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

[modernmedicine]

[It's the quiet that Angela first notices. This isn't a peaceful kind of quiet, though: it's the kind of quiet that's unnerving at best. She sits up and blinks a few times. Waking up in strange places doesn't usually bother her, but waking up in strange places she didn't fall asleep in? That's something else entirely.

She checks the trunk, shaking her head in dismay. No sign of the Caduceus Staff or the Valkyrie suit.]

Not good...

[She takes the key, locking the door as she leaves and then slipping it into a pocket. When she had found a skirt with pockets, she had bought three of them - skirt pockets are rare birds. She'll head down to the foyer after that.]

Hello? Guten morgen?

[certaingiant]

Ah - hello, miss. Did you also just wake up here?

[He's a little concerned to be running into someone who looks human. Not that he wasn't concerned to begin with, of course, but if there are humans here, then he's very far from where he went to sleep, indeed.]

[modernmedicine]

I did. I'm not entirely sure where we are...

[introspects]

[ Hello, neighbor! Orihime leaves her room a few moments before Mercy does, locking the door behind her and ready to explore the rest of the area. She stops when she sees someone leave the room directly across from her. ]

Hello!

[modernmedicine]

Hello! It seems like we're neighbors. I'm Angela.

[ravagers]

Hi!

[ Vanille's in the midst of walking when her voice catches her attention. ]

You're about as lost as I am, huh?

[modernmedicine]

I think that's an understatement, but yes.

[matchbreaker]

[ It really is morning, isn't it...? What is she doing up now?! True, she can't see the sun, but now she's in the Foyer she can easily see on the clock that it's nowhere near sundown. Well, assuming the clock is right. She doesn't feel tired, but there might be a bit of a placebo.

Either way, on being greeted, ]

Hello? [ That was German, right? Hmm. ] Bonjour.

[modernmedicine]

Bonjour. Ça va?

[A pause.]

My English is better than my French, I'm afraid. How are you doing?

[elepe]

[--well, hello. Angela looks like a relatively competent person in the face of...all of this. Thank god.]

Oh, hello. Did you wake up here, or do you happen to be an employee?

[It's spoken in a bit of a guarded manner, but hey, maybe they can finally get some answers. Not many of these...other people look like they could be close to competent enough to work for a school.]

[modernmedicine]

I just woke up here. I haven't seen any employees so far, I'm afraid. You would think there would at least be someone...

[uncouthhatcher]

The hell's a gluten mornin'?

[... Sorry about the murder of your language, Angela, but once Gold sees that she is a Hot Babe his tone changes completely.]

Oh, wow, I must've died, 'cause you are a bonefied angel, lady! Gluten mornin' to you too!

[modernmedicine]

Guten morgen. It means 'good morning' in German.

[Gold, you are cute. The mispronunciation gets a laugh out of her, even after she corrects it.]

Well, I'm afraid my wings didn't make it with me.

[tsugomori]

[ He'll smile at her politely. ]

Ah, hello. I'm not sure what you said after the greeting, but are you asking how I am doing?

[modernmedicine]

I am now, but it's 'good morning' in German. How are you?

[firstaid]

Guten morgen?

[Angela will get a puzzled look. It's definitely not something Estelle's heard before.]

I'm afraid I don't know what that means.

[modernmedicine]

That's all right. It means 'good morning'.

[quadruples]

Dobroye utro. I don't speak German, sorry. [ He recognizes a handful of common phrases like "guten morgen", but that's the extent of his knowledge of the German language. ]

Did you also just wake up here?

[modernmedicine]

That's all right! No need to worry.

[She nods.]

I did. I'm Angela. I wish the circumstances were better...

[chessturner]

Guten morgen.

[Kyrie replies to that with naturality. She knows no German, but this sounds like a greeting to her]

Feeling as lost as the rest of us?

[modernmedicine]

[Angela smiles.]

That might be the understatement of the year.

[iamthatsea]

[ Alani waves! Hopefully blue fish people aren't like. Strange or anything. ]

Hello! This place is pretty weird, huh?

[modernmedicine]

Hello!

[Angela waves back! Look, blue fish people are no weirder than, you know, purple spider lady.]

You can say that again.

[byday]

[He's scoping out the lobby at the time, trying to find a camera or any sort of surveillance system or...something. As he looks up to the ceiling, she manages to startle him, and he turns. Pouring on the charm, at last.]

Oh! Good morning, I'm sorry, you took me off guard.

[modernmedicine]

I'm sorry I startled you. Are you okay?