Awaken...

[lockdownmods]

[ Everything still feels a bit hazy when you pull yourself out of bed this morning. Bed... not all of you may remember going to bed. It may take several long minutes for that feeling to die down. Several things may seem immediately wrong. But even if the basics are familiar-- there's a sort of uneasy feeling of wrongness that lingers as you come to. That feeling will probably never go away entirely.

Attached to your wrist is a small plastic wristband, almost like a watch, but without the numbers. Try as you might, it won't come off. For those of you who are familiar, it is designed with an uncanny familiarity to a Fitbit.

And then there's your current abode-- the room is fully furnished for one person-- and you are in fact alone, which may be a relief... or a great concern. The basics are all there: desk, lamp, bed, closet...

As the little things go though, it's almost completely bare of any personal flare. No personal effects at all...

With one exception.

On the desk sits a black tablet. And almost immediately after you find it, the thing starts going off one rapid fire 'ding' after another. Check it out and you will find several messages have popped up on the screen for you to scan through. The source and the content is... well. As questionable as everything else this morning I'd say. ]

meguman22922 ▼   X

meguman22922: mornin'! hope you slept well. meguman22922: orientation will be held in the main classroom in an hour. that's in the school building on the 1st floor meguman22922: but first you should introduce yourself. the others should be waking up about now too. meguman22922: you're in the dorms now, so dont forget to check the maps meguman22922: the tablet can help you with that. anything else, we'll get to at orientation. so! see you in an hour! :D

[ It would seem that you have much to investigate. Perhaps discussing it with these "others" may be the most beneficial way to proceed for now. At the very least there is a promise of answers in the near future. Whether or not they'll be to your liking though... highly doubtful at this stage, really. But who knows! Going back to school (or to school for your first time) can't be so bad, right? ]

Comments

[unhalting]

[It makes sense people would be wandering about the halls considering the situation, but with only so much to see and the relatively small number of people here, you're probably bound to come across the same face again if most everyone is sequestered in the same area. So maybe it's a second pass or something, but Orga speaks up when he sees Shirou again.]

Lookin' for something?

[swordsinternally]

... Well, I was wondering if I could find someone who knows more about this place than I do.

[ But that's all he's got for now. ]

[unhalting]

[Well, that's reasonable enough probably?!]

You really think whoever took us here's gonna give out answers that easily?

[swordsinternally]

Probably not.

[ ... ]

But it's better to try than to not try at all. If another course of action can be done as an alternative, then we can always go for that.

[unhalting]

[Orga just stares back at Shirou silently for a bit before he breaks it off with a blink.]

Guess I can't really argue with that. 'Sides, not like there's much else we can really do at the moment anyways.

Had any luck with that?

[swordsinternally]

Not really, unfortunately, but... at least I know now that there seems to be quite a bit of us in the same predicament. Which, honestly, isn't a good thing, but it's possible that we might be able to work together and do something about it.

[unhalting]

Workin' together, huh. [He says that quietly, almost as if he's just talking to himself.]

Guess that means we should introduce ourselves, if we wanna know who we're working with. I'm Orga Itsuka. You?

[swordsinternally]

Yeah. They say the "more the merrier", after all.

[ That comment is a little halfhearted, though. ] Guess so. And I'm Emiya Shirou.

[unhalting]

[There's a nod at his introduction. And because he's just that blunt:]

You don't sound that enthusiastic about it. [Not like he's saying it accusingly or anything, but it's just an observation.]

[swordsinternally]

Well, it's kind of hard to be enthusiastic in this sort of situation, don't you think?

[unhalting]

Point taken.

[It would definitely be weirder to see someone being all excitable and perky about this, that's for sure. Either way, he'll let it drop. Besides, there's something else he's more interested in anyways.]

By the way, mind if I ask where you were before you got taken here?

[swordsinternally]

I was at my house, in Fuyuki.

[unhalting]

Is that on Earth? [Because hell if he's heard of that place before.]

[swordsinternally]

Yeah, it is. It's a city in Japan, in fact.

[unhalting]

So you're from the Oceanian Federation, huh. Wonder where the hell we are, then.

[swordsinternally]

.... Oceanian Federation?

[???]

[unhalting]

[um??]

...Y'know, the economic bloc?

[????????]

[swordsinternally]

I've never heard of it called that.

[unhalting]

...Seriously? How the hell do you not know how your own country works?

[so much confusion goin on in here]

[swordsinternally]

I know how my own country works, but I have never heard it called that before.

[unhalting]

[You know, it's a confusing thing but it doesn't seem worth the effort to get into a debate about this, so he'll let it drop.]

Forget about it then. It's not a big deal, anyways.