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[ This post takes place approximately twenty minutes after the old standard of 'wake up, freak out, and find yourself within an obscenely huge castle with a magical Pagemaster-looking book'. Yukiko has calmed herself enough to leave her room, sitting on a small couch in the hallway outside of her room. She smooths down the pages a few times, sending a crinkling noise across the page-waves, and clears her throat nervously.

This book's been writing itself ever since she started looking at it. Maybe it's time to reach out herself. ]

Um...hello? This is Yukiko Amagi.

[ Her breath catches in a soft gasp. Yup! That certainly did write itself. She clears her throat again, her feet fidgeting in front of one another. ]

I'm sorry if this sounds silly, but everyone else seems so settled in...I'm not really sure what's happened here. This isn't-- well, I wasn't really expecting to be here. [ A pause. She tries not to look too consternated. ] I'm not sure where here is.

If anyone could tell me that, I'd- mm. It'd be very appreciated. Thank you.

[ Now she'll just stare at the book, trying to avoid the second round of freaking out. As far as she knows, the TV had just short-circuited and dumped her out into this new world after Void Quest. Maybe this was another part of the TV World...? Maybe this book wasn't communicating at all, but just. Writing itself, somehow.

Stranger things had happened. ]

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[Dictated]

[therealrisette]

[An utterly shocked voice answers over the journal.]

Yukiko-senpai?!!!

[Yep, that's all you're getting until you answer. She's still processing the fact that she's actually hearing someone from home she knows that isn't a psycho killer.]

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Rise-chan? Is that really you?

[therealrisette]

I was about to ask you the same thing!

[She sounds relieved, though. Having one of her friends from home here could be a lot of fun, and she wouldn't feel so far away from everyone else anymore!]

Just, don't freak out, okay? There's a lot of weird stuff about this place, and it'll take you a while to get used to it.

Do you know where you are?

[There's a familiar sound of a Persona being summoned over the journal, even as she asks.]

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Um...inside some sort of castle? N-not mine, though.

[ That one was far gaudier, and much foggier. Yukiko picks up on that sound and relaxes; if Rise is on the case, they'll be together in no time. ]

I'm so glad somebody else is here.

[therealrisette]

Me too!

[For Yukiko, Rise's voice echoes in both the journal and over Rise's Persona.

While searching the castle, she decides to explain a few basic points.]

Yeah, it's a castle, but it's not inside the TV. It's...

[Oh man, how to explain this without freaking someone out?]

... It's kind of like a weird vacation! This place takes people from home for a while and then puts them back where they left.

[Crap, that didn't sound as good out loud as it did in her head. But she's located Yukiko, at least.]

Just don't freak out, okay?! I'm on my way...

[luxe_can_kill]

[Mitsuru's attention was caught by the mention of the name. Yukiko Amagi? She was in the P-1 Gran Prix, and she has heard of the Amagi Inn during their stay in Inaba]

Amagi? This is Mitsuru Kirijo, we have met before in Inaba although you might not remember.

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Ah...Kirijo-san?

[ A guest from the inn, maybe? She's glad she has the privilege to crease her brow and really think, studying the name on the page intently.

Nope. Not a thing. ]

I'm sorry...I afraid I don't recall that name.

[luxe_can_kill]

I see. You must have came here from a much earlier time when I met you and your friends. [Well, that should save her time in explaining the P-1 Grand Prix, maybe]

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I suppose so...when would that have been, exactly?

Dictated

[tapshoetomove]

You're in a magic castle!

[That's a pretty good explanation, right?]

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[ The best. ]

A 'magic' castle? How, exactly?

[tapshoetomove]

Well for one, if you make a wish it comes true! ...Except for going home. It doesn't grant those kinds of wishes.

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Really? I hadn't heard that...um, do I need to go to a special shrine or anything?

Dictated

[originalcopy]

Here is called "Cair Paradisa" or as a few people have taken to calling it... "Castle Wonderfuck".

As much as any one has figured out, this place likes to grab people from different universes.

The book you're holding is your journal, it's the main form of communication here.

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[ Five yen in the swear jar, mister! She winces a little at that word, glad it can't be seen. ]

I see...so these really are all different people. How many of us are there?

[originalcopy]

Hells yes, from talking animals to robots to little kids and everything in between... it's pretty fucked up.

I don't know if we have an exact count... people come and go at what seems to be the whim of the castle.

There seems to be a lot though... especially if you count the residents of the city/town beyond the castle.

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--there's a town full of captives, too?!

[solowingpixy]

I don't think any of us were expecting to be here, kid. But you better get used to the unexpected now.

I'm going to assume you have the current sitrep? [He's not gonna go repeating what anyone else said, 'cuz that'd be redundant. Plus god only knows what Rise rambled about. All he knew is he heard that kid's shrill voice at this girl and that's really all he wanted to hear.]

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The 'sitrep'?

Um, I know what's going on, yes. [ ... ] Mostly.

[solowingpixy]

[Not everyone's a pilot Pixy, they're not gonna understand your lingo.]

But you've got the basics at least. Magic castle, kidnapped, no way out... And it's all as ridiculous as it sounds. [sounding so bitter. so. bitter.]

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That's all been explained, yes. It's not exactly a good situation...trapped here, far from home.

[wagers]

[Here, Yukiko. Have a weird fairy alien thing flying by. Just fluttering along without a care in the world. All orange and what not. Doing that whole in the air thing. With sparkles. And sass.]

[scoring]

[ Oh man, look at that...cape! Wings? There's a lot to react to here.

Yukiko is going to take the tried-and-true method of 'gape open-mouthed at it'. ]

[wagers]

[Vriska manages to notice that there is a girl staring and she does something very dramatic. It is very intense and it is sudden and it is very dangerous! Except not really, she's just looking back at her with a self-pleased expression and even going so far as to raising but a single hand as a "oh hey" gesture. Whoa!]

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[ Troll successful. Carefully, she raises her hand as well. Either that's a heck of a makeup and wireframe job, or she's super high.

Or aliens. ]

Um...hello?