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Who: YOU-kai
Where: The YOU-kai dorms
When: Day 355, morning

[ You all wake up in bed with your smartphone at your bedside, all of you in your sleepwear, with a message on your phone.

Good morning, newly departed guest stars! You've got new co-stars to meet, a new dorm to explore, and the television in the main room with the "names" of everyone in your unit with flashing empty boxes next to them, waiting for you to each assign yourself a personal color as well as a mythological creature (if that is available to you—some of you will have that option grayed out). Or assign them to each other, really, no one's stopping you.

Once you've chosen your color and creature (or, once it's chosen for you), your closets will unlock with 3 sets of traditional Japanese clothing fitted exactly to your size. Additionally, upon choosing your creature, you might find yourself suddenly with some new appendages (check Player Notes).

Also, the front door is currently locked. It looks like you actually have no choice but to get to know each other for an hour or two before those open up. ]

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[Leaving her room, a silver haired girl with red eyes scans the room for every point of exit, and takes count of every person present; her stance is rigid and alert.]

...I have to get out of here.

[ a very trustworthy person whose entire face is covered

one of her ears twitches towards her ]

Please excuse me. Are you confused about the nature of this place?

[The only reason Crane's face is not covered is because the bastards took her cloak.]

...you know something about it?

Yes. Although it was only for a short time, I have already lived in this city previously. Do you remember your previous life?

...yeah, I remember.

But I don't know anything about this city.

It is an entertainment production. We are arranged into groups called 'units,' and our daily lives are filmed and aired to the public. There should be no cameras in this room, however, so please be at ease for the moment.

Right now, the door will remain locked until everyone has chosen their position on this television.

[ gestures with both arms to indicate the television ]

After we have all selected our positions, we will be free to move about the city as we like. Are you familiar with smartphones?

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[A painfully thin boy of about twelve years old in a button-up pajama set glances her over]

The door's locked. The windows, too.

...How the fuck are we supposed to do anything if we can't even get the hell out of here?

[Nevermind that she doesn't actually care about doing!! What they want her to do!!!]

They won't keep us locked in for long. They want a show, so keeping us confined isn't to their benefit.

...that depends on what kind of "show" they want.

But if we really are supposed to work together, I assume we'll be let out soon enough. To see those we're competing against, at least.

And prepare for whatever their game is.

[A man with black/red hair and also red eyes is outside - his complexion is sallow, even sickly, but he seems animated enough]

Yeah, already tried that. Nothing doing.

[She blinks. Someone beat her to it.]

...this is stupid. They're going to keep us locked in here until they want us.

Probably! So we might as well relax while we wait.

...how can you relax in a situation like this?

Why not? I mean, you could go punch the door until it opens, but I have a strooong feeling that that's just going to fuck up your hands. So you might as well kick back, break a little ice. You know, relax.

Where you gotta go?

...there's someone here I need to find.

You already know people here?

Who is it? Maybe we can search together.

...if I can trust this thing-- [She gestures to the phone she was given.] Then yeah.

He's a member of one of the permanent units... not one of the ones we're in competition with anyway.

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[Um.]

Where are you trying to go?

Out.

[...descriptive.]

...to wherever "alcheME" would be.

...alcheME?

[He doesn't look like he wants to be here himself, though his stance is more withdrawn than rigid. Also he has cat ears.]

Out of this room, our out of...

[Well. Death?]

Don't we all? But you might want to calm down there, we're all on the same side here.