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Who: Hakkai and anyone!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Marsiva
When: Now!

[Hakkai rises back to consciousness very slowly, with a sense of dread whose source he can't immediately identify. He's cold, all the way down to his bones...but that's not surprising, he remembers, considering where they last were.

His eyes fly open, and he sits up in alarm. Although the fight was over, they were definitely not out of danger yet, wounded and in the open with no shelter. He hadn't thought he'd been so drained from healing Sanzo as to lose consciousness...

...but the surroundings that meet his eyes are definitely not a remote mountainside, and perhaps even more surprisingly, nothing hurts. Did someone find them? How long has he been asleep?

There doesn't seem to be anyone around, but he calls out anyway, a little hesitantly.]

...Is anyone there?

[No helpful villagers - or creepy scientists, as seems a little more likely in this kind of setting - make an immediate appearance, and he's fully healed and recovered from the chi drain of...whenever he was last conscious, so he gets up to look around.]

What sort of place is this...?

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[ Traveling together this long, naturally all four of them would know each other's voices in an instant. ] Sanzo?!

[ But when he turns, there's no grouchy priest nearby. Instead, in that direction is a device that he recognizes instantly as a communicator. Despite never having seen such a thing in his life. ] What in the world...?

[ He picks it up, turns it over a little. Yes, he knows how to work the various functions. The knowledge and simultaneous unfamiliarity is a little disorienting, but he shakes his head and moves past it. ] I'm afraid I've only just woken up. Would you mind elaborating a little?

Some bastards thought it'd be real funny to trap us in some stupid ploy for entertainment. Still not absolutely sure about all the details. Showed up here about a week ago.

[ That's about as elaborate as he can get at the moment. He'll save Hakkai the misfortune of Sanzo trying to figure out how to send the starter's guide he'd gotten. It would only end in frustration. ]

No one else is with you, then. [ He sighs, and Hakkai can surely hear the sound of his robes shifting, then the familiar sound of a cigarette being lit. ]

Which means those idiots are on their own.

I've been asleep for an entire week? I suppose that explains why I'm healed...

[ The idea of Gojyo and Goku unsupervised back home is enough to give anyone pause. ] It...seems that way, yes. [ They can take care of themselves; it's their surroundings he'd worry about more than anything. And... ] ...Oh, dear. I do hope they remember to feed Jeep properly.

I doubt it. Apparently, it's the ones who brought us here that did it. Really goddamn convenient if you ask me.

[ That whole 'healing bones' business is a bitch, even with Hakkai to expedite the process. And with how many he had? It would have put a serious dent in their journey. ]

I'm sure someone will.

Then I take it you're back to full strength, as well? [ Definitely much too convenient. ]

...If nothing else, he'll remind them, certainly... [ Still... ] Any ideas yet on how to find our way out?

Yeah- woke up with no ache to speak of. You want to know the goddamn kicker? My clothes were the cleanest they've been since we started this goddamn crusade.

[ He's contemplative for a few moments before he offers a grunt in reply. ]

Word is that the only way to leave is to 'win' this game.

...But I'm guessing you would have started with that, if we'd been given criteria for what 'winning' would mean.

[ This is a headache and a half. ] I suppose it's fortunate, then - I've always had good luck with winning games.

The criteria for winning this goddamn game are vague and irritating. It boils down to what other people think of us. If they like us, our supposed 'rating' goes up.

[ He scoffs and rolls his eyes, though he knows Hakkai can't see it. It's practically dripping from his words, however. They both know that he's never been a people person. ]

Ah. I can see where that might be a problem. [ 'For you', he politely doesn't add, because they both know what he means. ]

Are there any rules they've laid down for us to follow? [ If they know what their captors don't want, that's a step in the right direction, surely... ]

[ Can you hear his eyes practically rolling out of their sockets, Hakkai? Because it definitely feels like if he rolled them any harder, they'd fall out of their own accord. ]

Yeah, you think?

[ He pauses to consider. ]

Aside from 'don't kill each other'? None that I can see.

Hm. [ And going around killing people just to see what happens if they break the rules isn't the sort of thing he's inclined to do.

Anymore. ]

Well, I suppose we'll have to find our answers as we go.

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