WAKE UP TIME

[strangerpeople]

WAKE UP TIME

[The first thing you feel when you wake up is...nothing.

You don't feel much different at all when you wake up, no doubt from a very pleasant sleep, even if you may not remember what you dreamed of. If anything, you would have thought it was another normal day.

That thought would have vanished the moment you took in your surroundings. This is not your bed, this is definitely not your bedroom, and well, this is definitely not your home. In fact, this place isn't anywhere you've been before.

Before you can question anything much further, your cell phone starts beeping, flashing a message on the screen for a good several minutes, before flashing your profile, also for a few minutes. Yes, now you have a Title, and a power, even if you've never had one before. And yes, you have a cell phone. Even if you didn't have one, and don't know what the hell a cell phone is. You get the feeling you'll need to keep it on you.

The profile fades back to the home page of your phone - don't worry, you can still access your profile, and everyone else's, on that little lime icon if you really want - even though you have so many questions now. (The help button may... attempt to be helpful in that case.) Where the hell are you? Why do you have a Title? And can you get out?

Perhaps, if you're strong enough. But, in any case.

Welcome, Titled.

There are fifteen strangers in this place.]


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Comments

[notgentle]

Oh, so you accept how we're in some heavily reinforced enclosure that we probably can't escape right away, but you don't think anyone's going to feel "jealous" or "angry"? When we're trapped away from our actual lives and families and friends? That doesn't sound like any human nature I ever heard of! [It's really making him slightly laugh.] So please, tell me why I would even want to try and get "regarded sympathetically" in a place like this.

[foolishjustice]

Angry at our captors, certainly. But turning that anger against one another is senseless and entirely counterproductive. Unless you're of the opinion that this is somehow the fault of your fellow victims, or that the rest of us are any better off in this situation than you are, I don't see why you would consider it reasonable to want to kill one another for those reasons.

[notgentle]

......

[Glancing away for a second, Dio heaves a long sigh. It's finally sinking in that he probably looks really bad to Akechi.]

I'm just saying when there's a murder it's not always about sense and reason. At all. And those are hard to come by when shit happens all of a sudden like it did to us. So if you're really serious about this murderer foiling business... you catch my drift, right?

["Then think like one" would sound a little too creepy out loud.]

[foolishjustice]

[Yeah, kinda.]

I'm aware that some may lash out in a panicked state, but wouldn't you consider that another reason to speak to the people here? Either to calm those who may consider doing something foolish out of fear, or to gain an understanding of those who may be callous enough to attack someone while calm enough to make proper plans in order to predict what they might do. Ignoring one another beyond what interactions are necessary while trapped in a confined space would simply give a potential killer more opportunity, as well as make it more difficult to identify them in the worst case scenario.

[notgentle]

Oho! Let's set aside the logistics of how much easier it is to kill someone who wanders out of their own locked bedroom; I'll let you have that one, nobody has got the time to case the joint yet. But what's your plan to make someone calm down? Read them a picture book? I'm all ears.