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[strangerpeople]

WELCOME ABOARD


[The first sensation you feel is a headache. It's brief, slicing, sharp. It passes soon after you wake up, but it is there nevertheless, and the pain is not easily forgotten. Perhaps your eyes also blur as if roused from a deep sleep; perhaps your tongue also feels off, like you swallowed a bug. It's not pleasant.

More unpleasant, though, is the second sensation that dawns on you all-this is not your bed. This, in fact, is unrecognizable. It is not anywhere you recall coming to, willingly or otherwise. It's a room with a bunk, and there is a strange smell in the air that is hard to ignore.

No, you are no longer home. Any possessions you may have had on you are gone, save your clothing and a strange watch you can't get off, no matter how hard you try. And when you run into the hallway, well-you might find yourself running into others who might be just as confused and scared as you are as the area around you slowly sways, up and down, left and right.

What is this place? Why are you here? Who are all these other people?


What is going on?]

Comments

[lovedthemost]

[Brain does pause at that for a moment, eyes narrowing, turning his head to glare in Hubert's direction briefly, before turning his attention back to the scale]

It's not possible for me to be insane. [stated with more than a hint of annoyance, and a fair bit of arrogance]

[godspiousjasper]

[ That's enough to have him looking back down at his own watch, then over at Anya's before chuckling softly. ]

Not sure. Though I hadn't realized we're matching, I feel like it may be important.

[ It's not a bad color, to be sure. ]

[threwabone]

Right-right!

[Oh, this is feeling very surreal. She...she should change the topic, before her brain goes places she'd rather with didn't.]

So, you're a demon...and you don't even know what's going on?

[That's...pretty worrying...]

[not_a_lego_maniac]

[Time to carry him, then!]

Oh no! Why!? Why would they do that!?

[pegasinister]

[Hubert doesn't say anything, eye narrowed as he watches this play out. He bets anything that coin was weigthed]

[jinglebros]

[ Aoi is in the infirmary, but not feeling so sick he can't reply. ]

Why this again?! Why us?!

Let her go.

[lovedthemost]

[NOPE YEP THAT'S FINE HE'S JUST GONNA UHHHHH

scramble to his feet once that door is slammed and Leave As Quickly As Possible. At a Run. He is Gone]

[threwabone]

[Continued screaming and running, because demon, demon, aggressive demon, demon that wants to kill her, why can't her life be simple for FIVE MINUTES-

She turns to look back for a moment, trying to figure out if she knows this woman, wishing she had something to defend herself-

And suddenly an arrow is flying Power's way, ready to wrap her in roots if she's not quick enough.]

[superstylishsquid]

...Well, you're not the first person to compare me to one.

[Said tail flicks against the wall.]

That scar isn't a sore point for you, is it?

[15unknowns]

You know I can't do that, Mr. Kuroshiki.

Rules are rules.

[asmanytimes]

How do we get X-Passes from people who aren't here?

[ He's studying the rules very closely. ]

[autonomousthought]

Alright. It might be a good idea to warn your roommate if you think they're the sort of person who might pry, then.

[...Miss? She perks up a little bit.]

I'm...not really doing very well. I'm not very good at moving, so I've been falling over and crashing into walls a lot.

[not_a_lego_maniac]

...this...

[He staring at the rules.]

This....this is-this is a joke, right?

[unpossibilities]

[Of course. Of course it's this. Of course it's this, again, and he wants to scream. Kaito wants to scream, and to bash the TV, and to do so many things - but he stares at it, his throat completely dry. He doesn't say a word.

He just looks...defeated.

And then he asks--]

...Why us? Why us, in particular? What are you hoping to gain from this? There's no theme to the people you collected - we're all different ages, from different places, there's...no gain to this.

Is that just because of 'fate', too? Did you get a list and just--underline names?

Or...why?

[jinglebros]

Of course you can. You're just refusing.

[jinglebros]

It's not a joke.

I've been through this before.

[onychomance]

[Kira has yet to check the rules, because that display was annoying to him. Fate is supposed to be on Yoshikage Kira's side!]

What was the point of that gamble? Should you not have asked one of us to flip the coin?

[asmanytimes]

It isn't. You got a codename based on it?

[15unknowns]

Rule 5. It's very simple.

Kill another passenger, and get away with their murder.

[voidseeing]

[... ah. Gai was half-expecting something like this, honestly, and so he's not surprised by this announcement in the slightest.]

You're right, life is unfair. But it also offers up a choice on whether to live or die. Survival of the fittest-- you either live, or you get selected out.

Glad to see that you recognize that much.

[yesorwoof]

[Makima is listening and watching. Calm, as most who interact with her have already noticed. Shouts of "what the fuck" and rushes for the exit may drown out her presence so that the others forget she is even there. It takes a long time for her to read the text on this tiny little watch, and to carefully cross reference previous sections. Finally, she stands up. Her anger is still muted; she does not so much as cross her arms.]

This is a trap. You introduce the possibility of five X-passes off the Gigantic, so your intention is clear: to lure ten of us into killing or being killed, so that the remainder may use the ten and five X-passes as the fifteen needed to escape.

Do you deny this?

[jinglebros]

Because - because I've been here before!

I know things!

[asmanytimes]

So that's why all the blood.

[15unknowns]

Your arrival here was ordained by fate. As for the reason you are here...it is to participate in the Game. Anything else, as of now, is irrelevant.

[godspiousjasper]

[ After hearing everything that is said and what it is they expected to be done here to escape? It's immediately got a VERY dark look shadowing his features and an anger in his eyes. ]

Just what is it you intend to achieve in trapping us here to play some game where you're required to murder another human being?