YOU-kai start!

[idolpro]

Who: YOU-kai
Where: The YOU-kai dorms
When: Day 355, morning

[ You all wake up in bed with your smartphone at your bedside, all of you in your sleepwear, with a message on your phone.

Good morning, newly departed guest stars! You've got new co-stars to meet, a new dorm to explore, and the television in the main room with the "names" of everyone in your unit with flashing empty boxes next to them, waiting for you to each assign yourself a personal color as well as a mythological creature (if that is available to you—some of you will have that option grayed out). Or assign them to each other, really, no one's stopping you.

Once you've chosen your color and creature (or, once it's chosen for you), your closets will unlock with 3 sets of traditional Japanese clothing fitted exactly to your size. Additionally, upon choosing your creature, you might find yourself suddenly with some new appendages (check Player Notes).

Also, the front door is currently locked. It looks like you actually have no choice but to get to know each other for an hour or two before those open up. ]

Comments

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[Some guy is wandering around when you wake up, poking curiously at the furnishings and decor. Most notably, his sallow complexion makes him look like he should be in a sickbed - though he seems energetic enough.]

Hey, heyyy, about time you woke up!

[emptymind]

[ appearance notes, if you look very carefully you can still see hints of the red in her eyes through the mask's eye holes ]

My apologies for my tardiness.

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Wow. Uh, apology accepted? Nice mask, by the way.

[emptymind]

Thank you very much.

[ the intonation she just used for "sorry" and "thanks" are like

the same. ]

[carrionmywaywardsun]

[eh, he's worked with weirder people]

What's it supposed to be, anyway? A cat? Rabbit?

[emptymind]

... Eh? Do you mean the mask?

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Yeah, yeah, that thing.

[emptymind]

It is a dog.

[ and then she

barks

and it's like an actual huge angry dog made the noise rather than a soft-voiced woman. ]

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Whoa!

[he's startled, even jumps like half a step to the side in surprise, but then relaxes and laughs]

Wouldn't've thought you had that in you.

[byallmeans]

[A painfully thin boy of about twelve years old in a button-up pajama set glances him over]

Oh, good. Since you've been awake so long, I trust that means you've already made your selections.

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Selection, selection... Oh, yeah, I'm already whatever a kuchisake-onna is.

[waggles his phone, which does indeed show his youkai pre-selected]

[byallmeans]

...I see.

And that one suits you?

[Very aware of what a kuchisake-onna is, thanks,]

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Sure. What's not to like?

[byallmeans]

It depends who you ask, I'm sure.

Have you given any thought to a point strategy yet?

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Do things? Win games? I'm not picky...

[byallmeans]

We're going to need more than that.

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Oh? Well, I'm all ears.

[ibedeadpeople]

Did I oversleep? You know how it is when you're in a new bed!

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Can't say I do, but it's been a while.

[ibedeadpeople]

It wasn't just today? --You're not originally from here, are you?

[carrionmywaywardsun]

No, no, no way. Still not entirely sure what here is, anyway.

[ibedeadpeople]

The afterlife, I guess! Didn't you get your text?

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Yeah, yeah, but this doesn't look like any afterlife I know of...

[ibedeadpeople]

What were you expecting?

[carrionmywaywardsun]

Well...oblivion, since I must've fucked up pretty bad to be dead.