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

[matchbreaker]

[ Oh, good question! Elda blinks, and then leans in to look over her own. Uh huh... huh... ]

Well it's rude to give a lady's weight. [ SO THERE'S THAT ] The rest of it checks out, I think! Age might be off by a bit, but I lost count a bit ago.

[ Oh wait, no, thinking on it... ] Calera's only popped out one kid though, so it probably shouldn't be plural. Weird.

[ SHE LOOKS THOUGHTFUL AT THIS ]

[bloodbiter]

It certainly is among the number of rude things they've done.

[She looks over Elda's profile as she speaks, scanning over the information quickly.]

You aren't the first person I've spoken to that has some form of inaccuracy in their description. It's strange.

[matchbreaker]

Yeah? What about you...

[ Looking over her appearance she's probably... yeah, she's going to be that Adelina chick at the top. But oh wow, that's ]

Princess, huh?

[bloodbiter]

Yes, that's correct.

[And after another glance at the rest of the profiles:]

It looks as though I'm not alone in that, either.

[matchbreaker]

[ Looking it over again... ]

Oh cripes, we've seriously got a Saint here?!

[bloodbiter]

[She glances towards Elda, tilting her head slightly at her reaction.]

Is there something wrong with that?

[matchbreaker]

Well, not yet anyway.

[ But if they're really all holy and such, then she'll just have to deal with that... ]

There's no way some've these people are this old.

[ Said the 233 year old ]

[bloodbiter]

What reason would they have to create lies on these descriptions?

[She can think of plenty of reasons why they would lie about how they were brought here and why, but... This seems like it would provide no merit.]

[matchbreaker]

How should I know.

[ Huff ]

I've never kidnapped two dozen people and put them in a basement either.

[bloodbiter]

I'm simply trying to figure out their motivations, you know.

[A small sigh.]

Do you have any idea why they would have taken us all, as you've said?

[matchbreaker]

[ No.

But that feels like a lame response, so. ]

Given the rules, it could be some kinda game thing. We're apprentices, so I guess we're "learning."

[bloodbiter]

I wonder what they stand to gain from us learning anything, though.

[She doesn't have a good guess for that, either. It seems those are in short supply.]

[matchbreaker]

Well as soon as anyone finds him he's going to lose a lot of teeth, at least. I don't know about gaining anything!

[ But that's... not helpful and she knows it. It makes her feel better though. ]

I don't really know if I care about that though, you found any weak walls or something yet?

[bloodbiter]

[A soft huff.]

He's going to lose more than that if I have any say in it.

[Moving on, though...]

No, I haven't. I searched them all thoroughly, unfortunately.

[matchbreaker]

Same here, and I tried what I could do. If we could find a nice hammer that might help, but nothing seems that weak.

[ And that's.

Bad. ]

[bloodbiter]

I was wondering if we could use one of our trunks to break down part of a wall if we worked together, but I'm not certain it's heavy enough.

[Property damage is obviously the solution.]

[matchbreaker]

It could work, they did seem pretty sturdy. But we'd also want to make sure that it's full of stuff at the time, right?

[bloodbiter]

Yes. That way it's as heavy as possible. We would want to find several people with significant physical strength, too.

[matchbreaker]

Oh, well I can help with that!

[ Said the 5', 87lb woman.

Even excitedly raising a hand ]

[bloodbiter]

...Are you certain?

[The look she's giving Elda is definitely skeptical.]

[matchbreaker]

Yeah, of course I am! Or I wouldn't have said it.

[bloodbiter]

It's just you have a rather small stature.

[It feels terribly rude of her to say so, but if they're searching for physical strength... She just wants to be certain.]

[matchbreaker]

[ HEH HEH HEH ]

Well, just try me! How do you wanna test it?

[bloodbiter]

I suppose you could try to pick up the trunk in your room. Would that suffice?

[matchbreaker]

Sure! It's right near this main area anyway.

[ So let's go to the hall! She'll charge ahead, heading towards Room #11 with her key in hand. The door labels her as "Indomitable" ]