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Motive 3!!!

The students awoke that morning in a somewhat unusual way. They found themselves being shaken around, like some kind of Chinese Earthquake was happening. It lasted for what seemed like an eternity, but in reality it was more like a minute or so. When the earthquake subsided, Rosie appeared in front of every child, simultaneously, as usual.

“Goodness! Oh my! Did you feel that! Did you feel it! It seems like someone has turned off the base stabilisation machines!”

Rosie looked around, seemingly panicked, however, it was obvious she was faking it to be dramatic.

“Whatever shall we do? If the machines aren’t turned back on, then the entire base will collapse in on itself! Everyone will die! You’ll all be dead!”

She tapped a finger against her chin thoughtfully, before continuing.

“Hmm.. Perhaps.. Maybe.. If there were some sort of.. Sacrifice.. The machines might find it in them to save you all.”

Rosie disappeared, and the teens (and Aurora) were left to their own devices once again, tremors rocking the entire base every now and again, which were most likely going to get worse as the week continued.

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Freetime 3

The mood the next day was predictably glum. However, there weren’t nearly as many tears as the previous week. Perhaps the students had started to resign themselves to the fact that murder was the new way of life for them now. Plus, it wasn’t like they’d lost anyone particularly close to them this time around, so maybe that had softened the blow ever so slightly.

Speaking of predictability, literally no one on the base was surprised when Rosie appeared that morning to speak to everyone. There was something a little off about her, however. Some students noticed that her eyes were looking a little wilder than usual this morning, though she still spoke in her cheerful manner.

“You did it once again. You survived another fortnight! And you’re in for a treat! A reward! A surprise! There’s a new area for you all to explore! And this one will definitely appeal to your teen demographic! Enjoy! A N D  D O N ‘ T  F O R G E T  T O  P L A Y  N I C E! Bye bye now!”

With that.. Strangeness out of the way, the teens (and Aurora) were left to explore, or not, depending on what they chose to do.

{new maps have been posted and a special page has appeared on the blog}

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Murder 2

Much to Jean’s dismay, Aurora was up bright and early, around 6AM, wanting to go for a swim. As disgruntled as Jean was, he knew upsetting her too much was only going to mess things up with John, so he begrudgingly acquiesced to her request. Aurora brought her mermaid tail, and John brought yet another book. As much as he had wanted to spend time reading while he was here, having to spend all of his time around someone he disliked this much meant that he had almost finished his entire collection of books. He couldn’t wait for someone to hurry up and fucking die so he could be on his own for 10 minutes.

Little did Jean know that he was about to get his wish granted.

Aurora raced up the pool steps ahead of him, though not too far ahead, not wanting to get shocked. She was about to get changed when she spotted someone. She was THRILLED. FINALLY she would be able to swim with someone who wasn’t miserable Jean. After strapping on her tail underneath those blankets, she slid into the water, and swam over to the mystery person.

She chose to swim under them and surprise them, as they seemed to be face down, perhaps preparing to swim doggy style, or breaststroke. As she made eye contact, however, she was filled with horror.

That was Chizu, and she was DEFINITELY not swimming.

She tried to scream, but only succeeded in inhaling a load of water. She regained her composure quickly, however, and swam to the edge in a panic.

“Jeeeeaaaaaan? Jean hurry up I need you!!”

Aurora’s shouts were loud enough to draw not only Jean, but pretty much everyone else into the pool room.

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So Rosie, just asking for a friend but like.. After someone inevitably kills and the whole motive thing is over.. Like can we keep these electro bracelet things? Like I can mod it to have a control switch rather than getting proximity triggered and .. I mean.. Y'know.. Just asking for a friend.

No! ( : 

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Chapter 2 - Motive 2

The next morning was a strange one. The group all woke up in the main room once again, just like on their first day here, however, they seemed to be placed in pairs:

Kr0n0z and Rin

Jean and Aurora

Tsunagu and Chizu

Eddie and Hisoka

Silvia and Lorenzo

Tabby and Genevive

John and Tesuta

Before any of them had a chance to move, Rosie once again appeared before them, her grin simultaneously frightening and annoying them.

“I wish all of you would be friends. It’s nice to have friends. Isn’t it nice having friends? Don’t you all love each other? I want to help! I gave all of you a nice gift!”

Looking down, the group realised that each of them had on what looked like a thick bracelet, engraved with the same of the person they were sat paired up with. Tension filled the room as they wondered what on earth the bracelets could be for.

“Now you have to be friends, see? Look! Can you see it? You’ve got special friendship bracelets! Now you’ve got to be close to each other! So close! If you move too far away, theeeeeeeeeeeeeen ZAP!”

As if to prove a point, a small shock of electricity surged through their bodies, coming from the bracelet.

“Don’t worry! You can go a little far apart! Maybe 5 meters! So you can pee in peace! Any more than that though and you’re getting ZAPPED!”

Rosie grinned manickly, and clapped her hands together!

“I hope you all make such good friends! Maybe you’ll even kill together! Kill! Murder! Or all of you will die!!”

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Chapter 2 - Freetime - Start!

The mood was predictably sombre in the evening after the trial. Most returned to their rooms, and the few who didn’t tried their best to find some sort of solace in each other. No one was coping well with everything that had happened. 

 The mood continued into the next morning. 

 Everyone had gotten up to eat breakfast together in the kitchen, and the two empty places at the table were a stark reminder of their new reality. Someone had killed. And they had been punished for it. 

To absolutely no one’s surprise, whilst they were eating breakfast, Rosie appeared, standing on the centre of the table, sickening grin spread too widely across her holographic face. 

 “I’m so so proud of each and every one of you in here! You survived! You did it! You lived! And you solved a murder too! You’re amazing! Incredible! Fantastic! I have a prize for you all, for being so great! A wonderful surprise! There’s a new area for you all to play in! Isn’t that fun? It’s great isn’t it? Isn’t it great? Aren’t you excited? Have so much fun!”

With a wave the girl disappeared, and the now smaller group were left to decide what they were going to do.

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Oh I forgot to mention! I found something! In Isabelle’s room! I suppose it might have made the investigation easier, but would it have been as fun?

Dear Diary, well, not my usual diary, that's back home, but I feel like it's important to keep track of your thoughts and feelings, especially at a time like this. Anyway. This whole thing is, kind of messed up, I'm not going to lie.

At first I was real excited, like, I got to go to the MOON! How cool is that?! Plus I made all sorts of new friends, which is even cooler. The people here, even though they were scared, were nicer to me than anyone ever has been, and for that I am so so grateful. I feel like I tried my best to help everyone through their troubles, and that’s the most important thing, I think anyway.

But yeah, soon things got kind of messed up, whoever is in charge decided that if we don’t kill each other, then they’re going to share our darkest secrets! Crazy right?!

I do truly believe in everyone here, though. I mean, it’s been almost a week since then and no one has done anything regrettable, so everyone must feel the same as me, right?

I think.. Even though it’s messed up, I can understand why someone would feel the need to kill another person. I feel like I would forgive them. (Even if it ended up being me getting killed! Fingers crossed not though!!)  Me of all people has no right to judge! I know that my own secret is pretty bad, and the others might hate me for it, but I know that I’m never going to kill any of these people here, and I hope that no one else is going to kill each other either.

I know you’re not supposed to have favourites, but I think there are a couple of people I would miss more than others, if the worst did happen (but you won’t tell anyone, right Diary? : )  <3  ). Genevieve would have to be top of that list, though. I know I’ve only just met everyone, but there’s just something about her that.. I guess.. I think I’d like to spend a bit more time with her, get to know her more (plus she’s a little dreamy but shhhh!!!!)

Anyway! Last thing for now, I promise Diary! I’m super excited for tomorrow night, I’m going to do some late night gardening with Naruto. She seems to think that if we plant in the night, rather than the day, then the plants will grow better because they’ll get more sun! (I tried to tell her that the overhead heatlamps kind of negate the need for the actual sun, but she wouldn’t listen to me!) I’ll be excited to see which of us is right ;D  (ME! OBVIOUSLY! :P )

Laters!!

Izzy Whizzy!! <3 <3 <3

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Execution 1 - “Me and Naruto Jones”

Naruto awoke in a room she had never seen before. Adrenaline filled her before she had even fully grasped what was happened She thrashed, and realised two thing: 1. That she was sitting on some sort of chair, and 2. That she was very firmly secured to it, with a LOT of tape. Still, never one to be deterred, she continued to thrash against her restraints, but to no avail.

After a few minutes of struggling she finally stopped long enough to take in her surroundings. She seemed to be in some sort of a cafe? Not a place she recognised at all. There was a slow, faint song in the background. It seemed almost familiar, but not enough for her to put her finger on quite what it was. She was sat at a table, and across from her was..

Oh no.

It was a shoddy representation for sure, but there was no doubting who that mannequin was supposed to represent.

The realisation hit her like a train. She was never going to see her aunt again. Or her mum and dad. Or anyone. Ever. This was it. She was going to die. Tears began to flow down her face, as she screamed for help. She screamed until her throat was hoarse, but no help came.

Wait. Was that someone?

Naruto fixed her eyes on the approaching figure, pleading with them to please help her, to please let her go, but was soon back to being filled with despair when she realised that her “saviour” was just a robot. A robot.. Dressed as a waiter?

It carried with it a metal dome. Through her tears, Naruto let out a small sound of confusion as it came nearer. The robot finally came to a stop next to her, and unveiled it’s dish.

Christmas pudding.

Before Naruto could process how she was supposed to feel about this, the robot set the pudding ablaze. And tipped it on her. Now Naruto was also ablaze.

She couldn’t believe it.

The air filled with the disgusting smell of burning flesh, plastic and fruit. Her screams filled the otherwise completely silent room, but on the plus side, her wiggling around finally got her somewhere. Namely the floor. She had managed to tip the chair over with herself in it, and not much else really.

As Naruto began to slip out of consciousness, and life, the last thing she heard, aside from her screams, was the music from the background. She finally recognised it. That fucking music. In her final moments, the very last thing she heard in her entire fucking life, was:

“Meeeeeeeeeeeee, aaaaaaaaaaand, Mrs, Mrs Joooooooooooooones~!”

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It Begins! Investigation 1!

It was Lorenzo’s good (or bad) luck to be the first to discover what had happened. 

 Throughout his time on the moonbase, Lorenzo had managed to take some small comfort in the large farm provided. True gardening wasn’t his favourite pastime, but he liked it well enough. He even found he had this pastime in common with a few of the others here! They weren’t his best friends or anything like that, but he enjoyed the mutual appreciation of gardening that he had going on with Izzy and Rin.

 This morning, however, he had decided to try and get a little head start on the lanky girls. They always seemed to grab the best equipment before he got there, so he was determined to beat them, just for today. It was petty, but it wasn’t like they had much else in the way of fun and games to do here. 

Heading out an hour earlier than he normally would, Lorenzo headed from his room, around the large bushes and into the farm area. He let out a loud and horrified screech, falling backward when he discovered what was in the farm. Ahead of him, propped against the bushes was one of the girls, Izzy.

 He was no expert in such things, but it was clear that she was dead.

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Motive 1.

“I’ve enjoyed watching you all play. You’re all getting along really well. I love it when we can be friends together. Friends. Friends. Friends. Friends. Friends. I feel the love inside of you all. It shines, bright, like stars. Like the universe. You’re all so bright. Bright. You’re all so beautiful, I can’t even contain myself.

I think we should all get closer. Closer together. Together. All together. As friends. I feel love energy here. Do you feel it too? I bet you do.

I have secrets. Not my secrets. I am an open book. I don’t have my own secrets/ Is it okay not to have secrets? Should I have secrets? I have some secrets. I have your secrets. Everybody’s secret. All of the secrets. I feel like we should share? Isn’t it nice to share?

I suppose you don’t have to. If you don’t want to you don’t have to share. But the secrets are still here. I still have all of the secrets. I can share them for you. I can share all of the secrets. If you don’t want to, you’ll have to make it stop.

How do we make it stop? How do we stop sharing? Why do you want to stop sharing? I guess we can stop sharing. It’s very tricky to stop. It’s difficult. Keeping secrets is hard. There’s only one way I suppose. Only one way to stop. It’s very difficult.

Murder. 

It’s the only way to keep the secrets. If you want to keep the secrets, you’ll have to kill. We can still share. We can still be friends. We should all just love each other!”

Rosie appeared everywhere, simultaneously, and disappeared just as spontaneously once she had finished her.. speech? She left everyone stunned and confused. She couldn’t be serious, surely? 

Everyone checked their rulebook tabs, and to their horror, discovered that Rosie was actually speaking the truth - albeit in the most useless and convoluted way possible. One of them needed to murder within the next week.

Surely no one would do such a thing. Right?

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Welcome to the Moon!

Ding dong!

There was a noise, somewhat like a doorbell. It seemed almost familiar to a few, but something was off about it. It echoed just a little too much to be a front door bell. In fact, the whole environment sounded a little off. There was none of the usual noises that one would expect when first waking up. No noises from neighbours outdoors, no noises from pipes or boilers. Aside from breathing there were no noises at all. That was the first clue that something was off, before anyone even opened their eyes.

The real shock would come when the students opened their eyes. All around them were other children, all looking to be between the ages of 11 and 18, and a mixture of boys and girls from a variety of ethnicities. There didn’t seem to be anyone there that they recognised, but at the very least everyone looked about as confused as each other.

Looking past the other children didn’t help the confusion, as the surroundings provided no sort of clue as to what was happening. They appeared to be in a large, metal, hexagonal room, with no windows in sight. In the middle of each side of the hexagon was a large door, with a red light strip above it, and to either side of these doors were benches and lockers taller than any of the children in the room. In the corners of the rooms were large potted plants, which looked as though they were very well cared for. On the ceilings, in each corner were small black domes, which were clearly surveillance cameras.

In the centre of the room was an enormous metal cylinder, with a spiral staircase going around it. The cylinder went on for meters. Looking up to see how tall the cylinder was allowed the children to notice that the ceilings were made of glass. The cylinder went through the glass ceiling, extending into the sky. Some of the children thought that perhaps it was some sort of giant chimney or something.

Through the glass ceiling they could see the sky. It was dark, and there were plenty of stars visible. Many of the children were admiring the stars, and gradually, one by one, they realised that they could see something else in the night sky. Something that they had never seen in the sky before.

Earth.

Before the students had a chance to fully process what they were seeing, their attention was captured by a girl walking down the spiral staircase surrounding the metal cylinder. Her pale pink hair matched her pale pink dress, and from a distance she looked rather beautiful. She seemed almost ethereal as she walked, seeming to not to even make a sound with her steps. Perhaps she knew what was going on here.

It wasn’t until she had reached the bottom that everyone noticed that there was something about her that was… off. The closer she got, the more they realised her flaws. First that her eyes were slightly too big. Secondly that her expression was a few shades away from entirely human. And thirdly, that she had no nose. Thinking about it, they should probably have noticed that sooner.

Upon reaching the bottom of the stairs, the girl (?) tilted her head slightly, and began to address the students. “Hello there! Hi! Hi there! I’m so happy you’re awake! Happy! Everything is happy! I am Rosie!”

Her creepy smile spread wider across her face as she continued. “Now that you’re awake, you can play together! I’m sure there will lots of interesting things happening! Are you interesting people? Are you friends with each other? Can you be friends with each other? What are friends? Are you friends? Are you friends? Do you think we can play together?” She clapped her hands once, and.. Flickered? Then disappeared.

She was entirely unhelpful.

From the student’s pockets came a small notification ping. Turned out that they each had a small, smartphone looking object in their pockets. At a glance, they saw a couple of different options, one of which was “Rules”, so hopefully these devices would be more useful than the strange hologram girl. Across the room there was a hissing sound, as one of the six doors surrounding them opened, and the light strip above it changed from red to green.

Wherever they were, it looked like they were going to have to do a bit of exploring before they got any solid answers.

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1. Isabelle Doe - Astrologist 2. Kr0n0z - Hacker 3. Tesuta Tamashi - Psychologist 4. Lorenzo Burnett - Costume Designer 5. Genevieve Bandoni - Pastry Chef 6. Chizu Mori - Shark Biologist 7. Aurora King - Mermaid Performer 8. Tabitha Theodore - Pharmacist 9. Tsunagu Onshou - Embalmer 10. John Madden™ - E-sports Player 11. Jean MerHomme - Marine Biologist 12. Naruto Jones - Martial Artist 13. Hisoka Akagawa - Horror Novelist 14. Silvia Petterson - Fursuit Actor 15. Rin Bunce - Botanist 16. Eddie English - Mafia

~~~ Enjoy the roster~! Info about the start of the rp will be discussed in the discord group chat~!

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Applications are now closed~!

Thank you to everyone to applied~!

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Today is your last day to app~! If you want to apply, submit soon!

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5 Days Left To Apply!!

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Just 10 days left to apply~!

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hey! just asking, how do we know if the mods have reviewed our application yet?

We’ll add you to discourse and add you to the hopefuls chat as soon as we’ve reviewed the application. Because of time zone & jobs this sometimes takes a couple of days. 

- Georgie