trusthell | Welcome.

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

So it is a kitchen! I knew it.

[ SHE IS SO PROUD OF HERSELF ]

[ !! she's pretty, gosh... ]

Yep! A really nice one, too, don't you think?

I guess so. I don't really have much of a point of comparison, kitchens where I come from don't have half the things this one does. It's hard to make a lot of hot food underwater, you know?

[ !! ]

You live underwater? Wow!

Yup! My whole planet is a freshwater ocean. I do have air lungs too, since... I'm here and fine, but.

Wow! What's it like, living in the ocean?

Quiet. It's nice. Lots of time and space for meditation, too.

Sounds kind of like Gran Pulse! But wetter.

It's wetter than a lot of places! What's Gran Pulse like?

Green! Lots of nature. There are tons of creatures roaming around, on plains as far as you can see. It's a lot more than that, though. You can use the tunnels to go underground, where all the machines are. And Oerba, my village, is the best place there. Always busy and bustling... And the people, we all help each other out!

That sounds great! The only real green we have on Akopos is kelp. And some of the elders, and some patches of sea when the light hits them right.

[ She looks at the cupboards. ]

Do you think they have kelp here? I mean there's barely any water.

It is! I'm glad I can call it home.

[ Vanille opens one of the cupboards, then looks at Alani. ]

Kelp, huh... Hm, well, we could take a look and see!

That sounds good.

[ She goes to check another cupboard. ]

It's not like kelp is all I can eat, but... if they don't have any kelp, I'm going to have to learn about food other than fish really fast.

Well! You're in luck. Vegetables are really yummy and good for you. I know how to cook 'em pretty well!

Vegetables, huh? Alright!

Guess the food here is closer to where you come from than where I do.

Kind of, yeah! There's stuff I've never heard of, but it's fun to try out new things, right?

Sure! I don't get a lot of chances to back home. Not a lot of fans of trying new things in an ancient monastery, it turns out.

Then we've got to get you to try as much as we can! I think maybe... we'll start with potatoes.

Po-tay-toes. They definitely sound interesting!

[ SO EXOTIC ]

They're great! You can make 'em pretty much anyway you can think of.

[ time to take out a few good potatoes...! ]

D'you like crunchy or soft?

Yes! But if I had to choose, I guess crunchy?

Alright!

[ Vanille taps her chin. ]

Can't really make 'em how I usually do, but I'm sure I can figure it out! [ She starts cutting up the potatoes, then pauses... and looks around. ] I wonder where we can find a source of fire...

Fire, fire...

[ She looks around. ]

I don't exactly have a lot of experience with fire...

Well, I'm not surprised, seeing as you're from underwater and all. That's alright! We'll figure it out.

[ ... She's gonna go over to the stove and turn that on to, like, the highest number? Let's see what that does. ]

[ Whoah, that's a lot of fire. Alani looks at it. ]

There's something I don't see every day.

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