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Do it for The Vine! ([personal profile] streamy) wrote in [community profile] thevine2026-02-15 04:12 pm
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✦ WEEKEND ZERO........2!

✦ WEEKEND ZERO: PILOT EPISODE PT. 2
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On Sunday in the afternoon, you hear a very loud foghorn interrupting whatever it is you're doing! When you look up over the ocean, you'll see... an island! Whoa! We're almost there! In fact, we are there, so go get a last drink to go and get ready to disembark. It's hard to see the docks, because instead of wood, they're made of glass, for some reason. They're also currently being lapped by the ocean waves, which is why the yacht avoids them entirely and heads directly to the beach - an idealistic, beautiful place with soft white sand and sparkling blue waves. From this distance, you can see not only the beach, but an enormous mansion not too far from the sand. That looks nice... hope you're staying there, right? A second foghorn goes off, and you find yourself ushered to the gangplank by a troupe of very determined bunnies. These bunnies shove phones into your hands as you pass! You'll get a better look at them in a minute, because the bunnies do not stop there - they practically shove you off the boat down to the beach. Guarded by a pack of catfish-like creatures in little valet outfits, your home items will be there to receive you once you set foot on the soft, white sands. And just a few paces ahead, you spot three colorful figures...
New phone, who dis?
Yay, a phone! Wow, you've been set up with the works, huh? This is one of those fancy phones that cost more than half your yearly salary. Anyway, they've got plenty of features, and the best part is that they're constantly monitoring what you have to say at all times! Whoa! Your brand new Citrus Plus phone includes:
✦ Texting (as well as voice-to-text) ✦ Calling ✦ Video/Video Chat ✦ Notes functionality ✦ A camera ✦ A music player (called Smoothie) ✦ Full access to the Grapevine, an OnlyFruits exclusive network, as well as a selection of stickers, gifs, emoji, and more! ✦ Full access to the Fruit Juicer, an application for voting that seems to have no function outside of specific days ✦ Full access to Vitamin D, our specialized application that allows for you to get into your assigned team lounge! The D is for door.
You can add password protection to these phones, if you'd like. It can be through facial recognition, a six letter/number password, or a fingerprint scan. Your phone is the same color as your team (so orange, yellow, or green), and has a cute little fruit shaped charm hanging from it. It essentially looks like an iPhone, except how it isn't so we here at OnlyFruits don't get sued. And last but not least, it's not invincible! If you throw it, it'll shatter the screen or scuff the case, just like a normal phone. Don't drop it in the pool. You can get a new one, theoretically, but you don't want to know what the cost will be.
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☰ OOC NOTES
✦ You now have a brand new phone! See above container for all the functions and such. There's a scroll bar, so read carefully! ✦ ICly, profiles are now available and you know what team you're on. ✦ Home items are now in your possession. Yay. ✦ You still have to sleep on the boat for this Sunday. Your forever home is not ready yet. For reasons. ✦ Don't forget to turn in your PCs if you start them! ✦ Have fun, and always continue feel free to come talk to the mods if you have any issues or comments or anything you want to share.
abracatdabra: (everybody wants to be a cat)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-22 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ thank you it is a marvel ]

A whole week?! Now that's quite the festivities for a wee little cat like me.
extensiveform: (what does it mean.....)

[personal profile] extensiveform 2026-02-23 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Are you the usual type of being where you're from? I don't know if you've met the Cookies, but I'm not making any assumptions on how it works at the Golden Saucer. Do all cats have fingers?

[also maybe he wants to believe in a world of cats with hands. a better world.]
abracatdabra: (now i think i'll lie down there)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-23 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, nope. Vast majority of people on the planet are humans. 'Course there's plenty of animals and monsters, and maybe a few stragglers of different races, but for me--I'm quite the unique specimen!

[ alas. there is not a world of cats with hands. ff7 world sucks actually ]
extensiveform: (blah blah blah)

[personal profile] extensiveform 2026-02-23 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[jem's hopes for a better world (of finger-having cats) is dashed upon the rocks of reality (tv).]

It's like that on Dessamori, too. Mostly humans, then monsters either come from the forests or hop off landshards when they fly past. You don't have other forms, do you? This one's fantastic, don't get me wrong.
abracatdabra: (PROVOCATIVE POOOSIIING)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-23 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Other forms? Is that a common thing back on Dessamori?

[ and actually also while he is asking about exposition: ]

Landshards?
extensiveform: (what does it mean.....)

[personal profile] extensiveform 2026-02-23 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Not uncommon. It probably depends on what you get up to.

[stroking his chin between his thumb, index, and middle finger.]

Landshards are floating earth masses that pass by. Monsters jump off and cause a mess in the area they land on. Where do your monsters come from?
abracatdabra: (and i don't recognize)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-23 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Monsters--fiends--live pretty much everywhere on the Planet. Keepin' them out and away from human settlements requires hard work, or at the very least some rather strong buildings.
extensiveform: (blah blah blah)

[personal profile] extensiveform 2026-02-24 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
['everywhere on the planet' is a lot of places.]

You don't have heroes or adventurers to go around and take them out?

[jem loosely pantomimes loading a rifle and shooting an imaginary monster off to his left.]
abracatdabra: (while i'm dancing)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-24 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
We do! Adventurers or soldiers, mostly. Heroes are a rarer breed for somethin' as small as guarding walls. Plenty of mercs to take on jobs with the more dangerous fiends as well.

But there's no getting rid of them. They're as part of nature as anythin' else.
extensiveform: jem with a nice lil smile (simple smilie)

[personal profile] extensiveform 2026-02-25 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[fascinating and not altogether unfamiliar. simply a hopskip in another direction from what jem is used to.]

And what do you do? I should have asked before--what is the Golden Saucer?
abracatdabra: (because a cat's the only cat)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-25 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
The Gold Saucer's an amusement park! [ gestures widely ] Biggest and best in the world. As for me--I'm a fortune teller.
extensiveform: (blah blah blah)

[personal profile] extensiveform 2026-02-26 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
That must be a fun place to live.

[jem can put two words together and come up with a mental image like a real champ. amusement. park. a park with entertainment.]

What do you use for your tellings?
abracatdabra: ('cause i'm a stupid fucking cat)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-26 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
It's a good work environment!

[ ok. dont gotta be capitalist about it, cat. ]

I trust in the stars. [ pats his moogle ] And he's the helper.
extensiveform: (what does it mean.....)

[personal profile] extensiveform 2026-02-26 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[AH. yes. the moogle. jem is very comfortable with fellow pink(ish) creatures. barely registered--what the fuck is that? be cool, jem.

be so cool.
]

If I had any money, I'd pay for you to tell mine sometime. Do you take trades?

[WHAT IS THAT? HE WANTS TO ASK. BUT IT FEELS RUDE???]
abracatdabra: (and try to come to life)

[personal profile] abracatdabra 2026-02-26 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Not to worry! My fortune telling's always free.

[ because he has a net salary. ]
extensiveform: (blah blah blah)

[personal profile] extensiveform 2026-02-26 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll have to take you up on that later.

[you will soon be bothered for a pc. run (music blasting)]