alphacomplex | DAY 00

[Good afternoon, Citizens!

Your consciousness blurrily returns as the transport tube your comatose body was stored in opens up, admitting you access to an unfamiliar room. One wall is covered by vertical tubes, one occasionally sliding open to admit another confused person. The wall across from you has a sign saying "PROCEED TO CENTRAL HUB", with an arrow pointing at a red doorway in the corner. The wall to your right contains an unlabeled, dusty, and poorly-lit hallway with blue walls, floor, and ceiling. You can't see the end from here.

Somewhere on your person, you will find a thin, smartphone-sized object that wasn't there before. One side of it is lit up with a red background and a number of disabled menu items. Most of the screen is taken up by another message saying "PROCEED TO CENTRAL HUB".

What is this place, anyway? And who are these people stumbling in through the transport tube array?]

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Neither have I.

[...the Gate doesn't count, does it? But he doesn't exactly remember it, either.]

Whatever it is, it's ridiculous. And I bet whoever grabbed all of us won't be showing his face anytime soon.

It would be far too simple for all of us to turn against him if he did. Of course, he's presumably the only one who could send us back to our worlds, but with the group we have here, I wouldn't be surprised if he was killed within five minutes of showing up.

That is an excellent point.

[Greed would waste no time killing him, for one. And he knows he's not alone.]

....but that's assuming he's not hidden himself away somewhere. I know all about people who pull strings from the shadows. They're tricky; never put it past them to do things like fake their own deaths.

I'm not surprised; people like that are quite common, unfortunately.

[He knows someone who's great at pulling strings...]

I doubt we'll see them, or if we do see them, they'll be hiding in plain sight, where we won't suspect them.

[....how many people here are familiar with this sort of thing?

Probably a lot of them.]

Suspect everyone, huh?

That'll make things interesting.

Exactly.

[It's likely to wear him out by the third day...]

I'm not sure "interesting" is how I would describe it, but it's something to take into account.

[Unfortunately, everything is interesting to Greed.

This is why he ended up allied with Mr. Explodey Hands over there. It did not end well.]

With any luck, we'll catch the bastard who did this before long.

Hopefully. I have things I need to return home to as soon as possible.

[You know, like running the kingdom, building an army, oppressing his citizens, that sort of thing.]

[You know, Greed doesn't.... actually have much to return to but hey let's not bring that up.]

I'm sure you're not the only one.

[Oh, so you're one of those rulers.

........it figures you'd make a beeline right for Greed.]

...Are you saying you don't have much to return to?

[Hey, he does it out of necessity!]

You're a perceptive man.

[You and every other pompous man Greed's ever met.

Not that he minds, of course. If he minded he would have left by now.]