[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

[cloak]

[His shoulders stiffen at the suggestion]

...It's fine how it is.

[While he'd gotten accustomed to wearing something else in what was his own residence in the last world he'd been on, that was largely because it was an environment he controlled and only among a select few people.

Even then, it was difficult not to feel uncomfortable going without it]

[talim]

[ whatever the reason, roxas' posture tells him that jude might be overstepping his boundaries here. he knows when to quit. ]

... Okay, okay. At least you're keeping warm, right?

[ he tries to lighten the mood. ]

[cloak]

Moving around a lot does that too.

[He might not know a whole lot about being corporeal, having just some months at it, but this much he certainly understands.

Not that he's really thought much about being warm or cold]

People don't like these papers for some reason.

[talim]

Don't take it personally. They're probably just in a hurry. Some people don't like to take an extra minute or two out of their schedules to accommodate others.

[ jude gives him a sympathetic smile. ]

Sorry you're having a rough time. I'm Jude, by the way.

[cloak]

It doesn't bother me.

[He shrugs, but he does think it'd be easier on everyone involved if they accepted the papers the first time.

Surely it's more of a delay if he has to stop them repeatedly]

I'm Roxas.

[talim]

[ so aloof... ]

It's nice to meet you, Roxas. I'm guessing you're new. There's no doubt I would have recognized you if you weren't.

[cloak]

I...get that, sometimes.

[He tends to be the only short one in a dark coat, in his experience]

But yeah, I'm new to this coven business. Not my first time showing up where I didn't belong though.

[talim]

Hmm...

[ jude decides not to press him on that. there are more important things. ]

Well, if there's anything I can do to help... I've been here for a pretty decent amount of time, so I don't mind lending a hand to anyone who needs it.

[cloak]

[He knows somebody like this, he thinks.

At least, he's reminded of him in this moment]

It's not that hard to catch up to people, but I'm not sure what good these things are going to do.

[talim]

Who knows? But a job is a job, and I've gathered that it's tough to keep up around here if you don't have one.

[cloak]

[Roxas glances around, noting the balled-up fliers scattered around on the ground]

I think there's a flaw to this approach.

[A big one]

[talim]

[ jude can't follow his line of vision, considering the fact that his eyes are cast in a dark shadow. ]

What would that be?

[cloak]

People who don't want them throw them on the ground. Doesn't that just create more work for the guy cleaning up around here?

[That's how it looks to him, anyway]

[talim]

[ an exasperated sigh escapes jude's lips before he crouches down to the ground and grabs one of the wet, abandoned fliers. ]

Well, someone has to do it.

[ and he's willing to start. consider it his good deed for the day. ]

[cloak]

There should be a better method, shouldn't there?

[A pity he's not allowed to use magic. It'd be much easier then, but rules are rules]

[talim]

Probably, but until we can come up with one...

[ he'll be volunteering to pick up each and every crumpled flier. ]

[cloak]

Maybe these should be posted instead of handed out. There'd be less on the ground then, wouldn't there?

[The cleanup part doesn't seem to have an easy solution, but fliers are still distributed if they're on windows and lamp-posts, right?]

[talim]

[ jude looks up at him and smiles, nodding his head. ]

That's a great idea. And this way, everyone will see them.

[ once he's gathered all the fliers he can hold in his hands and stands up to toss them in the nearest trash bin, he looks back at roxas again. ]

So? Mind if I tag along?

[cloak]

[His head tips to one side by the smallest of degrees, regarding Jude in thoughtful silence]

...You want to do more work?

[Aren't they supposed to handle just one task or the other?]

[talim]

Not necessarily, but I thought you might want some company. And I don't mind helping out.

[ a pause. ]

But if you'd rather be left alone, I can, uh... get out of your way.

[cloak]

[...Yep, very reminded of someone]

You can do what you want.

[He shrugs. It's unclear to him why the guy would want to take on more, except that he's like a certain person]

No one's really alone in a place like this.

[talim]

... You can be surrounded by people and still feel alone.

[ he would know. ]

[cloak]

I guess so, if they forget you exist the moment they look away.

[He's lived that life. Literally forgotten the instant he's out of sight — that's how it was in the Datascape]

[talim]

[ jude has no idea whether to press that or not. is he joking? it doesn't sound like he's joking, but roxas is almost impossible to read, and jude doesn't have much to go on.

so... a change of subject seems like the right step to take. ]

Well, it's decided. The sooner we start, the sooner we're done.

[cloak]

If you want to...

[Although he makes no effort to hide the fact that he finds that pretty puzzling, he nevertheless splits his hefty stack of papers and offers some to Jude]

Here.