INTRO.

[ultrapenumbramods]

You wake up feeling like you’ve had a rough night’s sleep… maybe a bit jet-lagged, if you’re familiar with the feeling, or perhaps like you, uh, had a little too much to drink last night. Either way, you’re probably not expecting to wake up in a forest clearing, so that might be even more disorienting. It’s not an unpleasant place to wake up, mind. It’s sunny, and there’s a pleasantly cool breeze blowing through. The grass isn’t tall enough that you could get lost in it or that someone could be hiding in it… or something.

There are, in fact, a lot of somethings surrounding you--a veritable menagerie of creatures, some of them adorable, and some of them intimidating… but they seem to be as disoriented as you are. And then, well… you realize something’s a little off about yourself. There’s no pond to look at your new appearance, but… maybe the ground’s a little closer. Maybe you don’t actually have arms and legs at the moment. Maybe you don’t have eyes anymore?

Regardless, something’s definitely up. Fortunately, there’s a path leading out of the clearing, so once you get your bearings and speak with some of the other weird critters you’ve woken up with, you can find… somewhere you can get answers. Well, hopefully, anyway.

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[betheman]

A...Aaauuh.... [Gongenzaka is not a very calm...Stufful. He is not calm at all.

But he is trying.] S...Should I, the man Gongenzaka, not ask the same of you perhaps..? [He manages, sounding very much like an elder from a period drama.]

[promiselisting]

[ Any other time that probably would have startled a laugh out of her, and maybe a teasing jibe. But right now she's still a little too wound up. Not the picture of a composed, mysterious Elgyem at all. ]

H-how should I know!? I'm the one who just woke up here!

[ Like. About 60 seconds ago. Rudest wake-up she can ever remember. ]

[betheman]

AUH...I....It is only a hope, after all..!! I, the man Gongenzaka, only just awoke as well...as have others so far, so...!

[So...! ...Bah! He doesn't know what to do with this!]

[promiselisting]

[ Neither does she, really, although she's able to pick up at least something from what he's saying. Well, maybe more than one something, but, but all those parts amount to... mostly the same thing, in the end. ]

So we're all like this? Is that what you're saying?

[betheman]

Auh....it would seem so, yes... [He grimaces as he admits this.]

...As to why however...we are all equally as lost...