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[enjoyers]

Characters: Everyone!
Date: August 11th
Rating/Warnings: Nothing as of yet. Mark anything that qualifies a warning in your subject line!
Summary: Arrivals.
You want happiness. A company called RECOVERjoy has offered it to you, so you've signed up with them. Gaining happiness can't hurt, right?

Suddenly you're in a room, an apartment, with three other beds and unfamiliar faces. This is your assigned room, and it's quite crowded. You don't get much of a chance to think as your phone beeps--it's not your phone, maybe you've never had a phone, but there's one in your hand so you check it. It's a smart phone, nothing special about it, but now you've received a text from RECOVERjoy.

Welcome to Joywick! We're so happy to have you!

You've arrived in your assigned room, we hope you like it! Don't worry, you can move out once you've collected enough joypoints. Speaking of, if you'd like to check your balance, there's a special application that tracks it for you right on your phone! Handy, right?

... Did you check? If you did, you'll notice you have no joypoints. But don't despair! We're giving you a special mission. Make three (3) friends and get 200 joypoints! Gee, that's easy! Of course, we can't put a level on something like friendship, so just get to know people. Don't miss out on these easy points! We'll give you more information about joypoints once you're done.

Wishing you happiness,
RECOVERjoy : )

You're in this for 1 million joypoints, aren't you? Might as well get started.

(AFTER THE MISSION HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED OR ONCE 24 HOURS HAVE PASSED)

You receive another text from RECOVERjoy.

Great job on the mission! Or not so great job for those who didn't do it. : (

Well, you probably want more joypoints either way. Here's how! Look for another person. I bet they look fairly happy, right? Why are they happier than you? Because they've got the joypoints you need! The only way to get those joypoints is to steal theirs. How? Take their happiness away. It's easy! Maybe a rumor here, an injury there... but if you want the big points, be creative!
You want to be happy, don't you?

Wishing you happiness,
RECOVERjoy : )

... Not quite what you expected when you signed up. You can't leave, though, you still owe RECOVERjoy 500 joypoints and, well, you came here for a reason.

Comments

[sockswithsandals]

[There's a pause, before he gives her a dubious look, as if this is completely obvious...]

Screams. It's not that complicated.

[techissexy]

So you collect screams? Or just like hearing them? How'd you get started with that?

[ maybe not complicated, but weird enough that it's not anyone's first thought. ]

[sockswithsandals]

[No one has ever asked him this before. How did he get started with the only thing he apparently values in life? WELL--]

Nothing special. It's a hobby.

[techissexy]

[ what can she say, she's a curious bug. ]

It's gotta start somewhere. All collections, especially the weird ones, have a beginning. C'mon, what was it? Too many horror movies as a kid? A desperate need to outdo those tacky Halloween decorations?

[sockswithsandals]

I mean it, there's nothing special.

[He is just weird. But will she keep asking...] School legends, if you want. "The ghost in the old school building." Like that.

[techissexy]

[ a shrug. ] I guess i that's what you're into.

[ but it's sort of her job to keep asking questions, especially about weird things. ] So you're trying to become a school legend? Scare people like ghosts? Not bad, for some pranks.

[sockswithsandals]

[He frowns, a little disappointed. That kind of assumption...]

I don't prank. I create horror stories.

[techissexy]

Which, at their heart, are just pranks. Whether or not they become legend depends entirely on if the people you're pranking fall for it or not. If they do, you've got a haunted school, hospital, whatever. If not, well.

[sockswithsandals]

Pranks are funny.

Besides, a good horror legend doesn't start with intention. It comes from rumors, and rumors come from somewhere. I want to create the truly terrifying real horror stories.

[He looks past her for a moment, at his note on the wall.]

You might call that sheet a prank; no one will remember that. That wasn't the point. No one cares to remember "the door that drops buckets of paint on you," but they will remember "the ghost of the student who was killed in the last classroom in the hall." Pranks produce "shock"--I'm only interested in "fear."

[techissexy]

Not necessarily. They can be pretty mean, too.

But I'll give you the "shock" versus "fear" thing. Though, I mean, "Carrie" was a prank. And that turned into a legend.

[sockswithsandals]

The "fear" in that event wasn't created by the pranksters. You could say they caused the real legend to take place, but they aren't the "fear."

[Wow semantics. He shakes his head and looks fairly amiable.]

You're close enough. [basic social interactions.....] I'm Yotsuya. By the way.

[techissexy]

They're the cause of it, though. Without them, nothing would've happened.

[ she can argue semantics for a long, long time, though. ]

Claudia. [ she sticks out her hand. ] You're pretty alright, for a guy who likes collecting screams.