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Trustfell 4: Trust Fall or Die Hard ([personal profile] trustwellness) wrote in [community profile] trusthell2017-01-22 12:35 am

Welcome.

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.

Welcome to Chronos University.
plentyfriendly: (phi$ vim decrease)

kitchen

[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2017-01-22 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
...Yes.

[That's kind of an odd question to ask, but given the extremely obvious aqua-blue skin this woman has...]

How did you get food wherever you're from, then?
iamthatsea: (littoral)

[personal profile] iamthatsea 2017-01-22 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
We had kitchens, too! But they were a lot smaller, and you couldn't exactly. Heat things very well. Everyone's fasting half the time anyway, and the other half most of the elders catch and eat their own food, it's not really a priority.
plentyfriendly: (phi$ grep -a solve pzldb)

[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2017-01-22 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds pretty spartan.

[Guess everyone has their own problems.]

Guess I should double-check the library for recipe books...
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[personal profile] iamthatsea 2017-01-22 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, it is a monastery. It's done for focus and things like that. I'm... not very good at fasting, but I try.

[ A common thread, potentially, in Alani's training. ]

Do you think they would have them there?
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[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2017-01-22 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think I would be, either. Good thing I'm not religious.

[Science is enough for her.]

Here's to hoping, either way. If all we've got is ingredients and no one knows how to cook, there'll be problems.
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[personal profile] iamthatsea 2017-01-22 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
There are benefits and drawbacks to it.

[ But Alani isn't the preachy type. ]

That's true. We'd all have to learn really fast.
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[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2017-01-22 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
And that'd be a lot easier with something to work off of.

[Hence, the concern over recipe books. Or just cookbooks, but you don't actually cook those.]

Let's see what we've actually got in here, first...

[Open, cupboards!]
iamthatsea: (demersal)

[personal profile] iamthatsea 2017-01-22 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Right!

[ She opens one, too! And... ]

... unless it's fish or seaweed I'm probably not qualified to help here on things without labels. Just so you know.
plentyfriendly: (phi$ throw exception)

[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2017-01-22 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well that explains the difficulty with heating things.]

So you usually live underwater?

[Phi was not exactly prepared for aliens, at least not this way.]
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[personal profile] iamthatsea 2017-01-22 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup! My entire planet is a freshwater ocean.

[ #perfectlynormalthings ]
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[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2017-01-22 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
This is one hell of a first contact then. Earth hasn't discovered extraterrestrial life yet. Not now, and not in 2074...

[We come together in confusion. And hopefully peace. Mostly confusion though.]
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[personal profile] iamthatsea 2017-01-22 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
... Earth?

[ She goes a little wide-eyed. ]

So... you're from the past?
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[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2017-01-22 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Seems like it.

[Not that she's going to say when "now" is...]
iamthatsea: (intertidal)

[personal profile] iamthatsea 2017-01-22 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd have to be, I mean... I'm half-human. So.

[ THIS IS VERY STRANGE. ]
plentyfriendly: (phi$ vim decrease)

[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2017-01-22 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Phi did not need to imagine either of the ways that close encounter could have gone. Even though she's unsuccessful probably.]

That's pretty much all the confirmation I'd need of that.

But physically transporting someone or something across time isn't exactly physically possible...
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[personal profile] iamthatsea 2017-01-23 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe not for anyone from the known universe, but... maybe it's the Varelsi? They exist outside of space at the very least, but everyone says they're not intelligent enough to do something like this.
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[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2017-01-23 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That changes a bit, yeah. If there's a second system that's connected to the universe.. anything like that would have to go through it, but it should conserve mass and energy overall.
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[personal profile] iamthatsea 2017-01-24 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe? [ Science is not her strong suit. ] The Varelsi never seem very worried about mass or energy.
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[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2017-01-24 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The way you put it, it sounds like they have more animal-like intelligence than either of us, so I'm not surprised.
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[personal profile] iamthatsea 2017-01-25 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
Even the people who study the Varelsi don't know a lot about them, other than they eat stars and overrun worlds. They're not good news.
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[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2017-01-25 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd imagine most things capable of eating something that hot and dense are "not good news".

[They are what they eat, though, clearly: incredibly dense.]