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

[quadruples]

Or they just had easier access to my info. I have been posting a lot of pics of katsudon to my Instagram lately, and my age and weight are just one Google search away. Comes with being a celebrity.

[foundfate]

...you're a celebrity?

[I mean. Viktor certainly is handsome enough to be famous, Watanuki would absolutely believe it if it's true. But he has no idea who Viktor is.]

[quadruples]

[ For a brief moment, Viktor looks a little disappointed. Watanuki doesn't know who he is? But then he perks right back up, because that probably just means he isn't into figure skating. ]

I'm a figure skater. Five-time consecutive winner of the Grand Prix Finals and the World Championships.

[foundfate]

[That's exactly right, Watanuki knows jack-all about figure skating. He's more of a sci-fi kind of guy.

But when he hears that, his look changes from one of confusion to one of being impressed.]

Oh wow, that's pretty amazing!

[...he has no idea what the grand prix is, but it sounds important.]

[quadruples]

I know. I'm pretty much a living legend. [ #modesty

He takes a gander at Watanuki's profile. ] So how much of your profile is accurate? A wish-granter doesn't sound like a legitimate profession, and there's no way you're older than twenty...

[foundfate]

The age is wrong, yeah. I'm only seventeen. Normal humans don't usually live past 100 anyway.

[Not that he's a normal human, but details.]

And it's a legitimate profession, though it's not mine. It's just that 'granting wishes' actually means 'giving life advice that will change your future for the better.'

[Also not technically true, but Viktor seems like a human so he doesn't need to know all of the magical details of the wish-shop.]

[quadruples]

I see. [ That's... a weird name for someone who gives advice, but whatever. ] At least that one makes more sense than some of the occupations on the profiles. "Grandmother" isn't an actual profession.

[foundfate]

You say that, but I'm not going to be the one to tell her that.

[quadruples]

...Why?

[foundfate]

Have you met her yet? She's weird!

[quadruples]

I haven't. How weird is she?

[foundfate]

She's very rude, but also very easy to freak out. And she doesn't look like a grandma at all.

[quadruples]

She really doesn't. She doesn't look a day older than you.

[foundfate]

Actually, a lot of people here look young, don't they? Even though their profiles say they're much older.

[quadruples]

You're right. [ he gestures to Vanille's profile. ] Vanille can't be 1600. And then there's Jasper... is she even human? She's orange and her nose looks like a gem.

[foundfate]

I'm pretty sure that there's at least a few non-humans here.

[....he's going to have to explain multiple worlds to Viktor, isn't he?]

If it makes you feel any better, they're probably from a different world than us.

[quadruples]

I know. I've met the talking rabbit already and there's no way she's from my world.

[foundfate]

What do you think of that?

[He might as well gauge how well Viktor can accept the supernatural.]

[quadruples]

I'm not sure yet. She's adorable, but it's so weird.

[foundfate]

Well, rabbits are normally pretty cute, aren't they?

[quadruples]

Yes, but they don't talk or wear clothes.