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.

Comments

[rhododendronhoney]

Not that many people knew about the destabilization in the first place...unless you mean you've also never heard of Pokemon at all?

[theawfulaccount]

I can safely say I have never heard the word before.

[rhododendronhoney]

Well...man, this is kind of hard to describe. It's...a whole fictional TV show and video game, about this other world where there's a lot of various creatures called Pokemon? They can do all sorts of weird elemental attacks, and love fighting, and the humans there train them. I was a trainer myself for a bit, but my team went home after the worlds got separated again...

[theawfulaccount]

I can at least follow the concept of training animals, though the concept of training them to fight where I come from is a bit... fraught.

[ A word which here means "concerning when brought up in polite conversation, which it almost never is." ]

[rhododendronhoney]

Oh yeah, that's what I thought too...but apparently in that world they really enjoy fighting. Lots of times the ones we found attacked us first. Though some of them could be won over with treats, too...

[Cori's baking power is op, plz nerf.]

[theawfulaccount]

That's part of my understanding of training animals.

[ She thinks of the VFD crows and eagles, the Volunteer Feline Detectives. ]

I suppose if they enjoy fighting... it must be dangerous, though?

[rhododendronhoney]

Well...they seem to be much more durable than normal animals. And according to Kenta, they have all sorts of ways to heal quickly afterwards, so it's not as big a danger for them...

[theawfulaccount]

Evolution truly works in mysterious ways.

[ A phrase which here means "I have no idea what to think of this, so I will accept it as a mystery and move on for now," a favorite tactic of many confused thinkers, religions, and some parents. ]

[rhododendronhoney]

Yeah...I'm not totally sure how it works either. But Kenta's information was all pretty accurate, so I'm just going to trust him on that.

[theawfulaccount]

Klaus would have more questions for you, I think, but I'm content not to pry.