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[It was competition time, which meant a lot of extra practice for Maron and the rhythmic gymnastics team in her school. Extra hours of practice meant a perfected routine to perform in the upcoming tournament. It also meant a lot of stress for Maron, especially since she had sprained her ankle as Jeanne not long before. But still, she was dancing, jumping, twirling, and balancing as if nothing was wrong in practice.

In fact, that's what she was doing, when she found herself in Luceti: jumping, leaping, twirling, stop. But one of her jumps across the mat wound her in a different world entirely. Maron began the jump at one end of the mat, ribbon in hand, dancing on the air as she began...

And it would end in Luceti, with her still jumping. Into people. Were you one of them, up on cherry blossom hill that she jumped into by accident?]

[later on, after getting settled into the welcome center and reading through the guide, Maron fiddles with her journal, and then speaks to the citizens:]

So we're stuck here indefinitely because of some crazy scientists called the Malnosso, no ways out?

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[Vincent is minding his own business, in one of his pensive moods as he walks along...]

[...and of course that's when he's suddenly CRASHED INTO. He loses his balance, falls, and then draws his gun on reflex.]

[Well at least her face isn't in your crotch. That should be a good thing.

But she is pretty much sprawled out on top of him. Yes Vincent, she's in New feather clothes, plz2b not shooting her.] Ow... what the heck happened...?

[It doesn't take much for Vincent to realize that she's not a threat. It was just... a startling moment. He lowers the weapon. It's hard to be too stern and foreboding in such an awkward position, though.]

I don't know... Have you been here long?

[Noticing the clothes, he assumes not. And if she fell so suddenly out of nowhere... could it be she's that new?]

Huh? What do you mean "here"? I'm in--

[...the rain? Wait a minute...]

Wh-where am I?!

A place called Luceti. We were all brought here like this... against our will.

...

[She's just. Going to stare at you, Vincent.

After a moment she'll look around, and slowly realize that this is not where she should be.]

I know it seems difficult to believe... but that's the situation we're in. We can only remain here until we're sent home.

Sent home? They send us home from this place?

[...oh. Uh. Might want to get off of Vincent, huh? She'll do that quickly, blushing a little. That was awkward.]

Er... sorry. Forgot where I was. Uh... anything else I should know about this place?

[Vincent gets swiftly up and back to his feet in a swirl of red. As his cape settles around him, he regains his composure.]

We cannot return home of our own will, so it's best to become accustomed to this place. There's a village, and housing... and many basic items are available with no need to pay for them. We're within an enclosure that extends some distance off.

[A pause. It always has to get foreboding with him.]

But we're here for a distinct purpose... as experiments.

...W-we're experiments...?!

That is our fate in this place. We don't have any choice in the matter.

...

W-what sort of experiments? [You have effectively freaked her out, Vincent.]

[Nothing about the word "experiment" is ever pleasant, he can agree wholeheartedly on that.]

They call it Shifting. They can alter our bodies, minds, our very histories if they want... the effects themselves are always temporary, and tend to happen on a monthly basis.

[Of course, horrific psychological damage lasts forever. Not that... every experiment causes THAT. Honest.]

...at least they're only temporary, but even thinking about it is... well, not fun? But why do they do it?

Apparently as a means to find a way out of their current situation... and to eventually send us home again.

Wait, their 'current situation'? What do you mean by that?

It's complicated... but their 'experiments' are meant to send us home. They don't intend for us to arrive here, but they are responsible for keeping us within the enclosure.

There are also enemies beyond the enclosure that we must be concerned with, other than the Malnosso.

There's other people beyond them? Who are they?

The Third Party.

[Vincent's stare becomes more intense, more dramatically serious.]

Their army has invaded this enclosure, and even now we're often sent away to wage war against them. Their sole intention for us is to cause us permanent death.

...isn't death permanent anyway? [seriously side-eying you now.]

The cycle of life and death knows no true end in Luceti.

[And this sounds far more ominous coming from him than any Welcome Center person could ever make it sound. Aren't you lucky you had to run into him instead?]

That... are you serious?

[Maron, look closely at this man. Does he appear to be a joking type at all?]

I wish I wasn't... yet that is our fate, in this world.

It's what they say. There's a barrier surrounding the area that prevents anyone from leaving.

Yeah, I read about the barrier. I don't see why they'd take random people though, that makes no sense.

[Whoa, whoa, whoa! Incoming! Ginji does his best to get out of the way so as to avoid a head-on collision with this girl, but then he thinks that maybe he should be trying to catch her instead. Out goes his arm. Will he manage to get a hold of her and keep her steady? Will he fall over himself? ~~Stay tuned.~~]

Ahh-- look out!

[It was an odd moment when the music she had been practicing to just up and disappeared. But now there was an accompanying voice to go with it! Maron will open her eyes and...]

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

[She'll try to catch on to him- 'try' being the keyword in that- so she won't crash directly into him.]

[Ginji fights back a wince - that's some loud screaming.]

[Through their combined efforts, Ginji's managed to get a hold on her. But being awkward, as soon as he's pretty sure she's resting her weight on her own two feet again, he's more than willing to let go.]

Sorry about that... I didn't see you coming until it was too late. Are you okay?

[Sorry for that scream, Ginji :(

Once she's on her feet and he's let her go, she'll look at him a little... awkwardly.]

Uh, sorry, sorry... I'm all right, but... I'm not exactly where I should be.

It's okay. [He smiles briefly.] But I'm guessing that you must have just arrived here.

[Ginji fingers his chin, wondering how best to put this without scaring her or making it sound as if he made everything up on the spot. He sighs, at a loss, making a palm up gesture with his hand.]

This'll sound incredible, if not flat out impossible, but right now you're in Luceti. It's the name of the village where everyone lives. None of us are where we're supposed to be right now.

[staaaaaaaaare.

Maron will look around: at her surroundings, her clothes... this is far too an elaborate prank for any of her friends to pull off, and this guy looks a lot different than most around her home do...]

Yeah, that does sound pretty incredible. I don't have much choice in believing it, though.

[Well, yeah. Fuzzy-trimmed pilot jackets and muted gray hair might be a little different. Not to mention Luceti Wings (TM) which - unlike angel wings - don't work.]

[Sweatdrop.]

No, I guess not, and that's the best attitude you can take about it, really. You probably saw this coming, but what I've said is only the beginning. There are people responsible for bringing us here called the Malnosso. You don't see a lot of them, but they're still a dangerous bunch.

So we were kidnapped and brought here? For what? I mean, I've noticed the wings and the ache that comes with that, that can't be why they kidnap us.

No, not exactly, but that's part of it. And you'll want to do your best to take care of those wings, since they're now a vital part of your system. Those who've injured them somehow have gotten really sick until the wings were able to heal.

I guess the easiest way to put it is that the Malnosso are interested in research and experimentation. Every so often something out of the ordinary will happen in the village or some of us will get taken away to undergo experiments. Some people get sent on drafts instead.

As for the Malnosso Organization, they claim to have plans to send us back to our worlds eventually, but there's another group of people, the Third Party, who just want us out of the way.

Sorry, that's a lot of information at once.

Well...sort of. I've also heard other people saying that it's not the Malnosso who bring us to this world. Something else does, but the Malnosso are just the people who keep us in Luceti.

They keep us in a barrier, right? Sort of like lab rats? What's beyond the barrier, or does anyone know?

Well...it's more land and oceans and stuff like that. There's mountains, and forests, and deserts. And there are other enclosures like Luceti that we just found out about.

Woah, we're not the only ones here? They keep others like they do us?

[She thinks for a moment]

Are they like us? Has anyone here met them?

A couple of us have, when we went on missions for the Malnosso. They...seem to be worse off than people in Luceti, unfortunately. I wish we could help them somehow, someday.

They won't let us help them directly? They're just going to let them suffer?

...I guess. I mean, some of these villages have been around longer than Luceti, but we just found out about them now. The Malnosso didn't tell us about them at all.

[This is a terrible first topic of conversation.]

That's... I don't think I understand these Malnosso people at all. They aren't human.

[It is. But at least she'll know!]

Yeah, I don't get them either. They're supposed to be the ones working on a way to send everyone back home, but I don't get how any of this is supposed to help anyone. I wish they'd at least tell us what they were working on, so we'd know one way or another.

Or just tell the people something so they could help them. If they get a lot of people helping them in... whatever it is they're doing, they'd find a way.

Right? We should all be working together, not keeping important information from each other! Because there's a lot of smart people in Luceti, so if they knew everything the Malnosso knew, maybe they could help the Malnosso out.

There's probably a reason why they don't want our help that way. That's the only thing I can think of. Maybe they're hiding something? Or maybe they're really spies?

What would they be spies for, though?

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