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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

[foundfate]

[Watanuki hasn't looked up yet, but he is already waving Christo off like it's nothing.]

My boss. She likes shoving me into weird places whenever she has work that needs to be done and she can't be bothered to-

[That's when he looks up, and. Dem horns. ]

...to...do it herself.

[certaingiant]

[Those sure are horns, alright.]

Is she in the habit of shoving unrelated people into weird places, as well?

[He's reasonably certain that unless your boss is Majorita, he doesn't know her.]

[foundfate]

It depends on what's going on, honestly. And since you're here, I'm guessing it's not a strictly-human affair.

[There's no point in beating around the bush. Christo is very obviously not human, and the fact that he's not freaking out and going 'a humannnnnn skreeeeee' either means that nobody here knows Watanuki is a human, or that this is a mixed-realm deal of some sort.]

[certaingiant]

[Why would you freak out at a human, though, they aren't worth that level of panic.]

I have seen other humans. And a rabbit.

[He's still not sure what her deal is, honestly.]

[foundfate]

With a rabbit spirit and a...

[...he's not sure what Christo is.]

...find upstanding gentleman such as yourself, that's enough for it to be mixed company. Plus you never know what some of the human-looking ones might be hiding, there might be spirits there too.

[certaingiant]

That's certainly true. I wouldn't be so hasty as to assume I know anything about anyone here for certain.

[Even with the profiles - that's still not a guarantee.]

[foundfate]

Right.

[A pause.]

I guess I should ask to make sure: do you know someone named Yuuko?

[certaingiant]

Not at all. Would that be your employer?

[foundfate]

It would be. She's definitely more widely-known than I am, that's why I asked.

[certaingiant]

Ah. I'm afraid I don't know anyone with that name.

[Which could mean a lot, or nothing.]

[foundfate]

It's alright. The world's certainly big enough for people to not know about her.

[...actually, now that he thinks about it, how are they all even communicating with each other? Surely everyone doesn't speak Japanese, right?]

...So, what's your name?

[certaingiant]

[it's jamjar magic don't question it]

Christo. And yours would be?

[foundfate]

Watanuki.

[Yep. 'April 1st'. The best name, clearly.]

[certaingiant]

Pleased to meet you. Despite less than stellar circumstances.

[What is Japanese anyway.]

[foundfate]

[It sounds like Christo needs a hisotry lesson.]

Likewise.

Oh, but we should probably look around some more instead of just standing here, right? There might be a door out or something.

[certaingiant]

I haven't found one yet, but that's no reason not to keep searching.

[This is kind of his second or third sweep through the available area.]

[foundfate]

You haven't found one...have you been all around this building already?

[He's gonna go ahead and start walking down the hall, though. They can walk and talk.]

[certaingiant]

[They can, since Christo follows easily even with Watanuki's Clamp legs.]

At least twice now. It's not an incredibly large building.

[foundfate]

[Walking walking~ Eventually they pass by the rules and such, and Watanuki is surprised by the lack of room too.]

That's weird, I would expect a university to be large. I don't think there's even any classrooms here. Unless this is just a dormitory?

[certaingiant]

It could be we're in a blocked-off area, but the problem is I don't see where those blockades would be...

[It's just wall, all around the perimeter.]

[foundfate]

Maybe they're hidden doors, like secret panels in the walls?

[certaingiant]

It's a reasonable guess. Though that begs the question of who builds a university with hidden doors.

[There probably are some in the Netherworld Academy, but that's earlier in his series.]