[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

[ensorcel]

[ 'WELL FUCK ME!!' she wants to scream before splashing all this scalding hot coffee onto her own face. unfortunately, that wouldn't be appropriate, though she can't say she's terribly invested in this job anyway. still, being a princess, it makes defiance a little hard to deal with, and her pride has turned this into a matter of principle.

camilla attempts a sweet, alluring smile. ]

Well yes, of course, but why hide your cute face?

[ a wink. ]

I know I'd like to see it.

[cloak]

One guy wondered if I consider myself ugly, and now you think I'd be cute.

[Funny, how widely this speculation varies. Roxas hasn't much opinion on his own face, after all it's shared with two other people who had it before him, but it's strange to think about. People in Monad might have been less concerned with it than those in this world.

He can only wonder why]

...I prefer it like this.

[It's as much as he's comfortable admitting in this setting, around other people. Taking his hood off is an uncomfortable thing, and one he has seldom ever done]

[ensorcel]

Who would say such a terrible thing?

[ camilla gets it now. obviously this boy has been bullied. OBVIOUSLY. well, camilla cannot and will not stand for it!! a poor shy kid like this couldn't hurt a fly... or so she thinks at first, but then she remembers leo and elise have killed people before, so she might be wrong on that. but still!! ]

I'm certain you are the farthest thing from ugly. Besides, isn't it what's inside that counts? And I'm sure you have lovely insides.

[cloak]

I didn't think it was terrible...

[After all, the guy did try to make him feel better by saying a lot of people viewed their own appearances in a harsh light. Roxas can only wonder if that's true of all worlds, or just the one that other boy came from.

Maybe he'll get a chance to look into that, sometime]

But I don't know what my insides loo like.

[ensorcel]

If they were joking, it isn't very funny. Some people are insecure about their appearance.

[ not that she can relate, but still. even if this boy potentially looks like melted cheese, much like her father did during his last days, she still smiles and slides a cup of coffee to him. he definitely has a cute heart. ]

Well, to be fair, it would be troublesome if you did expose your insides willy-nilly. Please don't take it so literally, dear. When I say insides, I truly mean the contents of your heart.

[cloak]

He was trying to help, so it wasn't like that.

[And Roxas still isn't sure why the guy was trying to reassure him about his appearance, without any indication of what it was like. Still, it was a kindness]

Besides, I don't have a heart.

[ensorcel]

Boys will be boys, I suppose...

[ not that xander or leo or corrin would ever say something so horrid-- okay no leo might, but OTHER THAN HIM, none of the boys she knows would ever say something so horrid. ugh!! ]

I hope for your sake you aren't being literal. Everyone has a heart; whether it's small and withered, or big and bright, a heart is a heart.

[cloak]

What I am doesn't have something like that. I'm [an emulation, on top of the rest, but he keeps it simple] what would result of someone losing theirs.

[A simple reality, or so he thinks]

[ensorcel]

Oh my... I had no idea such things existed.

[ truthfully, even if he explained it like she was 5, it's still a bit overwhelming to think about. that being said though-- ]

But, don't you have goals? Wishes? Dreams? Desires of your own?