WELCOME.

[lockdownmods]

[ You've had a long two weeks. Perhaps you've been pushed to your limit, perhaps not--either way, you all deserve a break. Jax is your driver, and he seems to be doing okay with the whole driving thing, despite braking a little too hard.

Aside from that, the ride to your new housing, is...interesting. You've gotten to see some of the outside world. The city is just as hi-tech as the university with buildings of varying sizes lining the streets. It definitely feels like a busy city, though there aren't many people out and about on the streets despite there being so much to do and so many things to see.

Weird, considering it's still daytime.

Around twenty minutes pass, and then you notice that you're travelling outside of the city. It's a long road that seems to go on and on. There are smaller houses now, farms and fields...

In any case, you have time to sing a handful of karaoke songs, talk to your neighbor, take a nap--whatever you feel like doing. After around an hour of travel, the bus approaches some sort of wall. It's high, and looks similar to the wall that surrounded Fayflower University. Jax rolls down his window, seems to scan something--and then the walls slowly open.

He drives in, and you're greeted with a colorful assortment of houses. They're also quite large. Jax parks the bus on the road in front of them before he lets you all out. ]

You're all assigned to the Magenta house, the one on the far left. You can do whatever you want from here on out; just don't mess with anything you shouldn't be messing with.

[ Interpret that however you'd like to. Maybe you'd like to talk to Jax. Maybe you'd like to settle in. Or...maybe you'd like to explore. ]

Comments

[covertizer]

[ Well the first thing he's doing after that journey is... taking a shower. Heck. Once he is clean and fresh in body, at least, he's going to focus on the traditional house tour, examining all the different rooms thoroughly before arriving in the games room. He's stopping in each room along the way, but the games room seems like the most unique and interesting of the lot for now.

After exploring the different games, he can be found with Cards Against Humanity littered around the table next to him. Littered around the table are such hilarious and not at all immature combinations such as "What's the gift that keeps on giving? A disappointing birthday party." and "During his midlife crisis, my dad got really into... Vigorous jazz hands."

The final card on the table reads "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of..." but Akira hasn't set down the final card. He's holding it in his hand, and frowning at it.

Coming up behind him should let you see what it says:

"Survivor's guilt.". ]

This doesn't seem so fun anymore.

how could you

[reshoot]

[The game room is without question the most inviting. Something about games are so...normal. Normal, normal, she never realized how much she took normal for granted.

She fixates on Akira and what he's doing, only because she can't help her own curiosity. Seeing him makes her a little uncomfortable. What he went through, being so close to Mishima...

The card in his hand makes her stomach drop, and seems to confirm all of her worries She sidles up next to him.]

I was never a huge fan of this one. A little too dark, sometimes.

...

Hey, Akira.

[covertizer]

It's fun, sometimes. But this was a little too close to the nerves, I think.

[ There's a pause, and then he flips the card and starts folding it - it's thicker than paper, so he has to score the lines of the folds a little harder, but it's pretty obvious he's making a little cardboard plane from it. Origami style. ]

Hey, Max. You doing okay?

[starswink]

[Yoosung was already in the room testing his computers, but he doesn't get up when Akira comes in, keeping his back to him as he plays with the cards. It's uniquely awkward to talk to the person he assumes is the most directly affected by the loss... He realizes that this is a cowardly way of thinking, wishes Rika could tell him what to say. It's not his intention to ignore him, but sometimes you just suffer in silence until it finally breaks - oh. It broke. He turns around in his chair to see the cause, but it's not entirely clear from a distance, so he just bites his lip for a second and then asks.]

Um. I've never played that one... What is it?

[He'd like to say they can't let this place get to them so soon, but...]

[covertizer]

The game?

[ He flips the box lid over and plucks out the instruction manual. ]

You're supposed to make either the rudest or funniest combination of cards using the ones in your hand with the one drawn from the main pile. One person sits out the turn and has to pick the funniest one.

So... not a bad way to get to know each other. If you know how a person works, you can try and appeal to their sense of humour.

[starswink]

[He explained the game instead of what he meant. Well, that's fine too. Yoosung will happily distract him from whatever it was that upset him, doing his best to smile for it too.]

Oh, well, that doesn't sound so bad. So you can't play with two people? Or do you just have to rate their answer on a scale of one to ten in that case?

[covertizer]

[ He has forgotten that card. Yup. What card? Hahah. Haaaaaa. Ha. ]

Two wouldn't work, no. It's more of a group game.

[ ... ]

Or you can use the Ed Balls rule.

[starswink]

Ed.... Balls?

[I'm sorry, his mind is going right into the gutter. He's not being crass though, just surprised and confused!]

[covertizer]

Ed Balls.

[ He sounds deadly serious. ]

[starswink]

I see, Ed Balls! [Maybe if he pretends he understands it will make sense... No, he doesn't get it.] ...What is that?