WELCOME.

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[ You've had a long two weeks. Perhaps you've been pushed to your limit, perhaps not--either way, you all deserve a break. Jax is your driver, and he seems to be doing okay with the whole driving thing, despite braking a little too hard.

Aside from that, the ride to your new housing, is...interesting. You've gotten to see some of the outside world. The city is just as hi-tech as the university with buildings of varying sizes lining the streets. It definitely feels like a busy city, though there aren't many people out and about on the streets despite there being so much to do and so many things to see.

Weird, considering it's still daytime.

Around twenty minutes pass, and then you notice that you're travelling outside of the city. It's a long road that seems to go on and on. There are smaller houses now, farms and fields...

In any case, you have time to sing a handful of karaoke songs, talk to your neighbor, take a nap--whatever you feel like doing. After around an hour of travel, the bus approaches some sort of wall. It's high, and looks similar to the wall that surrounded Fayflower University. Jax rolls down his window, seems to scan something--and then the walls slowly open.

He drives in, and you're greeted with a colorful assortment of houses. They're also quite large. Jax parks the bus on the road in front of them before he lets you all out. ]

You're all assigned to the Magenta house, the one on the far left. You can do whatever you want from here on out; just don't mess with anything you shouldn't be messing with.

[ Interpret that however you'd like to. Maybe you'd like to talk to Jax. Maybe you'd like to settle in. Or...maybe you'd like to explore. ]

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arrival;

[As soon as they'd taken off in the van, Yoosung had leaned his face toward the window to watch their surroundings, but crashed headfirst into a depression nap. When he stumbles out, wiping his eyes, he looks around and sees the giant wall in the distance, and his heart twists. Of course he knew they weren't going to be free at this place. With how similar it looks, he imagines the ghosts of that school (imagined, not the literal disembodied voices that he thought were ghosts) are still trapped with them, too, and his hands tighten around one of the laptops he was bringing. The house they're directed to, he hears as he turns to look, is the Magenta one. He's caught by a strange feeling... There's probably no significance. If anything, maybe it was just a color Rika liked. No... maybe it's an eye color. That person who comforted him (that time that he's not sure if it was a dream), he thinks possibly their eyes were magenta-color. But it... could be off. He decides to stop thinking about it.

Anyway, it sounds like there are places in this house that Jax doesn't want them looking, which is suspicious but he's playing it safe, and there's another order of business that comes first. Yoosung finds a round table in the game room to set up the four laptops. As they are "school use" primarily to show off the gaming prospect, each laptop came with a separate pre-made account name and password for LOLOL labeled on a sticker beneath the keyboard. Of course each one has a few different character slots, and on one of the accounts, a slot is filled by the support character 'Mishiman', with a night's worth of hardcore leveling on it. ...He's doing what he can to protect the traces of his memory.

It would be possible to catch Yoosung sitting at each laptop and ensuring that they're all working fine. He remembers a couple of people who wanted to play, after all - as strongly as his grief is tempting him to bargain by quitting this game, it would be selfish to let them stay only as sentimental value. And... another part of him really does think he'd have nothing left, if he did that, so it wouldn't make sense. It still feels bad enough that he'll eventually move on from this spot of his own volition.]

exploring;

[Once he's got all the gaming stuff set up, it's time for a restless walk throughout the house!! Jax didn't explicitly tell them which places they shouldn't stick their noses into, so surely there wouldn't be any harm in that. In his head, he's just like a game character looking for the bonus treasure chests, opening boxes and peeking inside any out-of-the-way doors. Room closet? Bathroom closet? Hopefully he won't get really crazy and start throwing pots. Actually, to his credit, he is trying to look casual about it but it only does so much when he's still high-strung. He doesn't entirely trust that they won't be forced to kill anyone again, so getting rid of possible weapons early seems like a good idea to him.]

exploring

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[ Looking inside of one of the room closets will certainly yield results. There's a cardboard box inside, sitting in the back left-hand corner. It isn't super dusty, implying that it's been moved there recently.

> Open it? ]

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Oh... was someone in this room before we got here?

[Heck yes, let's get this puppy open.]

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[ Good job, Yoosung! You've obtained one (1) laptop! This one seems more basic than the ones Yoosung grabbed from the university--at least from the outside. It's much smaller. Doesn't seem like he can really run any games on here. ]

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[WELL HE'S STILL GONNA ADD THAT TO HIS COMPUTER HOARD. Shame about the lack of games though?? But it is pretty small... probably doesn't have much memory. Then what is it for. Anything immediately obvious?]

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[ It's not super old--it's more like, say, a Chromebook. It's just very small and doesn't really have a lot of storage.

Does Yoosung want to turn it on now? ]

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[That IS probably the fastest way to figure that out! But first he'll check to make sure no one else is seeing this (well, mostly their host.) And then he'll go for it.]

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[ Jax is nowhere to be seen, you're good. When Yoosung turns the laptop on, he's instantly greeted with: Welcome, Vivienne.

But a password isn't required. Strange, isn't it?

The desktop is blank, giving off the impression that this computer may not have anything on it. But Yoosung knows better than that...right? ]

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[Of course! And Yoosung looks confused but then pleased when he sees the name. He wonders if Vivi left this for them on purpose... she's seeming more and more helpful lately.]

Ah, no icons... voice activation? [Clears throat, tries a falsetto] Files, please!

Haha, like that'd work...

[He'll try swiping and tapping at the screen unless it somehow does.]

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[ Actually...

"Opening Files," calls a voice from the computer. Seems like there's some kind of AI in this little laptop that has voice recognition.

A window pops up on the screen with a list of all the files. ...There's only one file on it titled FU_RECRUITMENT.MOV. ]

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Seriously?!

[Wow!! He feels smart!! Actually, this kind of reminds him of the gatekeeper to Seven's house, only more obedient and less sassy. At least, he hopes it won't sass him later. Maybe he should try to win it over early, there's a lot of artificial intelligences in this place.]

I-I mean, thank you! Uh, play? [He's also going to shut the closet door while he says that. And hope that his actual voice will work this time, it'd be pretty embarrassing if he always had to squeak voice at it.]

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[ "You're welcome." Aw. Isn't that sweet?

Closing the closet door is a good idea. Yoosung's command gets the video to open up and start playing.

It's what you'd expect: A recruitment video. It's for Fayflower University, the very place that trapped you for two weeks and turned your life into a living hell. However, the campus is buzzing with students who appear to be enjoying student life. It seems like your average cheesy recruitment video--the students are all laughing and acting cheerful while walking down the hallways of the campus, with some locations that Yoosung recognizes (the pool, basketball court)...but others that he hasn’t seen yet--the dormitories seem much bigger, for instance. Hm.

One of the most important things about the video, however, is that the voiceovers sound...familiar. That’s because they sound like they’re coming from Number One and Number Two.

Furthermore, the campus is being marketed towards individuals with supernatural talents. Superpowers, in other words. It’s also supposedly the very first school in the world catered towards these sorts of people. ]

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[Why are those two advertising Fayflower? They were cursing about it before! Combined with the obvious differences, maybe this is a pretty old video....

Also if this is some kind of school for people with powers then does that mean he's secretly like an X-Man. That would be awesome.

Is there anything else to this video or is it time to ponder it]

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[ That's about it! Ponder on, Yoosung. ]