castawayrp | intro

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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[Akutagawa wakes up in the laundry room. He's upset. Naturally. His first instinct is to jolt up, Rashomon jolting out behind him, before he notes the lack of threat.

He pauses for a minute and then kicks the washing machine nearby in seeming frustration before storming out.

His next venture is exploring the island. He finds himself inside the arcade at some point and gives it one sparing glance before walking out. Too noisy. He then walks outside, sees all the water....

And walks right back into the arcade and hunkers down near the skee-ball machine. This place just gets worse and worse.]

[ Actually, he wants to see Rashomon, let Minato see Rashomon. A great shadowy figure like that immediately catches his attention, so he's going to tag along several paces behind like a boy who's seen a really cool dog and follows behind the owner trying to pretend that's not what he's doing. ]

[Akutagawa by this point has kicked the washing machine and...he pauses.]

...Can I help you?

[Rashomon is still protectively up behind him, growling a bit.]

[ Minato looks up at Rashomon, awe rather than fear in his eyes.

there's a lot of things he could use help on, important and pressing things. but instead, what he really wants to know is: ]

I was wondering... what your friend's name is?

My...friend? [Akutagawa blinks in confusion, and then his eyes follow...oh. Huh.]

That is Rashomon, my ability. It's a black beast that can devour anything. It isn't really...my friend. It's part of me.

[he's never thought of it as a friend, at least...]

[ Like a Persona. Yes he understands completely ]

Hello, Rashomon. It can devour anything?

Yes.

Even space and time itself, if I so will it.

[Rashomon is no longer growling, but it...looks confused. As does Akutagawa. He speaks to it so personally. It's...odd.]

...
You know, most people are afraid of it.

[ Space and time seem like important things to leave alone, maybe, ]

Maybe if we were enemies. But I hope we're not.

[ He'd be no match against an all-devouring beast like that, especially now that he's alone. ]

...I think it's cool.

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?

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" ]

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]

[ sir, your name is unnecessarily long ]

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

[he didn't get to choose it!]

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

[ 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.

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.

[ 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.

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.]

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?

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.

[: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]

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.

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arcade

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