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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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[Hanyuu doesn't want to really draw attention to herself, but at the same time, the urge to respond is too strong for her to resist.]

It's barbaric is what it is. So...disgusting, but...

To allow and condone it, I truly wonder if people will buy into it or believe that violence is the answer.

[She knows a few people that would be the case, but they wouldn't cause violence just because...]

Ah... ...be on guard. It's my experience that people can turn to violence fast, if there's something for them to gain.

What would there be to gain in this case? For now, all that we know is, well, we don't know much. And violence isn't the answer here. Everyone should know that!

To end the program. To escape. It isn't the answer, it never is, but still, people resort to it.

Violence to end everything. I honestly can't deny that considering I know the murder of certain people have... well... it stopped other things.

...It only causes more problems in the end.

That is true. Once someone m-murders, they're deemed a criminal as they have broken the law.

Yes. Just like that. [There's a sadness in her words...] ...You can't control someone else's actions, but you can keep yourself safe. Do so, while here...but not at the expense of someone else's life, if you can help it.

I don't think I could ever forgive myself if I ever took a life. Not for any reason whatsoever.

It's one of the most difficult sins to bare. ...No, probably the worst. With your good intentions... That is a good first step, child of man. But stay vigilant.