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

hallways

[oyashiromama]

[Notable thing the first, someone approached her.

Notable thing the second, this someone has horns.]

A- ahhh? Useful... What?

[...so give her a moment, she's doing a bit of a hard-reset right now.]

[certaingiant]

[He'll try to be patient! Being kidnapped is stressful, he understands that.]

If there's anything you know about the situation that could come in handy - anything at all.

[oyashiromama]

I- I. Ah, no, I don't, I... Nothing.

[Her eyes are stuck on his horns.]

[certaingiant]

...Aside from the kidnapping, is something the matter?

[She's very flustered, it seems.]

[oyashiromama]

[She's gotta be tactful about his, gotta-]

What are you?

[...score one for tact]

Your species. Are- What kind of creature are you? Are you...one of the Ryuun?

[certaingiant]

[It's better than assuming he's a human in costume, he'll take it.]

I'm a demon. - What are the Ryuun, exactly?

[oyashiromama]

They- we were a clan of creatures, something close to demons, from the fifth dimension. I've never...met another called a demon, outside of them.

[certaingiant]

I see. It must be a term local to your Netherworld, in that case.

[oyashiromama]

Netherworld? Those two seem...separate, from my point of view. The Netherworld is...would it be right to say hell?

[certaingiant]

Not precisely. It'd be more accurate to say that a Netherworld is a world that demons are native to.

[There are a lot of them, and they make up pretty much anything that isn't a human world or Celestia.]

[oyashiromama]

Ah... It would seem both our home dimensions have been misrepresented by the world of men, I apologize. ...Either way, you must believe it is...astonishing to meet someone resembling myself after all this time.

[certaingiant]

Not particularly.

[He sees demons all the time.]

Is this your first time seeing someone else like you?

[oyashiromama]

Not ever, but... The first in several long, lonely centuries. So, for me...it is something incredibly special.

[certaingiant]

Oh... I see. It must be difficult, being without others of your kind.

[Sympathy is hard but he is Trying.]

[oyashiromama]

Yes, so... [make her less awkward] That's why I, when I saw you... I'm sorry for [making it weird] the strangeness of this situation, sir. It merely...took me aback.

[certaingiant]

Don't worry about it. I'd be surprised in that situation myself.

[Leeeet's move on.]

My name is Christo.

[oyashiromama]

Hanyuu. ...a name like that isn't one I'd expect for a demon, you know?

[She doesn't mean anything by it, it's light and a little friendly.]

[certaingiant]

...I don't see why not?

[what is a jesus]

[oyashiromama]

...Because of Christianity? Aah, aren't typical demons familiar...with...?

[certaingiant]

...Maybe it's local?

[He'll have to ask Killia if he knows what Christianity is. He hasn't gotten any strange comments on his name before...]

[oyashiromama]

Haaa... How strange, it was widespread around Earth, I thought... But every dimension varies.

Either way it is a pleasure to meet you.

[certaingiant]

I've never been to Earth, so if it's only there, I wouldn't know it.

[He doesn't know humans very well. And neither do most demons, so that's fine.]

Likewise. I hope that we know each other for a very brief time before escaping.

[oyashiromama]

[Well, nothing weird about that, that would explain it.]

I...yes, we all have something important to be doing right now, I imagine.

[certaingiant]

I know I certainly do. The formation of a rebel army has already been put off far too long.

[Who let Void Dark get this powerful? Honestly, things would be much easier if they'd been taken care of a hundred years ago...]

[oyashiromama]

...a rebel army? It seems...you really have something to get back to. For that sake...I hope you can.