streamy: (Default)
Do it for The Vine! ([personal profile] streamy) wrote in [community profile] thevine2026-02-15 04:10 pm
Entry tags:

✦ WEEKEND ZERO

✦ WEEKEND ZERO: PILOT EPISODE
30
REMAINING
.
Welcome! x
Status Changes x
Good afternoon passengers, and welcome to the marvelous Scylla, heading directly for Napalm Springs... We are expected to arrive in approximately a time... Please enjoy your refreshments and entertainment while we make our way through the coral reef...
And with the startling boom of a foghorn, you awake on the deck of a boat. A superyacht, specifically! This isn't where you just were, but you should've seen this coming, right? Whether it was five minutes ago or five years ago, you signed a contract with a representative who told you they could make your dreams come true. Seems like your contract has activated! The OnlyFruits Media Group has collected each of you to shuttle off to a brand new season of The Vine, a reality show where three teams compete against each other for the chance to have their dearest dreams come true. There's always a twist (what sort of fruit would we be if there wasn't some sort of zest), but... you aren't quite sure what that twist might be just yet. Is that anxiety you're feeling, or are you just seasick? Anyway. When you wake up, you'll find that you are all dressed in dapper formal clothing. What a way to make a first impression! To both you and your... fans, potentially, since you get the sense that you're being watched, even if you're not sure how. If you have personal belongings, you won't find them for now - maybe they got sent ahead to your location already? And yes, this includes pets. Oh no. But there's nothing to be done about it. You might as well enjoy your stay on the Scylla, for now. And maybe meet your future potential teammates and rivals, while you're at it?
YO HO HO HO
In the words of Twerking With the Stars season 15 winner, Smdy Aamberg: You're on a boat! (You're on a boat!) You're on a boat! (You're on a boat!) Everybody look at you 'cause you're sailing on a boat!
It's a little packed on this ship, but for the most part? You're not too crowded. It's made to carry about forty people, so there's enough space to spread out. You can even find little places to be alone, should you so wish. Mostly. Again, you think there might be cameras, but you can't see any of them and even if you could, you wouldn't be able to break them. The main attraction of the ship is the cabin on the deck. Inside the cabin is a fully stocked bar, complete with mixers and garnishes. A fridge with pre-made meals spans across the underside of this bar, and there's enough in there for everybody on board to have at least three meals a day. How does it all fit? Just trust us, it does. If you try to take more than your fair share, you'll get electrocuted by a mysterious force, so maybe don't do that. Or do, if you're into that kind of thing.
There are tables and booths inside the cabin to hang out in, as well as a dance floor smack dab in the middle of the floorspace. There is a disco ball hanging down from the ceiling in the center of the multicolored dancefloor. From nine PM to midnight, this plays in the cabin, so enjoy your clubbing. At least it's not able to be heard outside of the cabin itself, so if you want to sleep, you can do so on the deck. There's a bunch of lounge chairs out there, go wild. Speaking of, aside from the lounge chairs, on the deck is a small pool with a hot tub extension. It's perfect for lazing about with a drink, or getting to know your fellow contestants. And why did we tell you to find a lounge chair to sleep in? Well, unfortunately all of the rooms in the sleeping quarters are locked and cannot be opened by any means, save for one. This room has one king-sized waterbed with a funhouse mirror on the ceiling directly above it, an armchair in the corner, and nothing else. The door to this room does not lock, and is weirdly warm. You can sleep here. Not sure why you'd want to, but you can. And yes, there are bathrooms. Public ones, with stalls and sinks. There is one shower. Keep that in mind. At the very back of the yacht is what appears to be the engine room, or something like it. It's locked, but the sign on the door reads:
YOUR CAPTAIN TODAY IS FLYINGWAY. PLEASE ENJOY YOUR TRIP TO THE ISLAND.
No amount of brute force or wits can break into this room. If you try to get in anyway, do let us know.
Special Delivery!
As a complimentary gift for participating on the Vine Season 69, you receive a small canvas tote bag full of goodies!
✦ A small box containing three mini key lime tarts.A cute handheld fan with a detachable stand. ✦ A pillow that definitely doesn't look like what you think it is (slightly NSFW). ✦ A book about how to deal with the stress of travel! ✦ A colorful OnlyFruits water bottle.A pack of sesame biscuits. Not cookies. These are legally and emotionally distinct from cookies. You feel this in your soul.
☰ OOC NOTES
✦ Welcome to your Weekend 0 Mingle! ✦ You currently DO NOT have your home item, any canon outfits, or your game-provided phone. Powers are off. ✦ ICly, profiles are still hidden! We will let you know when you can see them ICly. This also means your character ICly does not know what team they are! ✦ Don't forget to turn in your PCs if you start them! ✦ Have fun, and always feel free to come talk to the mods if you have any issues or comments or anything you want to share!
abracatdabra: ('cause everything else is obsolete)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-21 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ climbing the railing and leaning closer so he can peer at the cookies in his hands with no regards for personal space ]

"Emotionally strange"? Do ye have any allergies perhaps?
headmt: (61.)

[personal profile] headmt 2026-02-21 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ well this guy is kinda short for catfolk but maybe he's a kid. offering part of the cookie? ]

Don't think so. Unless it's one of these things. What's an allergies?

[ he doesn't know the singular is allergy. ]
abracatdabra: (pour myself a cup of ambition)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-21 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ takes the cookie. does not eat the cookie.

he also doesn't seem too surprised by molly not knowing what an allergy is ]


It's when your body gives off a nasty reaction to a food, even when the food is completely fine for everybody else!
headmt: [ midnightartist ] (13.)

[personal profile] headmt 2026-02-21 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, right, right. Like that time one of our fire-eaters ate a shrimp and couldn't breathe. I always just assumed that was because he was eating seafood 200 miles inland, but that could explain it.
abracatdabra: ('cause i don't give a fuck)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-21 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Coulda been both! A rancid shrimp would tear the breath right out of anyone's lungs. And everythin' else in that general area.

[ he is still not eating the biscuit for the record he is just holding it. thats his now ]

But you seem to be breathin' quite fine, so maybe we can rule out an allergic reaction.
headmt: [ cryptidw00rm ] (27.)

[personal profile] headmt 2026-02-21 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
You'd think, but he died and no one else did.

[ he is welcome to have it. ]

Don't think I'm allergic to anything, but I haven't eaten everything in the world. Haven't been around that long. Could find out one day.
abracatdabra: (i'm a very manly muppet)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-21 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
That's how most people find out allergies!

[ BY DYING? he means by eating food but it sounds like dying ]

Is that why you agreed to participate here then? Wantin' to experience more out of the world?
headmt: (48.)

[personal profile] headmt 2026-02-21 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Not exactly, but not not exactly?

[ perhaps it is simply an incidental benefit. ]

Maybe I knew something before I knew something. Bit of fate and all that.
abracatdabra: (who wants to dig a long haired gig)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-21 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Before you knew something...? [ head tilt. ears go flop ] Did you not know what you were signin' up for?
headmt: (CI12)

[personal profile] headmt 2026-02-21 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the ears are so cute ........ what tha hell ]

At that point, barely knew my left foot from my right.
abracatdabra: ('cause i have no reference level)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-21 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ looking a little :o despite you know. not opening his eyes any ]

An' they made you sign a contract in that state? How long ago was that?
headmt: (103.)

[personal profile] headmt 2026-02-21 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he is so expressive. anyway, molly does have to think, because theres some time nonsense he isn't quite sure of. but. ]

Few years ago ... ?
abracatdabra: (because a cat's the only cat)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-21 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that's interestin'! Wasn't quite that long ago for me, but here we are both in the same... well, boat. [ he goes hehe because pun. ] You said you weren't quite of sound mind at that time though. Goin' through a rough patch?
headmt: (CI25)

[personal profile] headmt 2026-02-22 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, not exactly, but I'd just recently crawled out of a grave and had no memories, so, that tends to mess around with your reasoning capabilities.
abracatdabra: (if i'm a man that makes me)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-22 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ ?????? ]

I'd call crawlin' out of a grave a rather rough patch! [ LIKE, ] How did you end up all the way down there?
headmt: (CI25)

[personal profile] headmt 2026-02-22 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ cheerfully: ]

Don't know!
abracatdabra: (a muppet of a man)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-22 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Amnesiac too? [ :O!!!! ] No wonder you were all bamboozled comin' outta there! Not a single clue around when ye did either?
headmt: (103.)

[personal profile] headmt 2026-02-22 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Seems that way.

[ he is generally fine being an amnesiac. ]

I have some clues, but it's not particularly interesting to me to dig all that up [he can do grave jokes too], to be honest.
abracatdabra: (the traffic starts jumpin')

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-22 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ that's fine. puns are acceptable. as is not caring about being amnesiac actually ]

Comfortable with the new life ye found yourself in, then? I cannae blame you if the last one ended like that!