Strange Place Noir - RPLOG
From Flexible Survival
Participants
Date
12/2/2023
Log
(Fenris) A young human woman waits to greet arriving operatives at the front desk of the Interplanar studies building. Her nametag reads "Cassandra." She seems in better spirits than other tomes operatives may have met her.
(Willy) Willy As the receptionist sits at the front desk, a burly looking Bear with a big know and stark white fur comes sliding through the door with a smile. Checking his gear for a moment he looks to her. "Hey agian. More trouble with the adventure in a pocket?" he asks.
(Bleu) Bleu pads in with tail awag, and he nods to Willy and the receptionist. "Yeah, hey, I'm here. What's happening *this* time?" The wolf boy bounces on his feet.
(Umeko) Umeko The tall and muscular blue oni stepped inside the building curiously, before giving a wave to Cassandra and the others. "Hey there, I heard there was something strange going on?" She then looked at the other two curiously, tilting her head, "You two have already done stuff with it? Curious what we're in for with this I have to say..."
(Junes) Junes heard about the job and coming into view the chimeric hissah headed towards the group and soon the flurry of nine tails, sizeable backpack and hoodie popped into view before they wave a greeting to everybody "wow didnt expect to see so many familiar people here!" and glancing to the humans name tag said "nice to meet you cass, im junes"
(Fenris) "Hard as it is to believe, there is no trouble at all this time," Cassandra says, "Welcome. Today we are actually performing some observations and tests on a particular artifact that some of you may be familiar with." She turns and leads the way down a few hallways to a long hall of storage lockers and one particular open garage door leading to a storage unit containing only a folding table with a cardboard board game box on it. Usually, anyway. Today it has all sorts of gizmos and doodads on the walls. some people might recognize them as recording equipment.
(Willy) Willy Chuckles a bit. "Ah, so no accidental activation this time" he says "Good for Fenris then. He's gotten trapped so many times" the Polar Bear says with a low chuckle, before looking to the others. "It's good to see you all by the way." he says "Always good to work with familiar faces, though I think for you Junes this will be a new thing."
(Bleu) Bleu's tail wags a little. "Hey, this is good. I'm glad that we're not facing anything dangerous." He looks over at the others.
(Umeko) Umeko bowed her head slightly to the people that she hadn't met yet, "I'm Umeko, pleasure to meet you all!" She nodded to Junes as well, "Good to see you here as well!" As they made their way over to the table and board game, she looked it over curiously. "So, uh, is Jumanji real now or something? I haven't really been filled in on the details of last time yet..."
(Junes) Junes smiled a bit "new huh? sounds exciting and yeah im glad to see you two, its been so long!" they pat you both on the back and a tail waved to the oni "yeah ive had some jobs with these two but im thinking this is going to be some weird as hell magic or something"
(Fenris) "It is not unlike the old Jumanji idea," Cassandra says, "Only there does not seem to be any real danger with this game, and it effects only those people playing it without spilling out into the rest of the world around it." She indicates the table and its board, along with all the observation equipment. "Today we are simply asking you to take part in the game while we record and make observations." She steps outside the room and nods at the game. "Good luck," She says. The game, for its part, seems unassuming. It is a simple cardboard box, slightly worn, painted with swirls of colorful smoke and the title "A Strange Place" emblazoned on the cover.
(Willy) Willy nods a bit "I see. I do wonder how the game looks from the outside, since it is really a world in a box" he says, before he trundles into the game room and finds himself a seat with a slight grunt, picking the third
(Bleu) Bleu wells. "I'm not making the same mistake this time. No abandoned starship full of undead THIS TIME." He still remembers that. "So, shall I touch it first again?" he asks, as he reaches out toward the box.
(Umeko) Umeko nodded at Cassandra while rubbing her chin, "Hmmm, I see... Well, if you say there's no danger and other people have played it just fine, I guess that's pretty reassuring... I'm up for giving it a shot, sounds like it could absolutely be interesting, and there's always been a part of me that almost wanted to try something like that..." She stretched for a moment, before going to join them and took a seat in the 2nd spot. "Eh? A starship full of undead?!" she asked incredulously as she sat down.
(Junes) Junes looked at the box and back to the group "i dont know whether the being that made this thing just likes simple designs or wants to troll us but hey looks interesting enough, oh and no idea what that's about but just supernatural craziness as usual" they took a seat nearby and were about to use a tail to poke at the box before withdrawing "wait how do we play?"
(Fenris) The moment the box is touched, swirling blue smoke erupts from it, quickly filling the room as Cassandra scurries out ahead of it. Soon everything is obscured by the smoke aside from the four players. Four new little red balls streak into the air, leaving trails of pink smoke, spelling out words before the players' eyes. Bleu reads "Choose a GENRE." The smoke in front of Umeko reads, "Choose a SETTING." Willy sees, "Name an ADJECTIVE." Junes sees her little smoke writer hesitate just a moment, then write, "Choose a COMPANION."
(Willy) Willy smiles a bit and thinks. "Hmm...that is an interesting one...hmmm" he goes, putting a clawed finger to his chin. "Blissful" he says with a minor grin.
