C'est La Vie~!

If there was one thing Akito Mikage could at least claim he was, it was punctual. The blond youth had arrived very early to the airport terminal, both because he thought it was only polite to give a first impression befitting someone of his grandiose name, and because it gave him the opportunity to practice with the frankly gorgeous lady behind the check-in counter. He left the area with a new number in tow, but likely wouldn’t be contacting her until she had already forgotten who he was. This was a long and well-deserved vacation after all, and looking to the rest of his classmates who showed up, there was also going to be ample opportunities to work his charm.

After all, who could stand to resist the undeniable je ne sais quoi he radiated? Sometimes his reflection even charmed himself when he wasn’t being careful.

The trip took much less time than he was expecting though, what with the sudden loss of perception. Still, it looked like they had arrived at exactly where Akito could consider to be a hotel luxurious enough to be a getaway that he approved of, not to mention the two gorgeous people who were also going to be staying inside the hotel with them. Everything was smooth sailing with the Dramaturge… At least, until he tried to flirt with Ariadne and saw the wedding ring. Figures that someone as beautiful as her would have marriee long ago, and while many things he was, homewrecker he was decidedly not.

So he went soul-searching, and by that I mean looking for cute girls, obviously. It didn’t take long after he entered the lobby to find one he recognized from the news at least - Alma Lucero was at least someone he had read about, what with the well-deserved praise given to her efforts. It made for the perfect pick-up line, and so with a minor adjustment to his cravat and a spring in his step, he approached the Beachcomber with a winning smile.

“Yes. Thank you, Amora.” Ariadne nodded respectfully to the hologram. “I’m sure you heard Amora mention tablets earlier, and that’s because instead of hotel keys, each guest receives a tablet. It’s used for everything you may need here. You scan it to get into your room. You can order food from it. You can message one another. It will also keep track of your arcade winnings. Essentially, these tablets will be your life for the remainder of this trip, so please do not lose them.”

Ariadne held up a giant bag filled to the brim with tablets.

“I will now be handing out your tablets and informing you all of your room assignments. Please listen closely, because I do not intend to repeat them. When I call your name, come up and grab your tablet.”

“Alma Lucero, you’re in Room 1.”

Ariadne pulled one of the tablets out of the bag and waited until it was claimed before continuing.

“Akira Matsunaga, you’re in Room 2.” Another pause. It seemed that would be the pattern here. “Akito Mikage, Room 3… Blanche Higasa, Room 4… Meifen Jiāng, Room 5. Wisteria Fujiwara, Room 6… Jinan Nejem, Room 7… Alastair Crawford, Room 8… Daichi Mizushima, Room 9… Moriko Sawashiro, Room 10… Hyo-rin Park, Room 11… Emiru Hatomi, Room 12… Emberto Capitani, Room 13… Yuna Avila-Kim, Room 14… Cyprien Travere, Room 15… 18, Room 16… KiraKira, Room 17… and last but not least, Yuuto Hanagawa in Room 18.”

Upon looking at your tablet, you notice there’s a bit of a design on the back of it in line with your personalized style and talent. It was sort of amazing how they’d managed something like that.

“I will be staying in Room 19 should you need me,” Ariadne continued as soon as the last tablet was claimed. “And as for Room 20, that’s…oh, that’s right. Nevermind. I must have forgotten about that in all the excitement. Well, go on off to your rooms. Your luggage should already be in there, so take some time to get unpacked and settled in. As well as take some time to get to know one another. If you need to speak to me, I’ll be around. Just make sure to message me.”

With the mention of a tour, you assumed Amora would move, but she stayed exactly where she was.

“This right here is the lobby!” Amora exclaimed. Oh…so she was actually going to explain what the lobby was, huh? “As you can see, there are plenty of couches to relax on, so feel free to come in here if you ever need a change of pace. Over here is the front desk.” She gestured to the front desk she’d sprung up from behind not too long before. “Since you’re all already checked in, you don’t need to worry about too much. But if you ever have any questions for me, you can just approach the front desk like so…” She approached the desk. “And ring this bell.” Her hand came down on the bell, but her hand just phased right through it. She didn’t appear to notice. “If you do that, I’ll come right over and answer any questions you have! Alright, good!”

There were a couple of glass doors at the front of the lobby. On the outside, you could see lush, island life sprouting and the sun shining brightly.

“Over there are the doors out, but since you guys are just high schoolers, I’d better not catch any of you trying to sneak out there without Mrs. Moretti’s permission.” Amora puffed her cheeks out. “The island is fun, but you shouldn’t go wandering alone. I’m sure you guys will have plenty of time to go exploring later, but just enjoy the hotel for now.”

Away from the doors, she pointed down to the far end of the lobby where two elevator doors could be seen.

“Those over there are the elevators, but for right now, let’s just stick to the first floor, kay? There’s lots to enjoy down here and there’s some grown-up stuff on the upper floors. And you guys are still just high schoolers, so maybe save going up for another time.”

She looked away from the elevators and off to a door to the right.

“Come on, then! Follow me!”

Even before the doors to the new room opened, you knew what was inside. Even if they weren’t made from glass, the high-pitched pinging sounds and 8-bit music gave it away. Inside was an arcade!

As Amora approached the door, the glass doors swung open without her even touching them.

“As you guys can see, right in here there’s an arcade for you guys to enjoy! Age appropriate fun for high schoolers! There’s plenty of games to choose from in here, enjoy them to your heart’s content, completely free of charge. And if you do well enough at some of these games, you might win some tickets and get to exchange them at the prize counter.”

Amora gestured to a prize counter towards the entrance of the room. It didn’t seem all that impressive, with crappy stuffed animals, candy, and little plastic baubles, but it might still be fun anyway.

Amora exited out through the door back into the lobby. You might notice a small hallway close by the arcade, but Amora just passed on by, completely ignoring it. She continued to lead you out to the left side of the lobby, entering through a door on the bottom. She continued going down, straight into a room that smelled so exquisite, it immediately sent your stomach growling. Why did it feel like it had been so long since you last ate?

Upon entering the room, you could see rows upon rows of food and plates stacked up beside them.

“This in here is our award winning buffet! Any food you could possibly want, you can get in here. And if there’s a food you want but can’t find, no problem! All you need to do is take out your tablet – we’ll get to that later – and submit an order to the kitchen and they’ll get your meal out pronto!”

She gestured to a set of swinging double doors at the back of the buffet.

“And right through there is the kitchen! I won’t bother showing you in there since you’ll never have a need to go in there. Come on, now, there’s a bit more to show you!”

She exited the buffet and walked up to the upper hallway and through the door. Immediately, entering brought along the scent of chlorine in the air, yet there was still no pool in sight.

“This here is the indoor pool! To reach the pool, you must go through one of the two sides of dressing rooms. Generally, we would prefer you use the dressing room aligned with your gender. My apologies to any non-binary guests we may have here. Feel free to use the room you’re more comfortable with or change in your own room. Unfortunately, the hotel wasn’t designed with gender inclusivity in mind, but thankfully this is the only instance of the gender binary coming into play. Now, follow me and I’ll show you to the pool!”

Amora entered through the right dressing room labelled for ‘Women’ and led everyone into the pool area. The pool itself was rather large, definitely big enough to comfortably fit the entire class. Around the pool, there were plenty of reclining chairs and tables for people to use. The entire area felt rather dark, however.

The walls were covered in thick, grey panels. One of them in the far corner of the room had a tablet attached onto it.

“Come here, come here, kids!” She waited until everyone gathered around. “This pool is special, you see, there are plenty of environments to choose from!” She pressed on the panel with her hands, but though her fingers went right through it, it still lit up as though she’d pressed it. At once, all the plain grey panels in the room transformed into a tropical beach. The entire room lit up accordingly, and there were even the sounds of birds cawing and ocean waves rolling. “Like so! There’s a lot more, but I’ll let you guys play with it. There’s also a wave function where you can turn on some artificial waves in the pool!”

Amora turned away from the panel and gestured to an extra door next to the dressing rooms.

“That over there is the storage room. There’s all of our cleaning supplies in there, and as our guests you’ll never be expected to clean. However, there’s a bunch of pool toys in there too, so feel free to search around.”

Amora moved back through the changing rooms and outside of the pool area back into the hallways. She went down to the lower hallway next, where rows of doors could be seen lined up.

“And these here are your rooms! I’ll let Mrs. Moretti take over and explain now!”

“Hello! I’m so excited to meet you guys!”

Right there before your eyes was a cute girl with a bunny eared headband. Why did that seem so familiar?

There was something odd about her as well. Her body didn’t seem quite corporeal and…there seemed to be a small glitch there for a second. This person couldn’t be real.

“I’m the hostess of the Crescent Moon Resort! As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I’m nothing but a hologram! For those of you who aren’t aware, the Crescent Moon Resort is run entirely by robots and AI. Yes, you heard that right, entirely! I may not be corporeal, but don’t you worry, I’ve got complete control of all the robots who run this place. So basically if you’re talking to them, you’re talking to me! Get it? I know this might be a bit overwhelming, but I want you know I’m super excited to have you all here and I’ll do my best to make sure you all have an amazing time!”

Amora smiled even wider and put her digital hands on her digital hips.

“Of course, there are a couple of ground rules we’ll have to go over, but we can talk about that during the tour! Isn’t this exciting? Aren’t you guys excited?”

Whether you were excited or feeling some other emotion, Amora didn’t seem to notice the difference. Or she chose to ignore it.

“Come on, now, enough with that drowsy attitude. We’re here.”

Your head felt like it was partially underwater, but you could hear just fine. With a groan, you realized you’d been sitting on a couch, fast asleep. You still felt groggy as your senses readjusted to your surroundings. Your mouth felt dry as though you hadn’t drank anything in a while and your eyelids felt horrible and crusty.

“I know it was a long trip, but I would think you all would be a bit more excited about this.”

Now that you were feeling somewhat awake, you could tell where the voice came from. A beautiful dark-skinned woman in tall high heels stood in front of the collection of couches. Now that you thought about it, it seemed as though you were in a hotel lobby, if the check-in desk was anything to judge by.

The woman tapped her heel and pursed her lips. “Well. No matter. It looks as though you all are finally waking up a bit. I have already checked everyone in, so I will be handing out room keys in a few moments, but before I do that, I should probably introduce myself.”

She took a breath and stood up even taller.

“My name is Ariadne Moretti and I will be your chaperone for this school trip. I suspect most of you don’t recognize me. I am regularly a teacher for Hope’s Peak, but like all of you, I won the raffle and received the honor of coming along on this trip. I will do my best to look out for all of you during this vacation, but I will not tolerate troublemakers. Everyone here is representing Hope’s Peak Academy and I expect nothing but the best behavior from all of you while we’re here. Now, if we’re clear, there’s someone here who’s been waiting to meet all of you.”

You still couldn’t believe it. When you first heard about the raffle, most of you never would’ve dreamed you would’ve actually won. With the amount of students at Hope’s Peak, winning an all expenses paid trip to a vacation destination of your choosing didn’t seem likely. Yet there you were, bags in hands, about ready to board Hope’s Peak state of the art aircraft.

Whether you voted for it or not, you were still excited to visit the ◻̶̳͖̖̱̬̳͕̇͊̀n̢͈̍̓̑ͯ̔̅ͧ͆̌y̯̳͇͍͙̭͙̣̋̾◻͉̜͙̼̟͐͂͐̊͊ͫ̔̂̚͝ ̮̭̖̓͗ͬ͡͝◻̴̴͓̤͎ͩͫ́̄͂̓͆̕a͙̹̻̜͕̣ͮ̽͌̄ͪͫ̈͝r̩̭͖̭̘̻ͥͬͫͤ̃a̴̯̩͇̘ͭ͊̆ͪ̀◻̷̹̟̼̤̙ͨ̾ͪ̈́͊̄d͇̗ͮ͌ͪ̅̏͌̿̉ͦ̀͢i̴̧͚̜̻͇̻̝̩͎͓̅ͯ͋̓͛ͥ̿◻͎̦̯̟̐͌̅̇̌̀̀◻̝̲̮̘̲̘̪̅̿͋ͩͥͧ̾͘͟ ̲͎̦̦̥̩͕̈́̽̃ͦ̓̅͢R͓̫̺͈̆͆͒̐̆͒͘͡eͪ̐͋͏̗s̸̟̼͙̙̠̯̺̬͖͛͝oͪͮͦ̓̇͏̯̰͇͎͝r͚̲͖̗̬͂͡ṭ̗̝̭̲̄ͭ̅͒̔̇ͯ̔̐.. The best part was not only was this trip free, but you got free time off from classes. Due to the scale of the raffle, you didn’t really know many of the other students going on the trip, but that wasn’t a problem. Whether you knew them or not, this would still be an amazing vacation.

With those optimistic thoughts in mind, you boarded the plane and settled into your seat for the long trip ahead of you. Just as you started to get comfortable in your seat, something began to feel strange. Your eyelids grew heavier and heavier, your vision growing hazy. You tried to open your mouth to speak, but nothing but gibberish came out.

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QUESTIONS FOR YOUR OCs

What’s the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do?

How easy is it for your character to laugh?

How do they put themselves to bed at night (reading, singing, thinking?)

How easy is it to earn their trust?

How easy is it to earn their mistrust?

Do they consider laws flexible, or immovable?

What triggers nostalgia for them, most often? Do they enjoy that feeling?

What were they told to stop/start doing most often as a child

Do they swear? Do they remember their first swear word?

What lie do they most frequently remember telling? Does it haunt them?

How do they cope with confusion (seek clarification, pretend they understand, etc)?

How do they deal with an itch found in a place they can’t quite reach?

What color do they think they look best in? Do they actually look best in that color?

What animal do they fear most?

How do they speak? Is what they say usually thought of on the spot, or do they rehearse it in their mind first?

What makes their stomach turn?

Are they easily embarrassed?

What embarrasses them?

What is their favorite number?

If they were asked to explain the difference between romantic and platonic or familial love, how would they do so?

Why do they get up in the morning? 

How does jealousy manifest itself in them (they become possessive, they become aloof, etc)? 

How does envy manifest itself in them (they take what they want, they become resentful, etc)? 

 Is sex something that they’re comfortable speaking about? To whom? 

 What are their thoughts on marriage? 

 What is their preferred mode of transportation? 

 What causes them to feel dread? 

 Would they prefer a lie over an unpleasant truth? 

 Do they usually live up to their own ideals? 

 Who do they most regret meeting? 

 Who are they the most glad to have met? 

 Do they have a go-to story in conversation? Or a joke? 

 Could they be considered lazy? 

 How hard is it for them to shake a sense of guilt? 

 How do they treat the things their friends come to them excited about? Are they supportive? 

Do they actively seek romance, or do they wait for it to fall into their lap? 

Do they have a system for remembering names, long lists of numbers, things that need to go in a certain order (like anagrams, putting things to melodies, etc)? 

What memory do they revisit the most often? 

How easy is it for them to ignore flaws in other people? 

How sensitive are they to their own flaws?

How do they feel about children? 

How badly do they want to reach their end goal? 

If someone asked them to explain their sexuality, how would they do so? 

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