Intro Log.

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It's raining, it's pouring. The old man is snoring. He bumped his head and went to bed And he couldn't get up in the morning.

ou wake in knee-deep water, cold as ice and stagnant, in a space that is far too echoey and spacious. It feels like a massive cave, but looking up... there's only one small, circular opening that shows grey sky and shines any sort of light. It looks like a long trip upwards, a small cylinder with walls of brick that's just a little too high to reach, even when jumping. Getting out is probably going to be a bit of a task, especially considering the water is more than cold enough to make limbs go numb. The dark makes it impossible to see much further, but the space seems large, all filled with water, but with no other way out, stone walls the only thing for an intrepid explorer to find. Oh, and to make things even better, it's raining today. Water from below (though thankfully only like, knee-deep), and water from above... how fun. But most importantly of all... you're not alone. Welcome to Awash's second intro log, everyone! Please review the FAQ and rules before playing. New characters have all woken at the bottom of the well in the middle of the town (which seems a lot bigger on the inside, somehow), and it looks like they'll have to put in some work to get out. Thankfully, they have some friends on the outside, this time. Once out, they'll be free to explore the various locations the Town has to offer at will. Just try not to die on any of the far-too-rickety walkways. Please feel free to ask any questions here and don't forget to greet your fellow players here!

Comments

[buncho]

You're seeing it too, right?! It's not just me!?! I'm not the only one going blind?!!

[ Because hey!! this is wrong, this is soooo wrong, Mafuyu has to look down at herself and see that it's not everything that's been sapped of color. It's hard to tell, though, because her hair is silver and the school uniform she's wearing is black and white, but Hunk is properly colored and everything so?? ]

Everything looks like an old black and while movie... A silent film! It's just like that!

[ and when she closes her mouth, it really is just like that. There's no sound of cars like she's used to, no incessant chirping of birds, nothing that suggests an inhabited city besides the chattering echoing up from the well. ]

[atomicals]

We totally don't fit in to a silent film.

[He's double-checking himself just to make sure that he indeed has colour and yeah it's all good and he double-checks her and... okay, he thinks that she's fine because her skin pallor is aight but.]

But this should definitely not be... a thing. How... [NO REALLY, HOW. It's breaking his scientific brain.]

[buncho]

[ Mafuyu shakes her head, even though she can tell it's a theoretical question and not really one she needs to be answering. If things don't make sense, she's never one to sit down and try to think things through anyways; there's always an easier way. ]

Look, there's houses over there. There's got to be a mayor or president or someone in charge of things! We'll go find them and see what's up!

[atomicals]

Think so?

[Hunk's a little skeptical, only because...] It looks like there's no-one in those houses. I could be wrong, though, maybe people are just nervous with random people showing up in their well.

[buncho]

The only way to tell is to go see, right? So come on!

[ Without waiting, Mafuyu bounds to the closest house, and starts pummeling on the door with her fist. If people were too scared to come out before, this probably doesn't help. ]

HEYYYY!! COME OUT! DON'T MAKE US BREAK DOWN THE DOOR!!

[atomicals]

[OMG, Mafuyu why. He actually says the first part in a soft oh em gee before he hurries after her.]

We won't break down any doors! [HOLLERING...

...but no-one reacts and there's not even a peep so his reassurances may have fallen on deaf ears after all.]

[buncho]

[ Oh, smart! Lure them into a false sense of security. Mafuyu reaches to rattle the handle to cement the threat, but maybe all of her pounding loosened the screws, because when she goes to pull the door open, the entire door comes off the hinges and falls towards them, Mafuyu shrieking and backpedaling as fast as she can. ]

[atomicals]

[Oop. Hunk takes a step forward, slamming the front of his arm (gauntlet'd so it's no big thing) against the falling door... and pushing it so it falls off to the side. Then he's totally turning to Mafuyu and placing his hands on his hips like a disappointed parent.]

See? This is what happens when you say you're gonna bust people's doors down. This was karma.

[buncho]

I didn't mean to! Karma should be after I bust down people's doors! ...On purpose.

[ The buildings are shoddy, it's not her fault! But even after all that commotion, nobody comes running out of the house to yell at them for property damage. Tentatively, Mafuyu steps out from under the door and pokes her head past the doorway. ]

Anybody home...? Let's take a look around before they come back. We can put the door back after and pretend it's always been like that.

[ Next, karma will have it so the entire house falls in over their heads. ]

[atomicals]

[Hunk is following... fully ready to apologise to whoever inside and beg for them not to sue them for money they absolutely don't have. Huh. It is... way dusty inside. Way too dusty for a place people live.]

Uh. Do you usually break into people's houses? 'Cause it's kind of sounding like that.

[LIKE, REALLY]

[buncho]

Uh. [ haha, well... ]

It's called infiltrating hideouts and stuff. There's lots of good dirt to find in places like this.

[ Ideally, she'd like to find "dirt" as in information that'll be helpful to them in some way— papers in the drawers that she riles through, any personal belonging on the display cases around the living room, leftovers in the fridge people might not miss if they go missing— but most of what's around here is actual, literal dirt. ]

[atomicals]

...Uh-huh.

[Now, okay, Hunk's done some infiltrating in his day but it's usually been either 1) into bad guys's spaceships or 2) into the digestive system of a giant alien creature. The latter was not fun.

He sceptically heads inside, sneezing when they stir up dust.]

You know, I'm starting to think that whoever lived here hasn't been back for a while. Maybe they moved.

[buncho]

[ It's bad enough inside that Mafuyu's got the collar of her shirt pulled up over her nose and mouth to act as a filter, but the air's still really thick and everything she touches comes back sticky and grimy. ]

If nobody's here, then we can take whatever we want! Like a piggybank or something, I dunno if there's anything worth taking in here. Let's go upstairs and check under the mattresses.

[atomicals]

Uh, no. Why is that your conclusion?

[WHAT KIND OF TRUANT HAS HE ENDED UP WITH HERE!! He grimaces as he follows her, mainly to make sure she's not going to go nicking valuables.] They might come back! I mean. Not now but eventually?

[Then, mumbling to himself:]

If we find any spooky stuff or skeletons in here I'm going to scream.

[buncho]

[ A high school delinquent boss, tbh. Not that she usually goes around ransacking houses, but just look at this place-- who would want to come back to this dump? There's nothing valuable anywhere that she can see, empty picture frames up on the walls, a staircase that collapses under her foot when they're halfway up and she has to leap over the gap to keep from falling all the way through- ]

Oh crap. See if we can find a rug so we can hide that.

[atomicals]

I'm totally just leaving it.

[OKAY. Hunk hesitates on the other side of the gap, takes a step back and jumps it, only to squawk. Oop. There it goes. Okay, he's got the banister! Except it snaps. So now he's holding a chunk of banister and staring morosely down.]

...No amount of rug's going to hide it if we keep this up.

[buncho]

[ They already did this much damage, so they might as well go all the way; they don't need to take the stairs back down, they can just leap for it and try not to get too many splinters stuck in their asses. ]

Right... maybe we can find a chair or something and pretend it rolled down and fell through...

Anyways, we definitely have to hurry up and take a look around and get out of here— you take the doors on the right, and I'll do the left!

[atomicals]

[It's okay, this is why Hunk has rockets in his suit! (This is not why Hunk has rockets in his suit.)]

Let's just leave a note apologising on our way out...

[He sighs, shakes his head.] I guess yell if you find anything weird. Or if you fall through the floor.

[buncho]

Gotcha! I'll do that!

[ Her normal mode of speech is YELLING anyways, so he'll be able to hear her no matter where in the house she is. As such, it's barely two seconds after she disappears behind the first doorway that she starts her running commentary of what's inside. ]

Ah! It's a bedroom! ...There's nothing under the mattress! No money in the underwear drawer either!

[atomicals]

[Well. The running commentary is helpful for staving off his nervousness at going through people's things, even people who aren't here...]

Are there any monsters under the bed?

[just double-check ok he's not being serious but who even knows]

[buncho]

No monsters, but— UWAHH!!

[ There's a shout, a loud thud of something slamming into something else, followed by a crash of something that doesn't sound like it survived fully intact. ]

[atomicals]

[OH GOD SOMETHING GOT HER

Hunk speeds from his side of the hallway and toward the source of the crash... don't be dead Mafuyu.] You okay?!

[buncho]

[ She's

DEAD

embarrassed about what'd happened, which is evident when Hunk enters the room to see her sprawled on the floor next to the bed and clutching the back of her head, bed sheets yanked halfway off the mattress and a lamp laying on the floor next to her.

Evidently somebody attacked her from behind with the lamp!

Except no, somebody just thought she could fit under the bed, tried to sit up, bumped her head and overreacted. ]

[atomicals]

[...what happened here, no he can take a guess actually. Hm. What to do.

He looks at her for several long... long moments and then he fake-gasps in horror, clutching his hands to his chest.]

Oh my god, what villain did this to you! Don't worry, I'll avenge you. I won't let this attack on you go unpunished, if my name's not Hunk!

[he's got you, new homie, he'll help your dignity survive somehow]

[buncho]

[ oh crap no- usually she'd play along to something like this, but Mafuyu doesn't like people taking the blame for her mistakes, even if it's an imaginary villain ]

There's no villain! It's okay, you don't have to...!!

[ She has no hands to grab him because they're too busy clutching her head, but she does have free legs and one of them goes to kick Hunk in the shin bc that's what she does to thank people for covering her. ]