After School Detention ([personal profile] detentionroom) wrote2025-07-15 01:32 pm

[KIN'UN]

[You needed an escape.

For a momentโ€“ however brief, or however notโ€“ 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 tryโ€“ with physical prowess or otherwiseโ€“ 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]
ratiocinations: (๐Ÿ”Ž 199)

Re: [ROUND ONE]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-20 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Naming oneself? A rite of passage of sorts?]

Now we are treading into abstruse territory.

[He has no way of knowing one way or another. None of this is tried and true and tested.]

...I'd suggest you pick a name that you do not wish to apply to yourself on any deeper, personal level. To be safe.
velluminous: (shoulder the sky)

Re: [ROUND ONE]

[personal profile] velluminous 2025-07-20 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Meaningless name is antithetical. This will not be simple.
ratiocinations: (๐Ÿ”Ž 026)

Re: [ROUND ONE]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-20 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Nonsense. I can give you a meaningless name right now.
velluminous: (imposing on your slumber)

Re: [ROUND ONE]

[personal profile] velluminous 2025-07-20 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Have I said I wished for one??
ratiocinations: (๐Ÿ”Ž 234)

Re: [ROUND ONE]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-20 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
No. But I am prepared to pitch one in your direction if you find yourself frozen by indecision.

[So. Maybe don't do that. He wants to see what happens if they all give fake names, and preferably expeditiously.]
velluminous: (you're never gonna get a second take)

Re: [ROUND ONE]

[personal profile] velluminous 2025-07-20 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
I do not get frozen from indecisiveness!

[ lol. lmao. ]
ratiocinations: (๐Ÿ”Ž 171)

Re: [ROUND ONE]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-20 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Uh-huh.

He will be counting the minutes until she decides.]


If thatโ€™s what you believe, I will not tell you otherwise, madam.
velluminous: (my intelligence is fading)

Re: [ROUND ONE]

[personal profile] velluminous 2025-07-20 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ come down here so i can throttle u ]
ratiocinations: (๐Ÿ”Ž 201)

Re: [ROUND ONE]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-20 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[sorry he canโ€™t hear you from all the way down there]