WEEK 1

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 1

[Awaken.

Fifteen strangers have been gathered to the Depths.

When the strangers awaken, they will feel nauseous in their stomachs. No doubt confused. Maybe a little sick, Perhaps, even terrified. And certainly, there is a good reason for it - they are not where they were before. If they had powers back where they came from, they seem to be all gone. And it appears that someone has left...guidelines for them. All of them addressed to a specific Title.

Their Title. Somehow, each person knows, upon seeing this, this is their Title, even if it seems to make no sense whatsoever. And its clear that whoever wrote these things knew it as well. Who was it?

Its uncertain. So far, there seems to be no one else save for them, and those who dare to venture out of their rooms - save, for some reason, the individuals in rooms 1, 8 and 7 - in this hot and stuffy place. No...'intercessor' to be seen yet, certainly. No outward signs that there's anyone else aside from the people with 'Titles'.


So, Titled: welcome.

There are fifteen strangers in this place.]

Comments

[lightnen]

Guns always seemed too simple and loud to me. How can you get the job done with something so loud and bulky, anyway?

[ If anyone walked in on this, surely they'd wonder why these young teenage kids are talking about weapons like it was nothing more than the weather outside. ]

Really? Sounds kinda tacky to me. I don't really get what mine's supposed to do either.

[zephyranthe]

Depends on the op. Wouldn't use it if it's for recon, but if it's a full-on assault, anything's fair game.

[Good times, especially since military operations and weaponry are one of the few topics that Fie's actually good at conversing about... at least to a certain degree.]

Yup. Gets that way when talking about his girlfriend too. It's really cheesy. [Just talking behind Eric's back here, nbd.]

I wonder if they're all useless like that.

[lightnen]

Hmm... you have a point. I suppose I just favor knives and sharp implements to get the job done, and it's easier to get closer to people to do what you need to with one.

[ Killua's never been involved with military stuff as he was more a technical denizen of the underground more than anything else. Not that he tended to go around telling people that kind of thing, unless it happened to somehow miraculously come up. ]

How lame. [ He makes a face at the thought before shaking his head. ] Dunno yet... but I think the guys who trapped us here likely want us to use them in some way to murder someone, if I had to guess.

[zephyranthe]

Yeah. Easier to strike at any gaps or weak points on 'em, too.

[Although she's more thinking about fighting monsters in her case, since she doesn't really make it a habit of shanking people unless wholly necessary.]

...Maybe he could blind someone with those sparkles. [Which could be conducive for murder? Although she has goggles, so...]

[lightnen]

Exactly! If you can catch their weak points then it's much simpler to bring them down without much trouble.

[ He seems to think over what she said before he grinned a bit, amused at the thought she'd brought up; someone actually using blinding sparkles to their advantage here. ]

Not likely but... who knows how strong that can get? So i'm not worried about that one as I am with the others and what they can do.

[zephyranthe]

Or it's easier for someone else to make the finishing blow.

[That's pretty much been her MO with Laura, after all; Fie gets in close to weaken and confound the enemy while the other girl uses the opening to crush their enemies.

Still, as silly as that power seemed, he brought up a good point.]

It'd be a problem if can get as bright as a stun grenade, especially since it's pretty dim down here. Could catch someone off guard if it's fast enough.

[lightnen]

True. I guess I really hadn't considered that, but it's possible.

[ So far he likes this girl. She and him at least understand the dangers of their situation posing some problems in the future. Killua really didn't doubt someone among them was going to abuse their powers to get out of this stupid mess alive. ]

A second would be all he needs if he wanted to end someone's life, so it seems like his power could be troublesome if nobody really keeps an eye on him.

[zephyranthe]

You could probably say that about a lot of us, even without the powers.

[She's met a number of individuals here already that look like they know how to handle weapons, after all. Still, it's not like she wants to distrust everyone here, either, which made this situation doubly annoying.]

It'd be nice if we could use these against the guys who did this.

[lightnen]

Hah... yeah. Probably. I haven't met everyone yet but I really don't doubt that.

[ Nodding a bit in agreement, Killua exhaled a bit of a sigh before his expression grew a little sour at a thought that crossed through his mind just then. ]

I agree. They're smart in not showing their faces, knowing that we'd kill them for pulling something as stupid as this.

[zephyranthe]

[Fie's not the best at reacting to social cues, so while she sees his expression change, she doesn't really make much of reaction aside from a slight tilt of her head.

Although she's not entirely sure if she'd go so far as to kill them, but she also probably wouldn't stop anyone who really wanted to, either.]

Yeah. Even if we couldn't attack 'em directly, we could probably set all sorts of traps around that'd catch them.

[lightnen]

Probably. They might not be expecting traps so it'd likely be a lot easier to catch them instead of just outright killing them.

[ Then something occurred to him and the sour look on his face melted into something more of distaste, if anything else. ]

I'd like to ask them about some things if I get the chance, though.

[zephyranthe]

Same here. Especially since it doesn't look like this'd be an easy operation to set up, and I don't think it would be that easy to find and capture all of us.

[If they could find out how all of it was done, then well. The better they could put a stop to this happening all over again. Hopefully that would keep any other members of Class VII from being roped into something like this, too.]

[lightnen]

Exactly. Even if I think some people here are gonna be hard to work with compared to some others.

[ Killua makes a bit of a face at that, thinking about the blond-haired idiot he met his first day he'd arrived. ]

I'd still be willing to put in the effort and help come up with a plan to make this all work out for us.

[zephyranthe]

It'd be better for all of us in the long run if we could cooperate here, anyways. If it came down to a fight, we'd have more manpower on our hands. Pretty sure everyone has their own skills that could come in handy when the time comes for it, too.

[Fie would be the first to admit that she's heavily, heavily focused on only combat-related disciplines, after all. While she's had some time to expand her horizons somewhat in the past few months, she can't explain things like Machias and Emma do, she can't be as creative as Gaius and Elliot are, she can't bring people together like Rean does... there's a lot that Class VII wouldn't have accomplished if they hadn't been working together, and Fie took that to heart.]

[lightnen]

True. We gotta learn how all these weird powers work and then we can use them and our own skills we still have from home and utilize them against the guys keeping us here. Especially if they put up a big fight or really insist on being difficult about letting us go.

[ Which, to him seemed VERY likely a possibility. ]