ORIENTATION

[allforevil]

[When you start to stir from your slumber, you awaken to the smell of dust and rotted wood. Your bed is far from comfortable -- lumps in the mattress, a tattered blanket that barely keeps you warm and a pillow almost as hard as a rock-- and you'll immediately see there are others in your room with you.

All of you are confused, surely. "Where am I?" "What place is this?" Questions like that stir through your mind while you take in your surroundings. Something might catch your eye before anything else, though. A coloured chest tied with a bow, a large gift tag is attached to it with your name on it. There's one for everyone in each dorm, and if you open it you'll find:

An old, worn school uniform.
A colourful costume.
And a pamphlet with information about you, about your stay in this Academy, and a map of the layout of the school and the training grounds outside. The descriptions are vague, leaving out important details about your new super powers called "Quirks", a bland description about how you were selected to join the Academy called "VA" (no explanation what it means), and even the map has lame descriptions of locations that don't really give you a good idea of where you're staying.

Before you can start exploring, or chatting away with your neighbors, a voice rings over old intercoms. It sounds low and comforting, like a long lost friend. But there's something about that that feels.. unsettling. A feeling in your gut that this voice was anything but friendly.

"Welcome, students. You must be very confused, but I assure you I'll be able to answer all the questions you have in just a few minutes.

For now, relax, explore, and meet your new classmates who will be staying with you during this semester.

Oh, but..... whatever you do, don't enter the dining room."

The intercom cuts off, leaving you with a cryptic message to think about on top of.. everything else you're dealing with right now.]

Comments

Dining Hall

[allforevil]

[So you're curious what's inside, are you?

Do you want to open the doors? Or are you going to change your mind last minute?]

[zukocopy]

[Well maybe....

No, just kidding, it's Todoroki. He's gonna try and open the door.]

1/2

[allforevil]

[Tugging on the handle gets a deafening creak coming from the old wooden doors. It's silent as everyone waits with baited breath to see what's inside, and before Todoroki can get the door open all the way, it's suddenly forced open from something on the other side. Possibly smacking the half boy in the face as it happens.]

[allforevil]

[What everyone's greeted with is a loud screech that sounds almost like a pained scream, coming from this hunk of a creature.

And it looks less than happy.

It takes a step out, looking as though it's ready to fight.]

[bianyifang]

[And yeah, As soon as Todoroki opens the door, even before they see what it is, Duck leans over his shoulder and just blows a huge bellow of his Quirk smoke in the crack. Enough to cause anyone in that room to not have a Great Time]

[zukocopy]

Nomu?!

[He manages to recover quickly enough. Though the door left a nice bruise on his shoulder. TIME TO LIGHT IT ON FIRE.]

[lemirio]

[Jesus fuck this is why we should have kept the door shut]

Nomu-

[Mirio breathes, his eyes widening as the hulking creature suddenly comes out of the dining room, and like.

Mirio has no way to stop it. He can't reach Permeation, he hasn't tried to reach his new Quirk, but he can't just let this thing kill everyone in this room either!]

Everyone get out of here! You cannot stop this thing! Now!

[encelevenemus]

And what, then, do you propose we do, hide away from it? We outnumber that daemon, and even were we to run 'twould only track us like prey and kill us one by one. Best to handle it here and now while we have the numbers on our side.

[lemirio]

You can't just "handle" it! Even all of us fighting it at once couldn't stop it! These things are from my world, I've seen how much damage they can do! It'll kill us all faster that way I can promise you that!

[encelevenemus]

I see. An 'undefeatable' monster, and all of us in an enclosed space where it's likely to outpace us all before we get far. So, then, if we're to die regardless of whether we run or not, I shall prefer to make an effort than run like a coward.

[lemirio]

[Mirio grits his teeth, moving a step back away from the door. It doesn't look like he intends to leave himself, but with all these others here...]

We could get it back in that room. It would stall it. Not forever, but if we could manage to push it back...

[It's been in there this long, right?]

[encelevenemus]

Brilliant plan, yes.

And if we can push it back, it stands to reason we may as well try to overpower it utterly, now does it not?

[lemirio]

[How many times does he have to teach you this lesson, old man?!]

You'll see for yourself. Overpowering it isn't going to work like you hope it will!

[All Might can stop One Nomu. At max strength, the power times fifty of what they have.

It's not going to work.]

[tokencanadian]

We can't if we don't have our weapons!

[If only her lance hadn't been destroyed...]

What is this thing?!

[notbymyside]

[As Todoroki is pulling open the door, Ango suddenly goes from 'calm' to 'panic' and calls out to him to stop.]

Wait no, don't open that-

[Andddd there he goes.

And there's the monster.

And Ango is desperately reaching behind him for a gun that should be there but is not.

Welp.]

[hebibara]

[ yikes he ain't gettin' close to that ]

[tokencanadian]

Everyone step back!

[Pyrrha didn't have to know what the hell this thing was to see that it looked dangerous.

She just gently inserts herself in between Nomu and anyone who looks like they're having a hard time getting away.]

This... this isn't any Grimm I've seen before.

[purefuries]

[ Well! That sure is a thing. Junko takes a step back, because that is not something she can fight long distance.

But she doesn't otherwise react, still placidly smiling. ]

[chorochoroski]

[ ...oh god

Yeah, Choro's definitely gonna scream in terror (which does not activate his quirk yet mind you) and skedaddle outta here.

...Or at least try to skedaddle before he trips over his feet and falls to the floor. Goddamn his clumsy ass. ]

[lacampanella]

[ oh

he'll just step away from that and, well, he hasn't gotten a handle over his Quirk just yet, but there's at least a chair flying at it as he continues to backpedal out of range ]

[encelevenemus]

[Somnus didn't quite know a lot of things. He didn't know what a PA system was, or why he was here. He didn't know his own power was gone to be replaced with something given a name that was all but heresy.]

[He didn't know what this thing was, save for comparing it to a daemon.]

[But he did know that it was a monster that should not have existed.]

If you've no skill to fight, get behind me. The rest of you... This creature needs be dealt with immediately.

[ninehilist]

Unless you have a gun or something, how the hell do you expect do that?!

[Seriously, dude.]

If we run we might have time to make a plan of attack.

[encelevenemus]

Were we or were we not supposedly granted powers in this place?! I should think this as good a time as any to use them and destroy this inhuman creature!

[somnus is not often one for 'plans'.]

[ninehilist]

And unless you know every in and out of every person's powers here, we're more likely to die from trying to use them than we are from that thing.

[iseedollpeople]

[Um. Yeah. No, no, nope, Mei is moving back another few steps as soon as the scream hits, single eye widening in more surprise than she exhibited upon awakening in a place she entirely doesn't recognize.

She at least recognizes bad juju when she sees it.

She's clutching her useless map, but other than that she has no weapons or defenses, so this is probably for the best. She does pay some attention to those naming the creature, though.]