[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

[fuckthemancers]

...so not the Bastion or an Ura camp...

[His shoulders slump.]

I.... don't believe we'll find yours around.

[absentminds]

I've never heard of either of those places...but I'm not great at geography...?

[fuckthemancers]

Fortunately, I am.... and I'm fairly certain this is like nowhere in the land I was born in or was living in.

[In the same land mass as they were, they were still quite far away from one another.]

The name of your camp also sounds rather foreign to me....

[absentminds]

Hm...? Well, Hoshido's the name of my country...so, maybe we're just from different ones?

[fuckthemancers]

That seems likely... but that doesn't answer where we are now.

[Well... They'll figure it out eventually, he supposes.]

Ah, would you mind if I asked some questions about Hoshido?

[absentminds]

No, I don't mind...I might not know all the answers, but it's fine to answer what I can, right?

[fuckthemancers]

That's a good way to think of things. [Just a little, he smiles.] Then... If this is offensive, please tell me, but is green hair like yours common there?

[absentminds]

My hair...? Sure, it is. There's lots of different colors. Lady Sakura's hair is pink...

[fuckthemancers]

Interesting... In my homeland, everyone usually only has dark colored hair, and the only group of people I've seen tend to lean lighter. A young man I know has white hair, but it's not particularly common.

[absentminds]

Hm...I know someone with hair that color, also. But I don't know many people with it, so maybe it's a little rare...? Well, who knows.

[ she still has no idea who he is but she is Spacy As Fuck so she doesn't mind chit chatting even so?? ]

What's your homeland like...?

[fuckthemancers]

[Right now, he really appreciates the chillness. The world might have ended, he's woken up in a strange place, and there's a giant yelling turtle running around. He'll deal with it all as it comes, of course, but right now he just needs to.... breathe.]

[Talking about his homeland definitely earns a soft smile.]

It's called the Tazal Terminals... It's a series of tunnels connected to a large city underground. It's a beautiful place that's survived a lot of hardship.

[absentminds]

Underground...? I see. How is it lit? [ she's stuck in the fantasy ages or smth so ] Lots of torches?

[fuckthemancers]

[It's fine, he's stuck in steampunk fantasy, what even is electricity]

No, we tend to save flames for cooking, smelting, or funerary matters. You see, there are certain kinds of rocks which carry energy throughout them, and create light. Different variants are harnessed in different ways.

[absentminds]

...Oooh. I want to see. Those sound pretty...Hoshido is pretty sunny, so there's probably not any chance we have those there...

[fuckthemancers]

Different places have all sorts of different things unique to them... When we figure out how to leave this place and where exactly we are, perhaps I can show you it.

[...If it's still there. And everything else really was a nightmare, which he's truly hoping.]

[absentminds]

I think that would be fun...I've never been outside Hoshido that often.

[fuckthemancers]

Then let's do our best to look for a way out. Where have you looked so far?

[absentminds]

Hm...I've mostly just been wandering around at random.