- 1. Horror: Your characters are taken from their own worlds and thrown into a terrifying situation! Things are creepy, resources are scarce, and ensuring your own survival is paramount.
- 2. Sex Game: For whatever contrived and nonsensical reason, your characters are forced into a world where they gotta bone. Aside from smutstuff, you have the opportunity to play out how very awkward it is to navigate these agreements and encounters before and after. Lasting bonds can form from something you didn't expect! But so can eternal regret.
- 3. Slice of Life: Characters are forced to live together in familial units. They have an opportunity here -- in spite of being stuck -- to relax and slow down and do some fun, ordinary things. Picnics, dates, school, etc.
- 4. Fantasy: Characters are forced into guilds and roles, given weapons and are made to utilize their powers in coordinated units to complete missions.
- 5. Scifi: Characters are thrust on to the frontier of spacial colonization! Characters on a spaceship! Characters being drafted into an Imperial Earth Army to fight/conquer foreign entities! Characters being in a world where they are assessed, identified, tracked and policed by artificial intelligence! And so on!
- 6. Reincarnation/ New Identity: Your character has been reborn at this game, or given a new identity. Work out their karma or help them come to terms with having to live a new life.
- 7. Asylum/Prison/Institutionalized Identity: Characters are locked up and put under heavy surveillance. Slowly they are institutionalized and disintegrated from ordinary social rules of engagement. They could be told that they've been identified as mentally dysfunctional, or they could be in prison! Are they pleading their innocence, or do they know they're guilty as fuck back in their world?
- 8. Assignment-Based/Mercenary/Survival: Characters have to put their skills to good use as drafted mercenaries. Help your captors assassinate, spy, sabotage, infiltrate, steal, and terrorize for points that will lead up to your freedom or the freedom of others.
- 9. Your Choice!: Do whatever!
II - SITUATION
- 1. First Impressions: You never forget your first impression of someone. Unless it was entirely forgettable.
- 2. Oh Hey Again: I kind of know you!!!! Hi!!! I hate this place but love familiarity hi!!!
- 3. Event: SOMETHING IS HAPPENING and your characters have either run into each other or sought each other out to stick together during it!
- 4. Living Quarters: Surprise, your characters are in the same house! Or room! Or building! Either way you have to share space and facilities with this person. Enjoy!
- 5. Mystery: Who Did It? Why Are We Here? Characters are disappearing, people are dying, whatever is happening it is FISHY!
- 6. Canon Update/Respawn/"But we know each other, I swear!": One character comes (back) to a game and does not remember previous CR. A relationship or friend or even hateship is forgotten. How will this be dealt with?
- 7. Begrudgingly Working Together: You are so fucking annoying but I guess we have to fight Monster of the Day Together/Get Unstuck-UnLost Together/Find Our Way Back/Help Each Other Out.
- 8. Is This a Date: Gee, you guys sure are doing a lot of things that people on dates do and you're having a lot of fun [sweats]...
- 9. Violence: Characters beat the shit out of each other or help each other out of a gory situation with terrible traumatic injuries or something!
- 10. One-Sided(?) Crush: How do you get their attention? Or, alternatively, how do you ignore that this person obviously is crushing on you and it's totally awkward
- 11. Protecting/Saving: Your character's chance to be a hero or a damsel!
- 12. Network Post: Mandatory bs.
- 13. Inbox: Hey, can I talk to you for a second? In private?
- 14. Your Choice!: Do whatever!
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oddsandends2017-08-20 06:01 pm
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[ Pitch black humor: how we cope. ]
They're not very dedicated to the whole... actually treating us like prisoners idea though, are they? I mean, the accommodation fits but the profiles and the cellphones... it's like someone got lazy halfway through and decided that was prison-y enough.
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[ Akane has several different ways to cope, puns included. ]
They really aren't. I mean, they let us walk around pretty easily around.
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It makes me wonder when the other shoe is going to drop.
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It really is surprising just how many innocent people there are here to the point where their crimes are "ignorance is bliss". But maybe they just don't care who they bring, as long as they get what they want... not that I would know.
If they plan on stating their intentions, most likely it's going to happen sooner rather than later. That's what most kidnappers do, right? They'll say who they are, ask for their unreasonable demands and maybe have us go about our day until those demands are given. It's something you see normally in mystery and crime novels.
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[ Every single person in space fam is an intergalactic criminal and that's only counting all the shit they got up to post-murdergame.
But unreasonable demands. That sounds familiar in the worst sort of way and a wave of oily nausea passes through Yuuri, that she has to push down hard on before she can carry on typing. ]
If they had demands, I would've thought they'd deliver them sooner. If they want something badly enough to bring us all here, it must be killing them to wait. So why delay? Why not tell us right from the start?
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[ She knows plenty of people with worse track records than she does, but she's also well aware that her track record is... pretty bad. Blame the ability to see all the timelines that she's ever died in or 'existed' in or fucked up in through Junpei's eyes as a child.
Not much seems to phase her anymore. But that won't stop her from being disgusted. ]
If there's a delay there's a reason for it. Also, it might be possible that the demands aren't for us, specifically.
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[ She cannot possibly fathom the idea of that being the case and the Fantasy Sweet survivors taking this long to just tear a hole clean in the multiverse to find her and take her home. If any ragtag group of survivors could no-sell another inter-dimensional kidnapping, it'd be them. ]
That's definitely possible. I'm not sure what they could want from my family, but any one of us being held captive somewhere would be a good enough bargaining chip for anyone who had enough of a death wish to try it.
[ yUURI ]
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[ She would like to not make an ass of herself, after all. ]
I don't know what they would want from mine, either, [ that's a fucking lie ] but it's a mistake to take anybody from their homes. Especially when those families are dangerous.
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[ you say that as if that isn't the goddamn gospel truth, Yuuri. ]
I just hope, whatever happens in here, we can find a way back to them soon. This is the longest I've ever been away from them since we all met and I can't imagine how worked up they must be. I just wish I could... send a message, at least. Let them know I'm okay.
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[ She killed people with a chainsaw, after all. But that was out of revenge for killing the one she cared about the most. She has priorities, here. ]
I agree. There's plenty of people that would worry about me and I'm sure Junpei-kun would chase me to the ends of the earth. Even if he shouldn't.
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What she'd said was the truth: Yuuri hasn't spent a full day out of anyone's company since she and her messed up little family left the Fantasy Sweet. It's not like they're all glued at the hip, of course, but at the end of the day they're all still under the same roof. They're all still family.
It's still a little hard to get to sleep some nights now that she's in a bed by herself again.
It wouldn't be like having any of them here. It certainly wouldn't be a replacement. But... talking about Junpei, at least, with someone who knows him. Maybe that would be familiar enough that she won't feel like she's missing an arm anymore.
So after a long pause: ]
Can I ask you something that might seem a little out of nowhere, Akane-san?
[ She knows. She's known ever since Akane introduced herself, but she might as well make it seem less like she's been lying this whole time. ]
What's his surname?
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But this should be fine. ]
Tenmyouji. His full name is Junpei Tenmyouji.
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Unless it was a name like that. A name so ridiculous she's sure the fates only brought it into existence so Ardyn still had a suitably ostentatious surname once he'd started using it. ]
I thought as much.
This is starting to sound less and less like a coincidence, don't you think? The same name on our profiles is one thing but the same person really is another.
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[ That it definitely isn't a coincidence, that is. Not that Akane is surprised at all, given the current situation. ]
It means that they might have taken us with that purpose in mind... although I highly doubt that's the only purpose.
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[ Of course, giving the name pride of place on their profiles and in the "likes" at that says a certain something, does it? Maybe this isn't the best idea. But it's not like she can just close this can of worms now she's cracked it open.
And besides that, now she's curious. Akane talks about Junpei in the present tense. Akane's name on the Fantasy Sweet had come up in did, was, used to be tense. That implies some time has passed and she doesn't imagine asking some innocent questions will do much harm. ]
That's assuming they actually are the same, of course. But it sounds like him. How old was he, the last time you saw him?
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[ Well, it matters to her as well, but she's already fully aware of alternate timelines, so this could be Junpei Tenmyouji, but not Junpei Tenmyouji. The Zero Escape series is fucking weird. ]
As for your question. Old. [ ... seriously, Akane? ] When I saw him back in my world, he was twenty-two. We're the same age.
Is it different for you?
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[ As far as she knows, anyway. Space time fucks you up. ]
It's probably a similar situation to what's already going on here, though. They might be the same person but the Junpei I know probably isn't the Junpei you know. Am I making sense?
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[ Her reply is so quick it's almost as if there's some sort of I knew it connotation that settles in her words. ]
I'm pretty aware of those, so don't worry; you're making complete sense to me.
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[ It's still all sort of a mess -- if there's a Junpei and an Akane in her world then neither of them are anywhere near twenty-two. And Akane isn't talking like Junpei had suddenly gone missing at any point -- so it stands to reason that the grouchy prickly detective who'd woken up on the Fantasy Sweet wasn't the one this Akane was talking about.
God. World hopping is such a damn disaster. ]
Now I'm just worrying that when we eventually get out of here, two of them are going to show up. They always say you're not supposed to meet your other selves in scifi stories, don't they?
[ Insert joke here about Zero Escape espers and what they tend to do to their alternate timeline selves. ]
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[ They might be. Who knows. Yuuri sure doesn't. ]
With any luck the worst we should have to deal with is two of those stupid vests in the same room at the same time.
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[ Even though she says that so casually, almost as if it were meant to be a joke, it's obvious that she is making fun of him. Rest in pieces, Junpei... ]