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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.

Comments

Profiles

[oyashiromama]

[That's something to take interest in. This woman doesn't seem bothered, despite the circumstances...]

Do you... Do you believe to know who's responsible for this...?

[chessturner]

[Kyrie turns around, definitely not bothered]

No, no, it's just that there's something only one person knows yet it's right here in my profile. It caught me off-guard.

[Rudolf knows how to keep a secret. He has many flaws, but being a blabbermouth isn't one of them]

I don't think my husband has anything to do with this situation.

[oyashiromama]

Ah, your husband! I didn't mean to insinuate as much, I'm sorry.

[She gives a small bow.]

I...do have that problem as well. There are quite a few things that no one should have access to on my own.

[chessturner]

You don't have to apologize. Believe me on this, if Rudolf was responsible for any of this, he'd have made a big show showing him as a very macho man.

[Huh. Another person with stuff no one should know?]

That's something many have said. It's possible the Wordsmith had spies observing us.

[...say, are those horns. She glances at them, curious]

[oyashiromama]

[Oh, great, the part in every conversation when... She shifts, a little uncomfortably. It wouldn't have helped with the picture there, but she wishes she'd covered them with cloth, like Riku did.]

That...is a possibility, but they would have had to have been watching me for a very long time.

[chessturner]

[Thankfully, Kyrie doesn't comment about that. She has some tact, you know!]

Really?

[Kyrie glances at the profile. Uuuuuh...well! That sure is a strange one!]

...I suddenly have so many questions and I'm not sure you'd answer all of them.

[oyashiromama]

[Honestly, that gets a chuckle out of her. She can't help it.]

I will answer what I can. If there's anything too personal, I will let you know. Where do you want to start?

[chessturner]

Let's see...first things first. Occupation: God.

It can't be the literal truth, right?

[oyashiromama]

It is true. I am the god designated to guard a small village, though, nothing more.

[chessturner]

...this is going to take a while to get used to.

[Sigh. The Wordsmith will rue the day he thought of throwing Kyrie into this nonsense]

What village, by the way? Just curiosity.

[oyashiromama]

Hinamizawa. I doubt you've heard of it, it's very rural and out of the way.

[chessturner]

Hinamizawa...

[Hm. That sounds a bit familiar. Kyrie thinks for a moment, she's sure she has heard that village name before. It takes her a minute to remember who had mentioned it: Battler. What had he said?

...something about a story that was getting an animation. The name...she doesn't remember right now, and she hadn't read it herself, but Battler had taken rather excitedly about it for a long while, about how it was a cool story and what not]

Hinamizawa...a village...it sounds familiar, but...

[More details come to mind. All those characters Battler had mentioned, what were the names? He had gone into more detail than needed about 'how cute some of them were'. Kyrie continues mumbling aloud, trying to remember]

Keiichi. Rika. Some...Sato girl? I think I have heard of Hinamizawa before. Wasn't there a story set in that place?

[oyashiromama]

[The fact that Kyrie takes time to muse on it surprises her. Even more, that she mentions a story. Hinamizawa, nowadays, has no one's attention but those living in it, and honestly that's just how she likes it.

Slowly, Hanyuu shakes her head, though the second name...it sticks in her head.]

I'm unfamiliar with any stories about Hinamizawa, nor...any of those people.

[...She thinks? Didn't the Hatake family have a little girl named Satoko the previous year?]

[chessturner]

...it doesn't matter. Maybe it's simply that your village isn't as unknown as you may have thought.

[And it isn't like Kyrie is putting much weight on the stuff Battler talked about that story. She's cordial enough to listen to him, but not enough to really share any deep interests with him]

You have daughters?

[oyashiromama]

[She's going to muse more on this, the idea that someone may have written a story about Hinamizawa, but Kyrie's next question surprises her.]

What? I, yes but no, I only had one daughter.

[...but that sure does indicate a plural uh]

[chessturner]

Only one? I see. Looks like your profile has a mistake.

[She smiles]

The Wordsmith's sources of information aren't as perfect as they should be. That's a relief.

[oyashiromama]

Aah... Yes, that must be so.

[She doesn't seem completely convinced, but it's a positive way to look at it, isn't it...?]

Do you have any children? [Glances at Kyrie's profile.] ...Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to pry.

[chessturner]

[Kyrie smiles]

Don't be sorry, it's okay. I have a very cute daughter, she's six years old. I couldn't ask for a better daughter than her.

[She sounds proud, at least, and her pointed refusal to mention that stepson mentioned in the profile says a lot]

[oyashiromama]

[Well, that's that then. Don't ask about the stepson, only the daughter.]

A small little girl... Aah, I'm glad, little girls are so nice to have. ...I hope you aren't from her side for long.

[chessturner]

She's with her grandparents right now. Rudolf and I were going to a family event for a couple days, and she was too sick to go with us. And since it's not the kind of event we could get out from...

[So it seems poor Ange will have to be with the grandparents for a while longer than expected, that is, if Rudolf hasn't returned for her yet]

[oyashiromama]

...I'm glad at least, in the interim, she will have some family at her side.

[Ouka... What she regrets most is not being able to raise her.]

Were there other questions you had for me?

[chessturner]

Yes, there's one last question. Why do you like and hate humanity at the same time?

[oyashiromama]

[Ah...

A moment.]

Because I have seen the very worst of it, yet I long to see the best. Is that answer sufficient?

[chessturner]

[Kyrie raises her eyebrows]

Poetic.

[...]

You're nothing like I thought a god would be. To be frank, I find it comforting.

[oyashiromama]

Yes, well... I can't speak for all of us, but in my case, I would prefer being not very godlike. I'm glad it can provide you with that.