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unknownseas2022-06-12 10:14 am
bathymetric) wrote in unknownseas2022-06-12 10:14 am
And with the sweat of your brow...
Fun Fact: Did you know that if the multiverse is real, there could be an almost infinite square mileage of completely unexplored ocean out there?
No reason.
...
You wake in one of 25 rooms with a sense of unease that doesn't quite track with how nice the accommodations are. Maybe it has something to do with the giant window leading out to the sea. The temperature is low, which might make you wish you had woken up under the luxurious covers instead of atop them. The lights, too, are low. But next to your bed is a small personal radio, and it's playing a song for you. There's also a small note printed on folded cardstock next to it.
Dear Prospective Citizen,
Welcome to the Helios Suites at New Rapture. The time should currently be 12:00 PM. Please take a moment to get your bearings and become acquainted with your new environment, then meet in the hotel lobby at 1:30 PM sharp for an orientation with Mayor Fontaine.
With only that for guidance, there's only the one thing to do: get out there and start exploring... well, it's hardly a full city, but it's something! And in the halls (or on the wall of your suite or the lobby), you very well may find up to 24 other captives.
What you do until your meeting with Mayor Fontaine, well... that's up to you. Every room certainly gives you something to talk about.
No reason.
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You wake in one of 25 rooms with a sense of unease that doesn't quite track with how nice the accommodations are. Maybe it has something to do with the giant window leading out to the sea. The temperature is low, which might make you wish you had woken up under the luxurious covers instead of atop them. The lights, too, are low. But next to your bed is a small personal radio, and it's playing a song for you. There's also a small note printed on folded cardstock next to it.
Dear Prospective Citizen,
Welcome to the Helios Suites at New Rapture. The time should currently be 12:00 PM. Please take a moment to get your bearings and become acquainted with your new environment, then meet in the hotel lobby at 1:30 PM sharp for an orientation with Mayor Fontaine.
With only that for guidance, there's only the one thing to do: get out there and start exploring... well, it's hardly a full city, but it's something! And in the halls (or on the wall of your suite or the lobby), you very well may find up to 24 other captives.
What you do until your meeting with Mayor Fontaine, well... that's up to you. Every room certainly gives you something to talk about.
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I think it must have been set up by someone with too much money and time on their hands. Who else would do something like this?
[Which leads to a rather more sobering point:]
You've seen the rules on the walls, right?
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Aha! Well spoken, stranger. Truly, the person in charge of all of this should face great punishment for wasting the valuable time granted to them by almighty Sinnoh, if this is what they have to show for it. It's quite laughable!
[The next words, though...that actually gives Adaman a pause. He admittedly hasn't given this room such thorough inspection, but...]
I...have not; not yet, at any rate. [Adaman's posture goes a touch tense, at that.] ...I take it that it would be quite prudent to read them, then? I take it to mean that they have expectancies of us that are unfavorable.
[He will. Go over and give them a read in a moment, but he is kind of just trying to steel himself here. Best to be prepared, right?]
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You could say that. [...] I can summarize, if you want?
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Yes, I would be amendable to that. It would likely be better than wasting my time reading the drivel this 'mayor' has written.
[The floor is yours, Brett!]
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Just the basic things first: we can stay as long as we want - [eyeroll] - and explore as we please. The lights are on a timer to mimic a regular day/night cycle - that one's more informational than a real rule. No falling asleep outside of your room, for some reason, and no breaking the windows and flooding the place, for obvious ones.
[He sobers, which is something of a feat, as he wasn't particularly cheery about even the basic rules.]
The only way to get out of here is to kill someone else and get away with it. Not anyone who works here - that isn't allowed. It has to be one of us.
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How utterly backhanded of him...but I suppose the basic kindness to let us know the time of day is appreciated. If it is even correct to the outside world at all...
[But oh. That last one. That last one sees Adaman tense up...rather spectacularly, actually, holy shit.]
...He's truly expecting us to kill one another, in order to escape this place?! To what end? To what end is this necessary in the slightest?!
[Holy shit that escalated?]
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[Bret gets it, but he's not the sort of person for an angry outburst himself. He's just grim, flipping his notebook shut again and slipping it away.]
We'll probably have to try and ask when he makes his address later. If you ask me, I doubt it really is necessary, by any definition.
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Adaman's tenseness gives way, then, to something more resolved.]
...No, you're right, stranger. We can focus on picking apart why he would ask this of us in due time; for now, we ought to focus on finding a way out. A way out for all of us.
It would be the perfect way to spite him, wouldn't it?
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Yeah - yeah, it would. [And he'll offer a hand.] I'm Brett.
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I am Adaman! Leader of the Diamond Clan if you wish to be formal, but just Adaman is quite fine. It's good to meet you, Brett; let's see if we can't spite this mayor in ways he can't possibly conceive!
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The Diamond Clan, huh? [That is something he's absolutely never heard of! Interesting!] Well, sure - spite's a good motivator!
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[But ohh--Adaman's expression seems to light up when Brett asks about the Diamond Clan, grinning brightly.]
That's right! The Diamond Clan are the people I have sworn to lead over--though truly, they're like family to me! Though it helps that I was raised among many of them. [Adaman chuckles.] We live in Hisui's Crimson Mirelands, and have for generations; we're united by our worship of the almighty Sinnoh, who presides over time itself!
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[And the religion makes him slightly uneasy, but - well, it's an entirely unknown religion, that's probably not entirely fair. Right?]
Would you mind telling me a little more? I'm just interested.
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[AS IF ADAMAN CAN RESIST ANY OPPORTUNITY TO PONTIFICATE AT LENGTH ABOUT THE ONE TRUE ALMIGHTY SINNOH--]
Where would you like me to start?
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[Hey, he's going into low-key interview mode, he's happy enough to hear some pontification!]
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It shows us the value of life, and that we should live it to the fullest in honor of this gift. We of the Diamond Clan endeavor to live by this principle, and with the help of Pokémon, we are able to do so and have gained it's protection.
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What's Pokemon?