dreamsland | day zero

dreamland day zero

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[You wake up in a temporary barracks set up behind an amusement park. The weather is chilly but pleasant, and there aren't any lines for the rides - in fact, it seems you have this place to yourself. The entire park appears to have been abandoned some years ago, and though everything is in working order, it is overgrown with plants and seems rusted and unsafe.

As for you, something has happened, though you aren't sure what. There's a throbbing pain in your head, and you can't focus, as though you're coming off heavy pain medications. However you think you should look, you look like a human now. Under the bandages wrapped around your temple, old and smelling like blood, you'll find a recently stitched up scar wound and the inability to focus on your memories. You have no knowledge of how you came to be here; you may even have forgotten certain aspects of your life, or feel confused about them. The fact of your missing memories is obvious, a dark blank spot. Under the bandages around your wrist, you'll find a brightly colored bracelet, decorated with the face of the smiling cartoon animal on your wall, embedded into your flesh. It beeps a merry tune and welcomes you to DreamLand Fun Park. Just then, a voice comes over the loudspeaker.]

"Good morning to all of our new guests! The park is now open! We'll get started later, but for now, have a magical day with your new friends! Oh, and there may be a few nasty side effects to your medical condition. If you meet someone having trouble adjusting to reality, please be polite!"

[In your room, you'll find a small box containing several personal items - no weapons, magical items, or technology advanced beyond the early 21st century, and nothing dangerous, but otherwise anything you would ordinarily find on your person is there. Of course, nothing with cell reception or internet connectivity can manage to pick up a signal.

If you swipe your bracelet against the steel door, it unlocks. You may now explore your accommodations, or venture out into the park.]

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There was actually stuff in yours? Lucky...

[ That's a downer. I thought that box was just a random storage unit, since it was empty when I looked through the one in my room. Looks like that doesn't apply to everyone... I should ask around some more later. ]

An actual amusement park that'd be fun to go to, where I don't wake up bandaged in suspicious places smelling of iron.

[ And then it hit me. ]

...You seriously don't know Disneyland?

There was. I'm sorry if yours didn't hold any of your former possessions, for what it's worth.

And no, I have no idea what Disneyland is. Would you care to inform me? [ and out comes the notebook and pen, time for INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM into this mysterious land of disney, whatever that means. ]

Former possessions? What do you mean?

[ I have a bad feelings about this... ]

It's an amusement park. Like this one, but with way cooler rides, better maintenance, nicer decorations, and sees tons of visitors every day. The main mascot is Mickey Mouse, a black humanoid cartoon mouse. Uh... The theme came from Disney's animated cartoons, first created by a guy named Walt Disney, which is where the name came from.

[ That's more or less what everyone should know, right? ]

You really don't know anything about Disney? Where are you from?

[ I glance down, noticing her shoes. Wait a second. ]

Disney should be popular, even in Asia! ...And why are you wearing wings, anyway?

[ The flash were so blinding, I barely noticed until now... ]

It seems the boxes may contain items that you usually carry on your person? For instance, as I'm a reporter, I always have my camera.

... Anyway, I'll put away my wings for now. They're not actually a decoration. [ BWOOP, wings fold up and disappear, like magic. whoa. totally normal-looking human here, of course~ ] And I'm less from 'Asia' than I am from 'Gensokyo', specifically. But I don't suppose you're familiar with the name.

That is totally unfair. I wasn't really carrying anything on me since I was out working on my paper, but they still took my favorite watch. And replaced it with THIS reject kid's meal toy idea.

[ I sourly glare down at my Bee watch. It stings. ]

Didn't see it in the box though, I won't forget this crime. How did you know that, by the way? Did you talk to others about it already?

...

[ I blink once. Hard. Before rubbing my eyes with both my hands. Hard.

That girl's wings are gone. ]

What did you just do?!

You were working on your paper? [ P-P-PING. ] Would you happen to be a newspaper reporter, as well?

And yes, a few other people seemed to have recovered some of their personal belongings from their boxes. Maybe it's a hit-or-miss kind of thing. [ ... also maybe if she just ignores the wings thing it won't come up!! since like. they weren't supposed to be there even if they are in some of her icons ha ha whoops. ]

No, it's a research paper.

[ I didn't intend to sound so flat, but I guess that's how my voice really came out. ]

Ugh, whatever. Anyway, I'm Sigma. What's your name?

...And what was up with the wings? I know I saw them!

I see! And I'm Aya Shameimaru. Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Sigma.

Maybe you were still disoriented from the flash. As you can see, I'm perfectly wing-less. [ while in the company of unknown humans, may as well act like one of them. ]

That sounds Japanese.

[ I still don't have any idea where that Gens....something place she mentioned may be, but it's probably somewhere in Japan.

I don't think I care enough to ask her about it again. ]

Just Sigma's fine. Can I call you Aya?

[ I squint at her. ]

Your flash made me grumpy, but it didn't make me blind!

Of course. I suppose my family name's a bit of a mouthful, Sigma.

I'm from around the Japan area, but that doesn't automatically mean I should be familiar with... Disneyland, right? [ shh this isn't trying to steer the subject back at all~ ]

[ I see what she's doing, but after getting kidnapped on top of everything else, it's not really worth pursuing. At worse she's our captor, but it's not like doing something to her now will make it any easier to get out. This is too elaborate.

My head also still hurts, so I'm going to stop over-thinking this and just answer her seriously instead. ]

Disneyland is huge in Japan. In fact, there's a resort in Tokyo.

You can assume I'm from a far more rural place than Tokyo. Actually, you don't have to assume it--it's the truth.

Shouldn't a journalist know about the big attractions in Tokyo?

[ I'm not a journalist, but their stories follow popular trends, so that means city knowledge, right? ]

Gensokyo is rather isolated. We focus on local events in the area. If it's really that unbelievable... well, being kidnapped into a situation like this is rather unbelievable in the first place, right?

That's completely unrelated.

[ I sigh, giving up. Aya really likes talking in circles around stuff she doesn't want to explain... ]

Anyway, what's the last thing you remember, before waking up here?

[ IT'S TRUE. flighty like a bird. ] I was out looking for stories, as usual. It seems like this is going be a big one.

You?

What.

So you were out for a scoop, and suddenly, you just woke up in the barracks?

[ I must look as skeptic as I sound I sure HOPE I look as skeptic as I sound! ]

[ he does, successfully. ] If you put it that way, it does sound incredible. We're all very impressed with our captors' abilities here.

That's...

...

[...

I give up.

I'm just gonna rub my face with one hand and not ask her about it any more,]

I was trying to start my car when I got gassed and passed out. By some person in a dark cloak wearing a gas mask...

[ aand she yanks out a notebook and pen to take notes, hmmm-- ]

What exactly is a gask mask? [ <-- FROM FEUDAL AGES. admittedly with cameras and other inconsistencies but lol, technology. ]

...You really don't know what a gas mask is, either?

[ Does she live in the boondocks, or from a few hundred years earlier?! ]

I'm guessing that it's a mask that emits some kind of pungent scent?

Nope, but good try. It actually does the opposite. It prevents you from inhaling noxious and dangerous gas.

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