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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]

[ ... ]

Did you guys just wake up here?

[kurohato]

Yes. We woke up here with no idea as to what is going on. The world is open but limited - we cannot go into the woods, for instance.

Naturally, I assumed this was the work of an enemy. Perhaps President Reagan, as Robin speculated.

[wingtied]

...who is President Reagan?

[ that's the important takeaway here ]

[kurohato]

...The president of the United States of America.

Ask Robin. She knows. [He vaguely gestures at Robin.]

[wingtied]

[ bruh she's so confused why are you talking about America?? what does that have to do with this!! ]

[photoning]

[Mahiru had come around a bit later than the others and something strikes her as very important to say. She speaks firmly, not even showing too much rage.]

I get where you're coming from, but I don't think we should doubt Misuzu-chan's testimony right away. If she could be playing dumb, so could any of the rest of us.

[kurohato]

...

[Akutagawa bristles]

That is why I cannot trust anyone too much. Exactly why.