level, Ultimate, Champion, etc)</b> <b>Age:</b> AGE | <b>Species:</b> SPECIES | <b>Occupation:</b> OCCUPATION <b>Likes:</b> LIKES <b>Dislikes:</b> DISLIKES <b>Traits:</b> A HANDFUL OF NOTABLE TRAITS <b>Trivia:</b> A PIECE OF TRIVIA</center>

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[finalflower]

I should hope so. Who knows how the future will be? -- Ah, thank you.

[That last part directed to the robot server as it comes back with the steak. She sits up and gives one of her smiles that no one ever seems to be able to tell if it's genuine or if something is about to go very wrong.]

But then, the future was on your likes from the beginning, wasn't it? I imagine you've found a lot to interest you on the station.

[tworo]

Not now, thank you.

[No food orders from him right now!]

It is fascinating! There's so many new things to see and learn about - I only wish we could leave this station. Imagine traveling freely through space!

[finalflower]

That would be nice... and not having to deal with all of this, especially. But murder aside, everything we hear about the outside just makes me want to hear more. Hopefully from a more reliable source.

[tworo]

Of course it isn't possible, but I wish I could travel through this world some, if we ever get out of here. I think it would be...enlightening.

[finalflower]

It isn't possible yet. It should just be a matter of grabbing their methods back from them.

[tworo]

Oh - yes, of course. That isn't quite what I meant. If we ever manage to escape this place...I should probably return home, that's all.

[finalflower]

It ought to be possible to do both.

[She takes a contemplative bite of the steak and looks out the window.]

If you didn't already have a way to move across worlds, why not take theirs from them? It's only fair after what they've done.

[tworo]

Do you think we would all be able to claim it for ourselves, just like that/

[finalflower]

Oh, it's never "just like that." Anything worth this much will take work, dedication... the blood of our captors, should they be so unlucky. [That menacing chuckle again. Maybe that's just how she is?] But it can't be easy, with all we've been through.

[tworo]

No, of course not.

[He'd sounded a little more amused than genuinely buying into "just like that".]

I'd prefer not to kill them, given other options. But if it comes to that... [Shrug. It's the safety of the group, right?]

[finalflower]

That's what I think. They might be too dangerous to let be. We can't know without knowing anything about them.

[tworo]

[Turo nods.]

It's difficult to project what we might do, right now. If it becomes necessary for our defense, or our escape...then I will certainly not prevent such actions. Not after what we've had to do here.

[finalflower]

The kind of person who runs this type of thing has to have a goal that matters more than lives, and ideals they think are worth sacrifice. We won't be able to surmount them unless we have the same faith in our own convictions, whatever the cost. That's what I think, anyway.

[tworo]

[Still looking away:]

I know the type. [...] But we can come together. None of us are alone here.

[finalflower]

The rules of the exercise say otherwise, but I'd rather not give them the satisfaction. Not after all of this.

[This punctuated with her fork stabbing into the steak.]

I've been bothering Maruki-sensei, but he's proving difficult to get enough information from.

[tworo]

He is. I've been talking to him regularly as well, but it's...unproductive.

[he hates it he hates it he hates it!]

[finalflower]

Anyone brought on as a therapist by people who want you to resort to murder must either be necessarily bad at his job, or good at it in ways that he can then twist to the opposite end. So he's either very obtuse or very, very dangerous. On the other hand, the ends may justify the risk if something can be cracked out of him.