future is now

[idolpro]

[ There is one sentence in the rules when you wake up. ]

Escape the mansion and bring evidence of the one responsible for this incident, or die trying.

[ For as long as the game is running, idols will only be able to access the rules on their phones. They may not text/call, nor may they take pictures.

Unit abilities are off. Items are off. Each idol can hold up to 3 items at a time maximum. ]

Comments

1 - BASEMENT

[idolpro]

[ The room's stench is the first thing you notice upon waking up: it's an unpleasant mix of incense, smoke, and metal. Although the room is poorly lit, the light from the hanging wall lamps show that the room is quite big . . . and quite crowded.

Not with living people, of course. You find yourselves surrounded by corpses, mutilated beyond recognition. Vaguely humanoid shapes and limbs indicate these used to be humans—probably. . . ?

The metal smell is more easily identifiable as blood, now—though even if you could not make the connection, the floor is sticky with pools and rivers of red, so it's quite easy to tell that these—people?—met their end right here.

Yet, you won't find even a drop of blood on yourself, or even near your body. In fact, the carnage is absent on both your clothes as well as the ground immediately surrounding you, which is just as well because the blood would have otherwise obfuscated the white-chalked summoning circle that surrounds the idols.

You're situated in the center of the room.
Against the north wall is a table, where there are two oil lamps and a number of other things, though you'll have to get closer to really inspect them.
Against the east wall is a running fountain pool of sorts—the stench of blood is strongest here.
Against the south wall is a large portrait, though without coming closer, you can't make out who those people in the portrait are.
Against the west wall is a closed wooden door. ]

STARTING EVENT

[idolpro]

It seems your arrival was not entirely without injury, however: Velleity will find themself situated in the very center of the summoning circle, atop of various sharp implements—the murder weapons, perhaps?

While the idol can safely extricate themself for the most part, there's no avoiding the sharp blade that scrapes their shoulderblade. The injury itself is negligible, both in deepness of wound and depth of pain, for it's strangely rather numbing . . . for now.

As time progresses, the idol will begin to exhibit the following symptoms:

• Weakness/numbing of limbs
  
• Fever/chills
  
• Dizziness/mind fog
  
• Difficulty moving or staying awake, sluggishness

Re: STARTING EVENT

[trainphreaking]

Bloody hell—

[ she starts to extricate herself, and then hisses at the sting of metal. this is very rude. ]

...well. Nothing like uncertain death to really start a day.

Re: 1 - BASEMENT

[numberedays]

[Still smiling faintly but also looking like. Kind of pale and sickly about it. This is possibly the most visibly distressed this man gets.]

No more kind ones, hm?

Re: STARTING EVENT

[numberedays]

[Oh dear.]

Are you alright?

[Tries... to offer her a hand???]

Re: STARTING EVENT

[trainphreaking]

[ pause

takes the hand. ]

It's just a scratch. Don't suppose you know where this is.

Re: STARTING EVENT

[numberedays]

Not at all. Some kind of game was my assumption, but I don't know anything more than that.

1/2

[onemoreknight]

[ um

This isn't future is now's dorm??? ]

Re: 1/2

[onemoreknight]

What.

Re: 1/2

[numberedays]

Ah. Welcome back.

Re: STARTING EVENT

[trainphreaking]

It's like one of those deeply unhinged religious tracts in here.

Re: 1/2

[trainphreaking]

...what.

Re: 1/2

[onemoreknight]

What did you do while I was gone?!

Re: 1/2

[onemoreknight]

Oh - you're...new?

Re: STARTING EVENT

[numberedays]

It does look that way.

We should probably look around. There seems to be a... fountain of blood?

[You know. The fun stuff.]

Re: 1/2

[numberedays]

Oh, this isn't our doing. It's a game, I think?

Re: 1/2

[onemoreknight]

They can just transfer you directly into one of those? Or -

[ she looks down at the summoning circle. ]

Is this a ritual? Are we sarkaz now?

Re: 1/2

[trainphreaking]

Relatively speaking.

I take it you're—returning, then.

Re: 1/2

[numberedays]

I'm not sure what that means, but we might need to find out by exploring.

Re: STARTING EVENT

[trainphreaking]

...I'd say it has medical applications, but I'm not one to be able to enact that and also I don't know where it's been. Gross.

Re: STARTING EVENT

[numberedays]

I'd hope none of us knew that.

Would you like to split the work? There was a table and some painting too far away to make out.

Re: 1/2

[onemoreknight]

They're - everyone else calls them "devils" or "demons" or "reprehensible hellspawn" but that's rude. But the ones that are in charge of this place are summoned with ritual circles like that, or at least that's what I remember from reading all those after action reports pep!pep! put together.

Re: STARTING EVENT

[trainphreaking]

Right.

[ she flexes her arm, experimentally, and rotates her shoulder, wincing slightly. ]

I'll see if there's anything useful on that table.

[ heading NORTH to inspect TABLE ]

Re: 1/2

[numberedays]

Oh, yes. I'm familiar with demons. I wonder if it really is possible to summon idols in the same way...? We're supposed to be spirits of some kind, aren't we?

NORTH WALL

[idolpro]

[ The table has two oil lamps, which you can pick up and carry with you. There are additionally a couple matches and an open book. . . .

The book is completely written in, from front to back, with a long list of names and pictures—presumably portraits belonging to the names—though the current page it's open to is unreadable now on account of the blood spilt all over it. At least you can read the page number: 201. ]