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[catliketread]

[It's been nearly a week since everyone was brought here, so you know what that means. It's time to share information and discuss strategy!! Or something. Anyway, the Pirate King has gone around and told everyone (yes, even you!!) about the plans for a lunchtime meeting in the dining hall. You don't have to come if you don't want to and the Pirate King will not drag you there, but if you want lunch and you try to sneak by the room, he might notice you and drag you into it.

Once everyone is gathered (or most people, if some of you aren't showing up), he'll stand up and slam a hand down on the table to get everyone's attention.]

Gentlemen! ...And ladies. We have been in this establishment for nearly a week now! It's time we discuss our situation and what we've learned here. From my own explorations, it seems as though escape is impossible. None of the doors or windows will open no matter how much physical force is used! I would like to hear any ideas you all have about escape, but any information or plans in general would be wonderful!

[Let's get started, shall we?]

Comments

[inforapenny]

I don't- I don't think it was that guy, specifically.

[For one he probably doesn't have a doctorate in Experimental Biology]

But... With the right triggers, it's possible to make just about anyone think just about anything.

[rockthistown]

That's... [Hime fidgets in her seat.] I don't want to think about that stuff. We're ourselves, aren't we?

[inforapenny]

[...He realizes probably a minute too late that he's gone and given the poor girl an existential crisis.]

I-I mean, it doesn't matter if we're clones or not, right, as long as we believe in who we are then that's- that's who we are. E-even if someone else is also, um. Who we are.

[rockthistown]

Why would someone make a bunch of clones for a reality show about murder? It's too, too much! We were kidnapped and someone's coming to get us, it's just taking them a long time because of the whole different-worlds thing, and we're going to go home and back to our lives that aren't being led by some original us because we are the original us!

[...well, when Hime isn't trying to blend into the wallpaper, apparently she's taken to flailing her arms and whining.]

[inforapenny]

[Billy goes quiet.]

...Not everyone has someone coming to rescue them.

[rockthistown]

[blinkblink] Huh?

[inforapenny]

You might get to go home. There's probably a few people here who are missed enough for someone to come looking for them.

Some of us won't be.

[rockthistown]

Everyone would be missed, wouldn't they? I thought anyone had someone who cared about them... [Hime looks down at the floor.] B-but if someone's looking for me, it's going to be enough people to save all of us, anyway! Even if that's true!

[inforapenny]

[Anyone had someone who cared about them. Right. Penny didn't even know he existed, and Moist... Moist was his henchman, probably the closest thing he had to a friend, but even he could just go back to the Union and find a different Villain to partner with.]

You can keep believing that if you want, but if you ask me I think we're the only ones who can get ourselves out of here.

[rockthistown]

We're not doing a very good job of that so far. Nothing works on the doors.

[inforapenny]

We can figure it out. We just have to put our minds together.

[rockthistown]

I tried searching the whole opera house for keys. --um, you might not want to check the back of the storage closet behind the oil cans, though.

[inforapenny]

What- what did you do back there?

[rockthistown]

Well, you see, Lord de Chagny and I found this scarf... Nobody wants to see it, so we kind of hid it back there a few days ago. It was really bad.

[watch, someone's going to go looking and find the scarf in question just for that]

[inforapenny]

Oh. Okay...?

[rockthistown]

It was really that terrible.