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]

Maybe. ...I wonder what kind of cult a cosplayer would lead. Do her followers watch anime all day?

[stepout]

That's a possibility. Or maybe they cosplay from games instead? Then they'd be really into... I don't know any video games, popular or otherwise. [ huh. hmmm. ] Maybe she's just delusional?

[quadruples]

I know Mario exists, and sometimes I play Neko Atsume on my phone, but other than that I don't know much about games either. [ He's... probably imagining Hanyuu dressed as Mario or one of the cats now. ]

Or maybe her otaku cult is into both anime and games.

[stepout]

I feel like a fair amount would probably crossover, so maybe. [ ...we are in a serious hostage situation and this is what we talk about, good hustle. ] Do you think she'll keep it up here? It has to take a lot to maintain all of... that.

[ Also her hair? looks so long? Jesus. ]

[quadruples]

I give her three days before she gives up on trying to maintain it.

[ What a serious conversation. ]

[stepout]

I think she'll last the week before she starts cutting down on a few things.

[ #faith ]

[quadruples]

You're more optimistic than I am.

[ He pauses. This conversation is kind of silly, isn't it... maybe he should change the subject. He gives her profile a quick look-over. ]

Let's see... Oh, you like ice skating! [ His eyes light up. Figure skating buddy. ]

[stepout]

[ ...thanks, buddy, now she's going to have to go through this weird song and dance. ]

...I don't know if I do or not. [ Ahahaha. hahaha. ha. ] I've never ice skated before.

[quadruples]

....What? Seriously? [ That sound you're hearing? It's his delicate heart breaking just a little. ]

[stepout]

[ DON'T DO THIS TO HER... ]

Seriously. [ Sorry. ] We don't even have a skating rink where I'm staying. I don't know why that's on there.

[ there are a lot of thing she's like that about but ice skating is definitely the biggest??? ice skating wouldn't even be a good judgement game so. ]