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[pinkprismstaff]

You don't remember getting knocked out.

That's the best descriptor for the feeling you experience before you wake up. There's a glittering absence of color to your field of vision, and a sensation that you aren't yourself, you aren't anything in particular. Abruptly, unpleasantly, you wake up in a strange, sunny location. Where that is might vary--laying in a sun chair on the pool deck, draped over the skee-ball machine in the arcade, face down in a cart in the laundry room....or just stretched out in the long, long expanse of sand surrounding the island.

There doesn't seem to be anyone else here, aside from the others who have woken up and have as little clue where they might be as you do. It's a silent, empty island filled with a lot of questions and few clear answers. What you can conclude are a few things: that you don't get hungry or tired, that any wounds you have don't seem to either heal or worsen, and leaving the island doesn't seem to be possible.

Maybe it would be good to meet with the others who have woken up?

Comments

[wingtied]

No. There have been other people here with me, but they're gone, now.

Liza-chan, Aniki, Stephen-kun....some other people who were here with Liza-chan, too, but I never met them.

[reresurrected]

[... oh. Oh no. Considering how much blood is just sort of splattered around... Baldr is getting the sense this story does not have a happy ending.]

I see. Have they all... disappeared, then?

[He's not going to vocalize the "Or worse?" part of the question.]

[wingtied]

[ a nod ]

I woke up one day and Liza-chan and Stephen-kun were gone. It was me and Aniki for a while, but he disappeared, too.

[reresurrected]

[Gently:]

How long has it just been you?

[wingtied]

A couple of weeks. I think...almost three, now? Aniki was the last one with me.

[reresurrected]

[He smiles.]

Well, you aren't alone now. You needn't worry about hiding from us anymore.

[...]

Most of us.

[He makes no guarantees about some people.]

[wingtied]

[ Her eyes flick over to Akutagawa for a moment.

And then she nods. ]

I have most of my stuff in here, so this is kind of my second bedroom...can you tell everyone else to please not try to break the door down?

[reresurrected]

Of course. I'll make sure that everyone here is made very aware of that request.

[He says it so nicely, and yet somehow that almost makes it more ominous...]

[ghostinmichelle]

[ she heard that gone ]

You... wouldn't happen to know anything about all the blood around here, would you?

[ Trying to keep it vague in case the answer isn't "all my friends are dead". ]

[wingtied]

Sorry, I don't. It was all already here when I woke up in the arcade.