Induction.

[kingmakereffect]

There's a good amount of confusion, and rightfully so. After all, aside from the rules in purple listed on the wall, there isn't much to explain how you got here or why you're here. Don't worry though. It seems like you won't be left to your own devices for very long. There's a brief moment of static - not loud enough to be particularly grating, but enough to let you know that something's about to happen - before a voice addresses all of you from somewhere unseen. "Hello. I hope you all slept well. I was a bit worried after..." It sounds like it's coming from somewhere above you. There doesn't appear to be anything it's coming from, however. There's a brief pause before the voice resumes speaking. "I'm sure you all have a lot of questions for me. I don't mind answering them. Before you ask anything, I'd like you to examine the rules again. They're posted in every room." The voice is masculine, but there isn't anything to note about it otherwise. "I am the Kingmaker. Welcome to the Vault."

[OOC: You can be heard just fine through the PA system, so feel free to ask any questions your little heart desires; brackets are fine, you don't need to use prose!]

Comments

[goodforsomething]

Hey, asshole!

[Old Man Yells At Ceiling]

What're we supposed to have "survived", anyway?

[kingmakereffect]

You don't remember?

You all survived the destruction of your worlds. You're very lucky, you know.

[notjustawriter]

What?

[kingmakereffect]

You heard me, didn't you? Do I need to repeat myself?

[prismbloom]

No.

[ Stubborn is as stubborn does. ]

How is that possible?

[kingmakereffect]

I don't know. I wasn't in your world when it happened.

[amygdalae]

[LET'S ASSUME THEY'VE BEEN STICKING TOGETHER...]

Is there any proof that what you're telling us is true?

[Just... trying to take this as rationally as possible. (Why is he here.)]

[goodforsomething]

What?

Okay, that's it, where the hell is my family?

[kingmakereffect]

Still in your world.

[capyper]

... Wow, lucky us!

[ Not really, no. Yato's never been lucky in his life, if luck had anything to do with it, then Ebisu should be here, not him. ]

How'd we survive?

[kingmakereffect]

I brought you here.

[psychoh]

-- Our whole worlds? [OH GOD IS HIS MOTHER OKAY IS HE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE A PSYCHOTIC BREAK ON DAY ONE]

[kingmakereffect]

Yes. All of your worlds.

[SORRY NORMAN????]

[ignorantly]

[ Shirazu visibly freezes up for a moment. ]

That's a load of BS.

[kingmakereffect]

You don't have to believe me. I don't have any way of proving it to you.

[garudynamic]

W-what?!

[His eyes go wide: if his memories were a little further on it'd make a little more sense. But as far as he knew the risk of the Fog leaking out, the world being devoured by Shadows, hadn't happened yet.

But it's not an utterly impossible thought either]

That's bullshit, I - it wouldn't be me, you gotta be lying!

[kingmakereffect]

I don't have any proof. If you don't believe me, you can try to leave this place and find out.

[ratingspoint]

[Oh my god.

For a moment Mettaton is quiet, though his face seems to have slipped into something weird and blank; there's an obvious buffering period before he just smiles, and it's not a nice expression.

And then there's nothing to do but slow clap it out, is there.]

You were doing so well until then, sweetheart! Big dramatic welcome, not letting us see your face, very ominous! So very foreboding! For a moment I thought that maybe this was actually going to be exciting!

But the crowd can only suspend disbelief so far - and it seems you don't know where those limits are just yet. Shame. I would have given you a chance otherwise!

[...That was a very roundabout way of saying "wow are you ever full of shit", but you know what, it's the thought that counts.]

[isafraid]

[....no. no. no. no.]

You're wrong! [It's an impulsive outburst.] There's no way that's true!

[paidinblood]

[...There are things you can accept, and then there are things that are so far beyond his capacity for reasoning that he has no choice but to blatantly and thoroughly deny them. This is one of them; the idea that someone ripped him from whatever inconsequential world he was on without Subaru is completely unacceptable, so he chooses to deny it like the rest of the room.]

If the world we were on was being destroyed, we would have left it.

[The two of them didn't pay for that magic just to sit pretty and die.]

Where is my brother?

[neverafters]

[ The bird has been quiet for some time now, but eventually speaks up. ]

... The King does not believe. Many places can be destroyed, but his Holiday Star is hard to reach.

[devastation]

What?

[Of all the things to hear for reasons why she's been kidnapped, that is definitely not what she had been expecting.]

But... wh--what about everyone else? [Her mother? Her students at the school?] And... why us?

[Of all the people to be saved, why were we the ones saved? Why was she saved instead of someone else?]

[bloodisthicker]

[Ahahahahahahahaha. hahahaha. ha. haha. haha. ha.

He does not actually laugh, but it's clear from his tone that he thinks what the Kingmaker is saying is a load of crock.]

Yes, that absolutely must be the case. It's not like we're being told this by someone who keeps trying to weaselsnake his way out of admitting that he wants to watch us all kill each other for reasons.

I'm sure this is one hundred percent truth and not a little extra incentive to get us to see what really happened at all.

No one's actually planning on standing for this, are they?

[pokexplorer]

[Oh. That explains the 'Survivor' terminology in the rules postings.

...

Well. May as well play the hypothetical game for the time being. After carefully listening to what he's heard thus far...]

All of our worlds at once? That sounds like quite the feat. Were they all destroyed from the same event, then?

[happysweets]

[ Misa's quiet for a while, just letting everyone else ask questions and listening while she racks the gears in her head, before she finally speaks up. ]

...I see your game, Mr. Kingsmaker. And Misa-Misa definitely won't have any part in it at all, absotively posolutely not...

[ ...if only because imagining a world without Light is darker than the blackest night and he's gotta be lying through his teeth but... ]

But I am curious about some other things. ...Why is the information in those profiles so, um, off? I'm definitely not 24, for example, and I don't know where you got off using that picture of me...

[ STILL WITH THE PICTURE ]

And, um, I have some other concerns, too, but they're a bit more...private...