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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[Turns around. Still holding baby rabbits. Look of utter shock.]

Ah! Then...it is judgment day at last! Long have I awaited the hour my destiny is called to fruition, yet I believed I had more time yet! Well, then, what business do you have with the beasts of the abyss?

[Squints. Sighs.]

I figured the void would pull you in.

[That is the closest to speaking his language she thinks she can do. The weird thin sheep is pretty close to nuzzling her knee. She glances down at it before trying to make eye contact again.]

This sort of flock seems really weirdly small for a petting zoo, though, doesn't it? I thought there would be, like, at least ten.

[Whatever was distressing him, he seems over it. In fact, he even smiles at her comment.]

It is indeed a paltry crew! At a petting zoo, one would expect to pet ten times this number! I see that you are familiar with such things, it is not a bad practice.

However, in this case, this flock appears to be sadly neglected. So it is perhaps for the best.

I haven't seen a whole lot of this stuff, really...

Did you find a trough or anything, though? If we have to bring in more feed, I think there was some kind of grain in the mess hall.

Hoh, is that so? Good thinking, that will do nicely. I'll have a feast prepared in little time at all.

[He seems really pleased she suggested helping, though.]

[Mahiru has a quick smile and nod to confirm the idea. She's never seen Gundam quite so happy about, well, anything, and is tempted to take a picture of him in this one moment free from crazy talk. But how shocked he was at seeing her... his words have this faint ominous quality beyond generic goth aspirations.

she sobers a bit and decides to ask]

So, that definitely means there wasn't anybody else working over here... Everyone I've met so far was--

[She trails off, gesturing with her watch hand towards her bandaged head.]

Mm, the inmates and not the tournament master. They must know that if they showed themselves, I'd unleash my power and turn their little park to rubble.

It is incredibly insulting...if that abomination isn't behind these circumstances as well...

Yeah... this is really getting stranger. This can't be his place - or hers for that matter - without two-colored faces plastered over everything. But why would they let us get taken away? Did somebody else get their hands on the Magic Stick?

...

Oh, I see. You speak of that cursed object. That is viable. I myself had wondered if...ah, but it is no matter.

[Her eyebrows rise at Gundam's aborted conjecture; but she lets him trail off.]

I don't think all of our classmates are here, and there's no way everybody in those dorms was headed to Hope's Peak Academy. I guess we've been selected for a... different group adventure?

[This one had better not be lethal...]

Do you really think so? Or could it be our true destination is purgatory?

...

[This particular Tanaka-ism has a really obvious possible meaning and Mahiru will kick herself very hard later.]

There's only one way to find out. Our "headmaster"... or ringleader has been pretty scarce so far.

We'll see if that state of affairs lasts...

We'll see indeed.

Did you see any honey in the barracks? Can we lay a trap?

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