Week 0 Mingle;

[omnivoracious]

❤ Week 0 Mingle

Welcome to your new home, contestants! You step off the boat you somehow don't remember being on (or the plane, or the transdimensional time warp you skipped through) and find yourself on a beautiful, lush island! All you have is what you managed to cram into one suitcase (or three), so snacks, clothes, sex toys, photo albums of your family or coworkers, your phone that will not be working all that well, and etc. No living things, why would you put them through the embarrassment of witnessing your romantic escapades? Please.


You're led to a house and told this is where you will be living until you get your act together and find your destined partner. How nice! It appears to be set up already to be lived in, and the kitchen has a mini bar with alcohol already provided, as well as a little notebook of instructions as to how to mix drinks and how to play those wildly popular Drinking Games. Maybe give it a try later?

Once you're all unpacked and starting to mingle, you'll find a young lady in the traditional Ojousama Ringlets standing out in the yard. She'll wait until everyone is present before she smiles and speaks.

"Good day, contestants. I am the Overseer, the individual who will be, well... overseeing your romantic escapades during your stay. I believe you know the rules already, so I'll be brief: you are all here because you have encountered difficulties maintaining a romance. You have all been paired up with each other, thanks to a complicated matchmaking algorithm. Your goal is to find your Perfect Match. Should all ten Perfect Matches be found and confirmed, all of you will have your wishes granted. So really..."

She places a hand delicately to her chin. "It would behoove you to speak with each other, test out your chemistry, and see where that leads you as quickly as possible. I shall be scarce today, save for an occasional encounter, but I will be speaking with you tomorrow to give you a better idea of what your next few weeks will be looking like. By all means, do enjoy yourselves."

She curtseys. And then leaves, but don't worry. She may just pop into your toplevel to ask you some questions. Or she may not! Who knows!

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Comments

[dankgod]

1. Unpacking

[ You're unpacking. Kasque does not seem to have brought anything but a large staff. She leans it against a bunk bed as she yawns and shamelessly watches everyone removing things from their suitcases.]

Wooow... You really thought you'd need that?

[ She also appears to be hovering a foot or so off the ground. ]

2. Post-Announcement

[ After the Overseer leaves, Kasque sits in a hammock and surveys the group, twisting her hair around her finger with a bored expression and musing aloud. ]

I'm supposed to have chemistry with one of these losers...? I'm exhausted already. Someone come over here so I can start ruling people out.

3. Boom Boom Room.

[ Kasque is inspecting the dramatic inscription over the door thoughtfully. ]

So there's the option to just bang it out, huh? Guess that's not the worst idea.

3

[aldaft]

[Cyrus rubs his chin in thought.]

Bang? Is that what to which boom refers? I fail to see what purpose such a room serves . . .

[dankgod]

Is that so...? You do look like the kinda guy who's more likely to have your face in a dry book than anything wetter.

[aldaft]

Wet . . . ? If the room is meant to produce a booming sound from being banged within, should its walls and floor not be dry?

[dankgod]

Hnnn... Let me give you a tip, okay? If a girl's walls are dry when you're banging around within her, you're doing something seriously wrong.

1/2

[aldaft]

[Girl's walls . . . dry . . . banging around?]

[aldaft]

[!!]

You don't possibly mean . . .

2.

[souperb]

[ sure, milla'll bite. with a similarly bored expression: ]

I didn't think a self-proclaimed God would need to demean themselves like this for a wish.

[ she got that much from reading the profiles after wandering around. she didn't have much (read: she had nothing) to unpack.

now, whether she believes that, well... she is, was, the lord of spirits, so. it's a toss-up. either way, she's not going to take being called a loser like that, okay. ]

[dankgod]

[ Kasque's expression becomes significantly less bored when her eyes land on Milla. She, on the other hand, had not bothered to look at the profiles, and Milla's appearance comes as a shock, even if she doesn't look quite how she'd expect. In fact, Kasque shows the most emotion she has since they arrived, a sequence of expressions crossing her face almost too quickly to be identified. Surprise. Confusion. A hint of sadness, maybe? Guilt? Longing?

Then her face settles back into boredom, though it looks stiffer now. More deliberate.]

...Aaah, "self-proclaimed," huh...? That's rough, Milla. Y'know, it only took a few minutes of you not showing before they were totally eager to proclaim me God. I mean, they weren't stoked about it or anything, but...

[souperb]

[ ah. was she silly for assuming she'd somehow avoid these sort of messes here? at this point she can't even be surprised at having such a wide range of emotions in response to her presence, in front of someone she doesn't recognize.

she's met more people that feel for her that don't know her, than people who do know her. is that sad? probably.

her reaction, too, is practiced: ]

... Whatever complicated relationship you have with her, I'm not your Milla, so save your breath. I have no idea what you're talking about.

[dankgod]

My Milla?

[ That gets another flash of anger/upset, quickly doused. ]

...So, what? Are you saying you don't even, like... know me at all?

[souperb]

[ she does look like she wants to say something more for a fraction of a second, but draws it back and settles for a more muted: ]

No. Sorry to disappoint you.

[ mildly genuine. incredibly Tired. ]

... I can avoid you if it'd be easier. I don't exactly feel like revisiting this kind of headache either, so.

[ she'll deal with having to dive into a closet every time kasque turns the corner or something. ]

post-announcement

[corporative]

With an attitude like that, everyone will rule you out before you even get a chance to form a first impression.

[It's an interesting approach -- insult the group, the people they're supposed to be getting to know better. Rufus can't help but be amused in a vaguely patronizing way.]

Might want to at least play at niceties on day one.

[dankgod]

Yeah, that sounds like waaaaay too much effort. Plus, someone is my match, so it's their problem if they rule me out, right?

[corporative]

It's technically your problem, too. You're making it more difficult on yourself to find your apparent match; that, or you're dooming yourself to not getting one at all. Wouldn't you hate to be one of the losers in this game?

[dankgod]

Yeah, no, I don't actually care that much. Besides, anyone who'd get put off by this much isn't going to have a good time with me.

1.

[unrecompensed]

[This comment is made right when Aoko is pulling out her Very Lucky Thank You Very Much ostentatiously red bra.

She shoves it back into the bad immediately with a squeak.]

N-no?!

Re: 1.

[dankgod]

[ Kasque looks mildly amused. ]

Ehhhh... So you're already assuming you're not going to get any?

[unrecompensed]

[screams inwardly, because

a) that is exactly what she brought it for

and

b) Kasque had her figured out just from that glimpse.]

N-n-nooooo....?!

[dankgod]

Oh, then you're just planning to wear that around? Should I turn around while you get changed?

[ Kasque is wearing a bra as her whole top anyway, it's clearly fine ]

[unrecompensed]

[Kasque is bold and strong and on a whole different level, Aoko has decided.]

I... it's just something I wear sometimes...!

Why is this happening--?!

1

[starswink]

...What? I only brought one.

[One stuffed animal that is.]

It's for decoration.

[dankgod]

You don't think that's a little childish...? You're supposed to be finding an ~adult~ relationship here, right? Though I guess some people are into that kind of thing...

[starswink]

[Yoosung groans a bit at being called childish. He does get this a lot, but. Gotta defend himself here.]

That's right. Plenty of adults have plushies. And we're sleeping in bunk beds, so I really don't think it's a big deal!

[They're clearly not supposed to have ~adult relations~ in this room. Otherwise he probably would move the lamb somewhere!]

[dankgod]

Weeell, we'll see how your match feels about it, I guess.