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Castle W Mods ([personal profile] whimsicalism) wrote in [community profile] castle_whims2020-10-04 10:44 am
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You're My Friend, They're My Friends (IC Intro)

Whatever you were doing before, wherever you were before this moment it doesn't matter. The world seems to grow dark around you: an almost inaudible giggle floats to your year before you lose consciousness completely. Other it belonging to a child there's no defining characteristics of the voice. Maybe you just imagined it? Even if you did, one thing is clear when you wake up.

You're not where you were before. The bedroom you find yourself is plush and well decorated, almost like a fancy hotel or apartment. That might be little comfort considering that it's clear that you don't recognize it. Before you rush off to explore your surroundings there's a message pinned to the door to the hall.

From the desk of the Queen:

Hello, my friends dear.

I can only hope you enjoy your new life here. For those you stirring from sleep, this is my promise that I will keep: I will let you go if that is what you desire but the price for it will be quite dire.

For my rules are quite clear that I don't wish you to leave. Yet I will, if you can take the grief.

If you wish to know my name and the reasons to my game, meet in the audience hall for tea. Tea, yes, a grand tea party for my grand guests! Cake and sweets are what we need to meet. In an hour we both will be there, no peeking before!

Signed,


Instead of a signature, there's a small feline paw print underneath as well as some strange sort of heart crest?

There seems to be others moving outside your room. Perhaps it's time to explore, to see if anyone else knows what's going on. Don't slip on the playing card (an ace of hearts, with the heart shape replaced by the strange crest). That there's a scribbled phrase of 'dormez-vous? dormez-vous?' on the card but surely one of the others slipped it under your door.

This Castle seems like a strange place ot live in... yet for now it's quiet and peaceful, even if the Audience Hall is locked.
strictura: (that's when i knew)

[personal profile] strictura 2020-10-04 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Nagisa had already had plenty to panic about, actually, so waking up now in this strange place -- which should be impossible, when he's memorized the layout of all the buildings in Towa City -- feels almost like some kind of stress-induced fever dream. The letter on the door just intensifies that feeling; it's like his subconscious is mixing up Jataro's fairy tale art with his own anxieties about their game.

...But he won't be able to confirm whether that's the case or not by just staying in this room, so he steps out into the hall, tentatively, unsure if he's going to be greeted by other children or adults. (There's at least a sigh of relief when it turns out to be the former, though the fact that they're not wearing a Monokuma helmet... hm.) ]


Excuse me. Does this "game" idea mean anything in particular to you?

[ Of course, going anywhere means he soon winds up in the portrait gallery, where he looks over everyone's information and then comes back to his own, frowning at the title. ]

That's... How were these titles decided upon?
scratchitti: (Serious)

halls

[personal profile] scratchitti 2020-10-04 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. It's too different to say for sure though.
strictura: (make it seem effortless)

[personal profile] strictura 2020-10-04 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...He's not sure how old this one is, actually; he looks to be in that sort of in-between range, but... more on the kid side? He'll cautiously give him the benefit of the doubt for the moment, at least. ]

It seems different to me too, but... [ Maybe not that much. ] You were involved in some sort of game before this, though?
scratchitti: (Talking)

[personal profile] scratchitti 2020-10-05 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Right. It wasn't 'kill people to win' but... still crazy and dangerous.
strictura: (in good-humored white)

[personal profile] strictura 2020-10-05 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Different than their game, then. ]

Hm... I wonder how many of us have something like that in common. Where did yours take place?
golden_king: (11)

portrait gallery;

[personal profile] golden_king 2020-10-04 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe based on favoritism?

[ Gil had no trouble with his title because it's just fine. ]

Then again, it looks like there's something else we should be concerned about too...
strictura: (why do you do it)

[personal profile] strictura 2020-10-04 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Doesn't love that answer either, actually, though he doesn't have an argument against it. ]

The matter of how they got this information in the first place, you mean? The basic stats are one thing, but the likes and dislikes and quotations...
golden_king: (25)

[personal profile] golden_king 2020-10-04 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, yeah. I think mine were pretty obvious, though...that might not be the same for other people.

[ He didn't think his held any deep dark secrets or anything. He'll glance over at Nagisa's and a few of the others, though. It looks like he lucked out here! ]

...Not only that, thinking about it. It looks like we're to participate in an awful game?
strictura: (that's when i knew)

[personal profile] strictura 2020-10-04 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Obvious... if the things on that profile are supposed to be obvious, does that mean that this kid really is supposed to be that Gilgamesh, from the Sumerian epic? That doesn't make any sense, though, unless he really is dreaming up all of this... ]

Yes, that seems to be the case.

It's... wrong, though. There isn't supposed to be a game that pits children against each other like this.

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ballooncaged: (Calm)

gallery

[personal profile] ballooncaged 2020-10-04 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
If you put it together with them quoting us?

[She remembers saying what she said. She should pick out this guy's portrait in a second too, might as well.]

Sounds almost like they've been watching us... or maybe explored our minds.
strictura: (that's when i knew)

[personal profile] strictura 2020-10-04 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He could certainly buy being watched -- he'd already been ratted out to that no-good Servant without his knowledge, after all --
but the thought of someone actually seeing his thoughts is more of a stretch... or so he hopes.

Then again, with brainwashing and memory erasure already out there as real and usable techniques... ]


I... suppose neither of those is impossible, though I'd prefer to believe the former.
ballooncaged: (Serious)

[personal profile] ballooncaged 2020-10-04 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[kodaka 🤝 uchikoshi
our canons are science fiction but l o l]


I don't know... watching manually just makes me think they'd have to look even more to get the important stuff. But I guess it's creepy either way.
strictura: (and explain things)

[personal profile] strictura 2020-10-04 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It is, but at least there's a limit to what they can know that way.

[ And he is a fifth grader with a crush, among other things, so that's important!!! ]

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soverainty: (#iyadaa)

keeps picturing all these hall encounters like passing Pokemon trainers

[personal profile] soverainty 2020-10-04 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Niko is pacing down the hall at one side, keeping out of the flow of traffic because she's busily walking and peering between the strange set of rules and equally strange playing card with its incomprehensible little message all at the same time.

Occasionally she'll lift the hand with the playing card like she's about to run it through her hair or wave at somebody, and that's how Nagisa catches her: one hand up, fingers wiggling a little.]

Ah! I didn't see you there. Sorry. [totally contrite even though she probably wasn't in that much danger of walking into him -- she definitely lowers her hand, though] Honestly, I was wondering if it all was a game? But it's hard to tell. Most games aren't this realistic.
strictura: (when they know that damn well)

i should warn you that his rattata is in the top percentage of rattatas

[personal profile] strictura 2020-10-04 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He gives a nod of acknowledgement at the apology; he doesn't think she had anything to apologize for in the first place, so it's fine! ]

I'd say that depends on both your idea of realism and the kind of game that comes to mind. That letter did say this was supposed to be a game, though.
soverainty: (#callofcakeduty)

so I guess he's ratting someone out at trial then--

[personal profile] soverainty 2020-10-04 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
At home... At home, I mostly play VR games.

[She seems to hesitate, because well. The technology here is Not Great in terms of modernity and some people seem to be wandering around more dazed and confused than she was falling over a playing card. But shshhhh.]

Some of them are advanced enough that it can be hard to completely tell parts of them from reality. But I don't think they're allowed to make things that are so realistic people get confused.

All these rules really would make more sense if this was virtual, though.

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rhododendronhoney: (worried)

Hall

[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2020-10-04 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cori shakes her head.] I thought that was all over and done with...
rhododendronhoney: (worried)

[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2020-10-04 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
This...this thing, with different worlds being dragged together. But even back then I didn't wake up to find everything around me completely changed1

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undershadow: (pic#14328269)

portraits

[personal profile] undershadow 2020-10-05 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Lena looks wary for a second when she hears the voice, but then she slips easily into deflection mode. ]

Throwing adjectives at the wall and waiting for something to stick? [ ... ] No, I got nothing. Sure looks like they're not a fan of you, though.
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strictura: (how do you do it)

[personal profile] strictura 2020-10-06 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think there's any way something that on the nose could have been chosen at random. But no, it doesn't really seem like it.

[ He'd really just been musing to himself rather than addressing anyone in particular, and he's not sure what he'd expected to see when he turns around to respond, but it... wasn't a duck in clothes, even if he has already seen her profile, and he blinks.

Hm. Somehow he figured she was just going to be a person in a mascot costume, or an AI in a robot like Kurokuma, but her size would seem to rule out the former, and the eyes and feathers and everything look awfully realistic for the latter, so.......... he doesn't really know what to make of this.

(And he guesses he could offer to change what he just said to "on the bill", but that sounds pretty patronizing, so he's just going to not do that.) ]


Ah... Lena-san, right?
undershadow: (pic#14328244)

[personal profile] undershadow 2020-10-06 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. [ She doesn't miss the reaction, because how could she, but at least he's not suggesting she's a science experiment! Also, he has weird little animal ears, maybe? This one can slide for now. ] Shin... getsu? Or Nagisa?

[ anyway don't worry someone will straight up refer to her bill as "lips" in-show like a year from her canon point, ducktales is a nightmare ]

At least it's shorter than Ms. Priss over there.

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littlebratziska: (there see she's right)

[personal profile] littlebratziska 2020-10-07 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
The "game" can only be a joke in poor taste. No one would seriously mean this set of rules, after all.
littlebratziska: (no you clearly did)

[personal profile] littlebratziska 2020-10-08 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
B-because no one could possibly have gone through all this effort only to ask us to kill each other!

[right???]

Attempting to use most people I have talked to thus far as players in such a scheme would lead to discovery and capture very quickly! And.. and criminals avoid detection, where they can.

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