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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

[baskins]

You think zombies are more likely than aliens? On what grounds?

[themaplesyrupjob]

Recent developments in biochemical warfare make the chance that some scientist invents zombies for shits and giggles way more plausible than aliens. Still not that plausible, but weighing that against the Fermi Paradox was a three week debate that involved actual NASA scientists.

[Like, it's way more likely they just invent something that kills people but there is a small chance zombies get invented.]

[baskins]

Hm. Upsetting, but plausible. Though I don't see how it's that much more plausible than there being other living things somewhere out there. Unless you're specifically talking about aliens reaching us, I guess? So it's about space travel, which we're doing okay at but I am not paid enough at Scoops Ahoy to keep tabs on NASA. Space aliens just seem almost normal compared to...

[ Ahem. She catches herself starting to Talk Rapidly and decides to instead not. ]

Anyway. So you're from the future.

[themaplesyrupjob]

Yup. [She waggles her fingers.] The fuuuutuuuure.

[She could get into the alien thing, but she's 100% aware it would trigger a 45 minute rant about how if there were aliens out there then they hate us.]