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.

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kitchen

[quadruples]

[ Viktor's in the kitchen making sandwiches and tea, because he's starting to get hungry and this situation is still extremely confusing and he has no idea what the fuck he's supposed to do. When he hears Vanille, he pauses and looks at her. ]

Hey. Are you hungry?

[ravagers]

[ At this point, luckily, she's had an omelette... but at the same time... ]

I think I'm good, for now! Watanuki made me an omelette, earlier. [ Hmm. ] Kinda thirsty, though.

[quadruples]

In that case, come have tea with me. I'd appreciate the company.

[ravagers]

That's real nice of you!

[ She walks over to join him. ]

What kind of tea?

[quadruples]

Black tea. It'll be ready in a minute or two.

[ He pauses. ]

You're... Vanille, right?

[ravagers]

Black tea? What's in it?

[ She nods. ]

Yep, that's me! And you're Viktor. The figure skater!

[ ... whatever that is, look she doesn't know ]

[quadruples]

Oh, are you a fan of mine? Do you want my autograph?

[ravagers]

Hm? Oh, no, I'm not a fan! That's just what your profile says.

[quadruples]

...Oh. [ He looks a little disappointed. His heart is delicate... ]

[ravagers]

[ oh no!! that's not good... ]

It's just that we don't have anything like that back home! I don't even know what figure skating is. [ She gives him a smile. ] You must be good, if you're expecting strangers to be fans, though!

[quadruples]

It's a sport. I'm one of the best figure skaters in the world, and I have millions of fans.

[ #modesty ]

[ravagers]

Now I see why you thought I was a fan! So what do you do in figure skating?

[quadruples]

You skate around on ice, doing jumps and spins. It can be performed alone or in pairs, and there's a panel of judges that watch and evaluate the quality of the technical elements and presentation of your performance. It may sound easy, but landing those jumps without falling or messing up is very difficult.

[ravagers]

Huh! Sounds like it's real slippery. And bouncy.

[quadruples]

If we had any ice around, I'd love to show you.

...By the way, I've been wondering - are you really 1600, or is the profile wrong? You don't look like you could be older than eighteen.

[ravagers]

I'd love to learn!

[ ah... ahaha... ]

Profile's definitely wrong! And I'm nineteen, actually.

[quadruples]

Huh. I wonder how they managed to get it that blatantly wrong.

[ravagers]

Must be some kinda bad joke. Or a way to get our attention...

[quadruples]

Everything on mine is correct. Isn't it odd that at least one profile is accurate but others are full of mistakes?

[ravagers]

Mm-hmm. It's really strange... Maybe whoever brought us here is a fan of yours, so they only bothered getting your stuff right!