On the platform: Meet the new characters

[utopiamods]

As you all crowd onto the platform, which is drenched with sunlight though the air is cool you are met by six girls and ten boys. One of the boys seems to be a blue Hedgehog and one of the girls has wings; but the rest all seem human. All sixteenn are in uniforms that would match if not for the colour differences - skirts and trousers, waistcoats, and light summer shirts that seem totally inappropriate for the chill. Some seem irritable while others look excited. Each has a beret with a crest pinned to the front - nine depicting a shield on green, the other seven a sword on red.

At the first lull in the chatter, a frail looking girl with a shield on her cap steps forward.

"Excuse me, may I have your attention please!"

She explains that the sixteen of them are the current prefects of Rakuen, representing the two schools on the island. Nanami (she gestures to herself), Lelouch, Yuri, Sonic, Jade, Sora, John, Rebecca, Dirk and of Fortitude; and Santana, Flynn, Kevin, Gino, Suzaku, Golbez and Cirno of Conquest.

The introductions are over fast and the girl named Santana seems impatient, "So come over when your name is called so we can all get inside." They all move to stand in two groups some distance away from each other; a boy and a girl step forward and begin to read names from a clipboard.

Golbez, the Conquest prefect made an imposing figure, standing there with his perpetual glare on his face, as he read off the names. "Dave Strider, Cheshire, Isabela, Jade Harley, Jack Noir, Hideki Hinata, and Hiyo Shishidou."

Despite what seemed to be a broken leg slowing her down, the Fortitude prefect; Jade looked almost excited in her prefect's outfit and neon orange T-shirt that came to her knees. "Okay, the people I read off are for Fortitude! If you have any questions, I'll try to answer them, but please don't threaten me with violence... Komachi Onozuka."

Comments

[stoppedhiding]

I'm not familiar with the term, but that does seem to be the case.

It does seem overly elaborate, yes.

[wolfoutline]

It's a theory proposed by Willafai Kuzsik. She believed that just as there are an infinite number of colors reflected in a single beam of light, there are infinite "lines" of reality co-existing side-by-side.

One way to cross them was through wormholes, but the technology necessary to create a wormhole, much less control it is... bluntly put? It doesn't exist. At least not in my world. That would mean our kidnappers are well-funded and very advanced.

[wat iz magicks]

[stoppedhiding]

[ He's just quiet as he listens to that explanation. Bluh bluh what. He might be half space alien but his world is surprisingly light on the sci-fi technobabble. ]

Perhaps once we're free of this prison, the answers will make themselves clear to us.

[wolfoutline]

[Sorry Golbez, he's still going.]

Then just one more thing: what exactly does this "freedom" entail? Are they planning to send us back to our worlds?

[stoppedhiding]

That is what we have been told.

[wolfoutline]

But we don't have a way of confirming that. [Vane gives a low sigh of exasperation before managing a wry smile.]

Thanks for answering my questions. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help with winning.