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[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.

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profiles

[quadruples]

[ Viktor's already checked out the profiles, but he decides to come back to the foyer for a second look because it's a lot to take in at once and he figures he should at least try to learn the names of his fellow captives. ]

Is there something wrong with your profile? Mine is correct, but some of these look a little... off, particularly the ages.

[ There's no way Vanille is that old. ]

[stepout]

I wouldn't say it's wrong.

[ ...but she's not going to elaborate much more than that, she's just going to sigh and lower her hand. ]

...I was thinking that, too. I mean, there's good genes, and then there's... [ you know. ] People who look like teenagers that're well into their hundreds or—thousands.

[ VANILLE. ]

[quadruples]

If Vanille really is that old, which I doubt, I want to know what her secret is. [ he's 27 and his hair is already thinning, why can't he stay young and hot forever. ]

[stepout]

[ Christo, Elda, Hai... ...How do you even say that name? Hai equal Ryuun..? ...Jasper, Killia, Kimihiro...

She'll stop looking at ages, jeez. ]

You've got a lot of people to ask about that, it seems. [ .....No, she's going to point to Hanyuu's, maybe this guy knows. ] Do you know how to pronounce that, exactly? I'm not sure if we're supposed to say the equal sign, or... what.

[quadruples]

I'm not sure either. [ He looks at Hanyuu's profile, and decides to try pronouncing it. ] Hay-equal-ryuun...

[ He gives up, because that sounded dumb as hell. ]

[stepout]

[ That sounded pretty dumb, wow. ]

I guess I'll ask when... if? I see her. [ ...... ] Some of these occupations are a little weird too, aren't they? "Saint" and "God," "Wish-granter" and "Lord of Spirits"...

[ like. for real. ]

[quadruples]

Those can't be legitimate occupations. Maybe "God" actually means "cult leader" or something.

[stepout]

"Grandmother" definitely isn't. [ She doesn't even look that old, like—?? ] And... maybe. She must be really into it anyway, considering her... horns?

[ are those. those are horns, aren't they. ]

[quadruples]

They make her look like a cosplayer.

[stepout]

[ ........ ]

You're right. [ A cosplaying cult leader? ] Maybe she's just got... What's it called? When someone keeps playing pretend way past the age they should be?

[ she isn't just a cosplaying cult leader she's a CHUUNIBYOU COSPLAYING CULT LEADER ]

[quadruples]

Maybe. ...I wonder what kind of cult a cosplayer would lead. Do her followers watch anime all day?

[stepout]

That's a possibility. Or maybe they cosplay from games instead? Then they'd be really into... I don't know any video games, popular or otherwise. [ huh. hmmm. ] Maybe she's just delusional?

[quadruples]

I know Mario exists, and sometimes I play Neko Atsume on my phone, but other than that I don't know much about games either. [ He's... probably imagining Hanyuu dressed as Mario or one of the cats now. ]

Or maybe her otaku cult is into both anime and games.

[stepout]

I feel like a fair amount would probably crossover, so maybe. [ ...we are in a serious hostage situation and this is what we talk about, good hustle. ] Do you think she'll keep it up here? It has to take a lot to maintain all of... that.

[ Also her hair? looks so long? Jesus. ]

[quadruples]

I give her three days before she gives up on trying to maintain it.

[ What a serious conversation. ]

[stepout]

I think she'll last the week before she starts cutting down on a few things.

[ #faith ]

[quadruples]

You're more optimistic than I am.

[ He pauses. This conversation is kind of silly, isn't it... maybe he should change the subject. He gives her profile a quick look-over. ]

Let's see... Oh, you like ice skating! [ His eyes light up. Figure skating buddy. ]

[stepout]

[ ...thanks, buddy, now she's going to have to go through this weird song and dance. ]

...I don't know if I do or not. [ Ahahaha. hahaha. ha. ] I've never ice skated before.

[quadruples]

....What? Seriously? [ That sound you're hearing? It's his delicate heart breaking just a little. ]

[stepout]

[ DON'T DO THIS TO HER... ]

Seriously. [ Sorry. ] We don't even have a skating rink where I'm staying. I don't know why that's on there.

[ there are a lot of thing she's like that about but ice skating is definitely the biggest??? ice skating wouldn't even be a good judgement game so. ]