And with the sweat of your brow...

[bathymetric]

Fun Fact: Did you know that if the multiverse is real, there could be an almost infinite square mileage of completely unexplored ocean out there?

No reason.

...

You wake in one of 25 rooms with a sense of unease that doesn't quite track with how nice the accommodations are. Maybe it has something to do with the giant window leading out to the sea. The temperature is low, which might make you wish you had woken up under the luxurious covers instead of atop them. The lights, too, are low. But next to your bed is a small personal radio, and it's playing a song for you. There's also a small note printed on folded cardstock next to it.

Dear Prospective Citizen,

Welcome to the Helios Suites at New Rapture. The time should currently be 12:00 PM. Please take a moment to get your bearings and become acquainted with your new environment, then meet in the hotel lobby at 1:30 PM sharp for an orientation with Mayor Fontaine.

With only that for guidance, there's only the one thing to do: get out there and start exploring... well, it's hardly a full city, but it's something! And in the halls (or on the wall of your suite or the lobby), you very well may find up to 24 other captives.

What you do until your meeting with Mayor Fontaine, well... that's up to you. Every room certainly gives you something to talk about.

Comments

[sixthnonsense]

[This is the second time that Hagakure has woken up in a place he doesn't remember being in, only this time he's...

No fucking way.

Anyone still lingering around in suite 2's living area will be greeted to a young man with the most ridiculous hair you've ever seen busting out of room C and shouting:]

I knew it! I knew Atlantis was still out there all along!!

[After all of that nonsense, Hagakure eventually stumbles his way into the lobby to get a better look at the underwater city beyond the windows. He's completely in awe- the fear over the situation he's found himself in not quite having set in yet.

He'll reach out to anyone admiring the view with him.]

This is so cool... But how the heck did we even end up here? What does this Fontaine guy want with us?

[Well, he'll manage to answer his own question when he finally takes notice of the profiles...and more pressingly, the rules. Anyone in the lobby will hear an agonized wail coming from that direction as Hagakure gets to that penultimate little rule...]

You've gotta be friggin' kidding me!!!

[The deja vu really was too strong...]

Suite 2

[pairtner]

[The first person Aiba encounters is...this man. Hm, trying her projection capabilities with this one will have to do. Turning on her human projection so her little hamster form can stay unnoticed from a corner of the suite, Aiba responds to him]

According to the information, this place is called 'New Rapture'. Atlantis is simply a myth.

[sixthnonsense]

[Oh, that's so unfortunate for Aiba.

After getting briefly startled by this pretty futuristic lady appearing out of nowhere, Hagakure...launches into a counterargument.]

Myth my butt! How d'you explain how we're in an underwater city then, huh?! Maybe they just repurposed Atlantis and named it something else!

[pairtner]

Atlantis is said to be an underwater city but that does not mean all underwater cities are Atlantis. This is simply another location. It's not Atlantis.

[Few things get her goat like this kind of thing, haha. She had to deal with so much of it in canon, much to her chagrin]

suite 2

[capreelcious]

Oi, what's with all the yelling?

[ Floyd is standing over near the kitchenette making himself something to eat. ]

This ain't Atlantis- no one's found it for years. This is some other weird city.

[sixthnonsense]

[Hagakure's excitement comes to a screeching halt when momentarily faced with reality. He stops in his tracks and turns his gaze to Floyd over there in the kitchen.]

What? It's not? Then where the heck...?

[...]

Lemuria, then? Did they repurpose Lemuria??

[capreelcious]

Dunno what a Lemuria is, but probably not. It's some place called New Rapture? Should've been a note about it left on your room table.

Suite 2

[giddyundertaker]

[ This creepy guy was going to just quietly wander out of Suite 2 himself, but then Hagakure happened.

Now he's laughing at the idiot with the crazy hair. ]

GYAAH HA HA HAHAHAHA!!! HEHEHEHEHE~ ATLANTIS, HE SAYS! HEE hee hee hee...

[sixthnonsense]

[Wow. He was having a earth-shattering revelation and this creepy dude is totally ruining it! How dare he, honestly.]

I'm friggin' serious, man! Where the hell else could this be?!

[giddyundertaker]

[ Creepy old man ruins everything, news at 11. ]

Didn't read yer note, did ya~? [ He's still giggling a bit. ]

Suite 2

[kninja]

[Was Obi about to shove a snack from the kitchenette into his face? Maybe. That doesn't matter in the face of this new, loudly and suddenly presented information. "Information."]

Atlan-wha? Wait, never mind. You know where this is, then?

[sixthnonsense]

[Finally, a kind soul who will actually believe his bullshit.]

Not like, exact location or anything, but Atlantis is a city that sunk a loooong time ago and no one's been able to find it since! A lot of people say it never existed in the first place!

[His tone gets all conspiratorial.]

But that's just what they want you to think! Clearly someone found it and repurposed it into what we're seeing now! And they're probably looking to utilize the wealth of mystical power said to dwell within the city!

rules

[prompocalypse]

Why is that everyone's response to being told they've been kidnapped and told to murder eachother?

Like, I get it, scary, but who would actually joke about that?

[She's misinterpreted his agonized wails.]

[sixthnonsense]

[Flippancy over the situation aside...]

No no no, it's not that! Well, it's kinda also that, but- I just escaped from being kidnapped and told to murder my classmates! Literally, I just stepped out into what I thought was freedom!!

[HE HADN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO PROCESS THAT SERIES OF EVENTS.]

rules

[onemillion]

[Rossiu is also here examining the rules, a hand raised to his chin as he stares at one in particular... And then Hagakure has A Reaction and he glances over.]

It is a concerning "rule", isn't it?

[.........that's a normal reaction to have to a rule about killing one another, right??]

[sixthnonsense]

[Rossiu this is no time for having a totally normal reaction to a murdergame premise.]

Yeah, well, try freakin' living it! It's way more than just "concerning"!

[Is...he saying he has, or...]

rules

[buriedstar]

What, you've never pvp'ed before? What are you, level one? [ The commentary is haughty but amused. ]

[sixthnonsense]

[Oh hey, language he can understand.]

What? No! Of course I've PVP'ed! But this is friggin' IRL, man! Lemme tell you from someone who just dealt with it, it's nowhere near as fun!

Rules

[hotpaprika]

[Jonathan, who had been reading and rereading the rules over and over in vain hope that he was reading it wrong, hugs himself.]

I hope that this is some sick joke our captor is playing. I cannot imagine the sort of person who would even consider something like this.

[sixthnonsense]

[Oh Johnathan, if only you knew...

Hagakure turns to the guy, still trembling a bit.]

Someone so unbelievably sick and twisted that there's no way you can wrap your head around it. That's what the person running the last game like this was like.

lobby

[timegazer]

[Adaman's mostly here tearing apart the room a bit to try and see if there's some kind of way out of here hidden--but even he has had to take a bit of a break from that, which leads to him staring out the window along with the rather...oddly dressed man who's joined him. Huh.]

If I had to guess, we were likely pulled in by some kind of rift--but I've certainly never heard of one actively controlled by another person. A feat like that is only something I have heard almighty Sinnoh capable of possibly performing...

[But, Adaman brings his hands up to the back of his head.]

But it is concerning, to not know what this individual wants with us. Nor why he's seen it fit to bring us here, and without a single Pokémon in sight...couldn't he use the time he's been given, and taken from us, more effectively?

[sixthnonsense]

[There is so much to take in about what Adaman is saying here, but one thing in particular sticks out to Hagakure at the moment...]

Wait, did you say Pokemon? You've got Pokemon??

[Hagakure's had his mind blown by the possibilities of people from other worlds being here, but he never would've imagined...]

rules

[howveryglib]

[ah, civilians.]

The situation seems far too elaborate for a poorly conceived joke, though I would imagine it preferable if it was.

1/2

[sixthnonsense]

[Civilian indeed, but also...]

Y-Yeah...I know better than to think this is a joke by now. I bet the fates are still laughing at me though.

[sixthnonsense]

[When he turns to face the person talking to him though, he freezes up a bit.]

Uh...

[He's a little speechless, and a little frightened if he's being honest. The hell is this JRPG-ass armor??]