video/voice;

[ex_executable308]

Um...hello? Can anybody see this?

[ Using the video function, a very nervous-looking new person appears! ]

...it says this is recording, so I think it’s working-- ah! My name is Chihiro Fujisaki, and I think I got lost…somehow. I-I know there was an announcement, and we had to go to the gym, and then somehow, I found myself here...this is really bad, isn’t it?

[ Oh dear, he looks like he’s about to cry. ]

M-maybe there’s some way I could go back, just for a little bit, to tell the others how to leave—is that allowed? It feels wrong to be the only one...

[ Aaaand video function is turned off, switched to voice, a few moments after he actually does start crying. ]

I’m sorry...ah, if there’s anyone who can help, I’d really appreciate it.

[ He figures that’s a good place to stop, especially since even without the visual help, it’s kind of obvious that he’s still sort of a crying mess.

Good job introing, Chihiro! ]

Comments

[negativegate]

Others? You can't really leave here by choice.

[As far as they know, anyway.]

[ex_executable308]

A-again?

[ Sniff. ]

There's no way at all?

[negativegate]

No- But what do you mean, again? You haven't been here before, have you?

[ex_executable308]

I just came from a place we couldn't leave...

[negativegate]

So you were in a prison?

[ex_executable308]

N-no, not that.

[ It was like that, though. ]

[negativegate]

Really? Because that's what you call a place you can't leave.

[Just like they're in now, really...]

[ex_executable308]

Is this a prison too...?

[negativegate]

Yeah. Though it's bigger than a jail cell or something like that. It's just called the City.

[ex_executable308]

[ Thank you for answering these questions, stand by for more sobbing. ]

[negativegate]

[what sobbing

okay she can deal with this]

Quit snivelling! You could be here for a while, so get used to it.

[maybe she can deal with it...]

[ex_executable308]

[ ...you...tried. ]

I'm sorry...

[negativegate]

[kid understands that everything's fine now right B(]

I thought you said it was like wherever you were before, anyway.

[ex_executable308]

[ Never. ]

We were in a school, but-- none of them are here.

[ He's really worried! ]

[negativegate]

[H-huff]

Your friends? They'll be back wherever you left them, but they might not show up here.

[ex_executable308]

But if they stay there--

[negativegate]

What about it?

[He said school, but they couldn't leave...]

[ex_executable308]

I don't want anyone else to die...

[negativegate]

What's that supposed to mean? Did something happen to someone?

[ex_executable308]

[ A lot of things happened to people! ]

We were trapped inside...if anyone wanted to leave, they'd have to kill someone else!

[negativegate]

What?

[This is the kind of thing she only expects in the City!]

Why? What kind of freak comes up with that?

[ex_executable308]

I don't know...

[ Sniffs again. Amazing that he hasn't dehydrated yet. ]

I'm sorry.

[negativegate]

I...don't think you need to apologize for that.

[A wonder of nature... And Rita might be weirded out enough to stop being as much of a jerk.]

[ex_executable308]

[ So much crying, right? ]

Um...you know where I am, right?

[negativegate]

[Y-yes that's the only thing that weirds her out....maybe....]

I know you're in the City...

...If you wave the video around a bit and show me where you are, I'll know it.