idolpro | YOU-kai start!

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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[I mean

to be fair that's important, yes.

He pauses for a moment because there's an NDA and all, but very carefully:]

There was a landslide.

What happened to you?

[How to answer that with the NDA in place,]

I went down fighting.

[Sounds like Mitsuru.]

So... neither of us made it to the tower?

[Honestly not sure if bad thing or not.]

The Tower?

[A long pause, while he looks him over]

We left that place behind a long time ago.

[He looks very healthy and whole for being dead! He's been getting his three square meals a day.

He is also very confused.]

What are you talking about?

[Searching his face, intently]

Look at my profile. Does the name there mean anything to you?

[Still very confused! But taking out his phone to poke at it. He's not very efficient at this thing yet, but he does manage to bring the profile up eventually.]

...Is it a poem?

The name. Not what's underneath it.

Orion's Arrow? Isn't that...

[Pppppppausing, ugh why did he have encyclopedias and not a heckin computer.]

A constellation?

That's all?

A constellation?

[Wracking his brains, is he forgetting something?? But... no matter how much he thinks on it, the answer is the same.]

Is it supposed to mean something else?

It's fine. It's not important.

Where were you when you died?

[Opening his mouth... and then closing it. NDAs.]

I wasn't in Vision.

Were you in our world?

[Starting to catch on.]

No.

Where were you?

Not in Vision, and not in our world.

[Oh.

He has so many questions and he is forbidden from asking any of them. But now that he looks, yeah, Mitsuru does look a little different, doesn't he?]

...Well, we're on a team now. So this time we can help each other out.

[If there's even anything he can do that Mitsuru couldn't on his own.]