[DECEMBER INTRO LOG | WORLD TWO]

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Who: All coven members, especially new folk!
Where: In and around the new world’s apartment building where the coven is staying, as well as the rest of Shehui
When: Day 160
Open/Closed: Open to All

How did you get into this building? This apartment room? What the fuck is going on? Let's refer back to this page for a semi in-depth, wow so detailed, explanation of your current situation. Are you up to speed? Great. Now, here's the question of the hour: what are you going to do about it? A ▢ Unlike the other coven members, the newbies are coming into the apartment building with non-empty apartment rooms. Depending on how polite or cautious you are, your first instinct may be to find your apartment and knock on the door. But it is your apartment now, too, and you do have an ID card that'll get you in. What horrible calamity will you walk in on? What eccentric roommates will you happen upon? The wacky situational comedy scenarios are ENDLESS. B ▢ One of the jobs on the job board this week is fundraising -- neat, right? Before you even make it up to your apartment, you may be accosted by an excited citizen -- coven member or no -- that is trying to push something onto your character. Chocolate bars? Cheese logs? Cookie dough? Some other luxury item or overpriced snack food? Because this fundraising task is based on commission, the citizen in question may be a bit pushy...or you may be inclined to buy ridiculous amounts of goods and not know what to do with yourself.

New coven members showing up today are in luck. This week, Shehui is celebrating a Keep the Community Clean event. It's rare that they force jobs on people, but there has been an influx of new citizens and the population growth is leading to more trash. Fulfill your assignment and you'll be rewarded 1,000 credits. Don't? Be fined 500. Everyone has been sent a job to their ID, be it collecting trash, cleaning their apartment building or holding up signs/handing out literature about recycling. Sweeping, bagging...it's dirty work, but someone has to do it. C ▢ Cleaning up trash on the street might be hard, but it's fulfilling! Okay, that's a lie. It's demeaning and a lot of citizens don't really care about the minimal littering credit deduction as they toss trash from their cars or miss throwing it into bins. Volunteers are outfitted with gloves, vests and a roll of trash bags, but it doesn't prevent them from being rudely splashed with snow or having to pick up nasty things. Have fun! D ▢ For those who decided to pass out literature, you did pick the better job! It's a lot easier to avoid getting nasty, but it's also awkward...having to hand out fliers, be cheerful, regurgitate boring facts about recycling. Please sir, stop and listen to this exciting speech about why should put your cans in the red bins, not the blue ones! E ▢ There is a bright side to these jobs: local businesses are getting in on the outpouring of people out and about to try and get them into seats and buying things. Free samples are abound! There's a local coffee shop, Mooncents, that is handing out free small drinks to anyone who is actually working today. Come inside, regardless if you "volunteer" or not. It's warm inside with all that snow out there...

Speaking of snow! Most businesses and buildings in Shehui have paid to have snow falling every other hour, which coats the city areas in a fine, powdery dust of snowflakes. You may be familiar with snow, or maybe you've never seen it in your entire life! It's unavoidable either way, so you're going to have to deal with it. F ▢ Children in Shehui are usually in a school building somewhere, but snow days call for some leniency. School is pretty come-and-go anyway, so don't be surprised that there are quite a few kidlets out and about on the streets. They're also fully into the spirit of snow, throwing snowballs at unsuspecting strangers. Will you get in on the action, or will you plan the murder of innocent children today? G ▢ While it's unadvised to just go lay out in the street and make snow angels, there are plenty of parks in which to examine or play in the snow. You won't be the only one acting like a fool -- it's Shehui. You're allowed to live a little! H ▢ Finally, Coins! has bought the most snow as a means for their seasonal activity -- snow paintball. If you're looking to have a good time and enjoy Shehui for what it is, you'd best be inclined to sign up. A massive field with snowbanks and excellent areas for hiding, snowball paintballs that hurt twice as much as usual. What more could you ask for? I ▢ Wildcard! How will your character interact with this new and unusual world?

Comments

A

[dialtones]

What was that?

[Kurapika, meanwhile, comes to the room a little late. He's been busy surveying everything else before dealing with this whole... roommate thing, so he was able to catch that whole key show at the door. Now, entering the room behind Roxas, he's wondering just who this guy is, using some magic key that can open any door. Who says it's even his roommate?]

[cloak]

[Roxas takes pause and glances around, just to be sure there isn't someone else to address. As he finds no signs of someone else for the guy behind him to have spotted, it seems safe to assume it's him as he turns around]

It's a Keyblade. Not very many people in the worlds have them, so if you haven't seen one, that's probably why.

[Although at one time supposedly there were a great many, he doesn't have much by way of useful or detailed information on the subject]

[dialtones]

State your name. If you have a card to access this room, then there's no reason to be using that "keyblade" of yours at all.

[Of course, Kurapika is automatically serious and paranoid. He has to be!!]

[cloak]

I wouldn't have opened the door if it wasn't my room. That's rude.

[Just stating the facts]

And couldn't I just say one of those names was mine, if I was that kind of person?

[dialtones]

It being rude wouldn't stop you from entering.

[He snaps that, a little irritated, but that latter point is right. Still—] I can tell if you're lying. If you really are a roommate of mine, you should at least introduce yourself.

[Says Kurapika, not introducing himself. He also doesn't have his lie detecting chain, but no one needs to know that.]

[cloak]

If that's the case, then you know it's just like I said.

[Roxas knows enough strange powers by now that he doesn't discount that this guy can do as he says.

But if that's so, then he should be able to tell that Roxas has spoken honestly]

[dialtones]

Your name.

[He repeats it again, firmly, unwilling to budge on anything before he has at least that.]

[cloak]

So it was a bluff.

[He's nothing but impassive in the face of this observation]

I'm Roxas. Which one are you?

[dialtones]

Kurapika.

[He says it without holding back.] It's no bluff, but normally I prefer to see a person's eyes before determining if they're holding anything back. In this case, I can't see any reason to see why you're lying now.

Still, I can't help but be cautious. This is a new place, so I'm never sure what might come next. I won't get in your way.

[cloak]

[He wonders, briefly, if it's that darkness he senses in this person that leads him to be so suspicious. It's impossible to say, because perceiving such things is quite separate from understanding their origins.

But he doesn't judge by that alone as he may have once]

If I don't want to say something, I'd say so.

[This much he can offer; Roxas isn't one for mincing words]

Caution's not wrong, in a situation like this.

[dialtones]

I don't need your approval.

[He's ice cold, extra so because Roxas had instantly put him on edge. Unlike their more meek roommate... He gestures towards the taken rooms.]

This is mine, and there was someone else who's already entered that's claimed that room. You're welcome to any of the other two. It seems one of them is empty, for now, but there's no saying how long that will last.

[cloak]

I never said you did.

[Matter-of-fact and apparently unaffected by the cold front, Roxas shrugs]

Since I don't need to sleep, it doesn't matter which one.

[dialtones]

You don't need to sleep?

[That has him more genuinely curious, and less snappy.] Why is that?

[cloak]

I'm a made thing. [It's terribly casual, the way he says it. The fact wouldn't change regardless of whether he's willing to voice it] Sleep wasn't necessary for my role.

[dialtones]

Your role... Are you saying that you were literally created, and made for a purpose?

[That doesn't sound right at all, but he's willing to be open minded, after all he's discovered.]

[cloak]

[Roxas nods]

That's right. I've got something else now, but I was made for just the one.

[dialtones]

I see. Since your role likely has nothing to do with this place, I won't dig any further now, if you're not willing to share.

[It probably doesn't matter, and that's too personal... He can draw a line right now, when it doesn't apply to him.]

[cloak]

[It might, ultimately, affect all worlds. Because Sora's important to their fate, but...well.

His own part in all of that is done. Sora can handle the pain of others, which means he can help them. That's the end of his involvement in those events]

Based on past experience, it wouldn't make much sense to you, anyway.

[dialtones]

I wouldn't assume that about anyone, if I were you. Anyone can pick up on things quickly.

[And he sure is one of them, but he still won't pry. Not now, at least.] Since you're not breaking and entering, I'll leave you to your tasks. I only wanted to know who I would be sharing an apartment with. [And if he was a weird robber to begin with, too.]

[cloak]

If the rules of your world are completely different, it'd still be confusing.

[And he's met and baffled enough people to know that things work in a drastically different manner outside the worlds he's known.

Most people just don't think every star in the sky is another world]

But we've got credits to earn, right? We all have the same task now.