MOCK ROUND INTRO LOG

[foundationmods]

Welcome to Rokkenjima. This island may just be a copy in the middle of reformation, but the Witch extends her greetings all the same. Please, relax.

This game is just a trial run, but please do not think you can sleep through this. The Witch fully intends to put the system through its paces, so please put up a good fight.

The difficulty level depends on you. Think deeply on your moves during this short play time.

You wake with a start - even if you don't remember falling asleep in the first place - and find yourself standing on the dock of what looks like an island. There's a noise behind you - and if you turn to look, you'll see a plain white boat taking off and leaving you all behind, not stopping for a second if you try to flag them down or scream at them.

It doesn't look like you can swim to shore, either - there's nothing but sea in all directions, and something tells you trying to swim out will end up badly. However, a small dip, if you were so inclined, would be fine. It's not like the weather is bad for it - it feels like it's summer, despite whatever it was when you laid eyes on the envelope.

...Speaking of, Every last one of you have an envelope in your hands, with a gold letter 'L' on it. It's the same letter you were reading before you 'woke' up here, after all. More than that, those of you who had supernatural or magical abilities will feel...strange, as if your abilities are being forcibly blocked. Try as you might, you just can't use them - though all of your physical abilities are intact, of course.

If you decide to head up the path, you'll find Goat....men? waiting for you near the doors to the mansion. Despite their bright red eyes, they merely bow politely and wordlessly bring you into the mansion, showing you your rooms and then stating that they will prepare food for you or anything else you should need whenever you want, in surprisingly deep voices.

As they leave, you can't help but wonder...

What did you just get yourself into?


Mock Round Calendar!
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Comments

[ladyscarred]

Yes. I assume that means you aren't?

[curryparty]

We have a king where I'm from. He's been ruling for a while, now - his children are fully grown, but it doesn't seem like they'll be inheriting the throne anytime soon.

[ladyscarred]

The queen where I'm from is still young, there are no children... It seems we really have been moved.

[But she couldn't think of anywhere that matched the king he'd told her about.]

[curryparty]

Yeah... like some big teleportation spell.

I wonder about the price of a spell like that, though.

[ladyscarred]

It would take a lot of ether... I was thinking that the letters might be connected.

[curryparty]

Ether... What would that be?

[ladyscarred]

Everything is made of ether. It's energy in it's purest form.

[curryparty]

[Oh, that gets his interest.]

Is it? I know people have been doing all kinds of studies on that sort of thing, but I don't think anyone ever found out about something like that...

[ladyscarred]

[And that makes her frown.]

It's been known for a long time. Even the long-lived races do not remember who discovered it.

[curryparty]

[-Huh?]

...Even if other countries are hiding information from us, there's no way we would have missed out on a discovery like that.

[ladyscarred]

That doesn't make sense. It's used for so much, fuel, powering spells. Not that I can sense any here...

[Which was worrying. There should be some ether in the air, even if it wasn't much.]

[curryparty]

Magic is power in my country, so missing out on a fundamental fact like that...

[It's pretty much impossible. If something like that had been cracked, surely his country would have been conquered by another by now. He's not super familiar with the state of the military, but he knows that much.]

[ladyscarred]

You don't know what ether is, and you didn't know about dryads..?

[Is she expecting an answer to that? She isn't sure herself. It's so odd.]

[curryparty]

Are dryads common where you're from?

[They've already established as much with the knowledge of ether, but...]

[ladyscarred]

I suppose, one of the elites I mentioned is one. This doesn't make sense...

[curryparty]

There's always rumors of demons, but other than that, there's definitely only humans where I'm from.

[ladyscarred]

[She takes a moment, holding her hand up with her fingers splayed. Then she lowers a finger, then another. Until all that's there is a fist.]

...No. I can't think any country that doesn't have a prominent non-human.

[curryparty]

But how can that...?

[The idea of other worlds is just so foreign, he can hardly conceive of it. It just isn't something he's thought about enough for it to come to him so easily.

Is she lying...? He doesn't think so. She sounds much too earnest for it. But then, how?]

[ladyscarred]

[She just shakes her head. She's just as lost.]

I don't know... I heard that long ago before the harmonic unification war the different races didn't live so closely with each other. Because there was more space. But...

[Time travel was just as unlikely.]

[curryparty]

Harmonic... unification war?

[There's talk of war brewing, certainly, but he's never heard of anything like that.]

[ladyscarred]

Jud. You haven't heard of it have you? [There's a wiry smile and a sigh.]

No matter the country or affiliation, all students are taught of it.

[curryparty]

Another thing that shouldn't be possible, then.

[but how are these contradictions happening to begin with?]

[ladyscarred]

No. I've heard there have been a lot of strange things happening out in the world lately.

But I wasn't expecting it to be like this.

[curryparty]

[He hesitates a bit.]

There's tension between my country and others, so our communication can be limited at times. But that doesn't explain the differences at all...

[ladyscarred]

It doesn't. [That's blunter than needed, and she sighs.]

I can't think of an explanation that won't sound ridiculous.