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

[avoidcomplications]

I'm afraid I don't see anything, no. But I hardly have experience with such things--a lawyer would be better suited to that.

[matchbreaker]

So what was with the studying, are you bad at reading?

[avoidcomplications]

[...rude, madam.]

I'm adequate enough. I just wanted to be sure I understand what an unpleasant mess we seem to have been handed here.

[matchbreaker]

[ HMMM. ]

So what's your conclusion? I'm pretty sure it's something like "find the smith guy and strangle him" or "kill everyone else here" basically.

[avoidcomplications]

My conclusion? Just that whoever wrote this is severely deluded and possibly a maniac. I think mass murder is a slight overreaction, don't you?

[matchbreaker]

Well, right off the bat, probably!

[ It's why she's not started yet! Obviously! ]

[avoidcomplications]

[...probably.]

If you'd like my opinion, I think that we should look for a way out first and resort to your terribly drastic measures later, if we have to.

[matchbreaker]

Oh, no, I agree there.

[ She brushes up closer to the man.

... Huh, nice tie ]

I've not found a door and the walls felt pretty solid. What've you found?

[avoidcomplications]

...

[Just going to casually step to the side, thank you.]

So far, just the same. There don't seem to be any windows, either.

[matchbreaker]

Yeah... I'd say we're probably underground...

[ Or something? It doesn't have the same cold you'd expect from something like that, though... ]

[avoidcomplications]

That seems possible, yes.

[matchbreaker]

[ Wait, an idea hits her ]

Wait, if there's no doors and windows, aren't we all gonna suffocate?

[avoidcomplications]

There must be a ventilation system of some kind. Otherwise, I'm sure we would have felt some effects already with so many people in an enclosed space.

[matchbreaker]

Oh, then we could climb through that, right? Like in those crime books!

[avoidcomplications]

It might be possible, if we can find the vents to begin with. But until we do, we have no idea if any of us can even fit.

[someone call judy]

[matchbreaker]

Well then what're you standing around for?! Let's go find a vent! Or we could dig out the showers, the pipes have to go somewhere!

[ The short woman - intends to clap him on the back. As if to encourage him. He might still run chance of dodging her fairly firm clap on the back, she' surprisingly strong ]