[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

[yancat]

Hmm. Your stomach's stronger than mine.
[Or just less spoiled.]

All the more incentive to clean this damn street.

[Look. He's been good for more than a week. If the prim and proper Jumin curses out of the blue, it's not his fault.]

Then maybe I can get more than proper coffee.

[mesmerevenant]

You'd probably have better luck finding a job than doing volunteer work in that case.

[ This is a capitalist wonderland after all. Jumin would probably do well. ]

[yancat]

No. I like money.

[ He's not going to ignore 1000 credits, man. Just gonna stab the rest of the trash on Jun's side of the street, then! ]

I only have to endure for another week or so. Then I can work at a company—preferably sales, marketing or finance. What sort of job would you get, if you had the chance?

[mesmerevenant]

Good question. Maybe I'll pick up a job as a barista? I worked as one part-time back home.

[ Thus why he knows his coffee. ]

[yancat]

Hm.

You'll have to tell me where you work, when you do. I don't think I can trust anyone here to make my coffee.

[Trash, bag. Trash, bag. Work never stops.]

Jumin Han. What do I call you?

[mesmerevenant]

[ It's almost as if the city is creating more trash on purpose...! ]

Jun pauses though, actually surprised to find another Korean here - though maybe he shouldn't be? Who's to say they're from the same Korea anyway? This multiple worlds and realities deal is still difficult to fully grasp.

He continues on like he doesn't have various complex thoughts spinning through his head. ]

Ah, I'm Jun-Seo Park. I can't make any promises about my coffee, but it should be better than what we just got.

[yancat]

[ Several thoughts hit Jumin at once. He'd been the only Korean in the coven for a while, so he should be relieved to meet another person with whom he might share the same experiences, or at the very least the same language. But he'd also hoped that the possibility never existed, that no one else he knew would have to leave their lives back home and help a suspicious entity with an even more suspicious purpose. He could manage alone, of course—he always has—but if one of the RFA were to arrive and he was to disappear just as suddenly as he had before, how would they cope? It would be better if he was back in his office, but it would be best if no one had to be here at all.

Then again, Jun never so much as blinked at his name when it's plastered everywhere on the media. Perhaps he's from an entirely different Korea? No, that doesn't put him at ease, either...

But like Jun, he proceeds as usual. ]

It's better than nothing. A pleasure to meet you, Jun-Seo. You're Korean, then... I thought I'd be the only one.

[mesmerevenant]

I'm surprised too... though, I'm mostly Korean in name only. I've spent most of my life overseas.

[ It's an important distinction to Jun, since as a returnee he never quite fit in with a lot of Korea's social expectations.

At least it means he's accustomed to traveling around though, and the thought makes him smile sardonically. ]

I guess now isn't all too different from what I'm used to.

[yancat]

Hmm. Good for you.

[ Far too many expectations to meet, far too many people to hate. But the news is good for Jumin, too. Maybe the chances are worse for the RFA. It's better that way.

...

Though he does miss having an assistant— ]

The city reminds me of Busan, but I suppose you wouldn't be familiar. I expect us to stay in this world for another month or two until we find what we're looking for. Then it's back to the hub.

[mesmerevenant]

[ Jun nods, because Jumin's assessment isn't incorrect and the information is good to know. ]

I've only ever been in Seoul when in Korea, though this place isn't too different from there either.

What do you mean by what we're looking for, exactly? I was given a letter explaining some of this, but.. it was rather vague.

[yancat]

Qri's always been vague. And now she's missing.

[ He says it with a little more bite. Trash, bag. Trash, bag. God, he hates the magic ban. ]

It's our mission to collect energy from each world we're sent to, no matter the cost. For what purpose, I'm not sure. Qri says it's vital to the balance of the universe.

[mesmerevenant]

So how did that mission go on the last world...? Is it related to why she's missing currently?

[ Sorry Jun has so many questions, it's just... frustrating. As you can imagine. ]

[yancat]

[It's fine. As arrogant and aloof as he seems, Jumin loves being helpful. He just doesn't always have the time.]

No, it isn't. I haven't the slightest clue as to why she's gone, if Genette is to be believed. As for the last world, it was successful, I suppose. We had to collect bones.

[mesmerevenant]

[ They literally have time to waste right now. (Get it.)

All Jun has is more and more questions though. Honestly. What is with this set up?! ]

Bones?

[yancat]

[Jumin would have laughed at that pun also I love you??]

Yes. There were two species on Aimintas: the Uvi and the Palai. The Uvi would attack Palai settlements for their bones. These bones contained magical energy, you see.

[mesmerevenant]

[ Just you wait, Jun has plenty of puns he'd use if he had the chance. ]

... I think I'm starting to get the picture. That's pretty gruesome.

[ And a little too familiar for Jun to be happy about it besides. ]

[yancat]

Yes, well... It's for the sake of all.

[Sarcasm drips from every word. Jumin doesn't care to clarify what actually happened—that it was the Palai who survived, that it was the Uvi's hoarding of these bones that led to their own undoing—but such matters are irrelevant. They fed off the scraps of a world they had no business in meddling with. They let an entire species die.]

The reality of everything has been difficult to grasp for me, but we don't have much of a choice.

[Trash, bag. Trash, bag.]

... Shoot. That was recyclable...

[mesmerevenant]

[ A little bitterness is warranted in this situation, so Jun doesn't comment on the sarcasm. Even so, the mood is a little too heavy for his tastes, though he appreciates Jumin taking the time to explain things to him as they collect trash. ]

Wouldn't it be something if we literally had to collect trash to move on from this place?

[yancat]

I hope that won't be the case. Waste management is more difficult than I thought. I'd rather be at the animal shelter.

That would have made my day... purrfect.

[mesmerevenant]

[ o m g

Jun laughs?! ]

I don't know...! Even there, you might have your work... cat out for you.

[ PUN FRIEND ]

1/4

[yancat]

[ He is not laughing. ]

[yancat]

[ He is trying not to laugh. ]

[yancat]

[ He. ]

[yancat]

[ SOMEONE APPRECIATES HIS JOKES!!!!!! ]

Haha. Yes, well... The trouble there is more bark than bite—quite literally. You should visit when you have the time.

[mesmerevenant]

I definitely will. You're an animal person, huh?