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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[ensiforme]

I gathered by your stance. You lean towards the side you sheathed it and you have checked several times with your hand to ensure you can reach it, should you feel you need to. You are untrained enough that it was obvious to my eyes.

[ It takes an all-too casual bite out of its Pile O' Meats before saying, just as casually: ]

It's just as well he was drunk, then.

[lemonyscented]

[at first he was just nodding along to what she was saying, giving agreeable sounds where fitting but not processing anything she was actually saying.

Until the end.

He freezes, skin breaking out into gooseflesh.

Ah, Vince told it. Did... did he tell all of them? Did they all know what Vincent was? And were fine just talking to the chef like a friend? Worse. They knew who Rody was.

His hand slides to his hip, just as it called him out on moments before. He gives no shit if it sees]

Oh? Ha... I'm kinda surprised he told anyone about that!

[like they were talking about his former boss doing something embarrassing after a little too much wine. Not. This]

[ensiforme]

It was not entirely of his own will. But when I am curious, I am persistent.

[ vince endured. so many weeks of it pestering him nonstop. i mean, he 100% deserved it, but still. ]

I was curious to see if you would be able to put up a better fight than him but it seems I would be disappointed if I were to challenge you. A shame. Nevertheless, I am impressed you managed to kill him all the same. And quite brutally as well, as he tells it.

1/2

[lemonyscented]

He fucking deserved it.

[lemonyscented]

... but, I mean, I don't really wanna fight you anyway??

[ensiforme]

[ . . .

Ahah. Flames. Too quick and hot to sustain a forge that could turn out tempered metal. The inconsistent bursts of searing, scorching heat that turn a sword out malformed and half finished.

Her eyes flit over to where Winter still stands interrogating Vince and then back to Rody. Now it understands. ]

We clashed between the two of us on occasion. I was interested to see what could be expected of the man who bested him.

[ It smiles at him. ]

Why did you burn him?

[lemonyscented]

[And as if sensing he was being talked about Vincent looks away from Winter to stare at them.

Or, well, stare at Rody. He was always staring at Rody. If Rody noticed he was trying very hard to pretend he didn't]

Do we really have to talk about this?!

[ensiforme]

Yes.

[ said in a voice that's somehow cheery and no nonsense all at the same time. It is very clearly not going to take 'no' for an answer. ]

I have been curious and you are the only one who can explain your actions. Who else am I to ask?

[lemonyscented]

I dunno, him maybe? Ugh... of course he wouldn't get it, he's insane.

[he rubs his face, fighting between crying and yelling]

I TOLD you- because he deserved it. He killed my gi-... my ex-girlfriend and tried to FEED her to me!

... just getting away wasn't enough. I wanted him to suffer.

[ensiforme]

[ It eyes him for a long moment, taking in the look on his face and absorbing the strained tremble of his voice...

And then against all odds it

nods? approvingly...??? ]

As you should have. Few have the stomach to enact deserved retribution, even when it so clearly is called for. You did well.

[lemonyscented]

...

Hearing that from you feels really gross, actually.

[ensiforme]

[ It frowns at him. ]

How rude. I was doing my very best to sincerely praise you.

[ What's worse: the fact that she had to actively try or that all that was the best she could come up with??? ]

[lemonyscented]

Ngh, you all are just as bad as he is!!

[yeah he's actively crying now, rip]

Tell him-... tell him if he comes back I'll kill him again. I'll make SURE this time! Keep him for all I care-!

[ensiforme]

[ It's totally unmoved in the face of his tears - but the instant he proposes it keep Vince like some kind of stray mutt, it pulls a face like someone who's just smelled something foul and is politely trying to pretend they haven't. ]

I... do not want to keep him.

[lemonyscented]

Yeah, and I don't either. So just do whatever you want. But I'm done.

[AND HE IS BAILING FROM THIS CONVERSATION AT A VERY FAST CLIP]

[ensiforme]

[ Eglantine watches him go with a little frown on its face. He's much more skittish than she'd been anticipating and in some odd way she's... disappointed? A little let down?

With that same perturbed expression, it turns on its heel and makes its way across the party to where Vince and Winter are still talking (or rather, where Winter is kind of infodumping about magic on Vince) and waits for a break in the chatter long enough to speak up with; ]

He was very underwhelming.

[deadplating]

[Vince's gaze is a little glazed, listening to Winter. But he hasn't bailed on the conversation out of annoyance or to follow Rody around... so that's a good(?) sign?

He scoffs when it speaks]

I don't know what you expected.

[ensiforme]

[ It wrinkles its nose. ]

I expected him to have any presence whatsoever. Or to be less of a...

"A wet, pathetic beast." [ Winter breaks in. When Eglantine shoots her a baffled look, she points over her shoulder to where Rody is currently being well-intentionally terrorized by Heian poet and pepsi lesbian, Sei Shounagon. ] "That's what Nagiko called him."

[deadplating]

[Vince laughs, a low raspy sound.]

That's exactly it. He's a fucking mangy dog.

[ensiforme]

I think that says a great deal more about you than perhaps you may have necessarily wanted it to.

[ Winter nods firmly in agreement. ]

[deadplating]

You have no room to talk about my tastes.

[NO THEY HAVE A WHOLE SEMI TRUCK WORTH OF ROOM MY DUDE]

cw tasteless (heh) cannibalism and animal harm jokes

[ensiforme]

I've never tried to feed anyone a rat. Or their wife.

"Girlfriend." [ Winter interjects with a correction. W-wait, how did she know??

Eglantine just nods. ]

Yes, his girlfriend.

[ AS IF THAT MAKES IT BETTER??? ]

[deadplating]

[Honestly he's not even going to question it. Instead he taps up a ciggerate and starts lighting it without care of who he's talking to]

EX-Girlfriend, actually. And he didn't even TRY either one!

[ensiforme]

Well, yes. It was a rat.

[ said in a tone of, like. come on, man. even she thinks you're a freak for that one. ]

[deadplating]

Meat is meat. He shouldn't have fed it.