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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

[kurohato]

....

[Well, Karen isn't his problem. Akutagawa spares Karen a passing glance before he growls.]

DON'T DIVE BACK IN! WE WANT ANSWERS! OPEN THE DOOR!

[And now Rashomon is trying to attack the door in one instance of Akutagawa's marvelous display of tact or lack thereof.]

[pinkprismstaff]

[ No answer. ]

[kurohato]

[he's trying to break the door. is the door impervious to this]

[pinkprismstaff]

[ Yes. His attacks no sell. Pls not attacking the resort building. ]

[reresurrected]

[OH MY GOD Y'ALL...

Baldr is going to try the more diplomatic approach here. What happens if he walks up to the door and just knocks on it lightly?]

Excuse me, may we ask you a few questions? We mean you no harm, I promise.

[Well. At least HE doesn't.]

[pinkprismstaff]

[ ........ ]

If the monster leaves, okay.

[reresurrected]

I'll make sure of that.

[pinkprismstaff]

[ The door creaks open, though the chain lock is still in place. Eyes peek out.

It's someone very short and very squeaky. ]

[compendiem]

[ wow... okay. Minato would be more than comfortable hanging back and watching this all unfold, but that scream has him concerned. He probably can't be heard very well over the commotion, so he comes up to the door when there's an opportunity and presses his ear up against the door, trying to listen for anybody inside. ]

Hello...? Are you alright?

[pinkprismstaff]

[ Muffled: ]

There's a weird monster!

[compendiem]

The black one? It's gone now.

[ for now? still counts ]

[pinkprismstaff]

[ A lengthy pause. ]

...are you sure? It sounded really mad. I'm not gonna open the door if it's just gonna attack me!

[compendiem]

Yes. I could stand in the doorway, if that helps?

[ just be a human body shield ]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[...

Sigh.]

Why would anyone open the door to that?

[kurohato]

[Who left this sassy lost child. Anyway, he swerves around.]

Because they cannot hide in one room forever. They know what they've done, confining us here. Unless you're on their side.

[He's in a very simple us vs them mentality atm.]

Do you NOT want to know?! I'm not in the mood to play nice with someone who has CAPTURED me!

[pinkprismstaff]

[ muffled, from inside the room: ]

I didn't do anything!

[oceanicbutterfly]

What makes you think they can't? Maybe they have a stockpile of food and water and can wait there until whatever's going to happen to us has already happened.

[Logic is sure to work here.]

[kurohato]

There's no bathroom in there. I'm sure of it.

[he says this so dramatically]

[pinkprismstaff]

You haven't even been in here!

[ They sound so offended. ]

[kurohato]

Am I right, though?

[HE'S RIGHT. HE KNOWS IT]

[baskins]

[ wanders by. sees this. ]

Whoah, oooookay, Siouxsie and the Banshee, let's take a breath!

[ A beat. ]

There's probably a way to pick the lock. We don't have to make our first impression be murder screaming.

[kurohato]

...

[deep breath in]

Alright, Robin. If you can pick the lock...be my guest. The door will not fall from attacks, anyway. So it seems.

[He steps back a bit. Rashomon lowers....a bit.]

[baskins]

[ Cracks her knuckles. ]

The best way to pick a lock iiiiis... to convince whoever's on the other side to open it.

[ She knocks on the door. ]

Hey! The rest of us come in peace! I'm pretty sure!

[kurohato]

....

[Cue the dry stare from Akutagawa at Robin.]

[wingtied]

[ Diplomacy seems to be working! ]