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

[officerhops]

I'm not from a storybook!

[Judy exclaims, a bit of a laugh in her words.]

I'm from just your average, everyday, normal earth. A normal earth where there are just animals like there always have been.

[matchbreaker]

Normal Earth is one where there's way too many humans and there's vampires as well!

[ #science ]

[officerhops]

Maybe for you it is, but my world isn't something out of fiction. Please don't act like it is. I wouldn't be standing here talking to you if it were, would I?

[matchbreaker]

[ You know what...! That's- ]

Well, whatever, I'm bored of arguing that.

[ Exhale. ]

So what did you want again?

[officerhops]

[...this is going to be a long day.]

All I wanted to ask is for you to confirm or deny the validity of the information on your profile.

[matchbreaker]

Oh, huh. Yeah, pretty much.

[ He hums a little and she goes back over to the profile and it's... ]

Yeah, I think the age might be a little off?

[officerhops]

...let me guess. Because you're a vampire?

[matchbreaker]

Oh no! I mean, that's why I can live to be that old in the first place, but I meant I think I'm a decade younger than that. I lost count of the year last time I went to sleep though.

[ She really should have asked Henry that. ]

[officerhops]

[Well, that's what she gets for assuming things.]

I...see. So your age is the only thing wrong on it?

[matchbreaker]

[ Studying it again... hmm... ]

Well, I only have one grandchild, so it's a little weird to say I like grandchildren, but other than that, not really.

[officerhops]

Well, I mean...technically having it written that way still makes sense, whether you have one grandchild or ten. It seems like "grandchildren" is just being used generally, here.

[Why are we arguing semantics suddenly.]

[matchbreaker]

Yeah, I know! I'm just saying, it's not like I care that much about other people's grandchildren!

[ Clearly, the best argument. ... Besides, Judy told her to look for something wrong, so she sort of narrowed in on the possibly incorrect thing ]

[officerhops]

[Judy's ears twitch a little at that, and she can't help but smile a little while also looking a bit perplexed at the same time.]

I think people would gather you meant your own, and not anyone else's.

[matchbreaker]

Oh well, either way, the age is the only thing off, maybe. Are a lot of people seeing off things?

[ AFTER ALL, JUDY BE DOING THE QUIZZING.

Bored of reading her own profile she considers reading other people's, thinks better of it, and then just crosses her arms to look down on the rabbit, pleased to have someone to look down on, honestly ]

[officerhops]

[Now listen here.]

Quite a few as a matter of fact. A lot are small errors, but some are more glaring and obvious than that. At least going on what I've been told, anyway.

[matchbreaker]

Okay, so what do you suspect out of that?

[ And honestly, does it matter? ]

[officerhops]

[As a matter of fact, it matters quite a lot.]

I suspect that our suspect has had some way of getting information on us on top of taking us hostage for whatever reason. I mean, have you heard of someone getting info on this many people and having it all be pretty accurate?

It's concerning.

[matchbreaker]

Yeah, but if some of it's off, they aren't really the best stalker, then...

[ HMMMM.

That said, Judy is here and she is here and there's no way they are from the same place... even if that makes no sense. ]

[officerhops]

Good at stalking or not, any information that's personal like this shouldn't be so easy to come by. And that isn't even touching the fact that they rounded up so many people without so much as a blip on the radar.

[matchbreaker]

I've been wondering about that too. There's no way that my husband or son would have let them get to me.

[ Even if she wouldn't be taken on her own even before all that, but...

It's been a concern of hers. She taps her (shoeless) foot. ]

[officerhops]

So do you think they would come looking for you once you've turned up missing, then?

[matchbreaker]

James'll stop at nothing.

[ And she is certain of that.

... She'd say the same of Henry but that shrew might stop him ]

[officerhops]

Then he might just be a potential ticket out of here...eventually. If enough people are looking for us after we've been gone, there's no way this charade can be kept up for as long as they seem to expect for it to.

[matchbreaker]

[ She wishes that thought were more comforting. As it is, it just adds another stress to her, that...

Well, no. ]

Not like we don't need to break out ourselves. You don't have one of those gun things, right?

[officerhops]

I don't have anything on me but my uniform and my badge.

[She gestures to the empty belt on her side.]

...But if I had one, I wouldn't be using it.

[Right, Elda?]