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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

[exequte]

I know.

[She sighs, just a little.]

It's probably useless, because Zero probably already knows all about every one of us, given... given what happened, but if it ever turns out that we were random victims and that would have given them information they didn't already have I'd feel pretty stupid for not trying. I don't think it can hurt, anyway.

[threwabone]

It's possible. At the very least, I don't see why I would get picked to go through this.

[She is like, the most normal person here.

Apart from the ghost thing.

Even then though, it's not as notable as robots and demons and death game survivors and vampire hunting church officials and whatever could be interesting about the purple haired guy.]

[exequte]

I'm not even sure how I got taken. The ship that we were on before... it was like this one, but it was already sinking.

[threwabone]

...do you think we're going to have to worry about that?

[exequte]

We weren't told about a time limit, so I hope not. Zero--the person who did this there called themselves Zero too--told us we had nine hours before, um. Before I woke up here.

[threwabone]

Well, let's hope this creep isn't like that one. We haven't heard anything, but this ship seems stable.

[She thinks it is. This is more or less the first time she's ever been on a boat.]

[exequte]

I really hope so too, because at the moment I'm not really sure what we could do about it if they decided to do something. There's... not very many places we can go on here.