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The Overseer. ([personal profile] omnivoracious) wrote in [community profile] ayto2022-02-28 11:37 am
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Week 0 Mingle;

❤ 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!

aldaft: (06)

[personal profile] aldaft 2022-03-03 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
As have I! What inspires you to watch them?
dankgod: (26_062b)

[personal profile] dankgod 2022-03-03 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Uh, it's kinda my job.
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[personal profile] aldaft 2022-03-03 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
Are you some manner of overseer yourself?
dankgod: (26_063)

[personal profile] dankgod 2022-03-03 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
In that I oversee the entire world from up in the sky, yeah.
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[personal profile] aldaft 2022-03-03 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
. . . I see. You must be a god.
dankgod: (21_082b)

[personal profile] dankgod 2022-03-03 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Got it in one. Guess you know more about church than you do about the bedroom.
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[personal profile] aldaft 2022-03-03 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods.]

I've read many a tome on the histories and doctrines of the Church of the Sacred Flame, as well as had the honor of encountering a handful of gods in recent days. However, I never imagined that I would meet not one, but two, here!
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[personal profile] dankgod 2022-03-04 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hm? There's another one?
aldaft: (14)

[personal profile] aldaft 2022-03-04 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, were you unaware? Yes, Zagreus is the other.
dankgod: (21_082b)

[personal profile] dankgod 2022-03-04 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Huh... Guess that makes sense. That should be extra interesting, then.
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[personal profile] aldaft 2022-03-04 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Just so. Were you expecting everyone else to be mortals?
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[personal profile] dankgod 2022-03-04 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
More or less, yeah.
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[personal profile] aldaft 2022-03-04 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
. . . Why is that?
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[personal profile] dankgod 2022-03-04 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, where I'm from we've got spirits and seraphim and that kinda thing... But most of the time they aren't really looking for love.

And gods... that's a pretty exclusive position.
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[personal profile] aldaft 2022-03-05 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the explanation—as well as those before it.

. . . Much like you, I confess that I wasn't expecting to meet personages of your distinction here. That was simple-minded of me.

[It's different for Kasque (and Zagreus), who's a goddess herself. He, as a mortal, disregarded the very idea of her participation from the outset. What a shameful way of thinking.]

Though you are owed the respect due a god, it is also not my intention to treat you differently from the rest of the contestants. Bearing that in mind, how should I address you?