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Prompt 1: Amnesia

[ You woke up, all your memories having vacated you. Well, that sucks. But hey, no time like the present to go out and figure out things. Maybe someone in your smartphone contacts knows you or what's going on. You open up your smartphone's lock screen and-- hey, that looks relevant. Profile pages! It has your unit name, member names, but no pictures. . .

Well, the rest varies. This one says Likes: Industrial Strength cleaning products, Breakbeat hardcore, Volleyball shorts and Dislikes: Roombas, Electro-industrial, Maid Outfits. The next has a thrilling tale that concludes with the idol mud-wrestling God, though it doesn't mention if they won or not. The third says that the member became an idol because they want to use the television and media attention to get the notice of their long lost sister, and reunite their family. The fourth just has someone's three sizes. The fifth has a detailed astrological profile.

Since no one remembers their names and there's no pictures to match it to, this is actually less helpful than you hoped. And furthermore, the doors aren't opening until you and the rest of the amnesiacs on this unit tell it who is who. Looks like you and the rest of these people have to discuss which of you is more likely to have mud-wrestled god, and who joined because they really want to find their long-lost sister. Or you can just use the tape-measure that was left sitting on the main table of the center room, that might be a quick way to settle at least one of these things. ]

Prompt 2: Memory Regain

[ You saved up your points, performing in Games or Lives or Vids, something or other until you had enough points to put the order in.

You didn't really know how to expect a memory to look like, but as it turns out there's just an alert on your app. Once you click it, a playback starts-- on the screen, and in your mind. You remember something now.

However, in buying the cheap version, that just broadcasted to several other people's phones in the area as well as all screens in the area. Cool. That was definitely what you were trying to do. ]

Prompt 3: Game Time

[ Welcome to the Game Tower. Today's game is a sort of mad fake phantom thief free-for-all. You arrived, were given top hats and cloaks, and the inside floor of the tower had been remodeled to resemble an art museum, with a giant roulette wheel right by the elevator you exited. Below that was a little slot, where today's hologram host explained the wheel would spit out a slip with a goal just for you.

So you have a little slip of paper with a goal on it, and no way of knowing what anyone else's goals are, though you did see the big roulette wheel being spun at the beginning letting you know the some of the possibilities:

♚Steal a heart
♚Steal a life
♚Steal an object
♚Steal a kiss
♚Steal someone's clothes
♚Steal someone's shoes
♚Steal a secret
♚Steal the giant statue from the center of the museum
♚Steal the portrait that depicts your true love

...well, waiting around isn't going to get you any points. Get to it, temporary phantom thief! ]

Prompts 4: Fanmail

[ Today, trying to take the elevators up from the lobby to access the apartments you and the other units live in just isn't working. Upon the doors being pried open, you found out why quickly: the elevator shaft was jammed up with fan mail, so it couldn't properly descend. Letters cascades out from between the open doors: letters from people who watch you play games, do lives, make vids, and probably all sorts of other things on those omnipresent cameras.

Are you really going to read these? Though right at your feet, a few have spilled from their envelopes. Now you can't help but read those. Here's one in purple glitter pen that says, jesus just come into my home and strangle me with your hair and one that is written with newspaper cut out letters (alarmingly reminiscent of a calling card written by a serial killer) that reads incongruently hello my soft best child ur good and valid and I love you forever plz be ok don't listen 2 the haterz u have done nothing wrong. Oh, and here's one asking if you can wear tighter pants for your next live, they want a better shot of your ass for their shrine. This one just says MARRIED?

Well, it's just as well you have no idea who those were for. Most this fanmail isn't for you. Except for the few that you just read, they're all labeled in envelopes for different people from all the units. Time to read other people's fanmail. Or try and find them and deliver the fanmail. Or just start a big fire in the middle of the lobby, you could do that too. ]

Prompts 5: Wildcard

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Alyssa | OC | any team tbh

[tsunderbird]

. ARRIVAL (DORM)
[ CRASH ]

[ THUNK CRASH THWACK ]

[ What's making that racket? Surprise! It's just some tiny bird girl in an avacado oodie who is trying her very, very best to sneak out of the dorm with nobody noticing, except oops her wings are massive and she keeps bumping into things ]

Oh — oh no ...

. ARRIVAL (OUTSIDE)
[ Or maybe you find her when she's outside, frozen, her jaw dropped, staring around at everything and anything like she's just been hit over the head with a baseball bat ]

Re: Alyssa | OC | any team tbh

[dontdeadopeninside]

Oh no?

Is something wrong?

[tsunderbird]

Ah!

[ Her wings puff up defensively — for like, all of a second before she pulls them in tight to her body ]

… N … No? Everything is, er.

Fine?

[dontdeadopeninside]

Oh.

Okay.

Let me know if you need anything.

[tsunderbird]

[ Is it that easy … ]

[ It can't be that easy?? ]

[ Fidgeting, she grabs her wing and tugs it slightly in front of herself. ]

Well, er. I.

If I may ask where the ... door ... is ...

[dontdeadopeninside]

[points to it]

It's right there.

I think it might be locked right now because you're new. That happened to me. When I was new.

You have to pick a color on your phone to make it unlock.

[tsunderbird]

On my … phone.

[ Shuffles awkwardly on her feet. ]

… I, er.





Have no idea what you're trying to say to me.

[ Ducks further behind her wing. ]

My apologies.

[dontdeadopeninside]

[holds up his own phone]

It's this.

[tsunderbird]

[ what in the dear sweet fuck ]

[ looks at the phone ]

[ at him ]

[ the phone ]

[ him ]

[dontdeadopeninside]

Would you like help?

[tsunderbird]

[ yes ]

[ no ]

[ awkward intensifies ]

[ fidgets with her wing! and with the collar of her oodie. ]

... Might I ask who you are? And, uhm. Where I am. And how. And why. And, uhm. Yes. All of that. If it isn't too much trouble. Please.

[dontdeadopeninside]

It's not any trouble. You're in Imeeji, I don't know how or why. But we're unable to leave the city and we have to play games to earn points. With points we can buy magic powers or memories or clothes or food.

I haven't bought any memories yet so I don't know who I am.

[tsunderbird]

Oh.

I see.

[ SHE DOES NOT SEE. ]

My thanks, er - mmmmyyyyyy ... [ a breath; whatever she was about to say, she changes her mind last second ] You said that you don't remember anything?

Thoma | Genshin Impact

[wayofthehousekeeper]

3. Game Time

[ Considering the ticket in his hand, he has to give a little, slightly disbelieving laugh at the circumstances he's now stuck in. ]

I don't suppose anyone's got any secrets laying around that they don't mind lending out for a bit?

4. Fanmail

[ When faced with a pile of haphazardly strewn about fanmail, what else is there to do but roll up your sleeves and start organizing the piles while pointedly trying not to read any of the contents. At least, that's the decision this new guy decides to take, setting up a few boxes as he crouches down to collect the discarded letters, including some that may have fallen under your feet. ]

I wonder who 'soft best child' could be referring to... Guess I'll have to put that one under unknown for no- Oh, sorry, mind lifting your foot up for a moment?

Re: Thoma | Genshin Impact

[dontdeadopeninside]

[lifts foot]

Oh, sorry. Am I in the way?

[wayofthehousekeeper]

Not at all. It's more like these papers got everywhere and it's harder to avoid stepping on them.

[dontdeadopeninside]

Do you need help?

[wayofthehousekeeper]

I can probably handle it myself, but I won't say no to a helping hand.

[dontdeadopeninside]

Okay.

[going to tidy up, quiet]

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ o he's actually helping. ]

Haha, thanks for your help then!

[dontdeadopeninside]

Not a problem. If this is bothering people then I can help.

[wayofthehousekeeper]

I'm not sure how many people it's actually bothering, but I don't think anyone'll protest to us cleaning things up in here and making it easier to find your own stuff at least.

[dontdeadopeninside]

Do you get a lot of stuff?

[wayofthehousekeeper]

Nope, I've just arrived recently so I'm not expecting very much. I've barely gotten to know this place, so no one's gotten the chance to know me either.

[dontdeadopeninside]

Oh. I thought a lot of it was about how you look.