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@Spoiler; video

[spoileralert]

Hey guys. Stephanie Brown here again, with your week-and-a-half-ly assigned reading.

Newcomers: You've been kidnapped and brought to a town in Alaska called Norfinbury, year 2150-something or so. Time travel, alternate universes, Eldritch horrors and probably other shenanigans are involved.

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have, but it's most important to know that if you see something freaky don't let it touch you, and if you get locked out at night you 100% will die.

[ Attached:
SurvivalGuide.doc
Map.gif
Infodump.doc
OtherResources.doc ]

@featherydouche; text;

[mrcreamsicles]

yo small correction
it might actually be past the year 3000
depends on what something we got told recently means
in other words prepare to be fucking confused and im sorry to the newbies that you gotta go through this shit

[spoileralert]

[ ... ]

eh, same difference?

[mrcreamsicles]

not really
considering all the mystery quantum fuckery and the question of how this town has been running for so long
but whatever ima clear out and let the newbies ask questions if they got em

@funyarinpa | text

[fiftheclipse]

[He's opened the files, but.. The sheer amount of text...]

... Come on. All that?
Isn't that a little much?

[Maybe he wants to keep blindly assuming this tablet's just supposed to be a puzzle.]

[spoileralert]

Yeah, that’s why I summarized. Al’s guide has a decent intro, though, and you don’t have to read everything. Any questions you have are probably answered in one of these links.

@zd; text /slides in

[swatsflies]

My thoughts exactly.
There's some good news!
There's a text to audio function on here. So you can listen while you walk!

@funyarinpa | text

[fiftheclipse]

[The entry comes late in the day.


Waking up somewhere unfamiliar with no memory of how he got there... It wasn't the most unusual thing for Junpei, anymore. But this. This was... Wrong.

Maybe because he couldn't remember being knocked out again. No, rather, because he did remember events that he should have lost if that drug had taken effect, and the haziness of waking up really wasn't helping him to work out what that meant. Was his bracelet malfunctioning? ... If it were, wouldn't it have come off?

But there was more to it. That constant noise from what appeared to be a tablet, next to him. How cold the room was. The rest of his team missing. It wasn't adding up to anything that made sense.

He had to get up and figure it out.


It's only after a thourough search of the house and the determination that it's far too cold outside to leave, that Junpei finally returns to the device, giving in and beginning its setup like it wants.

It's the only option left, after all.]


Okay. Fine. I'm on here.
What do you want!?

@standardissue;

[deus_ex_phs]

A lot of things, really. Going home pretty much tops the list, but a cup of hot coffee would be amazing.

What do you want?

[fiftheclipse]

So @ADMIN doesn't reply, huh?

The snow going away would be a start.

I found a coffee mug, but no surprise that it's empty.

[deus_ex_phs]

Admin only replies when it suits her, or if you bring up something directly related to her responsibilities. Even then, she doesn't always.

Unfortunately, that snow has been here for more than 10 months, nine of which I can vouch for personally. Don't think it's likely to go away anytime soon. If only.

Actually, there IS a place that you can find hot coffee fairly reliably. Down in the entrance area, near the gate. Some kind of fast food place. It's just not anywhere I'm planning to travel anytime soon.

Want a map?

@clowncutie92; text

[clowngirl]

personally i could use a date with a hot bath and the best of the three stooges.

[fiftheclipse]

Are the standards that low, here?

[clowngirl]

lower, cuz i'd settle for a luke-warm sponge bath and a knock-knock joke.

@quark; text

[averytinyparticle]

[Funyarinpa...? Huh. Quark squints at the screen. The username brings back an old memory but he shakes it off. It can't be. It's too weird.]

what the tablet?
yeah it doesnt like it when people try and skip the login phase
welcome to hell by the way!

[fiftheclipse]

Isn't hell supposed to be hot?
It's freezing in here.

[averytinyparticle]

isnt the deepest layer of hell supposed to be super cold?
i dunno
this is hell now either way but you get used to it

@bluebird, text

[plaguenurse]

Um, if you're trying to talk to @ADMIN, she doesn't answer most questions. :( She might if you filter the message to her username...

Are you okay?

[fiftheclipse]

... Not that different from Zero.

I'm doing better than whoever left all their stuff here.

@curiouschloride | text

[motherserpent]

So new people really do show up like clockwork here.

Hi. I'm Tess. I've been here maybe a week? And it sucks. Good maps, though, definitely use those.

[fiftheclipse]

[... It not's going to do him any good to not introduce himself, is it?]

Tenmyouji.

The map's pretty detailed, yeah.
But I guess whoever brought us here thinks giving us a "you are here" marker's asking too much.

@librarian; video

[cahooted]

Oh hey, you already got the hang of it, that's what we're trying to figure out! Well, one of the things we're trying to figure out, the list is getting quite long and needlessly complicated these days, and not to forget the side dish of existential dread we didn't even order.

[Right, he might be getting ahead of himself.]

Uh, sorry. Hi. This must all be terribly confusing. I mean, it was terribly confusing when I got here, so there's really no reason to assume that it's any less confusing now. Because you... just got here.

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[fiftheclipse]

[A video? It catches him off guard for only a second-- not quite enough to let the tablet change his method of response.]

Someone's a little too excited.

If the list's so long, whoever brought us here didn't think it over. They can't expect us to play into their hand without giving us instructions.

[Because it should be that simple, right? Even if it's not a good one, their captor should have some sort of reason...]

@magenta2; text

[himalayanyeti]

i dont know i guess i want a drink

welcome to here i dont think ive seen you before

im magenta. dont die

[fiftheclipse]

["Don't die"? Really? What a reassuring greeting.]

... Yeah, same.
Would it have killed someone to stock the kitchen a little better? All I found in the cupboard was a backpack.