Welcome.

[trustwellness]

You wake with the unshakable feeling that you shouldn't be here. Perhaps you were in the middle of something, perhaps you weren't. Either way, you're waking up in an unfamiliar location with no recollection of how you got here. The room you've woken up in is sparsely-decorated, though that might be difficult to tell at first given how nice the beds are...but eventually you'll notice a few things that are a little...off. Maybe the scent is striking you wrong - it's clean, but it's not yours. Maybe your bed back home doesn't support your back in quite this way. Maybe you should be seeing sunlight through your window by now. Maybe you should have a window in the first place. This isn't right, but leaving the room won't give you any more answers. You might want to grab the silver key sitting on your trunk on the way out. Don't worry though, you aren't all alone here. Once you step outside your room into the hallway, you'll notice that a few others are emerging from their rooms as well. It looks like they're just as confused and concerned as you are. Feel free to talk to them, but none of you know how exactly you wound up here and maybe some useful information can be found by exploring. If you follow the hallway to its end (and it's a very long hallway), you'll eventually arrive in the foyer. You'll find some very interesting information about yourselves on the wall near the clock. Perhaps even more importantly, if you look on the other side of the multi-pendulumed thing, you'll find other framed information that you might want to pay attention to. It could very well be the key to escaping this strange place, after all. Don't worry if you forget the rules, you can find them in every room of the building. Of course, search as you might, you won't find a doorway or a window of any sort. Getting out won't be so easy, it seems. But who knows? Perhaps your fellow captives have something to say about all of this. Welcome to Chronos University.

Comments

[foundfate]

[Yyyyyep this isn't right at all, it's definitely a different style of room than Watanuki was expecting.

Which he finds out when he tries to roll out of bed and unceremoniously ends up face-first on the ground, as he was expecting to be sleeping in a futon right on the floor itself, not on a raised bed. Anyone in the vicinity of room #21 will definitely hear a loud 'thud' and a surprised yelp.

It takes him a few minutes, but eventually a teenage boy in a flower-patterned kimono emerges from room 21, flinching and rubbing at his forehead. But apparently he does have enough spitfire in him to complain about all of this.]

She really needs to stop moving me around to different places in my sleep!

[...yeah, he's used to waking up in weird rooms. It comes with his job.

ANYWAY, eventually he'll make his way over to the foyer and end up staring at the profiles. He hasn't gotten to the rules yet, mostly because he has noticed something pretty important on his own profile.]

Whoever made this needs a proofreader, half of this information is wrong and there's typos all throughout it.

Dorm Hallways

[certaingiant]

[He's not especially close to room 21, but that thud was hard to miss.

Are you okay, is what he would ask if he was more concerned about that and less focused on what he'd said.]

'She'?

[foundfate]

[Watanuki hasn't looked up yet, but he is already waving Christo off like it's nothing.]

My boss. She likes shoving me into weird places whenever she has work that needs to be done and she can't be bothered to-

[That's when he looks up, and. Dem horns. ]

...to...do it herself.

[certaingiant]

[Those sure are horns, alright.]

Is she in the habit of shoving unrelated people into weird places, as well?

[He's reasonably certain that unless your boss is Majorita, he doesn't know her.]

[foundfate]

It depends on what's going on, honestly. And since you're here, I'm guessing it's not a strictly-human affair.

[There's no point in beating around the bush. Christo is very obviously not human, and the fact that he's not freaking out and going 'a humannnnnn skreeeeee' either means that nobody here knows Watanuki is a human, or that this is a mixed-realm deal of some sort.]

[certaingiant]

[Why would you freak out at a human, though, they aren't worth that level of panic.]

I have seen other humans. And a rabbit.

[He's still not sure what her deal is, honestly.]

[foundfate]

With a rabbit spirit and a...

[...he's not sure what Christo is.]

...find upstanding gentleman such as yourself, that's enough for it to be mixed company. Plus you never know what some of the human-looking ones might be hiding, there might be spirits there too.

profiles

[matchbreaker]

Shouldn't you be more worried someone knows enough about you to get anything right?

[ The short vampire woman next to Watanuki says this, looking at the profiles herself, but then craning her neck and scooting rudely in front of him a little to see his face so that she can know which profile was hit better... ]

[foundfate]

[It's not that hard to figure out who he is, he's the only person here with heterochromia.]

Things like names and ages and stuff, that's not that hard to get. All someone would have to do is look at my school record to find it. And as for the rest...okay, that's a little weird.

[He'll go ahead and step back a step or two, so she has room to look at whatever she wants. But he still has his eyes on her.]

[matchbreaker]

[ Oh, yeah, speaking of that heterochromia she ignored everything he just said ]

Christ alive what's wrong with your eyes?!

[ Said the red-eyed vampire ]

[foundfate]

[Oh great, now she's got him worried.]

I don't know! They're just my eyes. I mean, I know blue eyes are not too common in Japan, but they're perfectly normal.

[matchbreaker]

The blue's not the problem here, string bean!

[ And in fact, Elda is now going to attempt to grab him by the whatever she can (with surprising strength if she manages it) and yank him towards the clock, so that he can see his reflection in the glass there (maybe, it's not the best plan) ]

[foundfate]

[That would probably be either his arm or the sleeve of his kimono, and either way he will be yanked along pretty easily. Watanuki is tall, but he really is a string bean.]

Ack! Don't go yanking people around like that!

[Okay, clock reflection. He's got this. He squints his eyes a little as he tries to see his reflection, but it's not easy because that's clear glass, and the brown and blue are close to the same general darkness that he doesn't immediately notice the difference.]

I don't even see what you're...

[Oh wait, there it is. His right eye, it's discolored. Now he's peering closer, trying to see what's even going on.]

What in the world? Is it brown?!

profiles

[quadruples]

My info's accurate. [ He looks at Watanuki's profile, tapping his chin in thought. At least this one isn't as ridiculous as Vanille's "looks 16 is actually 1600." ] I wonder why mine's correct and others have so many errors.

[foundfate]

[There's far too many 'looks young but is an old fart' people here.]

Maybe you got lucky, and they put more care into your profile.

[quadruples]

Or they just had easier access to my info. I have been posting a lot of pics of katsudon to my Instagram lately, and my age and weight are just one Google search away. Comes with being a celebrity.

[foundfate]

...you're a celebrity?

[I mean. Viktor certainly is handsome enough to be famous, Watanuki would absolutely believe it if it's true. But he has no idea who Viktor is.]

[quadruples]

[ For a brief moment, Viktor looks a little disappointed. Watanuki doesn't know who he is? But then he perks right back up, because that probably just means he isn't into figure skating. ]

I'm a figure skater. Five-time consecutive winner of the Grand Prix Finals and the World Championships.

[foundfate]

[That's exactly right, Watanuki knows jack-all about figure skating. He's more of a sci-fi kind of guy.

But when he hears that, his look changes from one of confusion to one of being impressed.]

Oh wow, that's pretty amazing!

[...he has no idea what the grand prix is, but it sounds important.]

hallways

[plentyfriendly]

[She happens to pass by checking this side of the hallway first.]

This isn't the first time this has happened to you?

[foundfate]

Far from it. But my case is probably a special one, I know it's not normal to wake up in weird places all of a sudden.

[plentyfriendly]

I see... Well, that makes two of us.

["Special case" might be putting it lightly, for both of them.]

[foundfate]

Ah.

[So someone understands, then.

Watanuki's voice is just a touch gentler now, as he speaks.]

I'm guessing it's never a good sign for you either, is it?

[plentyfriendly]

Nope.

[It only happened twice that she remembers, though.]

[foundfate]

Same here. Though how much trouble we're in is yet to be seen.