Week 2

[bathymetric]

Good morning, New Rapture. A new day is dawning.

It's now been a week since you were all captured. Perhaps you've already settled in. Perhaps you're already confident that you'll make it out of New Rapture alive. How serious about this could Mayor Fontaine possibly be, really?

While there still may not be much to do in your little hotel bubble, you've at least been granted a little more now - some kind of mysterious room and a sizeable library of all things. And in all the places you've looked so far, you've found valuable information, and even learned some of the story of New Rapture along the way.

Make sure to keep talking to the others! You want to keep those regain coins flowing, don't you?




SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[ ooc: Welcome to the second week of Unknown Seas Round 3! Please make sure to mark any investigation toplevels accordingly, and you can reach either Mayor Fontaine or Eleanor for conversations! ]

Comments

[dullshooter]

Woah, red flag much?

[Misfire doesn't seem alarmed. He just seems amused.]

This might come to bite me in the arse later, but you know what? I like you. I mean, what you just said? Proper sketch. But if you decided that blowing my brains out was the way to win, then at least I saw it coming. At that point, it's on me.

[You can just build a friendship on anything.]

[buriedstar]

Is it? I'm just being honest.

[ He smiles, red eyes bright. ]

Loyalty is something I value highly but... it's not automatically included in friendships, if you want to put it that way. If it was, Red Lotus, my guild, wouldn't have gotten anywhere in the rankings at all.

All that being said, it's appreciated. That's one thing I never get tired of hearing~

[dullshooter]

I get you. Loyalty is built, or earned, or...whatever.

[Do you build loyalty or earn it?? Oh, this is going to annoy him.]

And you're welcome.

[He thinks.]

...I feel like I'm missing some crucial context for this whole 'guild' and 'rankings' thing, though.

[buriedstar]

Either.

[ It's all fine!

Seo Dawon tilts his head, slowing down his pace a little. ]

What do you want to know?

[dullshooter]

What they are, I guess? Come to think of it, aside from the magic stuff, I don’t know anything about your world. Aside from everything you conveyed through hand gesture.

[buriedstar]

[ He laughs. ]

Well, I can give you a quick primer.

Imagine a world where a video game system was overlaid onto the regular world, without warning. In a nutshell, that's what my world is like. It's not the entire world mind, there's distinct sections which are affected by the Gate and which aren't—but it's not like powers or skills are virtual. There is a limit on who can access the Hub and that's determined by essentially what amounts to an aptitude test. If you're compatible you can become a User, and if not you get to live a life being jealous of those who could. Skill and spell use outside the Hub is heavily regulated by the government, but there's nothing functionally stopping me from teleporting from Korea to Morocco in two seconds flat, if I felt like it.

Just a lot of paperwork.

Of course with a system like that, it means the world order has had to adapt. The governments of the world work closely with the guilds of their respective countries for trade, assets, and protection... a typical bodyguard is nothing against an assassin who can literally go invisible and deafen his movements. I think you get the picture.

As far as ranking goes, Users and guilds are ranked by how successful they are using a system that takes into account money, assets, combat power, and dungeon explorations. Some guilds opt to specialize, like Master Workshop which makes most of the high end raiding consumables for the top guilds, potions, elixirs, battle tonics, and so on.

[dullshooter]

That's...

[...]

...A lot of words. I clocked out a sentence in. But I got 'video game world' and I think that's all the exposition I need.

[He can dish out the gratuitous summaries but he can't take them, clearly.]

[buriedstar]

Well if you got the gist of it, that's good enough. They'll be a quiz later, though~.

[ He's probably teasing? Probably. ]

[dullshooter]

That's not fair - my academic failures are plastered on the walls for everyone's edutainment.

[buriedstar]

Four thousand six hundred twenty-eight time is the charm!

[dullshooter]

Either you have a stunning amount of faith in me, or you're incredibly sadistic.

[buriedstar]

I'd like to think of it as faith in my methods? But my name has paired with that word on more than several occasions.

[ Seo Dawon is arguably a very good leader and mentor but he is very sadistic and unforgiving!!!

His standards, you see. ]

[dullshooter]

I can only begin to imagine why.

[His standards.]