Intro Log.

[awashmods]

Ding, dong, bell, Pussy's in the well. Who put her in? Little Johnny Thin. Who pulled her out? Little Tommy Stout. What a naughty boy was that, To try to drown poor pussy cat, Who never did him any harm, But killed all the mice in the farmer's barn.

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. But most importantly of all... you're not alone. Welcome to Awash's first intro log, everyone! Please review the FAQ and rules before playing. 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. 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. Further information can be found here at the OOC post, and don't forget to greet your fellow players here!

Comments

[brightlyshines]

Well

[Estelle is normally a bit slow to wake, but the cold and wet are an excellent motivate to wake up quickly with a irritable groan of complaint. What the he--]

What the heck?!?! Where am I?!

[She jumps to her feet, possibly kicking or elbowing someone on accident in the process. Hope you weren't standing too close, this girl is tiny but loud. Someone should probably tell her to quiet down in such a crowded space.]

Town

Okaaaaay.... this is creepy.

[Creepy was an understatement. Finally free of the well but definitely still drenched, Estelle clutches her staff as she wanders the town. There seemed to be no one occupying any of the buildings, as far as she could see.... but she could almost forgive the abandoned state of the place in light of the eerie grayness of the world around her. It almost felt like a bad dream... one that a cold drenching in water sure hadn't woken her from.]

.....What happened here.....?

Ruga
[Of course, eventually Estelle is drawn to the districts, the red one first and formost. She peers inside one house after another, frowning at the disarray. Abandoned here, too, huh.....]

No one has been here a long time.... everything's rotted. So then how did we get here?

[She pokes at one of the laptops, frowning a little as she taps the keys tentatively.]

It's so dinky.... but it kinda looks like... hm.

[Someone please stop her before she accidentally breaks one, this girl is inept with technology.]

General Store

[Well one thing's for sure, if they were going to be stuck here for awhile, they needed food. Once the general store is located, Estelle will be poking around, picking up an old dusty can with a cheerful smile. The seal was intact!]

Well at least we've got some preserved stuff! We can always hunt down fresh food. Maybe there's something I can use for a fishing rod around here....

Wildcard
[Estelle can be run into pretty much everywhere, she's in investigation mode. Feel free to contact me at Symbological]

general store

[inheritance]

[In the middle of dusting off an old can to read the label, Izuku looks up at the sound of her voice.]

That's a good idea! We're lucky that there's something we can eat in this place, but we should have some of these cans saved up for later, too. [Just in case.] I bet if we look around, we might be able to find a rod... um, or supplies to make one.

[He scratches at his cheek, frowning slightly.] I feel a little bad taking stuff without asking, but it doesn't look like anyone's lived here for a long time.

general store

[brightlyshines]

Right! All I need is a rod-- heck, even a stick with some string and bait, and I'm sure I can fish up something.

[Estelle seems rather pleased by the thought, stacking the can on top of another as she rummages around the shelves. She plans to pile everything that still seems edible up as she goes.]

I get what you're saying about taking the stuff, but..... I've got this feeling that people probably aren't coming back here either.

[inheritance]

It looks like that way, doesn't it? [The thick layer of dust on everything implies that, at least.]

I wonder what happened. I mean...this whole place is so grey and colorless, even the forest. That can't be normal.

[brightlyshines]

Maybe people left because of it? It seems like the only thing that has color here is us you know? It's so gloomy....

[She'd sure run from a place like this, anyway.]

general store :')

[passio]

[ sure, there's preserved stuff, but dextera isn't actually sure any of it will be good to eat. he picks up a can as well, and this one has a pull-top that makes it easier to open, so he just... goes for it. the most unsettling part of this non-descript meat is that it has no smell?

he offers the can to estelle after first tapping her on the shoulder, and gestures to his nose. is this weird...? ]

\o/

[brightlyshines]

[Estelle glances up from what she's doing, looking surprised.]

Huh....? Nose?

[She needs a few seconds before the message gets across and a look of realization crosses her face.]

Oh! You want me to smell it?

[passio]

[ dextera nods. he hasn't yet touched the meat, but the fact that it's grey, a little slimy, and completely without scent makes him suspicious of her excitement. fresh might be the way to go.

he extends the can a little further. smell it. ]

[brightlyshines]

[Estelle, to her credit, hasn't actually opened any of the cans she's collected yet. She leans in to sniff at the can, gawping at it once she realizes no scent hits her nose.]

It's got no scent....? But...

[She looks at it in contemplation before reaching into the can to pull out a pinch of the processed meat product with a frown.

....is she actually going to--]

town!

[crosswind]

[gran had eventually made his way out of the well too, but the lingering sensation of cold wasn't going away, no matter how temperate and warm the air was once they were out of that confined space. without having enough time to get an understanding of the world around him, his only option is too look around too.

and it's pretty obvious to see that the only color in this town was the ones contained on the visages of the people back in the well. he happens upon estelle pretty easily, as she seems to have the same mind about her as well.]

I wonder if a Primal Beast is sucking up all the color in this town.

[brightlyshines]

[Estelle wasn't faring much better in the cold, really, but she was toughing it out. No choice but to, really-- the cold seemed to dig into her bones, somehow.]

A primal beast.....? Some sort of monster?

[Estelle glances up at Gran, giving him a curious look. She's glad she's got her staff, if they might have to fight monsters here.... But it was so quiet.]

I've seen a lot of monsters, but nothing that can do this to a whole town.

[crosswind]

They're more like guardian spirits, in a way. But if you tamper with them through magic, they go crazy and start destroying any threat to their existence.

[it's how he got here in the first place. they were all ready to destroy the corruption affecting Leviathan, but the next thing he knew, he was drowning in water until being relocated to the bottom of this well. he still thinks that this is a side effect of the primal. what other explanation could it be?]

I've seen monsters that are able to flatten an entire town with wind storms, I guess having power over colors wouldn't be too crazy of a concept.

[Wait... if she didn't know about these beasts...]

Where are you from?

[brightlyshines]

Rolent, Liberl Kingdom.

[But this place didn't look like anywhere in Liberl she'd ever seen.... and she'd walked the length and breadth of it, pretty much.]

I've seen things that can do that kind of thing, but never monsters themselves. They generally keep outside of towns thanks to orbments. Guardians going crazy though....

[No, it couldn't be the gospels.]

Is this another country?

town;

[redigere]

[Naminé pauses a little ways behind Estelle, her eyes glancing over everything around them. It's...different from the blinding white of Castle Oblivion or the sickly neons against black of The World that Never Was. It's more like the Timeless River, and yet...]

I know of a place that's as colorless as this world is. But the Timeless River has so much more life, despite that. Here, everything feels...

[Dead.]

Re: town;

[brightlyshines]

....Lifeless.

[Estelle can feel it, too. It was like not just the color, but every bit of life had been sucked out of the town around them.]

Maybe it's just the absence of people, but.... this place is off somehow.

[redigere]

[She nods silently, trying to ignore a cold shiver going up her back.]

I think...I think that there must be something affecting this place. Or at least someone behind this. None of us would be here if that weren't the case. And-- it or they must be powerful, too, to have brought so many of us.

town

[good_ideas]

Who knows.

[Shiho certainly doesn't know no matter how many things she's touched in a bid to figure it out using her psychometry. Was a complete lack of memory normal? She didn't think so. A town couldn't just spring up out of nowhere, from nothing.]

It feels like a trap.

[brightlyshines]

If it's a trap, then the real question is has it already sprung on us or not? Because I don't know about you, but I wasn't anywhere like this before we got here.

[Estelle taps her fingers against her staff as she glances around at the buildings, considering.]

So they had to transport the whole bunch of us at once to somewhere remote like this, all while making sure no one woke up. And that's not even getting into the creepy state of everything.....

[good_ideas]

Does it matter if it's sprung or not? We're already stuck in it. [And if she had built a trap, she would have made it so that the victims would be allowed ample time to squirm.

But that's just her.]

Or maybe none of us have been transported anywhere and we're all just hallucinating back in our own worlds. I don't think we've been drugged... [But she doesn't sound sure of it.]

ruga

[parodeity]

I'm not sure they issue replacement laptops. Or, like, laptops that do more than access one single forum.

[ it's a TRAGEDY that he has a thing that could maybe access an internet that does not exist. lame. ]

[brightlyshines]

Laptop....? It kind of looks like something I've seen before, but it's way too tiny. It's more like the screens I saw--hm.

[Oh the Glorious. Which was a whole other bag of freaky she did not want to get into right now. She turns to Dave with a sheepish smile.]

But if you know what it is, you know how to work it right?

[parodeity]

Sure do. Have you ever used any sort of computer at all, or is this a lesson from the basics?

well;

[buriedearth]

[ Terra gets elbowed in the back -- and whirls around, looking kinda annoyed. Luckily he's kinda a man who is well put-together physical wise because otherwise he'd have probably lost his balance and fallen on his face or something embarrassing.

His expression shifts to a more calm expression, however, at her explosive question. ]

... I don't know. I'm going to guess you don't know anything about how we got here either, right?

Re: well;

[brightlyshines]

[Estelle blinks in surprise when her elbow hits something solid on the way up, and looks at Terra in surprise-- before it clicks. Whoops.]

Eheheh... sorry about that. But no, I don't know. I don't remember anything weird happening, either....

Do you think we've been kidnapped, or something?

[buriedearth]

[ He'll just nod at the apology and then pause, at her question. ]

Maybe.

[ He sounds a bit distracted, but he was admittedly swimming in a lot of disorientation and 'Yay I now have my body back!'. Once he's had time to actually settle, he'll do better. ]

It makes me wonder how someone would manage something like that. Without people remembering how it happened.