[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

SASUGA PHANTOM THIEVES

[mesmerevenant]

Ah - yeah. They were taken from me as a price?

[ He still doesn't entirely understand why such a price is necessary, but it is annoying - while he wasn't entirely attached to his glasses, they were a brand-name gift from his Mother and a dear friend of his had said they looked good on him... plus, you know, it'd be nice to see properly. ]

I might just get contacts instead though. I've worn those before too.

[mapsio]

[Seeing is usually the goal. Haru wouldn't want to let Jun suffer, especially with him being new.]

I can help you, if you want. You are new after all.

[Haru doesn't have a lot to offer, but it could be enough to help a little!]

[mesmerevenant]

Thanks, but I wouldn't want to be a bother.

[ Which is true! Though Jun's also motivated to be nice to Haru now since he behaved pretty badly to her when he first arrived. Far be it for him to feel more beholden to her. ]

[mapsio]

That is the last thing I would consider calling you. I won't force the help on you, but just know the offer is there.

[She peeks into the shop herself, not that she needs glasses.]

Have you settled in well?

[mesmerevenant]

[ Jun shrugs. He still has So Many Issues, but he's not going to get into those. ]

Well enough. For another world, it's similar enough to my own for the culture shock to be pretty minimal.

[mapsio]

I can agree with that. The city life is familiar.

[Seeing as she also lives in a City and seeing as she doesn't seem to be bothered by the world move either.]

What do you think of their rule on magic?

[mesmerevenant]

I'm not surprised by it. People want to control magic, whether that means exploiting it or preventing it. I'm a little surprised that they aren't trying to use us all things considered.

[ See: Capitalist system where people want to profit and exploit anything they can. Duh. ]

[mapsio]

I wouldn't be surprised if that were the underlying intention.

[She if anyone understands a capitalist society ran by greedy adults. She won't be turning away from the truth of their situation.]

We haven't been here quite long enough to understand or even attempt to crack their motives.

[mesmerevenant]

So you just got here?

[ That, Jun did not know. ]

[mapsio]

I've been with the rest of the coven for months. The city itself? We only arrived a short time before you.

[She nods, sort of straightening out what she meant.]

[mesmerevenant]

How have you found... well, everything?

[mapsio]

It hits a little too close to home, I think.

[mesmerevenant]

You must have some pretty unique circumstances in that case.

[ Funnily enough, that's Jun being tactful. He won't ask for more details unless Haru wants to give them. ]

[mapsio]

Sort of! But I doubt you would believe me, Jun-san.

[mesmerevenant]

You'd be surprised at what I can believe.

[ Is he... taking that as a challenge? Maybe. ]

[mapsio]

That remains to be seen, doesn't it?

[mesmerevenant]

You could just tell me.

[ LIKE. HONESTLY. ]

[mapsio]

Have you ever heard of Phantom Thieves?

[mesmerevenant]

Not at all. Is it a band?

[ Jun's met a few idols already. ]

[mapsio]

[She laughs!]

I wish it were like that. But it's not.

[mesmerevenant]

Then what is it, exactly? Not a title for a book?

[mapsio]

A thief, with flair. Though I prefer to think I might be a masked heroine of some sort. I don't steal to be malicious.

[Can Jun tell she never really tells people about this??]

[mesmerevenant]

... so, you're saying you're a modern day Robin Hood?

[ he knows not what implications he says ]

[mapsio]

It would be easier to show you. But, I can't do that here.

[mesmerevenant]

So... you're also saying, your thieving linked to some inherent magical power?

[ Which is a bit of a leap coming from a supposedly normal person. Then again, he has been briefed like everyone else! There's plausible deniability. ]