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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.

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206.

[ Not that Meredith would have never been able to figure it out for himself, but he figured he'd leave the phone unless he absolutely needed it. So, he watches Elijah curiously. ]

... What are you doing?

[varmint]

[Elijah seems a little too focused now on the phone, and only when he comes across a vast list does he glances up- At Meredith's phone.]

Making sure we can contact each other. [He applies less pressure to the touch screen than he did before, and the list quickly scrolls until he catches the sight of the 'M' section. He taps the name, and waits.]

How extraordinary. [He grins.] And convenient!

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[ Meredith raises an eyebrow- no, he had never actually planned to leave Elijah alone for very long despite whatever rules and regulations this place wanted to enforce. He couldn't quite appreciate the technology as much; it was hardly necessary to him.

Then he feels the phone vibrate in his phone pocket and pulls it out swiftly. He glances from the caller-ID to Elijah and lets it ring a few times before he picks up the call. Wow how do you hold this thing. ]

Hello? [ With a smile. ]

[varmint]

[Like this, Meredith!! Elijah holds it up and laughs into the receiver.] All wireless! But all spectacle aside, this will most likely be the only useful thing we'll have to ourselves during our stay here. [He hangs up, and slips his phone back into his pocket.]

I'm in room 204...so we're not too terribly far away. [He glances around the shop, then back to Meredith.]

You're not in a rush to go back, are you? [he already knows this answer, and yet.]

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[ So much that he doesn't even have to answer. ]

Right next door, in fact. [ With some relief. ]

Don't we have a ..task to do? [ And he says it with MUCH disinterest.. because what kind of mission was based solely on 'making friends'. ]

[varmint]

[Elijah looks just as disinterested with the 'task, mission' whatever they wanted to call it.] We have to socialize for 24 hours with at least three people. Or so the note said.

It seems a little too elementary, but...I don't see why we can't socialize amongst ourselves. [He gives Meredith a knowing look, and gestures to the door and out to the street.]

Let's walk.

[bound]

Will we still get our points? [ Not very convinced. That's why they were there in the first place, right? Not that Meredith was eager to fulfill it- but those points would help.

He walked out anyway, though, and glanced up and down the street, still sort of taking it in. ]

I have a map.. [ Just in case. ] But where should we go?

[varmint]

[Before Elijah does or says anything else, he pulls out his pack and fishes out a smoke. He had been too weary to do so before, but now he felt just a bit less restrained.]

Anywhere everyone else isn't.

[He chuckles, and inhales gratefully as they begin walking.] Does that map say anything about a city hall? Or a library?

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Library, yes. [ He pauses, and pulls out the map to consult it- he remembered the library, certainly. But not anything about an open city hall. ]

But there's only a 'headquarters'. [ Meredith glances up from the map to the massive building; you could see it from any part of the city, he suspected. ]

[varmint]

Oh.

[Elijah...wonders how he didn't notice it before, but it must've been due to the terrible monochrome color scheme here. Really. Orange? Half the buildings were coated with the stuff.]

Well, then. We should take a look around. [The Library could wait. He had a feeling this would be one of the few chances they would have to get a good look at the place. It doesn't seem very far away either.]

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[ Folds the map back into his coat pocket.. ]

RECOVERjoy headquarters then? [ Well they weren't too far from it anyway, it looked as if the main part of the city centered around the tower.

When they arrived, Meredith was less than impressed by the amount of security that stood around the building. ]

Are we in the right place.. [ But indeed they were. VERY SUSPICIOUS. ]

[varmint]

I can't imagine any other buildings taller than this one... [Elijah squints, and steps just a bit closer.]

Do you see it too? [He says, over his shoulder, and again the image before his vision fizzles and...shimmers.]

...Very interesting.[Elijah smiled, catching the first guard out of the corner of his eye, followed by the very last at the end of the building. Ever standing, completely still.] A headquarters? More like a fortress, I'd say.

[He extends a hand towards the shimmering barrier.]