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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?

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arcade

[themaplesyrupjob]

If you're gonna have a panic attack, it's better to get it out early so we can work on figuring out how to solve the riddle box.

[Breanna is sitting on top of a nearby game cabinet, legs idly swinging back and forth as she peers down. Parker would be proud of her. She'd already mapped out the entire vent system since waking up, not that it's really doing any good. Nothing in the vents will get her home, but she's been raised to know the lay of the land and vents are part of that.]

[kurohato]

Panic--I...

[...Well. He might've, if there wasn't someone around. Akutagawa straightens up, his face stoic as ever.]

What puzzle box are you talking about?

[themaplesyrupjob]

Well, I already tried all the usual methods of escape from a deserted island that Eliot taught me when I was twelve by leaving me on an island for "enrichment" and none of them worked so this is either some sort of virtual reality or an alternate dimension. Currently leaning on alternate dimension, since I already met someone from the 80s and that feels weird if it's just virtual reality.

[This is all said very casually, as if everyone gets left on an island for "enrichment" as a child.]

Anyway there's usually a puzzle you have to solve in these situations to get home.

[kurohato]

[:thonk:] Is it common to be left on an island like that? But, well...I suppose that makes sense. Where would the puzzle be, then? The exact center of this resort?

I was honestly just planning on finding who set this up and killing them.

[this is said very casually, as if killing someone is a normal reaction to have]

[themaplesyrupjob]

The whole thing is a puzzle, usually. Like an escape room, you know? And usually the person behind it isn't here, so you gotta solve the puzzle to get the bad guy.

[A beat. Should she say something about the murder? Ugh. She should probably say something about the murder.]

Also killing people is the least effective form of enacting revenge, but you know. I'm not gonna stop you.