Imeeji RP Community

Who: Everyone
Where: Everywhere
When: All at Once Night 526 to Morning 527

[ At the darkest hour, those who are awake will see their shadows growing longer and longer under the city lights. They stretch and stretch—and even climb up the lamps, up the sky, to eclipse the moon itself. It isn't completely dark—it's like the current light's been lampshaded—but just for a brief, brief moment,

The whole world is grey.

—and then the color returns, but not all entirely in ways that you recall them being. The sky is at points purple or green, the grass is red and glittering, the buildings seem to be made entirely of glass at times and entirely of wood at other times. Each shift in your vision accompanies a visual "glitch", like pixelated television noise, and it's horrible for the eyes and head.

It's not just the city that's unstable, either; idols will find that their own colors are mixing, swapping, glitching—sometimes it's not just the colors but entire articles of clothing, as though quickchanging in a character creation screen—to one outfit or another. Sometimes it feels like there's an internal change too—like your guts are swapping out . . . or like your heart isn't yours . . . is that your neck, or someone else's?

Another oddity: the shadows are gone, even now in the middle of the night. Occasionally they flicker back—when the building or grass is "correct", what it used to be—but they aren't there for long, and disappear once more. Your own shadow though, and the shadow of other people? Completely gone, even when you feel "correct" again.

If you're looking for any clues on what's happening, who the culprit is, you might be able to catch a glimpse of dancing shadows on the ground, whisperlaughing at each other and running away as soon as they're seen by any idol. At the crack of dawn, one shadow holds up what looks to be the shape of a cylinder—shakes it—and then "sprays" shadow paint onto a nearby wall.

#SAYOGLITTERNARA

As the sun rises, those dancing, laughing shadows disappear—only the "paint" on the walls remain—and you idols are left to deal with the rest of this chaos. . . ]

OOC EVENT INFO | IN THE LOBBY

Who: Anyone
Where: Gametower
When: Day 513 evening

[Finally all participating idols are drawn back to the game tower by a string. As the last people enter, the threads covering everything start to turn clear and fade from sight. The kiosk and phones ping with the final announcement.]

Our winners for this event are:
☆ZRAEL! For really bringing their Most. The teasing, the spice, the way they twist the knife! All the fans can't wait to see their next reactions!
avante en garde & LiliS! Shout out to Burnt Cinnamon Roll and 🐺 for being too precious. These soft feelings just weren't meant to last.

Thank you again to our fans for all your votes and views. Whether you showed up to support the choices of your favorite idols or did a hate-watch campaign to break up a ship you didn't like, we appreciate your enthusiastic participation to the end!

[And that's the show! The kiosk sinks and disappears into the ground, the Gametower finally fully returning to normal. The idols on the winning units will be able to 'toggle' off the strings they've been carrying around throughout the game. All they have to do is take the string and will it back to normal and the color will run clear and the string fades from view, the connection safely back in the metaphysical realm.

But the rest will find their threads still linger. Maybe they were lucky and whatever colors they landed on before the game ended was close enough to their normal relationships, or something else more tolerable, or they were unlucky and it's the most wildly weird relationship they could have. Either way their threads still spill off them and at this point, if it's not what they want... they might have some feelings to process.]

Who: You!
Where: Gametower > Rest of Imeeji
When: Day 512, morning

[You are yoinked to the game tower as if by a string attached to your hand. When you arrive, it's just the Gametower's normal lobby, except that every surface is covered in smooth colorful strings--lines spreading neatly everywhere and leading off in every direction, including back outside or up into the upper floors.

As characters wander around trying to figure out what's going on, they'll start to notice that there are colorful strings attached to them as well--mainly to their fingers, but maybe their arms, maybe their throats, maybe other places...?? These threads, the same as the strings around the lobby, float around them like gossamer, but can't be cut, and they glint and brighten when someone focuses on them, showing their color... Where does the other end go? If they try to follow them, they'll discover some of these are attached to someone else here, and some just fade off into the distance. Sometimes, when they find a person, the connecting thread will suddenly shorten no matter the color, tying the two body parts--and the two people--together, though it will probably slacken after a while as well.

In the middle of the lobby is a large touchscreen kiosk that reads:]

COLOR:⬜
MEANING:|________________

[If they go up to the screen they'll find they can use a color picker to put in the hex code for the color, and are free to write or dictate whatever meaning they think a color means. The kiosk also displays a couple color information lists that're empty at first but quickly starts filling up. If they check their phones, it'll also have this color/meaning form and a copy of the color lists displayed in the game rules app.]

[...Is that the game? For the moment, there doesn't seem to be anything else to it besides try to figure out who you've been tied to and what that means. Ominous...?]

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