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[holyfight]

[The message is sent out via cellphone. Somehow, Orihime had managed to make use of her new phone's camera feature and had texted her entire new address book her video message. And just behind her head, which is taking up most of the video, you can see the decor of an old hotel. And so, any of the other newcomers should be receiving this video via text message]

Hello! I don't think we know each other, but I'm sure me being here is some kind of mistake! If you're the one who brought me here, I just... I want you to know there's been a mistake! I don't have anyone to pay my ransom, and I wouldn't make a very good experiment or meal or hostess or any of the other things that teenage girls get kidnapped by crime syndicates for!

Unless you're not a crime syndicate and there was some other reason I was brought here? Maybe you're some secret organization that needs to save the world? I'm not sure, but if you need help, I'll help you out! I'd just like to go back home whenever we're done, please?

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[video]

[suppressthedark.livejournal.com]

[Th-That voice...he knew that voice. So yeah, he scrambles to send a reply as fast as he can.]

Inoue?! Inoue, is that you?

Hooray vidya!

[holyfight]

Kurosaki-kun?!

They got you, too? Are you in an old hotel, too?

[Video]

[babel_hacker]

[She's certainly upbeat.]

Well, we don't know how or why we're here yet.

[suppressthedark.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am. I've been here for a couple of days.

[Dude what is this will some more of his nakama show up?]

Are you alright?

[holyfight]

Maybe we're in the same one?!

A couple of days? Are you okay? Have you eaten? And I'm fine, just confused...

[vidya]

[holyfight]

How... How many of us are there?

[vidyaa]

[babel_hacker]

[A short pause to count.]

About..ten so far? Maybe a few more?

[totally_blue]

[Wow, she's definitely take this in wrong way. Time to straighten her misunderstanding.]

You know, miss. You've been mistaken. We have no idea why we're here.

[video]

[croibhristeoir]

A...crime syndicate?

[holyfight]

I wonder what it means? I mean, if that's a lot or not enough?

[holyfight]

We don't?

But... isn't that even worse?

[video]

[holyfight]

Exactly! That's the first thing I'd think when I woke up in an odd place! That I'd been kidnapped!

[suppressthedark.livejournal.com]

Probably, yeah.

Ah, I'm fine. I got some cards from the staff for the restaurants around here and other things like that.

[He snorts.]

Me too, Inoue.

[totally_blue]

Yep, but we didn't make anything trouble, so let's say they took you here for some other reason.

[video]

[croibhristeoir]

[Well, that was certainly a chipper way to approach a kidnapping. Never mind that Lancer wasn't quite sure what a crime syndicate even was.]

I can't exactly say you're wrong, but no one yet knows how we have come to arrive here or who is responsible.

[babel_hacker]

I guess we can tell if more people comes? There's already a lot of us here.

[holyfight]

They... give us free food gift cards?

[hear that? That's her stomach growling. Just ignore the blushing at that]

I-I'm in room 707. Where are you?

[holyfight]

How strange! It's hard to believe no one has come forward to admit to bringing us here! I'm sure they had a reason!

Umm... I'm Inoue Orihime! What's your name?

[holyfight]

I wonder why...

Umm, I'm Inoue Orihime! I don't think we were introduced before!

[holyfight]

[it totally makes sense!]

You would think that if they went to the trouble of bringing us here, they'd at least tell us why...

[croibhristeoir]

Unfortunately, it seems our predicament is nothing so simple.

[holyfight]

What do you know about it so far?

[totally_blue]

Ah, my apologies.

My name is Kaito. It's nice to meet you, Inoue-san.

[croibhristeoir]

To begin with, none of us fully understand why we have been called here--it seems to be a city in the United States somewhere.

Second, once the clock turns to midnight this place seems to change, though it may sound strange to hear. If you've been taken here like several others have, I would assume you will experience it the same as we do.

This world...the colors of it seem to distort, and black coffins stand where living people did only moments before. More than that, the streets seem to be populated by strange black creatures--

...forgive me, I must sound completely insane telling you all of this so suddenly.

[holyfight]

It's nice to meet you, too, Kaito-san!

So I guess you were just brought here, too, huh? Where are you from?