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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?]

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halls

[exequte]

[AKANE HAS HAD TOO LONG A DAY FOR THIS KIND OF THING. She lets out a little 'eep' as she falls over backwards at the sudden charge, half surprised and half alarmed, staring up like a scared rabbit.]

W-what are you... was that you earlier too??

[antiveg]

[ Unfortunately, Akane's type of response means her day might be getting harder as she inspires Power to put on speed, eyes widening at the sense of fear. If Akane doesn't hustle, she's about to have the fiend all up in her business, whether crouched (not sure if you meant fell over on the ground or the wall) or keeping the rabbit pinned to the wall by proximity. ]

Foolish mortal! You dare to try and question me? Who do you think you are?

[exequte]

[Oh, she is fully on the floor on her butt, but this sudden charge sends her scooting right back into the nearest wall. So... both, really.]

Um!

[But then... a pause, then curious tilt of the head.]

Mortal?

[antiveg]

Mortal!

[ Power makes to prod Akane's cheek. ]

Squishy bag of blood, you would perish if I spilled enough of it, would you not?

Though... [ Eyes glancing over the rest of the other girl. ] T'would be meager fare. Have you been starved?

[exequte]

[Tiny fear squeak!]

I-I... huh??

[This conversation so far has been equal parts scary and confusing.]

[antiveg]

[ She chuckles. She can't help it - fear is like catnip to her. Not that she'd try.

Power moves instead to squeeze one of Akane's arms. ]

You're skinny. Were I to devour you, t'would mostly be bone.

[ She makes to stand. She makes to try and yank Akane up with her. ]

A kitchen must be here! We should find thee food!

[exequte]

I-if you- What???

[WELL NOW THE DEMON IS DRAGGING HER OFF TOWARDS THE KITCHEN. Akane, being thin and tiny and frail and also scooted back in an awkward position really isn't in any position to fight being yanked up and being taken off to the kitchen.]

W-wait! I'd rather not be devoured!

[antiveg]

Tis the plight of livestock!

[ She's not deterred. If Power can bully Akane up to the pantry, she will. ]

Fear not - thou shall nourish a Nobel prize winner, the future Prime Minister! And I shall allow you to live for a while yet, so that you grow more meat!

[exequte]

[She is absolutely successfully bullying and/or dragging her that way for the moment, at least, and odds don't look strong that this is gonna change.

Well. At least it doesn't sound like a giant cooking pot is in her immediate future....]

Shouldn't we be finding out where we are?