» the city network

(ooc: silly open mingle at a spencer's ft kamui and wrench, come through! 👽)

[Towards the end of the first day the mall is open for business, citygoers stuck there receive a grainy, low-light video of Kamui. He's barely visible in the feeble cast of an emergency light; occasionally, his left eye catches and reflects the glow. His silver eye shines eerily like a cat's in the dark.]

H-- [the video freezes for a split-second before beginning again.] Hello? The connection's pretty bad here. Sorry.

[He blinks owlishly into the camera, then turns the feed around and flicks on the phone's flashlight.]

I'm not sure h-- [the video skips again, but ultimately, it lands upon the false brick exterior of a clothing store on the second floor.] --Ugh. This sucks.

[As he enters the store again, viewers might catch a glimpse of Wrench hustling to the back of the store past... a few display rows of lava lamps?]

Maybe this'll be-- [Kamui swaps to text.]

Is this working? Okay, yes. This is working better.

So, I think we've all discovered we're having trouble getting out of this mall by now. I'm not sure how much there's left to eat in the food court, but there's snacks and drinks up here as well, along with blankets, pillows, clothes, and [...] other supplies.

Please stay calm, be on your guard, and try to stay with at least one other person. More, if possible. I'm getting a really bad feeling about this place.

Does anyone have spare quarters or dimes? Or something akin to American currency? I'd like to play with the ice cream shop's jukebox a little more and see if I can shuffle to some late 90s music.

(The ice cream looks good, but there's no durian flavor, so pass for now).

And just to see who knows this little track...

"You are my fire
The one desire..."

5 points to whoever finishes the verse! It'd be wonderful to know it exists in other worlds and timelines 😊

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i'm looking for data on ability users in this place! no need to tell me what it is! just tell me - is it perfectly fine? help a detective build a case! ٩(｡•́‿•̀｡)۶

I'd like to keep this as efficient as possible, so I don't plan on talking your ear off.

Call me Daan. I'm a doctor. That should about cover all you need to know about me.

So, first question: is there already a clinic arranged by someone here? Have there been any injuries on top of there being a willing killer out there? Illnesses or whatever else. I can probably help you, even a little.

Second question: who has been here since the start of this whole mess of being trapped in a part of this city? Ideally, I'd like someone who can be informative, but I'm not overly picky.

I've got some big news, everyone. Could be the start of things happening directly to us instead of around us, so there's one point for experiment. Or drokking entertainment.

I woke up handcuffed. Standard issue, nothing special. On all levels they shouldn't be, but I've tried everything. And they are not. coming. off.

I know nobody came in while I was sleeping. And unlocking them isn't about skill, don't waste your time implying that it is. I’d like to know if somebody could find it in their gorgeous generous neighborly heart to bring a hacksaw. I’ll even take a sledgehammer and a spike if you have a VERY delicate touch and someone to vouch you’re not a serial killer

Your good-looking neighbor in need,
Rico Dredd


[ooc: Surprise, surprise - Rico's landed himself some mild city-provided timeout time. He is kind of starting to lose his shit. Plenty of characters are welcome to try breaking them, it’s going to be a very long 24 hours for him. Bring on your brain, magic powers, bullshit, smart comments, etc.

Rico's permissions/warnings are here. cw: hand injuries are involved bc he is insane. Also, I would greatly encourage threadhopping in this network post!]

The seventh day of the seventh month already. I didn't think we would be in this city for quite this long, but I guess it's also a surprise that we're here to begin with...

Does anyone else celebrate Tanabata? It might be nice to hang up some wishes. If only to do something new around here.

[You better believe Kamui has already tried everything else.]

Additionally, has anyone seen a good wish tree candidate around? [He's pretty sure they're out of luck on the bamboo front...] It needs a decent amount of boughs. There are a lot of people here.

[Now, Junpei is fairly certain they're all here for some kind of fucked up death game, because why wouldn't the third time be the charm!!— but until some mysterious costumed weirdo starts getting on all the screens and making announcements, there's not that much to go on. He can skulk around town glowering suspiciously at things for long so long.

Sooooo.]

if anybody wants my vote, it's t minus however the hell long before we all start killing each other. would love to be wrong, but if i live long enough to say i told you so, yknow. yippee.

so.

why do *you* think we're here? wrong answers only. top 3 by popular vote get a prize.

[Does he have a prize to hand out... No, no he does not. He will find some cheap garbage in one of the shops and write a 1ST/2ND/3RD PLACE on it, no problem. Eventually. Maybe even a sticker.]

and what do you guys think about picking code names? you know, just in case.

[big talk from username junpei]

Different worlds? Okay. Still, I gotta see what I'm working with here since the last time I was in a place with people from whatever universe was at 1 AM at the coffee shop and everyone had the grand idea to suddenly order Neapolitan frappuccinos. So here's how I'm going to narrow down and categorize all of you for my sake.

First off, how do you pronounce GIF? With a 'g' or a 'j'

Answer carefully 😉😉😉

(and if you don't get it, don't worry about it, you just get sorted into the other category)