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

[oyashiromama]

[Blink.]

No, you aren't anyone I recognize.

[byday]

...Bruce Wayne. Wayne Enterprises.

[oyashiromama]

[Studies him.]

...

[Shakes her head.]

I'm not familiar with it.

[byday]

That's a surprise. I liked to think it was incredibly prominent.

[oyashiromama]

To be fair, I'm not familiar with a lot outside the village I, ah...have lived in.

[byday]

Where exactly is your village, if you don't mind my asking?

[oyashiromama]

Hinamizawa, in Japan's Gifu region. You likely haven't heard of it, it's very small.

[byday]

I've heard of Gifu, but never your particular area. Most of my trips to Japan tend to be centered around Tokyo, you understand.

[oyashiromama]

Of course. It is an important city, I hear, and our population's only a few handfuls more than two thousand, so I'd expect nothing else. Wayne Enterprises, where is it located?

[byday]

Gotham City.

[oyashiromama]

...No, I'm afraid it doesn't ring any bells, I'm sorry.

[byday]

...That's almost a little too odd. There are approximately ten million people living in the city.

[oyashiromama]

I am incredibly isolated. I've never even been to Tokyo.

[byday]

Absolutely. I can respect that.

[oyashiromama]

So likely, it's nothing to be worried over. If I don't know something, that's nothing new.

[...that sounds a little self-deprecating, so she smiles.] If you are so famous, this must be strange then.

[byday]

Believe me, I've seen things that are a lot stranger.

[oyashiromama]

I'm not sure if that's fortunate or not in this situation. Whatever this situation turns out to be.

[byday]

Whatever it turns out to be, I don't have a good feeling about it.

[oyashiromama]

...me neither. It's good to see someone else with a similar mindset, honestly.

[byday]

I'd be surprised if there's anyone here with positive feelings about waking up to a kidnapping.

[oyashiromama]

There are some...less vigilant. It worries me.

[byday]

Who?

[oyashiromama]

The boy Gold seems as much, as well as Orihime. Neither overjoyed with the arrangement, but...less wary than I'd expect. And...

[She makes sure to lower her voice.]

Vanille. She expresses concern for everyone else, but none for herself.

[byday]

I'm sure we can keep an eye on her. On all of them, really.

[oyashiromama]

Yes... Yes, we will have to. [A moment's pause.] A nice conversation turned to this, I'm afraid.