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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.

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[The best part of waking up, is shouting in your face~]

I don't know anything! And why are you shouting anyway?!

[Nevermind that he's shouting back, though his shouting is much more of a surprised shout. He wasn't expecting to be suddenly interrogated.]

Why are you shouting back?!

[....okay, this is turning into something stupid, even for Jasper.]

There must be a reason we were brought here. Look at how many doors are in this hallway. And they're all for human sleep chambers.

Because you shouted first! And this is pretty normal for a hotel!

[He hasn't seen the rules yet, so he's assuming it's a hotel.]

What's a hotel?

[????]

[Well that catches him off-guard.]

A...a place people stay when they are away from home?

[...she takes a long look around the place, at that.]

I don't think it could be that, then.

I haven't heard of anything like that before.

Where do you normally stay when you're away from home, then? A tent?

I don't normally "stay" anywhere, besides a ship.

[...she's a pirate???]

Er. I guess if your home is mobile, then you don't really need a hotel.

They're just small rooms for people to stay the night in, and then those people leave the next day and new people come in and stay there. It's like a temporary home.

I see. Gems don't have a need for anything like that.

[..........]

It sounds useful.

It is, but what do you mean by 'Gems'?

That's what I am called.

[...]

I believe you humans would call me an "alien."

Oh. ...oh! So you're from another world!

[That he understands right away, for some reason.]

That explains why you live in a ship, then.

I don't use one often, but I enjoy it when I do.

Gem ships are always magnificent, even the smaller ones.

[And a ship might actually help them with getting home.]

You wouldn't happen to have it here, would you?

No.

You would know if it was here, it's not easy to miss.

[It's kind of huge.]

Maybe outside?

[Not that there's any doors or windows they can use to check.]

[........]

It's possible, but I have no way of knowing that.

We should try to find a door then. Or even a window.

I agree.

[.....]

Have you seen anything like that? There weren't any windows in the room I woke up in.

I haven't seen any yet, no. But I also haven't seen every room in this place yet either. Maybe my room is on an inside wall.

So that's at least two of us.

What room number did you wake up in?

21, so pretty close to the end of the hall.

I was in 19. Maybe it's because we're close to each other?

We'd need to ask more people to be certain, though.

Yeah, we're on the same wall too. Maybe it's the opposite wall that has windows.

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