intro

[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, we've only just met. Unless you're part of the group having captured me, there's no need to be enemies. [yet.]

...
Thank you.

[it's....so odd to be complimented. uwah.]

Who are you?

[compendiem]

No, I don't know anything about how anybody was captured.

[ allegedly

anyways, ]

Minato Arisato. Nice to meet you, Rashomon and...?

[ What's your name, otherwise you're going to be "Rashomon's friend" ]

[kurohato]

I'll take your word for it. [for now.]

Ryuunosuke Akutagawa. Just Akutagawa is fine.

[well. there is a certain thing with ability users being more than a little off, so he hazards a guess]

...Are you another ability user?

[cough cough]

[compendiem]

[ sir, your name is unnecessarily long ]

I... sort of. I guess you could say I'm retired.

[kurohato]

[he didn't get to choose it!]

....Retired? How can you retire from being an ability user?

[compendiem]

[ legally change it to something shorter please ]

I'm... my ability... sort of isn't necessary anymore. So I don't think I'll ever use it again.

[kurohato]

Not necessary? ...Having an ability and not using it is a waste. You shouldn't give up on it like that.

[A beat.]

Especially if you treat mine like it is a friend.

[compendiem]

[ Minato opens his mouth to speak, but then closes it, because he's right. His ability, his partners, they're his friends too. They've been through so much together, they kept him alive, and to just set them aside... ]

...you're right. I've only ever used them in battle, but that doesn't mean that's the only time I can use them.