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[elswhisperer]

We should assume communications are being monitored by our captors. Be careful what you reveal here.

[ Short and to the point, this is all Setsuna has to say. ]

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[elswhisperer]

An attempt to understand us?

[ Setsuna thinks back on the survey. ]

Some of the questions were basic. Name, occupation, display language. The rest were personal. "What would I do if a room full of people laughed at me". Personal, but nothing with answers that could be meaningfully leveraged against me. I don't know if it was the same for others.

Were you asked your reason for arrival? I found that question the strangest. Why would I know that?

[ It's honestly kind of bothering him. ]

[xiaoxiuya]

I was. And the "room full of people laughing at me" question, which was certainly unpleasant >_> That's why I thought maybe it was intended to stir emotional reponses. It certainly managed that.

But you're right, there's something odd about that question. Why would it ask us for a reason, when we were all brought here without our consent? ...Unless we did give our consent, and simply have no memory of doing it? That's a horrifying thought.

Or perhaps there is more than one entity managing this city? One who wrote and distributed the questions, and another who brought us here, possibly without complete communication with the first? That might imply there was a breakdown in proper procedures...perhaps we were never actually intended to be brought here against our will? I suppose time will tell.

[elswhisperer]

The larger in scale an operation, the more opportunities for something to go wrong. It'd be a considerable miscommunication, though. And they'd have to have realized it by now.

[xiaoxiuya]

Must they? I've been assuming that we are all under constant surveillance, because that was the case in my previous transmigration. But if we aren't -- if, in fact, we've been left to our own devices -- it may be some time before anyone bothers to check on us.

[elswhisperer]

Bringing us here and then abandoning us?

[ There's a benefit to not being observed, but the implications are troubling. ]

Waiting long enough for major developments to occur between us all?

[ Like seeing if anyone's dead. ]

[xiaoxiuya]

At least one of our fellow captives believes we were all brought here in order to be pit against each other, as if in a giant cage match. I have no intention of killing anyone, of course -- but I see no evidence to contradict such a theory, either.

It's all rather nerve-wracking, honestly.