STARTING POST: FUTURE IS NOW

[idolpro]

WHO: future is now
WHERE: Dormitory, 6th floor
WHEN: Day 1, Morning

[ You all wake up in bed with your smartphone at your bedside. The closet door is locked, so if you want to change out of your sleepwear, no dice. If you try to remember why you locked your closet door, also no dice, since you remember absolutely nothing from before waking up.

At least you've got all these other amnesiacs waking up in the same dormitory you can ask questions that they also don't have the answer to! The only thing that even pretends to have answers is your smartphone, which helpfully has your profile, a rundown on your unit, a map and city information, and your job description: while your every waking moment is being filmed and broadcast to a live audience, you'll get to conduct lives, perform in videos, and participate in game shows where you'll compete against other units! Congratulations on becoming an idol!

The television in the main room is waiting for your input; the current display is a list of the "names" of everyone in your unit with flashing empty boxes next to each of them, much like the ones on your profiles, waiting for you to each assign yourself a personal color— your position within the unit.

Once you've all chosen, the closet doors will unlock. It seems the elevator doors are staying locked while waiting on other units to finish sorting out their positions. Maybe go put on some real clothes in the meantime. ]

((Your character's sleepwear is whatever you want it to be, be it embarrassing onesie or long nightgown or just boxer shorts, though only white and unit colored. This post is for you to meet and greet your unit; another post will be going up tomorrow for characters to explore the setting outside of their dorms and meet other units.))

Comments

[reversecowbird]

Does anybody?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

She--

[Pointing to Angel who is probably somewhere nearby]

--doesn't seem to mind.

[reversecowbird]

Really. [ said dryly as can be ]

Well, agreeable sorts do exist too, but we needn't follow her lead.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

My thoughts exactly.

If anything, we'd all be better served if she followed our lead. Assuming you and I are on the same page.

[reversecowbird]

It would appear that we are. I'm glad to have met someone so level headed already.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[HAHAHAHA He's never going to hear those words ever again]

Moving on to the next action item, it would appear that we all must choose colors before we can leave this space.

[reversecowbird]

So we do. I've selected wine for myself. Both a lovely color and a lovely drink.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Checks that off his mental list]

And for the final action item--- how good are you with tech?

[reversecowbird]

"Tech?"

[ She tips her head, confused. ]

What do you mean?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Technology. Phones, television, and---

[Vague hand motion around them]

other shit.

[reversecowbird]

Darling, I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about.

[ in other words: do not trust Maeve with anything tech ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Do you not know how to use your phone either?

[Those sparkly space pajamas were a lie!!!!]

[reversecowbird]

[ Yyyyep. Looking even more confused now. ]

What on earth is a phone?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

There should have been one of these with you when you woke up.

[Shows Two-Dub his phone and how to unlock it. He navigates to the information pages about Imeeji before handing it to her]

Take a look.

[reversecowbird]

[ She watches the motion of his hands as he goes through his demonstration, but when he hands the phone to her she looks as puzzled as ever. ]

It...doesn't look like anything to me.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That's why I'm trying to teach you. You need to learn how to use this.

[reversecowbird]

[ The look of confusion shifts, a little more exasperated now. Unfortunately she just can't recognize the phone for what it is, having not overcome that block in her programming yet. ]

But it doesn't look like anything. How am I to use a strange brick?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Error. Error. Does not compute]

What do you mean it doesn't look like anything? Can't you read!?

[reversecowbird]

I can read perfectly well, but there are no words that I can see on this brick.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Stares at her.

Then at his phone.

Then at her.

What!? Is he seeing things!? No wait--- Toaster was able to read his phone, too. So what the hell? WHAT THE HELL?

Points to the television screen mounted on the wall with their names]

Are there any words there?

[reversecowbird]

[ follows his pointing with her eyes ]

On...the wall?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

On the device mounted on the wall.

[reversecowbird]

I don't see anything there.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'm not hallucinating. The other girl saw the TV as well. That's how she picked her color.

[Unlocks his phone again, scrolling through the pages.]

We'll have to worry about that later. You want a run down of what this brick says?

[reversecowbird]

[ she sighs, exasperated ]

Alright, tell me what your strange reading brick says.