[ 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

[impaledcandles]

[He may be the weirdest person, but he's the best weirdest person! At least, that's what Road thinks as she makes a beeline for him.]

Allen!! [suddenly being stuck in this stupid room without the ability to use her doors doesn't seem so exasperating anymore!!]

[everwalking]

[he's focused on his clipboard so he doesn't notice her until she calls out his name, and then -- he jerks up, rising to his feet, eyes wide] Road!

[he thinks... he might be... happy to see you!]

[impaledcandles]

[She'll take what she can get, okay. She'll even bounce over and aim for his middle.]

I've missed you so much! [even though she burst into sparkles a while back] Are you here to rescue me?

[everwalking]

--You're okay. [he eases up a tiny bit, and -- and he even wraps his arms around her. warm. alive and real and almost human, the way she always is. she's okay. it makes a tiny bit of the unhappiness that's been lurking in him for months start to ease]

I wouldn't... say rescue, but... [but he is here!] Have you been here long?