[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

[mesmerevenant]

Pretty sure that's not how coolness works!

[After all Jun could write a thesis on what it means to be cool and how to achieve it he has researched very hard]

[keeptrucking]

Says who? Maybe I'm the picture of coolness! Who's stopping me?

[Hmmmm??]

[mesmerevenant]

Society, usually. But hey. Live your dreams.

[keeptrucking]

Eh. You sure know how to spoil the mood.

[But at least he still has this messy death drink.]

[mesmerevenant]

Ah...

[ Jun makes a face. Here he was thinking he was doing well! And yet he misstepped somehow!! Great. Time to damage control? ]

Sorry... you do you.

[keeptrucking]

Oh, hey, no— no, it's okay. Like I said before, it's kind of a weird day, right? So don't worry about it.

[It's fine!! He'll angst about society later, privately.]

[mesmerevenant]

Now you're just trying to comfort me.

[keeptrucking]

Don't call me out like that... [jeez] Well, is it working?

[mesmerevenant]

It's working.

[ more or less. It's nice of Daichi to make the attempt. ]

[keeptrucking]

Great! [No guile whatsoever. He'll believe this.] Let's go sit or something... Wanna go for a walk?

[mesmerevenant]

Aren't those two things opposites?

[keeptrucking]

Well, whatever! It's something besides standing around handing out papers! Are you in or not?

[mesmerevenant]

I'm in, I'm in. Might as well see what this place has to offer.

[keeptrucking]

Okay, let's go! Just some buds going on a tour of some weird alien city!

[They're going to get super lost, aren't they.]

[mesmerevenant]

What could go wrong?

[ It's a rhetorical question, and Jun smiles wryly. Still! It's not like they have much better to do than sulk about their circumstances. ]

[keeptrucking]

That's the spirit! [See... now he's in a good mood!! Great job, team free stuff and wandering. An idea occurs to him, though—] Actually... you should come back to my place.

[daichi,]

I've got like 20 boxes of snacks and nowhere to put them.

[mesmerevenant]

[ Way to almost give Jun a heart attack Daichi?! ]

I mean, if that's an offer to take them off your hands, I'm down.

[keeptrucking]

[He doesn't know... He knows not what he says. Come back to his place for pretzels and social anxiety.]

Only if you reeeally like cinnamon sugar pretzels. Please say you like cinnamon sugar pretzels.

[mesmerevenant]

I don't know. I've never tried them.

[ It's kinda cute and worrying how eager to please Daichi is. ]

[keeptrucking]

Oh man, it is your lucky day. I bought way too many...

[It was embarrassing... but he knows the way back to the apartment building, so he'll turn to go that way now.]

[mesmerevenant]

Do you usually buy too much food?

[ Considering the mountain of marshmallows, it seems like it might be a legit problem. Jun falls into step with Daichi easily! ]

[keeptrucking]

No! Not really... Sometimes. [He gets nervous and feels obligated to become that guy in all the math problems who has 40 loaves of bread for some reason. It's a compulsion. He is at least politely embarrassed about this.]

It wasn't my fault.

[mesmerevenant]

Oh?

[ It's a teasing prompt, daring Daichi to go on and explain himself. ]

[keeptrucking]

[Well..... OKAY... since they are such good friends now.]

She was really persuasive! And pushy! She kept staring at me when I wrote down that I'd take 2, until I changed it to more...

[20. to 20. he fucked up.]

[mesmerevenant]

... are you weak to women, or just weak to pressure?

[ IT'S A LEGITIMATE QUESTION ]