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

Hallway

[certaingiant]

You aren't used to walking?

[This is probably important information, but it is also officially Weird to just hear someone say that, and this situation is pretty Weird to begin with.]

[iamthatsea]

Liiiittle more of a swimmer.

[ She points to the gills on her sides. ]

Not that I can't live on land too or anything, but it's a whole different set of muscle movements and, you know, lungs.

[certaingiant]

Ah, that makes sense.

[He hadn't noticed the gills, he's not at peak performance right now.]

Waking up breathing air must be a bizarre experience.

[iamthatsea]

It was! Especially on top of being, you know. Kidnapped.

[certaingiant]

That goes without saying.

[Human, demon, rabbit, fish-person, no one likes to be kidnapped.]

[iamthatsea]

Have you seen anyone who knows what's going on?

[certaingiant]

Not one, but plenty of people who don't.

[iamthatsea]

Hm. That's... really not good.

[certaingiant]

Not one bit. And there's no sign of an exit, either.

[iamthatsea]

Nope. Or water.

[ She is very bummed about the lack of water. ]

[certaingiant]

You must be having a more difficult time than the rest of us.

[He isn't human either, but at least he's used to air and land.]

[iamthatsea]

I'm okay. These muscles and lungs are way more developed than I thought they'd be.

[ She hasn't even forgotten how to breathe once!!! ]

[certaingiant]

It would be a severe handicap for you if you couldn't breathe, considering the 'rules' weren't meant to be following.

[Fuck those, though.]

[iamthatsea]

Yeah, well... maybe whoever's keeping us here would count themselves responsible.

[certaingiant]

'Take responsibility' has never seemed so ominous.

[iamthatsea]

Seriously. Leave the ambiguous stuff to religious Hnes.

[ That's sure a word that doesn't translate properly. ]

[certaingiant]

[and is also probably hard to pronounce]

I'm not familiar with that term.

[iamthatsea]

Oh, they're sort of... song-prayers. They're one of the basic ways our order voices our faith.

[certaingiant]

Oh, I see. I'm familiar with that sort of thing.

[iamthatsea]

Good, I mean I could explain the idea of prayer if someone didn't know, but... it'd be weird.

[certaingiant]

It would be a difficult concept to put into words, wouldn't it...

[You'd have to explain God, and that could take ages.]