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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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[Talking to people, that's something she hasn't gotten used to yet. Nor has she gotten used to people addressing her, so it just kind of...goes by her. She must not be the person this girl's addressing. She just quietly hums, examining what's written.

Sorry, Adelina, you might have to try again.]

[She waits a moment, until it's obvious Hanyuu isn't going to respond, and then she tries again. Her voice is a bit more firm, but not impolite.]

Miss? Did you hear me?

...

[Hanyuu slowly turns to Adelina, blinking in confusion.] You are...speaking to me. Oh, yes, right, you are speaking to me! I'm- terribly sorry, please excuse me, I wasn't trying to be rude.

[A small laugh, amused, despite herself.]

No, please don't apologize. I take no offense, I merely had a question for you.

[Alright, she can be cool, this is fine.]

If you could, ah, repeat it for me? I'm sorry, it's been a bit of a day. [She told you not to apologize...]

Of course. I was wondering whether the information they've listed for you is accurate.

[She gestures towards the profiles, voice gentle.]

Oh, of course. Ah... Technically, some of it is, but quite a bit of it isn't. My name... The name listed isn't one anyone should know, nor is it one I've gone by in a very, very long time.

[That statement sends her glancing back towards her profile, and when she looks at it again, 'god' strikes her in a new way - so she bends, dipping her head down in a bow.]

My apologies, I didn't see...

[Oh, what a sweet girl. Hanyuu lets out a small laugh and puts a hand on her shoulder.]

Rise, child of man. You needn't worry. I have no jurisdiction here...nor in any place outside the village I guard.

[She stands, then, still feeling a bit self conscious. It feels too presumptuous to look her in the eye, somehow, and her gaze trails the floor.]

I understand. Then... What name do you go by now?

[She can at least address her properly and respectfully.]

[This is almost too strange; all of the worship and revere she receives never happens to her face. Even with this, it's mostly of fear. Unwarranted terror, never such reverence.

It makes her falter for a moment.] Aah... Hanyuu. My name is Hanyuu Furude.

Hanyuu, then.

[Though she's been instructed not to kneel, she does give a formal curtsy at the introduction. She would do this for most.]

My name is Adelina.

Adelina is a lovely name. It's a pleasure to meet you.

[To the task at hand...]

The information listed isn't accurate about my age by around a hundred years, and the interests and disinterests puzzle me, a few of them at least. Does that line up with what you've heard from others?

[She nods.]

My own information is accurate, but others have told me that there are parts of their listing that are not true. I have to wonder why.

I'm at a loss... I have no idea what some of these mean or why they would be here. Or...why it would say I had a second daughter.

It appears answers are in short supply.

[A sigh.]

Many of the interests and dislikes they have listed came to me when I was traveling alone with no companions. I'm uncertain as to how they could know this information... Or how they had access to the place I was prior to arriving here. It was not precisely easy to access.

So the problems aren't only inaccurate information, but information that is too accurate.

Yes, I think so.

[She pauses for a moment, uncertain whether to broach this topic, but.]

May I ask you something that may be personal?

You may.

[She gestures to Hanyuu's occupation again.]

What sort of power and influence did you have, where you are from?

[Oh... Well, her face seems rather neutral.]

Less than you would imagine, with that word attached. It's more the stories of me and...what the villagers think I want that carry authority. I am a god whose name carries much weight, but who can do little.

[She forces a smile, taut and tiny.]

I've been disconnected from humanity for a very long time, so maybe that plays a part in it as well. I can watch over the village and see those who believe in me, even if they're far away.

[A nod.]

I only ask because I must wonder if whoever brought us here has some sort of similar power. The power to see us no matter where we are... It would explain how they have all of this information.

Then... That would be saying our captor is some sort of god too. Or at least has the powers of one.

...Yes, I suppose it would, but I can think of no other answer.

[If they could even bring someone like Hanyuu here, then they must be incredibly powerful, at any rate.]

...I suppose neither can I.

[Well this is just awesome.]

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