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

[KIN'UN]

[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]
threadling: (28)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] threadling 2025-07-19 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a clattering noise.

Then a dragging noise.

They both seem to stop at one of the corners of the room, where a small form is tucked down, peeking over the edges of a turned over desk.]
ratiocinations: (πŸ”Ž 088)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[He had awoken with a start, as though lanced through by reality itself, and there are a few moments of utter confusion that plays across his face. But those moments are extended in the quick-fire fury of his mind, and it takes merely seconds before he is-

IMMEDIATELY up on his feet and walking towards that warning on the blackboard. Or just going to nose around this place with a quickness driven by faint alarm.]
ratiocinations: (πŸ”Ž 225)

Re: [THE JOURNAL]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Of course he is immediately being nosy regarding the journal and the yearbook. Right now, he's thumbing over to a page of the latter, a finger landing on... your entry, maybe.]

Is this information correct? Verify it for me, if you'd be so kind.
ratiocinations: (πŸ”Ž 020)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mid-room snooping, he finds himself drawn by those noises β€” he supposes he should learn a bit more about the others in this room, too. Presumably, that is the ideal; and obviously, not everyone takes as well(???) to a kidnapping as he does(???).

Turns to face that desk.]


You may as well make yourself comfortable instead of hiding away. We may be here for a length of time yet.
whaledforc6: (22)

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[personal profile] whaledforc6 2025-07-19 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a guy, stretching and yawning, as if he just woke up from a nice nap. He takes a look around the room, noting the destruction and the random figures in their own desks, and nods to himself.

And he does what any person would do in a terrible, horrible, no good situation like this:]
whaledforc6: (9WHCwLU)

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[personal profile] whaledforc6 2025-07-19 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Howdy!
threadling: (28)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] threadling 2025-07-19 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[The figure flinches back when she sees someone address her.]

[She doesn't say anything for a few seconds.]


I don't want to be comfortable.
ratiocinations: (πŸ”Ž 197)

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yes that is a fine and normal reaction surely. This guy spins on his heel from where he'd been examining a tattered curtain, since he's already up and stalking around like a feral cat, facing him with brows lifted.]

You've joined us.
ratiocinations: (πŸ”Ž 104)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gestures in her general direction. He isn't quite sure he has the patience to try to implore someone frozen by uncertainty right now β€”Β not that this is an unreasonable reaction.]

Then perhaps you'd prefer to be useful?
threadling: (28)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] threadling 2025-07-19 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her eyes hang on him for a second. Then they scan the room. They hang on the blackboard for a second. Then back to him.]

Useful to who.
ratiocinations: (πŸ”Ž 159)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Scoffs. He can't help himself.]

First and foremost, to yourself, unless you prefer remaining both trapped and oblivious as to what has just happened to all of us. At the very least, explore and learn what you can.
threadling: (28)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] threadling 2025-07-19 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[She wants to bite off that this happened to her, there's no us. She swallows it.]

...

...

You from London?
velluminous: (feign those subtle things)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] velluminous 2025-07-19 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she's extremely slow to wake, this tiny woman in an equally tiny track uniform. groggy, a pinch between her brows as she comes to. she doesn't ... either notice or pay complete attention to ... the others in the room at first, or even the room itselfβ€”instead plucking at her shirt with faint consternation. excuse me???? ]
Edited 2025-07-19 16:00 (UTC)
ratiocinations: (πŸ”Ž 011)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh? Brows hiking up.]

Indeed.

[The details beyond that are, perhaps, not quite as easily divulged. But if this is a young woman who can actually pin him down from London, then...]

And you. Northern England, hm?
ratiocinations: (πŸ”Ž 104)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe she'll pay attention to this tall lanky guy as he stands RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER DESK.]

The situation's a dire one. Best wake as...

[He had not given true attention to the others here yet, assuming correctly that he would in time as they awoken. But now, glancing at her, she is... blue. And horned? And... what?? What is he looking at?]

...soon as possible.
threadling: (47)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] threadling 2025-07-19 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Again, she hesitates for a bit before answering.]

Manchester.

Why are you this far north?
ratiocinations: (πŸ”Ž 233)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Manchester. Where there is no want of petty crime and not-so-petty crime; yes, he's been there more than once.

Still. He hmphs! with a hint of amusement not at all suited to this situation.]


You assume much. You believe this strange, ruinous place to be in your city?
velluminous: (the minds i've woken)

[personal profile] velluminous 2025-07-19 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ in the thickest Fantasy Russian accent known to man: ] Howdy.
threadling: (18)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] threadling 2025-07-19 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
...

Was only out for a minute. Can't have taken me that far.

[She seems to be thinking about it. She sounds less confident as it comes out.]
threadling: (18)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] threadling 2025-07-19 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[The girl hiding behind an overturned desk leans just a bit out when she sees the woman start to rouse herself. Whatever paranoia made her barricade herself back there is supplanted for just a moment.]

....tiefling....?
ratiocinations: (πŸ”Ž 134)

Re: [ARRIVAL MINGLING]

[personal profile] ratiocinations 2025-07-19 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
And if I say I, too, was only "out for a minute?" This very well could be London if we're to go by that logic.

[He is. Fairly certain. This is not London. Or even Manchester.]

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