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Priority Log - Part 1

Log 05 Priority (Part I)
Have you all been enjoying your weeks at the spa and/or getting chased by dinosaurs? Well, it's time to get a move on! The next car awaits: it's time for a new priority car. Like last time, passengers will not be able to leave this car for two logs, so buckle in!

The Big Screen Car

As characters enter the car, their phones will send them a new notification...

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NAME: The Big Screen Car
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT: Earth-ish, 2021
DANGER LEVEL: [ERROR]
AVERAGE CRITIC REVIEW: 5/5 Stars
COMMON DENIZENS: Varied
CUISINE: Overpriced gluten-sensitive sandwiches, overpriced coffee

...What a weird spam text? There's a lot of those going around lately.

Well, time to get to work!

Passengers will arrive in this car believing that they've lived in this car their entire lives. Effectively a modern AU version of themselves, they will have no knowledge of their powers, their past, or any details about their original worlds. Instead, they will believe they grew up in the modern day, that this is a place called DANACA, and that they work with an entertainment management company, FONY, in some capacity.

Maybe that makes you a director, producer, agent, model, singer, actor, idol, musician, sound guy, make-up artist, e-sports hotshot, lighting tech, beleaguered script writer, overworked intern, some dude who delivers sandwiches and ends up as an extra all the time... As a media giant, FONY has it all! And you're expected to work together on a litany of up and coming projects: the FAMA Awards Show, which will preview several hotly anticipated albums, shows, events, and movies! And that means all hands on deck. Characters will have very little problem with their AU skills, even if they never had any relevant experience in canon.

LOCATIONS

When characters get a breather, the car around them is a busy metropolis city with warm, dry weather that welcomes several beaches and pools. (It's literally LA, but with public transpo.) Enjoy all the modern amenities, like you've never lived without them! Passengers can visit any location that makes sense for a modern city, but here are some hotspots:

Club L'Euntaerio: The hottest club in Danaca! They keep the temperature uncomfortably low as they play only Danacan artists, like The Tragically Lame, or Dreka. Regardless, the night life here is vibrant, so it's a great place to let loose a little.

CN Corner: Not a destination so much as the corner beside Club L'Euntaerio, unofficially known to be the place to make illicit connections. Shady dealings happen here all the time, so it's a great place for designer drugs, information on your enemies, and alley-way shankings.

One drug in particular is on the rise. Sand, which provides Denizens with a mild high, will cause passengers to see people as other other characters from their canon. Even if you're not a fan of drugs, it's called Sand for a reason: it gets in everything (e.g. drinks, gummies, cigarettes, etc).

The New Danaca Mall: A newly renovated mall with three floors of your favorite retail outlets like Danaca Moose and Aboots! The employees are all fed up though, and you may end up hired on the spot for a part-time gig, or to hand out samples and promo materials because you're famous. If you manage to avoid retail hell, maybe you can just grab some boba and a pretzel and chill out with your friends.

Zoo: A zoo and garden with all kinds of strange, interesting creatures! You have your stock tigers, lizards, etc... as well as the odd addition from your home worlds. Trying to remember where you recognize these creatures will give you a headache though, so relax and enjoy your time here!

There is also a particularly troublesome goat here that will try to eat your things, or follow you home.

NOTABLE DENIZENS

Denizens vary from your stock humans to aliens and sentient animals. No one really seems to bat an eye at this — it's simply life in Danaca, where people from all walks of life have ended up. Here are some notable denizens that players are welcome to use at their convenience:

Mister Beaton: Beaton is one of FONY's attorneys, and one slip-up away from being arrested for embezzlement. He only works on full moons, but when he does, he often plants suspicious wads of cash on people, leaving them to be chased by FONY's security dogs in his stead.

Eliza Faulkner: The daughter of the CFO's newest wife, who hates everything and thinks the media is overrated. She dresses in sustainably sourced, hand stitched Amish clothing, and often threatens employees into getting her food or other items by using her step-father's position at the company. She will also spread malicious rumours to cause problems, such as claiming that someone had an affair and is now pregnant. :)

Nettle Tale: A power-mom animal consultant at FONY, who sometimes will dump her charges on unsuspecting bystanders whenever parenthood calls. Her usual pets are an extremely amorous anaconda, and a miniature pony that will cry unless held like a baby, but she's known for leaving all kinds of creatures in unprepared hands!

Chad Chadsef: No matter how famous or successful you might be, the head of FONY entertainment, CEO Chad Chadsef, is a very busy person! In fact, you can't ever seem to get an appointment or spot them, no matter how you may try.

OTHER

It's like you've been here forever, but... sometimes, you wonder if that's really the case. Maybe it's a slip-up at work where you forget your lines, or a sense of ill-placed deja vu, or a reflection in the mirror that doesn't match what it should. Characters may experience glimpses of their real lives, but they will be joined by an unsettled agitation and chill. The longer they dwell on it, the colder and more disorienting it gets, until they finally pass out with a fever.

Opt-out: For a few, this 'new' life doesn't seem to take root. Players that would rather opt-out of playing an AU will have their characters wake up in bed, still surrounded by their AU life. However, they won't recognize any of it. Whether it's a call from your mom, a job as a singer you've never had, or the very world around you, you'll realize that it's all a fabrication of the car.

These characters will feel a slight chill all the time, despite the weather. The more attention they draw to themselves, and the more they try to enlighten others of the car mechanics, the colder it gets, as though the chill is physically gripping down on them. NPCs will start to stare blankly at them, and a sense of dread will settle in their stomachs. It may be wiser to try and play along until you know what's going on.

OOC Notes

AU Plotting: Players are encouraged to AU their CR! Everyone can already know each other, whether in passing or more, so feel free to user our plotting post to collaborate on AU details. Consider also filling out your FONY employee profile in the comments for other players to reference!
Powers: Characters may keep their powers or not, player's choice. Keep in mind that they will not cognitively be aware of their abilities, and may not know how to use or control them. Think of a "Spider-man discovering his powers for the first time" scenario.
Transformations: The Halloween curses will no longer be effect this log. Non-human characters can opt to transform into humans, but it isn't required.
Backstories: For ease of AU purposes, players can make up whatever countries they like, etc. Characters do not need to be from Danaca originally, but everyone should live a reasonable commute from work.
Items: Characters' inventories will be in a trunk at the foot of their bed, though they may not remember what they are. All characters are allowed one free item from home.

Go wild with it, but feel free to reach out with any questions on Discord!

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Purely optional, but feel free to share your AU details here!

Hi! My name is JOHN DOE!

I have been with FONY for: Duration of tenure
You may know me from: Character occupation goes here, any noteworthy projects (aka fake movies, etc)
When I'm not at FONY, you can find me: Character hobbies
Come talk to me about: What's a good icebreaker?

Hi! My name is Tessa!

I have been with FONY for: 3 years
You may know me from: Vanadi’s behind-the-scenes vlogs, Beyond the Veil (supernatural investigation show a la buzzfeed unsolved), the credits of any number of FONY productions.
When I'm not at FONY, you can find me: Getting high, scrolling through social media, hiking, volunteering anywhere that’ll let her pet animals
Come talk to me about: “Beyond the Veil” and their theories therein, any number of her boyfriend’s scandals (he’s always making out with random people!), p much anything really

Hi! My name is Sylvain Gautier!

I have been with FONY for: 7 years
You may know me from: Four Houses (2021), 500 Days of Spring (2018), Cabin in the Forest (2017), Twi-Night (2014). Fashion Magazines - QG, VAGUE, Squire.
When I'm not at FONY, you can find me: Taking long walks on the beach, browsing art galleries, pretending to enjoy yoga, spoiling my cat.
Come talk to me about: Books, theater, favorite recipes, fashion tips!

Hi! My name is CLAUDE!

I have been with FONY for: 6 months
You may know me from: The screams of agony emitting from behind closed doors
When I'm not at FONY, you can find me: Taking care of my lizards (Judith & Nader), starting assignments that are due for midnight at 11:00 p.m., committing drunken mistakes with Toko
Come talk to me about: Travel, eating healthy, refusing to sleep, existential dread

Hi! My name is Rubén!

I have been with FONY for: 7 years
You may know me from: Drifts (2021), Obliteration (2018), Space Battle VII (2015)... But probably from The DW series Paranormal (BC - ∞)
When I'm not at FONY, you can find me: Watching ocean documentaries, jogging before dawn, actually enjoying yoga, Instagramming cooking ventures, being in bed by 9pm. Occasionally at the bar after 9pm, being a righteous mess.
Come talk to me about: Actual cinema, books, cooking, popular music, sea creatures, disputing long-standing legally binding contracts (I am blinking twice because I need help).

Hi! My name is ARIA LUXE!

I have been with FONY for: 2 years
You may know me from: the protagonist in the latest LAST STORY movie, DARK DELIVERER.
When I'm not at FONY, you can find me: partying, drinking. Starting hobbies I never finish. Telling people for the 100th time that being Ardbert's little sister didn't help me get the job.
Come talk to me about: all my hobbies I never finished. All the best places to have a good time.

i. i can’t believe i’m a human being geez look at me wtf is the deal with this (cw: probably fluids in threads)

[Wheatley reboots, and something doesn’t feel right. Optic’s on the fritz, of course, but his first real thought is that he’s had some kind of ventilation system installed. This wouldn’t surprise him, given the other “improvements” the train has made to his body, but the feeling is unfamiliar. He coughs—not the simulated noises he generates for effect, but an actual, physical cough, an involuntary one that shudders through his entire chassis, except it's not a chassis anymore. It’s warm, and there’s some give to it, and the tactile receptors are much more sensitive than what he’s used to and oh no.

Arms and legs are fine, but everything else (eyes, plural, and hair, and a face, oh, god, what is he supposed to do with a face??) is beyond the pale. In a desperate attempt to escape whatever is going on here, he staggers out the first door he sees. When that is not the exit into the next car, he stumbles down some stairs, and out another door, and is greeted by the sun, and the street, and buildings. It is worse than he could ever imagine. He never should have asked anyone for their blood.]

No, no, nonono, no, HEY, train guy!! I don’t—you didn't even ask me if this was okay! It’s not okay with me, actually, it’s—this is—this is completely out of line!

[You are walking past an apartment building and there is something of a commotion here, centered around a flailing, sputtering, completely uncoordinated man who is wearing only underwear. He is yelling at some unseen entity who he thinks is a train. Unaccustomed to his own feet, he crumples, taking a nose dive onto the nicely manicured lawn and letting out a long, drawn-out moan. It sounds like this:]

Ahnnnaaaghhrrnnnghhhhhghrhhghh.

[Is this guy on Sand? Probably he’s going to be arrested soon for being slightly disruptive and mostly naked. Are you a good person? ARE YOU A BAD PERSON!?]

ii. FONY offices, a later time.

[Wheatley is dumb, sure, and slightly vapid, but he is not stupid. There’s enough around the apartment for him to piece together the regular human life he’s supposed to be living and the things he’s supposed to be doing. This guy—this human version of him, he figures—has a job and places to be. Despite the fact that he is a robot without much capacity to do things like maintain an organic platform, he is going to give it his very best shot, at least to stave off the creeping chill down his spine, which he now has the capacity to feel, and hates.

He manages to make it into the office, emboldened by the idea that of course he’ll be able to fix computers—he is one! Any hope of keeping to himself for the course of the workday, however, quickly vanishes as the calls start coming in. Wheatley despairs further when he realizes that some of these are house calls. Office calls. He has to go to other people’s offices, which is how he ends up at yours. Knocking!!]

Hello, uh—it’s me. IT. That is, ah, Information Technology. If you were wondering.

[Were you wondering? Well, here he is. Wheatley, thankfully, is more-or-less clean and has figured out clothes, though he hasn't combed his hair or tied his shoes, instead stuffing the laces into the tongues. Perhaps none of this is really out of character.]

You called in a repair? Or, possibly I need to— [Hang on. He’s checking a little notebook in shirt pocket, because it’s hard to remember lists of things when you’re not a computer program, and don't have internal displays and can’t keep everything filed away for easy access.] —check out that program that isn't working? Or. Upgrade your software. Me, good old Normal Human Wheatley, the Information Technology Professional, is here to get your computer box functioning exactly the way it’s supposed to. Optimally, even! So if you can just let me know what needs to be done, I will do it. Ideally, quickly, so that I can—I can be on my way. Sound good?

iii. denny’s, 3am (cw: more fluids)

[It’s late. It’s Denny’s. There’s a guy, very disheveled, alone at a booth, and he looks extremely distressed, like he hasn’t eaten or slept in days (or, ever). Even the wait staff is unsure of what to do with him. It’s possible he came here because the human person he is pretending to be has a job, and money, and presumably needs to eat to survive, and he understands this. There’s some amount of back and forth between him and a waitress, as if he doesn’t know what he’s doing or how to go about this or how this works.

Eventually, after a discussion, this full-grown man is delivered a child-sized stack of pancakes and a cup of coffee, which he does not know what to do with. The waitress, who is not paid enough for this, leaves.

The scene that unfolds is as follows: Said full-grown man stares at the plate in front of him for a long moment before he appears to be completely overwhelmed, to the point of literal tears. After making a few ugly, scrunched up faces, he realizes that something very strange and leaky is happening, which only makes everything worse. Soon enough, this guy is full-on having a breakdown, apparently over children’s menu pancakes. He puts his elbows up on the table and leans over to push his glasses up his forehead and crush his hands against his eyes, as if trying to make it stop. After a few excruciating attempts to breathe through his nose, he lets out a protracted groan, one that cracks in the middle, and pulls his palms away to reveal a clear string of mucus, which astounds and horrifies him. This continues.

Maybe this is just something that happens in diners at 3am. Maybe you know this guy? Maybe you should…do…something? Recording this on your influencer phone is doing something, technically.]

iv. around town

[It doesn’t happen all at once, but Wheatley starts to get a little better at functioning. He’d be proud of himself if he wasn’t so disgusted, but the people here know him, and the people he knows from the train (even if they don’t remember the train, or remember him as he’s supposed to be) recognize this alter ego, and he very quickly decides that he needs to play along. That means, to some degree, interacting with the train car, and perhaps finding a way out. The sooner they figure out what’s going on here, the sooner he can get back in his body—he hopes, anyway.

Unfortunately, this also means going out into society, and talking to fellow passengers, trying to figure out where he (or the regular human version that they know) stand with him. It’s time to awkwardly test the waters, which is how he finds himself at the BAR/MALL/ZOO/YOUR PHOTOSHOOT, interrupting your NIGHT OUT/DAY OUT/LIVESTREAM/VERY IMPORTANT CREATIVE ENDEAVOR.]

Hey! How’s it going! You look, um, well, a little busy, actually, but I promise this will only take a second. [Do you know this guy? Maybe you do! If you don’t, well. Hello.] Just want to ask you a few questions.

v. wildcard

[Anything. ANYTHING. here is my plotting post. Wheatley remembers being a robot and is extremely distressed by his fake human life but will be doing his best to pretend like he knows what he’s doing and remembers all of your fake human lives. If you want to hash out any prior relationships i am super game and you can hit me up on disco at whitticus#8139 or whitticus.]

Edited 2021-11-07 12:16 (UTC)

[ Any time that Sora doesn't have an immediate task to take care of, he starts to get antsy. As an intern he's supposed to be busy at all times, while also being ready to drop everything and help someone if they need him right at that moment. Which means that being idle for even a few minutes just makes him uncomfortable! He doesn't want to look like he's slacking at all.

So when he spots Mr. Wheatley walking down the hall, flipping through his little notebook and looking maybe a bit frazzled, Sora's at his side in an instant. ]

Good morning, Mr. Wheatley! Did you need any help today? Or I can grab you some coffee!

[ He's here, he's eager to help, and he hasn't gathered that anything is truly wrong save for maybe Mr. Wheatley having a rough start this morning. It happens to everyone, probably. ]

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wheatley is a human person and is having a bad time

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iii, time to put on your tin foil hat wheats

closed/limited prompts: see notes!

i, jk i am here tonight

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juno birch voice i arrive (i!!!)

i'm not unfurrying my furry son

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