MEME ♦ Lights Out!

[whowasphones]

Uh oh! Looks like something weird is happening, here! Did someone forget to pay the electricity bill? Or has that storm outside caused a blackout? Who knows! Reasoning aside, you are now trapped in darkness. You can't see anything, anything at all! And you can't even adjust to this darkness, for some reason! There's only black, black, black. Something about this room is odd, for certain!

How this is going to go down
♦ You will post as your characer as ANON, because you're in the dark!
♦ There is no putting your character's name in the subject line. However, if you like, you can put your character's series/canon. It's no fun if you know who you're interacting with right away!
♦ You're free to set up your character fumbling around in the dark and such, just so you remember which comment is yours in this anon mess, if anything.
♦ Those who reply to you will roll the RNG for the specifics of the situation!
♦ Yay! In the dark shenanigans!!
♦ When you guys are ready, the lights go on, you can log into your character journals, and it's time to admire the awkward in the light.

RNG http://www.random.org/

♦ ONE: WHY IS IT SO SMALL AND CRAMPED IN THIS ROOM? Wait, this isn't a room, this is a closet. It looks like you've been locked inside for Seven Minutes in Heaven, or just for shits and giggles! The door doesn't seem to be opening, and it sounds like some ... Barry Manilow is playing? Oh, talk about awkward.
♦ TWO: BRR, WHY IS IT SO COLD? Looks like your clothes are missing! For some reason, you're only dressed in your underwear, or even commando if you feel like being really mean to your muse. Are you in bed with someone? Just can't find your clothes? Are THEY wearing your clothes? Up to you, because it really doesn't make it any less awkward.
♦ THREE: A LITTLE HANDSY: Did someone just cop a feel? There's a lot of accidental (or... not accidental) groping going on, for whatever reason! Talk about an awkward situation, mmmhmm!
♦ FOUR: OOPS, STUCK! One of you is stuck somewhere in this room, and can't get out! Either in a hole in the floor or tied to a bed or something! Whatever you can think of! Hopefully the other person can help you out in the dark.
♦ FIVE: ON AND OFF! Rather than totally darkness, the lights are flashing on and off, creepily. And it looks like there might be monsters in there with you guys?! Or are those illusions?

If you don't want to roll the RNG, that's fine! Go ahead and create your own situation, if you'd like!

Have fun, everyone!


Stolen completely, utterly, and shamelessly from memebells

Comments

[whowasphones]

... I can't explain that part, either. The memory's gone. Or it was. I have pieces of it now, but...

Nothing makes any sense.

[thankyouverymooch]

You talked about a game. What sort of game was it...?

[whowasphones]

It's called The Reaper's Game. If you win, you get your life back. Fail, and face erasure.

[If only it stayed that simple.]

[thankyouverymooch]

... Any chance this could be something like that?

[whowasphones]

How should I know?

[To be honest, I thought so at first. That this was some sort of weird test... another one of those challenges. But no matter how you look at it, it doesn't add up. This isn't Shibuya. Stuck here with a guy who's never heard of it— and I was able to scan him. It doesn't seem like we're in the same situation, after all.

What the heck is going on...?]

[thankyouverymooch]

You're the one who's familiar with that game, between the two of us, you're the only one who would know.

[whowasphones]

What makes you think I have all the answers? I was thrown into it just like the others, and I got nothing but crap for explanations! As far as I know, it shouldn't exist outside of Shibuya. That's about all I can say.

[thankyouverymooch]

Calm down, Neku. Even if you do know something, if you don't think through it calmly you won't be able to notice. You said you have someone you need to go back to, didn't you? So let's work together.

[whowasphones]

... Yeah.

[He's right. I can't piece it together myself. I don't know if his help can do it either, but I don't have any choice but to try.]

[thankyouverymooch]

I don't remember dying, but I'm not denying the possibility. So that could be a common thread.

[whowasphones]

Then, what about you? I said my share.

[thankyouverymooch]

I wasn't in the middle of a battle or anything of the sort, but we were definitely headed to one. It's a long story, so sharing the details would take too long. But I can tell you that nothing here looks like it has anything to do with that.

More importantly... someone else who should be in charge of this body isn't here at all.

[whowasphones]

[In charge of your... body. Not asking.]

First, I think we should figure out exactly where "here" is.

[thankyouverymooch]

It's not Shibuya, it's not Xing, and it's not Amestris either.

[whowasphones]

I think we've figured out that it's completely foreign to both of us.

[thankyouverymooch]

... I don't like to put this possibility on the table. But if we're both dead for good, then it'd explain it.

[whowasphones]

[... I can't tell him the truth. He'd ask for proof, and then he'd know I was prying into his thoughts.]

How do you figure...?

[thankyouverymooch]

It's more that there isn't anything else that would make sense. This isn't a matter of you and me being from different countries, it has to be something else entirely. There's no way you would never have heard of Xing otherwise.

How else would two people from different world or times come to interact together? Even if it's not death, this still has to be something like a limbo.

[whowasphones]

Limbo...

[Could that really be possible? Why just the two of us? Besides, this place...]

But these houses. Even if there aren't any people around, it's clear they were inhabited, right?

[thankyouverymooch]

[nods]

But think about it. Where are the people? Everything in there looked as though it's been taken care of until today. But I still can't feel anyone else here. And like I said, someone else who should be here ins't.

[whowasphones]

It doesn't make sense. There's no reason why only two people should fill such a vast space.

[thankyouverymooch]

Of course. Especially seeing as I doubt we're really the only ones in this situation.

But if it's a game like the one you experienced already, or a trick someone prepared for me... we could have just been paired up. There might be other people around, farther from here. But the fact remains you and I woke up together. It can't be a coincidence.

[whowasphones]

[No... way. A partnership... with this guy!? No, I didn't feel anything. Think outside The Game, Neku.

Still, he's probably right about that. It can't be a coincidence.]

So maybe we should concentrate on finding someone else.

[thankyouverymooch]

I'll guide you through that building again, if the light is still out. Like you said before, that was our starting point. There has to be some hint.

[whowasphones]

All right. Let's hurry back.