[ 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

[everwalking]

[he softens a tiny bit. a sister... family is something of a weak spot of Allen's] [all right, it doesn't hurt to say this much]

I'd like to tell you. I'd like to know, really. I was always told that I was -- simply deformed, as a child. Later, when I was discovered by the Order, they said I was simply born with a weapon that was always meant to be mine, as Innocence weapons only have one compatible user. I'd only just begun seeking what it might... really mean, when I woke up here.

But I'm not familiar with an "Alliance". That's what you said, right?

[criminalmastermind]

They're the government. They govern. [Okay so his tone may have shifted again into sounding like he's talking to a two year old, but seriously, who hasn't heard of the Alliance? This has to be some kind of very unfunny joke.]

[everwalking]

A government. [repeating, just as if he is a two-year-old and might need even more clarification, before he follows it up with] The name doesn't give me many clues, so you'll have to pardon my curiosity, but they sound quite dangerous. How could they get away with making "projects" of people?

[muttering] This is why the democratic process is so important. If we didn't have the House of Commons things would be even more out of control.

[criminalmastermind]

The House of -- [well that's a shocker alright] you're from Britain? On Earth-That-Was.