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You wake with the unshakable feeling that you shouldn't be here.

Perhaps you were in the middle of something, perhaps you weren't. Either way, you're waking up in an unfamiliar location with no recollection of how you got here. The room you've woken up in is sparsely-decorated, though that might be difficult to tell at first given how nice the beds are...but eventually you'll notice a few things that are a little...off. Maybe the scent is striking you wrong - it's clean, but it's not yours. Maybe your bed back home doesn't support your back in quite this way. Maybe you should be seeing sunlight through your window by now.

Maybe you should have a window in the first place.

This isn't right, but leaving the room won't give you any more answers. You might want to grab the silver key sitting on your trunk on the way out.

Don't worry though, you aren't all alone here. Once you step outside your room into the hallway, you'll notice that a few others are emerging from their rooms as well. It looks like they're just as confused and concerned as you are. Feel free to talk to them, but none of you know how exactly you wound up here and maybe some useful information can be found by exploring.

If you follow the hallway to its end (and it's a very long hallway), you'll eventually arrive in the foyer. You'll find some very interesting information about yourselves on the wall near the clock. Perhaps even more importantly, if you look on the other side of the multi-pendulumed thing, you'll find other framed information that you might want to pay attention to. It could very well be the key to escaping this strange place, after all. Don't worry if you forget the rules, you can find them in every room of the building.

Of course, search as you might, you won't find a doorway or a window of any sort. Getting out won't be so easy, it seems.

But who knows? Perhaps your fellow captives have something to say about all of this.

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[It's not so much the fact that Judy is a bipedal talking rabbit that catches Watanuki off-guard. While he's never seen a rabbit specifically do those things before, he's seen a lot of other animals walking around like people. Foxes in particular, actually, among a handful of other types. No, that part is very much a normal thing for him.

What's unusual is the fact that she looks and talks like a police officer. The last time Watanuki checked, animal spirits had very little interest in the human world. Most were disgusted by it, actually. So why would one be acting like a cop? The spirit world didn't have cops.

...did it?

Regardless, Watanuki is left staring down at her for a moment, his mouth open slightly like he was going to say something, but then the thought had died before it had even been put to sound. He looks between Judy and the rules in question a couple of times before he finally finds his voice and is able to answer her.]

I, er...

Okay?

[He might as well listen to her questions and see if he can answer them. Unlike Yuuko, he's not going to demand that someone pays the price for a little bit of information.]

I would like to know if the information in your profile is listed correctly. I have reason to believe we have a hostage situation on our hands here, but the fact that all of this information is just out here is...unnerving. I need to know how much of this is actually real or not.

[She sure does talk just like a police officer, right down to the syntax and everything.]

It's, um.

[he looks back to the information page.]

There's a typo, my age should be 17, not 117.

[That one is easy enough to explain, though. Someone obviously wrote that 1 twice and didn't catch their mistake.]

And 'wish-granter' isn't my job. That's my boss's job, I'm just her part-time help. Oh, and I don't feel one way or the other about spiders, I'm not sure why that's on there for 'dislikes'.

[Should he ask about the cop thing? He really feels like he should.]

[Feel free, if you would like! Just because she's grilling you doesn't mean she won't answer questions thrown back at her.]

That's valuable information, thank you. I'm starting to notice a pattern between these, but I think I'm going to have to ask everyone to be sure.

Yeah? What pattern? And is it right for you, are you really a cop?

[At least he worked it into the conversation, so it sounds somewhat normal.]

A pattern in that while there is information present, most of it is slightly inaccurate in some ways...

[She trails off, her brows furrowing a little at the question.]

Well...this isn't a costume or anything.

Yeah? Stuff like the ages being too young or something?

[That seems to be the easiest to mess up, with outdated information and all.

And as for the rest...]

It does look real, I was just surprised to see you dressed as one. Rabbits generally aren't cops where I come from. They're usually...mochi-makers, I guess.

[The spirits generally follow folk tales, so even though he's never seen a rabbit spirit, the ones out there probably do make the mochi.]

Something like that. Not necessarily just ages, though. Other bits of info have been turning up inaccurate too. I mean, I...did have someone try to tell me they were over two thousand years old and that was accurate, but...

[Clearly she's a bit skeptical.]

And I can understand that, actually. They aren't usually cops where I'm from, either, but that didn't stop me from being the first! It was either that or carrot farming, and you don't make much of a difference raising carrot crops.

You never know, they might be some kind of long-lived turtle or something.

[That one guy with the green hair, maybe he's a turtle spirit.]

That sounds like a pretty big difference. You really couldn't do anything else but those two things?

I mean...not exactly. I could have done a lot of other things, but farming was my family's business. You can see where I was being pushed in that direction.

But being a police officer was my dream since I was a kid. And since I've made it there and...can't actually work on the case I was on, I need to get to the bottom of this one so we can all go back to where we came from and move on with our lives.

[Oh, a childhood dream. There's no way Watanuki is going to argue with that. It's good for people to have dreams.]

Well, you certainly have the passion for it. I'm sure with your skills we can find our way out of this. I'm not the best at solving mysteries, but I'll try to help too.

Any little bit of help counts, you know. Just because you aren't a detective doesn't mean you can't lend a hand if you are willing. And wanting to help out at all is the first step, isn't it?

[Judy should give out those sticker badges to everyone.]

That's true.

I suppose I could help by feeding everyone too, if we end up being stuck here for more than a day or two.

[She probably would if she had any on her, but alas...]

That's a great idea! I'm sure everyone else would appreciate that, too. Cooking for 30 people is going to be a lot of work, though.

I normally cook for two jerks who can eat enough to feed 30 people, so this won't be too much of a challenge.

That's good to hear then! I hope to get to see you prove me wrong. I'm not that much of a cook myself, so having someone here who can is useful.

Speaking of cooking, what do you eat, exactly? I've cooked for a lot of spirits before, but never a rabbit spirit.

[A spirit?]

Pretty much any kind of vegetable, really. My parents grow a lot of things...but we're all more partial to carrots than anything else.

[Fact: rabbits cannot actually digest carrots properly, under normal circumstances. But...there you go.]

[Yup, that conversation's gonna be a fun one.]

And no meat at all, right?

Oh no, no meat, thank you. Strictly vegetarian!

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