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Who: Everyone
When: Day 1 – noon
Where: The Auditorium
What: ROUND 1 BEGINS

[Some hours have passed, leaving you time to mingle and explore to your hearts content. However, as the clocks tick over to noon … the bell rings again. And this time, it's followed by the hissing static of an intercom system.]

Ahem! Ahem, is this thing on? Ahh, yes … If all Students and Instructors could kindly make their way to the Auditorium, our first class can begin.

[Those people who are understandably reluctant to follow that instruction may just find their feet moving for them, plodding them into the massive assembly hall. Once they're there, the door slams shut and locks behind them.

… There's nobody there, but the intercom is still on.]

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[approaching]

Kit!

[and slowing down as he gets closer. wait........]

[it begins]

. . . no, sorry. Kit's over there. [he gestures back behind him, at the group of people still waiting around]

[glances over there, then back to Shinichi.

... then back to Kit, and back to Shinichi again.]

... This is kinda trippy.

. . . we don't look that much alike.

[he says, after going through this for two years]

Sorry.

[a beat]

Are you related?

It's fine . . . and no, not as far as we know.

Whoa...

Uh, sorry, I'm Swift.

It's fine, really - I'm Shinichi.

[!!!]

—Shinichi!

. . . yes?

You're—uh. Someone from another team said you've been in a place similar to this before. Is that true?

Ah - yeah, I have.

Could I hear more about that?

If you want? . . . what exactly do you want to hear?

Anything you're willing to share, really. But most of all, I'm interested in hearing how you ended up there and who is behind the place.

Ah, that's easy enough. It doesn't exist anymore, but I was in a place called Sabra La Tau; it was run by the gods of that world, who we called Judges . . . and they'd offer people wishes in exchange for their memories.

We could win them back, but we'd have to play in games like - this one and others to do so.

... When you say it doesn't exist anymore... what does that mean, exactly?

It was destroyed.

How?

Also, how long ago was that?

Almost two years ago . . . ? Or somewhere around that, for me.

And it . . . [he frowns, thinking] we rebelled against the gods, and we even had some gods on our side - but in the end, it was the Old Woman who consumed everything. Ahh - think of her as the sun god, or something like that.

It wasn't . . . a great end, though.

Why...?

. . . not a lot of people actually made it out, at the end.

What? W-Why?

They were killed. It was a rebellion, remember - it wasn't as though the gods weren't going to fight back.

That's...

That's awful, I'm sorry.