trust you've got a game plan

[isawallflower]

[ At noon on Wednesday, Riley's standing ready in the dining hall, with a clipboard and a big smile to anyone who shows up. She's set blank stacks of paper on the table, but we'll get to that. As promised, there's some basic snacks as well as some tasty banana bread. Snacks for everyone! ]

Welcome everyoooone~! Thank you so much for showing up. This is a new and confusing experience for all of us, but I'm sure if we strive to stick together and cooperate, it'll help us foster the most productive environment that we can. [ Bright, bright smile. ] So! I've gathered all of you so we can share any discoveries and compare basic information that might give us any idea of why we've been brought here. Good? Okaaaay!

[ That smile never leaves her face. She sets something down from her clipboard and starts passing out that blank paper. ]

Sooo, following my example, if you could fill this out, that...can be a good starting discussion!

[ Her example is essentially a survey. Wonderful penmanship, again. ]

Comments

SURVEYS

[isawallflower]

[ Riley's survey reads as follows! ]

Name: Riley Williams
Hometown: Saratoga Springs, New York, Earth
Last Known Date: August 7th, 2019
What You Last Remember Doing: Holding self-introductions at the annual Giles Corey High School Tigers sleepover, held in my basement at 16 Heartcourt.
Anyone You Know Here: No
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: The Phantom of the Opera is a story and musical that I am familiar with, but not incredibly.

[justmeheere]

Name: Jeremy Heere
Hometown: New Jersey
Last Known Date: Like 2018? Probably?
What You Last Remember Doing: Going to the mall with Michael
Anyone You Know Here: Yes
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: Michael and I played this weird point-and-click game based on Phantom once. Also I've seen the movie.

[Return of the Phantom did not prepare Jeremy for this, honestly.]

[recessives]

[ well i hope youre ready to get a really weird one from THIS GIRL ]

Name: Shilo Wallace
Hometown: Largo City
Last Known Date: October 2057
What You Last Remember Doing: Leaving my room to go visit my mother's grave
Anyone You Know Here: No
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: None

[mcfife]

NAME: Angus McFife XIII
HOMETOWN: Dundee, Kingdom of Fife
LAST KNOWN DATE: September 25, 1992
WHAT DO YOU LAST REMEMBER DOING: Pursuing a dark sorcerer through a space-time portal.
ANYONE YOU KNOW HERE: No
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF THE PHANTOM: Nana relayed the tale of the Phantom of the Opera to me a few days ago.

[musacal]

Name: Nana Daiba
Hometown: Tokyo, Japan
Last Known Date: May 14th, 2018
What You Last Remember Doing: Going to bed
Anyone You Know Here: Yes (Claudine and I are classmates!)
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: I know the story pretty well. My classmates and I even put on a play similar to it in our first year.

Re: SURVEYS

[etincelledefierte]

Name: Claudine Saijo
Hometown: Tokyo, Japan
Last Known Date: September 27, 2018
What You Last Remember Doing: Going to bed that night
Anyone You Know Here: Yes, Nana and I are classmates.
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: Besides putting on a play similar to Phantom of the Opera in my first year of high school, I’ve seen the musical and visited the Paris Opera House.

aggressively handwaves

[37773972]

Name: Stephen Browning
Hometown: San Francisco, California, USA, Earth
Last Known Date: January 3, 2013
What You Last Remember Doing: Watching a video.
Anyone You Know Here: No
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: It's a musical, and I think a movie.

[madgiganticfeelings]

Name: Christine Canigula
Hometown: Edison, New Jersey, Earth
Last Known Date: September 9, 2018
What Yor Last Remember Doing: Attending drama rehearsal for A Midsummer Nightmare About Zombies. I was cast as Puck!
Anyone You Know Here: Jeremy Heere is my drama buddy! He's a play rehearsal virgin.
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom:

[...And here, Christine goes into an extremely detailed synopsis of the entire Phantom of the Opera musical, including many gushing remarks about both the Phantom and Raoul. At least she likes them both?]

[likemypicture]

[ Name: Anna von Kleve
Hometown: Düsseldorf, Duchy of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
Last Known Date: ---- 2020
What you Last Remember Doing: Performing in New York City
Anyone You Know Here: No
Previous Knowledge of The Phantom: N/A ]

[Also, look! She brought muffins too! With.... jelly? She's not exactly used to being restricted to the basics.]

[herwiggles]

Name: Spinel
Hometown: Homeworld
Last Known Date: uhh I was in space
What You Last Remember Doing: Waiting for Pink Diamond to come back while I played a game with her.
Anyone You Know Here: Nope!
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: what's a phantom anyway

[redjoker]

Name: Jonny D'Ville
Hometown: New Texas
Last Known Date: No fucking idea, time doesn't exist in space
What You Last Remember Doing: Leaving the ruins of New Constantinople
Anyone You Know Here: No
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: None except I've got a bullet ready for him as soon as I get a real gun in my hands

[bloodycape]

[She has to think hard about parts of it but-- she fills it out, one at a time.]

Name: Little Red Riding Hood... but you can call me Red
Hometown: Hambleden, Buckinghamshire
Last Known Date: Tuesday-- it was fall, the year 1860
What You Last Remember Doing: I had gone into the woods to take granny the bread I'd gotten for her when I ran into a nice wolf who showed me a different path. So I stopped-- just for a moment-- to pick some flowers for granny but... I don't remember what happened after that.
Anyone You Know Here: No
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: I only met Mister Phantom when I arrived here-- although he did say he found me in the woods. Sorry, I can't remember it though.

[revelfree]

Name: Ariel
Hometown: Homeless. The village I grew up in was far too small to have a name, and I have not called it home in years.
Last Known Date: Unknown -- But predating most technological advances herein.
What You Last Remember Doing: Laying down to rest, traveling before that.
Anyone You Know Here: No.
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: No.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Name: Sigyn
Hometown: Aelsund, Midgard (Yggdrasil System)
Last Known Date: 7th day of SÓLMÁNUÐUR, 200 AA
What You Last Remember Doing: Boarding the Ratatosk Express
Anyone You Know Here: No
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: None

[superbeliever]

King Richard
My Land
1257
Finding a super cool sword and hanging out with my good buddy Galavant
No
The wizard guy? No, don't know him.

[holyspit]

Name: Steven Quartz Universe
Hometown: Beach City, Delmarva, USA, Earth
Last Known Date: Summer 2014
What You Last Remember Doing: Talking to my friend Lapis about Pin maybe coming back home with me
Anyone You Know Here: No
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: His mask kind of looks like the killer in some of these movies my friend Sadie likes?

[He's also written in, underneath all that-]

There's stuff in the program that's wrong, too. I'm only 14, and I don't know why they put "Diamond" in my name?

[justmeheere]

Hey, uh. Did anyone get a reply back from the Phantom? Was it, like, in French?

[He was going to ask Christine this and then that conversation sure went super south super quickly.]

[mcfife]

I have. It was not in French.

...He hasn't given me any useful information.

[etincelledefierte]

Do you need it translated? I speak French.

[37773972]

I did. I asked where the people we were with before, were- he said they were where we 'left them'.

[mcfife]

[Angus has a few things he got from the vending machine today, which he's bringing to the meeting. His 80's dancer outfit is accessories with a bohemian scarf and his space sunglasses that he had not expected to find here.

Seeing the other food brought in, he has a bottle of Mountain Dew and some Mountain Dew-flavored ice cream. Surely people will appreciate this.]

I have found a secret passage under the balcony that leads to a chamber of mirrors, then to another tunnel that may lead to the Phantom's lair. The way down is locked, but taking another ladder led me to the costume room.

If we are to fight this Phantom, we must seek the key to unlock the trapdoor!

[justmeheere]

Where, uh. Where did you get that?

["That" being the Mountain Dew he's pointing at.]

[madgiganticfeelings]

[Christine is super excited to be here! And even more excited to share the information she has so far!]

There are passageways behind the mirrors! They aren't super big, and they're boarded up, but there might be a way to get through them.

Also, uh, quick question, has anyone been sleeping in a room that wasn't assigned to them?

[37773972]

...no?

[revelfree]

[Ariel has a question! He waits until some of the murmuring dies down.]

Perhaps this is related to Stephen's question but... Does anyone feel as if the Phantom, or perhaps even this place on the whole, knows more than it should? Of secrets closely guarded, or dreams ne'er spoken of?

[etincelledefierte]

That’s a pretty common interpretation of the Phantom, yes. There’s a whole song in the musical about him getting inside the heroine’s head. That said, I do think there’s something to what you’re saying.

[superbeliever]

I agree completely, young lady. We should all strive to be like this young man here-

[He claps one hand down on Jeremy's shoulder. Sorry, Jer.]

-who saved us all from drowning in a terrible flood yesterday! I'm sure he didn't tell anybody about his heroism out of humility, [And not because the incident was. Incredibly stupid.] but his bravery deserves to be recognized like the great knight Sir James of "Silenthill."

[justmeheere]

M-my name is Jeremy? Actually?

[He's not even gonna. Touch the rest of it, because it's way more embarrassing in context and Christine is right there. She doesn't need to know he put his hand in a toilet because the dumb adult tried to flush an apple!]

[holyspit]

[Steven's here, after his minor breakdown earlier. It's fine! He's fine. EVERYTHING IS FINE.]

[Look, he brought a platter with cheese and crackers and some fruit, and a couple pies, could an emotionally compromised person do that?]

So- I mentioned this on my survey? Thanks Riley- but the program got some stuff about me wrong? Did anyone else notice anything like that?

[isawallflower]

[ Busying herself with a pen and paper. ]

Those things? It's- I don't think we should pay them any mind. They're mostly just insults, right?