[ Opening Mingle ]

[randomly_modding]

[Everyone will wake up suddenly, as if having drifted off -- while sitting upright in an uncomfortable office chair. In one hand they're holding the communicator, and in their lap is propped a clipboard with a job application (standard, looking something like this; it requests up to ten years of job history, ) and a pen. The waiting room is also fairly standard, except for being empty.]

[The communicator's lock screen reads, Complete the job application. Time limit, twenty-four hours.]

[There are magazines, fake plants, and computers. There's a staff lounge with food -- tupperware that might have belonged to some of these nonexistent workers, popcorn and cocoa packets, vending machines -- and restrooms. There are exits, but characters will be unable to use them... or make their own, or escape in any way.]

[So the characters are stuck here, until tomorrow morning. Set up a comment telling everyone what your character is doing, and thinking, whether they're obeying the task or not, at any time during the day. Then tag other people! Be sure to check back later in the week, when people are encouraged make threads for the evening as well as the day! Characters that have been claimed are also welcome at this point to join the community, and will be able to make their own posts, which can be tagged by anyone taking part in the event.]

Comments

NO LI NO

[slim]

[well if we're apologizing for shit we do to each other in the future, then]

Me too.

[we can both be uncomfortable!!!]

sjlkdsfj I MEANT OUT ON A LIMB not a ledge!

[cleanedslate]

Yeah? It doesn't so much sound like you're the one who's got something to apologize for.

[ smooth ] Whatever anyone else's been telling you.

i was worried there!!!

[slim]

[HA HAHAha hahaa... ha]

[internal sobbing]

Uh. [yeah he's at a loss for words so let's blindly grab at whatever] Thanks, that's really--that actually means a lot. To me.

<3 nope totally fine

[cleanedslate]

[ eyebrows lifting a little, but ] Yeah? Good. "Uplifting" is what I was going for there. [ beat ] Or, you know, whatever the opposite of our last encounter was. But I'll settle for uplifting.

[slim]

Actually, this is my first time meeting you.

[thanks for the uplifting]

[cleanedslate]

...Time travel, right. [ this place is stupid, he's just gonna say it ]

[slim]

It gets easier to understand if you don't think about it too much.

[cleanedslate]

I think what you mean to say is that how little you understand it bugs you less if you don't think about it.

[slim]

[he won't deny it]

I have more important things to think about.

[cleanedslate]

I can see that. Crippling guilt is kinda distracting. [ just a guess, based on what you didn't say ] Plus I'm sure you've got your own problems in the here and now. And, of course, now you're here.

Filling out a job application. Confronting those who've wronged you. All that stuff.