10IV start!

[idolpro]

Who: 10IV
Where: The 10IV 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. Or assign them to each other, really, no one's stopping you.

Once you've chosen your color (or, once it's chosen for you), your closets will unlock with 3 sets of hospital uniforms fitted exactly to your size.

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. ]

Comments

[salientfacts]

Ah—is it? It's not particularly unusual where I come from, but I think "Gryphon" is the better short form of it.

You'll pardon me if it seems like there's a lot of things I'm not used to, but I'll pick it up quickly enough—I gather I am somewhat ancient in comparison to many others.

[useofsorrow]

[ instantly on guard, shoulders tensing ]

... "Ancient."


Exactly how "ancient" is that, Gryphon? If you don't mind the question.

[salientfacts]

Oh, I don't mind at all; it's merely a bit awkward. I'd say I'm... oh, at some point I lost count, but fifteen hundred or so... which is not ordinary, where I'm from, I admit, but I received a blessing in the early days of the world that kept me at my prime for a very long time.

[useofsorrow]

[ She looks no less tense for that explanation. ]

What manner of "blessing" was it?

[ leaning in just a touch closer, brows furrowing slightly ]

Were you... uplifted?

[salientfacts]

Er, I'm not sure if...

...is that a technical term I'm not familiar with?

[ although honestly the fact that he can so obviously Experience Anxiety is maybe solid indication that he was uh. not ]

Ah, rather, I don't want to really come off as boastful, but I was chosen by the god Sol Invictus as one of some hundreds to overthrow the tyrannical forgers of Creation, if that's what you mean...?

[useofsorrow]

[ blink.

...but she relaxes slightly, even as her expression changes to definitely confused. ]

Ah. N-no... that isn't what I meant at all. [ a little laugh, embarrassed ]
The world you describe sounds very different from what I know.

[salientfacts]

Ah, sorry if I caused some kind of confusion, Miss... although that does seem to be rather the case that where I come from is very unfamiliar to most outside of it.

It's a troubled place to call home, but it's mine, I suppose.