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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Yeah. Mitsuru and I went to get stuff from one of the nearby conbini earlier and it didn't charge us at all.

Seems too good to be true. I bet he snuck a bunch of extras for later, huh.

Yeah...

[Wait.]

He said we were going to have a meeting - I guess this is what he meant?

Guess so! He always knows this kinda stuff.

[A pause]

...You guys are friends...?

[That's

unexpectedly kind of complicated to answer, but:]

We're from the same world?

[Actually, expectedly complicated,]

Oh! He never told me he had a friend like you. Good, I'm glad.

...Plus, you can help keep him out of trouble!

[...Smiling a little, at that.]

Does he get in a lot of trouble?

Yes. Just look at him! He's gonna have wrinkles by the time he's a teenager from frowning so much! It's important to cut down on that grumpiness by at least 15 percent.

...He has a lot to worry about.

Yes, and he worries about even more than all that. For a kid who is good at math, his worry budget isn't balanced at all!

That's why he needs our help.

Helping him...? How?

...Actually, don't worry about it that much. I mean, he lets you call him his real name and all. For you, just being around is probably enough.

[.........???]

Does it really help that much?

If you were my friend I'd want to hang out with you all the time.

It's important to hang onto the people you care about while you can.

[Oh. Slight blusshu.]

...Yeah. Yeah, it is.

[...She blushes herself, realizing that is perhaps a little much for an Actual Eleven-Year-Old she has actually just met even for her... She clears her throat,]

--Er, anyway! In addition to knowing who is important, you should make sure to take breaks and get plenty of sleep, even when you're in someplace like this! So--so don't miss curfew!

-Wait, we have curfew?!

--We don't have curfew?

I haven't had curfew ssssiiiiiiiiiince...

[Kind of. Drawing out that word as he realizes he's going to need to choose what he says carefully.]

...A while.

Kinda young for that, but every family's different, I guess...

Either way, they're really going to let us out? ...It's safe, at night?

Well, I wasn't exactly with my family for a while, either.

[Ahaha...]

I don't see why they wouldn't. But it's probably better to stay indoors at night if you're not used to protecting yourself.

Protecting yourself from what?

Ruffians or wild animals. It kind of depends on where it is?

...I know it's hard to talk about. But are you getting bullied at home?

-Huh? No!

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