After School Detention ([personal profile] detentionroom) wrote2025-07-15 01:31 pm

[KENKOU]

[You needed an escape.

For a moment– however brief, or however not– you longed to get away. Perhaps you envisioned a vacation upon sunny, beachy shores, palm trees at your back and seagulls floating in the air. Perhaps you envisioned nothing at all, and merely accepted that anywhere but here would do. Either way. . .?

You blink. . . and you wake up slouched on a school desk, arms folded with head resting between. You lift your gaze and realize that you've woken up in the middle of a classroom, seated in one of the. . . uh, very few functional desks that remain. The others have been broken into pieces, with legs and splinters of wood scattered across the floor. Deep claw marks decorate the walls, having gouged the sheetrock with jagged, violent gashes. The window curtains are closed, but they too have been torn and ripped to shreds, with holes showing a dark and unidentifiable landscape beyond the four walls which trap you.

And written on the blackboard, in large, white letters that seem to glow in the midst of the dim room lighting, is a warning]


DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR NAME.

[. . . you are not alone]

[Each and every new arrival awakens dressed in a high school-issued track uniform. The design is up to the players, but each uniform is already color-coded to match the group at large. Somewhere on your body is a new marking: a mysterious floral design shaded the same color as your track uniform. It is glowing very gently. And in your pocket you feel. . . something warm. Further investigation reveals a tiny little omamri, tucked away in your outfit, for safe keeping. Huh! What a nice gift!]

[For now, the front door to the classroom is locked. No matter how hard you try– with physical prowess or otherwise– the door cannot be opened.]

[But hey! You can poke around the area, if you'd like! Maybe get to know your new classmates. . . ? Try not to panic. For now, everything is. . . calm]
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-20 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Usagi seems to think so... something to do with the legends and stories from her home.
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[personal profile] abyssalwitch 2025-07-20 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
All the more reason not to give them over readily, then.
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-20 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Right. I'm glad we're all on the same page about that...

[ phew ]
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[personal profile] abyssalwitch 2025-07-20 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'd be surprised if anyone agreed to it, to be honest. There's simply not enough reason for us to trust them right now.
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-20 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, and I don't really like the way they're trying to strongarm us into it, either...

[ rip if any teams do end up giving them over ]
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[personal profile] abyssalwitch 2025-07-20 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ rip to them couldn't be us ]

Me neither. We're already at a disadvantaged position ... It's a scummy move.
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-20 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I just wonder, though... How long are they going to keep us in here? There's not even any food or water.

[ Is whoever is behind this going to try and starve them out? That could get really bad. ]
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[personal profile] abyssalwitch 2025-07-20 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know ... I think I've ready spooky books like this, though, where the people start eating each other.

[ deadpan ]
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-20 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Tifa snaps her head over to look at her. ]

Hey. It's definitely not going to get to that point, right? We can't think like that!
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[personal profile] abyssalwitch 2025-07-20 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, it's probably not going to get that bad....


[ she says, ominously ]
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-21 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
... It doesn't really sound like you believe what you're saying.
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[personal profile] abyssalwitch 2025-07-21 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
At this point, it's too early to be sure!
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-21 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe not, but... we're probably better off not thinking of worse case scenarios, either.
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[personal profile] abyssalwitch 2025-07-21 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
It's good to be prepared too, y'know?
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-21 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Not that we can really do much about the lack of food, but...
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[personal profile] abyssalwitch 2025-07-21 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
If we do actually get food we can ration.
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[personal profile] suplexer 2025-07-21 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. We can cross that bridge when we get to it, I guess.