[mock trial intro] move 'em on, head 'em up

[consolemods]

Whatever you were doing before you got here, it isn't what you're doing now. What you're doing now is waking up in an unfamiliar bed in an unfamiliar room with... unfamiliar glasses on your face. No matter what you can do, you can't take those glasses off... but if you roll your eyes down, you'll be given a rundown of what's going on here.

Hmm. Well, that's probably a little unnerving. Maybe you should... leave? Fortunately, your room's not locked, but as you go downstairs and try and ask the locals what's going on, you'll find they're... less than cooperative. And if you go outside the inn and try to leave into the town... well, you'll find several locations around the town, but you'll also find that you can't seem to leave.

Well. Maybe you should talk to the other people who just showed up here. All the locals are going to tell you is an explanation is forthcoming, so you might want to kill some time getting to know each other.

Comments

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[stavros]

Ah!

[Kokoro flails after nearly bumping into Olympia. She looks left and right, coughs, and looks away.]

I mean-- Hello. I wasn't scared.

[carbide]

[...okay, you're definitely not responsible for this. Olympia the Friendly Forest Guide is go! Please ignore her skillful dodge.]

No? Fear is a typical human reaction to the unknown and unexpected.

[stavros]

Yes, well. I should be better than this. Your glasses, are you also...?

[carbide]

A "player," yes. My name is Olympia, and I typically help explorers, but for the moment it looks like I've become one.

[stavros]

Explorers? Do you perhaps mean people trapped in a certain place?

[carbide]

People investigating an unfamiliar place. This one is small, but it's still new to me.

[stavros]

How did we even arrive here? This doesn't make any sense. Maybe we are dead.

[carbide]

[Olympia looks down at herself.]

That seems unlikely.

[stavros]

Really? You can tell if this is the afterlife?

[carbide]

I am here. Therefore, this isn't the afterlife, and you're alive.

[This is clearly the most obvious thing in the world.]

[stavros]

...I know that isn't what you meant, but that just sounds like you're saying you can't die.

[carbide]

I met a cat earlier who made a claim like that.

[stavros]

Oh, I heard about him! He talks to humans, too?

[carbide]

Apparently. He was in my room when I woke up here.

[stavros]

Wow... I mean! This world is truly mysterious.

[carbide]

He seems to be another "player," in any case.

[stavros]

That's what I don't understand. Why treat it as a game? It's like some kind of horror movie.

[carbide]

A what?

[stavros]

You know, those stories about things like vampires and werewolves and aliens... though all those things are real, too, so I suppose that's a bad example.

[carbide]

[...well, Olympia was all set to clarify that it was the "movie" part she didn't understand, but Kokoro just stumbled upon a keyword.]

What do you know about aliens?

[stavros]

What kind? Bacterians? The Salamander? Humans from other planets, like Gradians?

[carbide]

[Wh...at...]

The subject in general.

[stavros]

Well, about as much as anyone else... It's a complicated history, especially since we're at war with the Bacterians right now.