[OPEN] You are lost and gone forever

[mourning_ghost]

Who: Nageki Fujishiro and You
Where: Hallway, Dining Room, and Library
When: Throughout the event
Rating: PG-13 (will change if necessary)
Summary: Nageki just lost his family to a bunch of humans. Now he's surrounded by them and his remaining brother is nowhere in sight.
The Story:

Hallway
Nageki isn't sure how or why it happened, but he must have been kidnapped. Was it because he was the last surviving bird in Hatoful House? The last thing he remembered was the humans who had broken into the Hatoful House. They'd demanded political autonomy in exchange for the lives of his siblings and himself. Nageki hadn't been able to do anything but helplessly watch while his siblings were killed right in front of him. Did the humans want him alive until they escaped the police?

He wastes precious moments frozen, unable to understand what is happening. Until he sees someone. If he sees a humanoid, Nageki panics. He stumbles backward in fright, certain that he's about to die. If he sees a non-humanoid, Nageki desperately says, "Please help me." He needs to escape and find his way back home.

Dining Room
Later Nageki realizes that he can't escape or go back home. But the reality of happened has also begun to sink in.

In the morning, Nageki drags himself to the dining room. He gets food because he knows that he needs to eat, but when it's actually in front of him he finds it difficult to eat it. He just isn't hungry.

Nageki chokes down one or two bites before he feels like he can't eat anymore. The rest of the time he just moves the food around and stares at it as though he can make it disappear through willpower alone.

Library
There was something nearby just a moment ago. You can see Nageki as he ducks between the rows in his attempts to remain out of sight. This place is scary to him and the people in it are scary as well. He's determined to avoid every person the mansion holds.

Sometimes, he'll peek over the top of the bookshelves to see what people are doing or where they are. Or he'll peer around a corner. If Nageki thinks he'll be spotted, though, he'll quickly duck away and stay as quiet as possible in the hopes he'll be ignored.

(OOC: Will match format)

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Hallway

[forwearemany]

Luckily for Nageki, what stumbles up on him in that Hallway is clearly nonhuman, if somewhat Human in shape. And by clearly nonhuman... well, they're not only a machine, they're lacking a certain highly important feature known as a face. Instead, their long, curved neck terminates in a single, shining eye, which promptly focuses on what to them appears to be a very unusual bird.

Whether he pleads for help or is merely frightened, Legion will approach calmly, head tilting to the side.

"You are distressed?"

[mourning_ghost]

Legion is clearly not a human and is too advanced to belong to the humans either. Which keeps Nageki from considering Legion a threat.

"I need a police officer. I... I was kidnapped." He glances around as though his kidnappers might jump out from the walls at any moment.

[forwearemany]

...Well then.

Their programs debate: a rapid-fire process that involves sharing accumulated data and their varied perspectives on it. They have been tasked with ensuring safety of residents. This is not the same as a police force. It is similar to a police force. It is not a police force. This bird is seeking safety, possible return to universe of origin. It is their job to provide the former. Law enforcement would not be able to provide the latter.

Consensus: For the purposes of assisting this bird, they are an acceptable substitute for law enforcement.

The entire process takes less than a second. A few more seconds are spent figuring out how to act.

Consensus: They are unable to contact known allies. They must act on their own.

Consensus: Though lying might improve morale, such improvements would be temporary: he will eventually discover the truth.

They chatter, then finally speak.

"We have been tasked with ensuring safety of those who have arrived in this location. An anomaly has occurred: other "authorities" are largely incapacitated. It is unlikely we will be able to return you home at this time, though we are otherwise willing to render aid."

[mourning_ghost]

A robot designed for law enforcement? He hadn't known someone had made something like that, but Nageki is quite grateful to stumble across it. Even if what the robot tells him makes him even more terrified. The only event he can think of that might have been an anomaly was the Hatoful House hostage situation. The only conclusion he can draw is that the officers trying to save him and his family had been hurt.

"I... I have to get home. My brother... I h-have to let him know I'm alright," Nageki tries, and fails, to hold back a sob. "I'm from Hatoful House in Little Dove Hachiman."

[forwearemany]

"You misunderstand. It is not that we do not wish to send you home, but that we are incapable of it. We are also trapped here."

They seem remarkably calm about it, at least.

"This location is anomalous. Time does not pass while you are here."

[mourning_ghost]

"How can time not pass?" Nageki isn't a scientist by any stretch of the imagination. All his knowledge comes from what he reads or what his older brother teaches him. But something like that... "It sounds more like a sci-fi novel than something real."

The robot looks like something out of a sci-fi novel, too, come to think of it. "Are we trapped here forever?"

[forwearemany]

"We were once the subject of science fiction."

And yet, here they are, in front of you, Nageki. A sapient robot.

"A hypothesis: This location exist outside of our universes. It is able to remove and reinsert captives at the same location on the timeline."

They chatter.

"Periods of captivity typically last a few months to a few years."

[mourning_ghost]

He hasn't quite realized Legion is sapient yet. So far, he's been under the impression that Legion just had a very good programmer.

"That's... a long time." He can't imagine spending months here. He'd never been away from home for more than a day before. "Do you know how long I'll be here?"

[forwearemany]

Well, he's not wrong about the programmer... or programmers, in this case.

They were a little too good, in fact, given that they hadn't intended the Geth to be Sapient.

"Negative."

Hallway

[bibliocorn]

Sunburst wasn't expecting the pigeon to speak to him, but at this point, he'd take it. He glances around himself, confused. Nopony ever asks him for help. He's just the pathetic loser of the school. The unicorn who can't do magic. A laughing stock. Nopony in their right mind would think he could help them in any way. Still, he's got a good heart, and he couldn't ignore a plea like that. "Um. Sure? How can I help you?"

[mourning_ghost]

Nageki wasn't expecting a unicorn either. He's a kid, but not so young that he doesn't know unicorns don't exist. He also doesn't care at the moment. Nageki will take help from anyone who will provide it.

"I need to find the police. I was kidnapped and I don't know where I am." The police will make things better. They can help Nageki find Hitori and let the older bird know that Nageki is still alive. They'll catch the humans who kidnapped him.

Nageki sniffles.

[bibliocorn]

"O..oh." Sunburst shifts, a little uneasily, glancing around them as if he's expecting something awful to descend onto them at any minute. Who knows who or what is listening, after all. "Apparently this place is called Wonderland? They say the land itself stole us. But I don't know, there seems to be an awful lot of those human-hings around and they have all the answers. Either way, I don't think there are police here to find".

[mourning_ghost]

Please don't let the humans the unicorn is talking about be the same ones Nageki was kidnapped by. His situation is worse than he thought. If humans are all around than it means he's outside the city and in the wilderness where the humans live. Even if his kidnappers simply abandoned him here, he doesn't know how to survive in the wilderness long enough to find his way home.

"Did..did the... humans seem dangerous?" Nageki asks, though he isn't sure if a unicorn would recognize a gun.

He isn't sure what Sunburst means when he says the land stole them, though. It's not like land can do anything on it's own.

[bibliocorn]

Sunburst considers that. They're big and weird looking, yes, but they didn't seem all that threatening. They didn't have any of the usual apex-predator worries an Equestrian has to deal with when a threat descends. "Not really? They don't have sharp teeth or claws or dangerous magic or anything? They're just like hairless monkeys. I mean, they're no timberwolves."

[mourning_ghost]

"...I see." Except for the part about magic. Even if he is talking to a unicorn. Perhaps he should make sure he isn't hallucinating this enter conversation. "That's good."

He pauses awkwardly before moving to his next question. "Have you seen another bird?"

[bibliocorn]

"You mean birds that talk like you?" he shakes his head. "Sorry, not at all. But I'm the only unicorn, so I guess we can be alone together." He might have been deciding to try and sequester himself away back home, but he can see that's not a wise choice here.

[mourning_ghost]

"Alright." Nageki can't remember the last time he was truly alone. "I suppose we should find some food and water."

They'll need it later and it's better to start searching before they absolutely have to. Especially with how often Nageki needs to rest. His body is pretty weak.

library

[naughty_nurse]

Mikan stops in her book-picking, overhearing the fluttering of wings. As far as she knows, only one person in the mansion has wings, hence...

"... Nageki?"

[mourning_ghost]

Nageki pauses with indecision for a moment. The only humans he's met before are ones that wanted to kill him but... those humans hadn't known his name either. Slowly, he inches back to peer down at Mikan.

He's younger than the Nageki that normally is in the library, only a couple years out of chickhood. He's tense and looks ready to bolt at a moments notice. He asks uncertainly, "You know who I am?"

[naughty_nurse]

One the one hand, Mikan was disappointed to have memories messed with yet again, resulting in another friend forgetting her. On the other hand... awww, baby bird! Mikan gasps, delighted instantly.

"Cuuute! You're so cute, Naegeki!"

[mourning_ghost]

...

...

Well... it's not hostility. Nageki relaxes a little. "Did Hitori ask you to find me? Or the police? Is that how you know who I am?"

He's been told that he's in Wonderland, but he's not sure he believes it yet. It just sounds too fantastical for a younger Nageki.

[naughty_nurse]

As Mikan wonders if she can get a photo of him, she fidgets. "Um... well, I guess I could explain, but you might not believe me... and this is all temporary, anyway."

[mourning_ghost]

If she asks him, he'd probably let her. She's the only human he's certain isn't with the bad humans, so he's inclined to stay near her now if only so he can figure out who is trustworthy and who isn't.

"Oh." His disappointment is clear; Nageki had really wanted to go home and Mikan's answer is as good as a no.

[naughty_nurse]

"But, you know, it's not so bad!" Mikan struggles to lift the food. "You can read whatever you want, eat whatever you want, and there are nice people here!"

[mourning_ghost]

"..." He'd rather have his brother, but complaining about it won't bring Nageki back to him. "...Is that how you spend your time here?"