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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

[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?

[15unknowns]

Do you really think I could trust one of you to accurately report back? No, I have to make sure of the results.

[onychomance]

We can say the same of you - under these circumstances, only the most naive person would believe the coin you used was legitimate. Besides, what's there to report? You make it sound like you're not watching us, but that can't be true.

No matter. The first question is more pertinent.

[15unknowns]

The point was to be fair about your fate. To leave it up to chance - and Lady Luck did not bless you.

[onychomance]

We'll find out later if that's true.

[You never know, there could be people who are better off here than immediately at home. Though... he has no idea if that applies to him, patchy memories as he has.]

Answer me this, then. Many of us here have had our bodies and minds tampered with to any large or small degree. How does that apply to your concept of fairness?

[15unknowns]

It will serve you well.

If you choose to learn how to use it.

[onychomance]

[He has been reviewing the rules while they talk, but he stares back at the monitor after this.]

"That" is not what I was referring to. I can imagine how you think a power will aide us in your foolish 'game.' [But he is looking deeply annoyed anyway, because man, this morning was embarrassing and he would kill Zero about it.]

For example, something like the youth who is in the wrong body.

[He doesn't want to talk about his face directly, but seriously. What the hell was with that.]

[15unknowns]

That was an unavoidable event.

That's all you need to know.

[onychomance]

And my memories?

[yes he is only going to keep asking selfish questions about this. He's still thinking about the murder game part.]

[15unknowns]

A small trifle. They may come back in time.

[onychomance]

Was that also "unavoidable" then? [His voice is clearly disbelieving]

[15unknowns]

Not necessarily, but it was an... interesting solution.