You're My Friend, They're My Friends (IC Intro)

[whimsicalism]

Whatever you were doing before, wherever you were before this moment it doesn't matter. The world seems to grow dark around you: an almost inaudible giggle floats to your year before you lose consciousness completely. Other it belonging to a child there's no defining characteristics of the voice. Maybe you just imagined it? Even if you did, one thing is clear when you wake up.

You're not where you were before. The bedroom you find yourself is plush and well decorated, almost like a fancy hotel or apartment. That might be little comfort considering that it's clear that you don't recognize it. Before you rush off to explore your surroundings there's a message pinned to the door to the hall.

From the desk of the Queen:

Hello, my friends dear.

I can only hope you enjoy your new life here. For those you stirring from sleep, this is my promise that I will keep: I will let you go if that is what you desire but the price for it will be quite dire.

For my rules are quite clear that I don't wish you to leave. Yet I will, if you can take the grief.

If you wish to know my name and the reasons to my game, meet in the audience hall for tea. Tea, yes, a grand tea party for my grand guests! Cake and sweets are what we need to meet. In an hour we both will be there, no peeking before!

Signed,

Instead of a signature, there's a small feline paw print underneath as well as some strange sort of heart crest?

There seems to be others moving outside your room. Perhaps it's time to explore, to see if anyone else knows what's going on. Don't slip on the playing card (an ace of hearts, with the heart shape replaced by the strange crest). That there's a scribbled phrase of 'dormez-vous? dormez-vous?' on the card but surely one of the others slipped it under your door.

This Castle seems like a strange place ot live in... yet for now it's quiet and peaceful, even if the Audience Hall is locked.

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[undershadow]

Okay, rude.

[battlestations]

And what's rude about it? Teenagers don't like children either -

[He pauses after he looks over his shoulder at whoever talked.]

Aaand you're apparently an alien duck so I don't think I'm even talking about you. Yet.

[Man, meeting aliens already. Kind of frustrating he got yanked here before he could do any official G:KND training.]

[undershadow]

Wait, what? I'm from earth last time I checked. [ Sudden inspiration! ] Oh, unless this is one of those things where everyone on earth is an alien to you, the real aliens.

[ She doesn't actually believe this! There are way too many fleshy giants for it to be the case, but tweens gotta quip. ]

[battlestations]

That depends. I suppose you're going to say that everyone on Earth is also a duck?

[There could be two planets called earth, all it means is dirt!!]

[undershadow]

Uh, no, that would be weird. [ She raises one hand to demonstratively start ticking off species. ] Let's see, we've got chickens, geese, parrots, owls, herons, swans, pigs, dogs, wolves, this one time in Paris I saw a guy I thought was a lizard but it turns out he was just a vulture who was super into tattoos... I'm gonna run out of fingers.