[center][color=gold][h1]Charlotte[/h1][/color]

[i]-Little Clearing, Middle of Some Forest, ???-[/i][/center]


[quote]A ring-tone.

Or, to be more precise, an electronic ring-noise. Kinda like the one you'd hear in a live-call or when using a chat program and getting a message. But the noise came form inside their own head... Which... Was disconcerting to say the least.

Nevertheless! As soon as the brief, three-piece noise stopped, each of them would notice something even more bizarre. in front of their eyes, blocking their vision, a big envelope-shaped icon appeared. Yeah. An icon. Like the one you see on a home-screen on a smartphone or something. But it was there. Right infront of them. Hovering in mid-air. ANd it was moving. Like an animated gif or something. Then, without their consent, it blooped itself, and a new strange thing happened.

A window opened up. Like on a computer screen. But in their eyes. Their mind's eye? Whatever. They could all see it, that's the important bit. The window looked pretty standard to what you'd expect a window containing an email or message to lo0k like, save it was slightly transparent. But that wasn't the important bit. The important bit was what was written, and that the message started automatically reading itself to each of the girls, still in their head, with no scientifically acceptable reason as to why.[/quote]

Eh?! Of all the strange things to happen, what in this lala land was thi-

[quote][b]Subject[/b]: Welcome!
[b]Sender[/b]: God

[b]Message[/b]:
Hello, hello, hello! Congratulations, girls~ *Clap, clap, clap*
You've all been selected as the esteemed and fortunate winners of a trip to an entirely different world, yay! 

I'm sure you got all sorts of quesitons and concerns, but don't worry even teensy bit! I've provided you with some of my personal wardrobe that'll hlep you make your way in this brand new and exciting world you all find yourselves in.

Just remember to keep those garaments on, ladies~ They're your key to success while you're visting here. Oh, and don't worry, even though you're all form different parts of your world and in a brand new one, I've granted you all the ability to both speak and read the language, so you should all be able to communicate flawlessly! Ain't I something~?

Alright then, have fun and I do hope you'll enjoy your time in this world!

Best of luck to you all, [heart-emoji]![/quote]

....Maybe Dante Alighieri really had been terrifyingly correct about more things than he thought when titling his magnum opus of a fanfiction. Perhaps it all truly was, without reservations, a 'Divine Comedy'. Ha. Except she wasn't laughing about this one. The panicking girl who'd been talking about kidnappers seemed to be correct, though instead of simply asking for a ransom this one had kidnapped them and dressed them up in strange costumes. Given that this all seemed oh so strange, Charlotte felt lucky enough to gamble that the 'keep those garments on because they are key to your success here' bit was more than a little bit truthful. Sure it could be full of utter and total B.S., but the cruel irony seemed too ripe and juicy for something like this to NOT be true perhaps. 

Being stuck as a bunnygirl though? Seriously?! It was so stupid! She would never want to wear this, and frankly would have torn it off already if not for the warning, but this self-proclaimed deity messaging them hadn't exactly stopped them from one thing. They just needed to wear these silly costumes, right? No reason she couldn't wear a cloak or something over this either? She wouldn't be not wearing the costume, after all, but she'd have to test the theory later...well, if there was any sort of civilization around here at all. Then again, would their personal disatisfaction with these stupid costumes be the only possible entertainment? A stunt, much like a performance or going out on Halloween, always required an [u]audience[/u] after all. 

Or, well, this was all initial conjecture on her part. A fair bit of assumption and guesswork based on the tone of that blasted message, but she was getting a similar vibe to that of her older sister to some extent and was running with that similar sort of impression for now. 

Yet the simple path forward in that sense, she supposed, would thus be the best for the time being. Keep it simple and practical. Maintain the status quo. Play along, see what they could do, and test things practically along the way to feel out the situation. Certainly being gone from home forever wasn't exactly something she wanted to do, but for the time being the utter surreal nature of what was going on was certainly helping ground her in a sense. Somehow? Somehow, some way, whatever it was. Plus they had nothing else to wear for now anyway, etc. 

[quote=The Shouting Is Back Again/Sayu]"What?! Did it just say 'God'?! And different world? You — you gotta be joking!"

"What do you mean by personal wardrobe?! Is this… is this your doing?! Were you the one who put us in these ridiculous clothes?! Give our clothes back, you pervert!"

"Keep the clothes on? As if! I'll change out of it the moment I find another, less ridiculous set of clothes!"

"Y-you idiot God!"[/quote] 



...That was a fair reaction, as much as the red-hooded girl who called herself Sayu seemed to talk otherwise. Or maybe Charlotte herself had read a few too many manga or something late at night on her phone when she couldn't sleep some nights over the last few years. Etc.

[quote=Aria]"Whoever this God person is," she stammered, her voice carrying a mix of amusement and bewilderment, "they certainly have a weird sense of humour."[/quote]

It seemed all around the reactions from the other females of the group had been diverse enough, and reasonable enough to have in this situation she figured. Anger. Shock. Trying to trade outfits like a kid trying to trade the food they didn't want at Lunch in Elementary School. Hmm. They had most of the stages of grief going on thus far, actually, and she could already feel herself lightly nibbling on her own lower lip without thinking before stopping herself. 

No. Just no. Not right now. Toss it on the backburner, and focus on what was going on in front of her. Breathe, breathe in and out. Focus. Whatever the case was, and however they were feeling, they needed to not just sit about idly for now at least. That much she knew for certain, and that much she could shift her focus onto at the bare minimum.   

[center]-[hider=Five Minutes Later][img]https://i.imgur.com/fMiBMQz.jpg[/img][/hider]-[/center]

[quote=Sayu-nara, My Eardrums]"Unbelievable! It's completely, totally unbelievable!"

"A new, alternate, parallel dimension world? Are we supposed to just believe that?"[/quote]

[color=gold]"I had information I never knew before implanted in my head, and I can fire magic dice at a tree while wearing a bunnysuit. Seems more believable. Besides, it technically was a kidnapper like you said before."[/color]

Five minutes later and they were not a bit closer to whatever they were needing to do than before. If anything was manageable at this rate anywho. Given fifteen more minutes of, even if understandably, frustrated barking Charlotte felt tempted to just start preparing wood for a basic camp or something. She'd been camping sometimes with her family, not that her older sister had enjoyed any of it in reality outside of a few small bits and pieces. Hadn't been her favorite either, but she'd at least learned a few practical things from her father about it. 

[quote=Sayu-later, Alligator!]"Hey… guys.. Do you hear that? It's coming closer… from that way…"

"I… I think it might be some sort of a wild animal!"[/quote]

Hearing things? What, did the little animal ears on her costume actually-

[quote]For some reason, she could hear a distant noise coming from... That direction. Well, it wasn't exactly easy to tell which way that was, due to the lack of a compass or map or any other way to discern one way from another. But regardless, she heard something. Whatever it was, it seemed to be getting closer though. Not particularly fast or anything - but bit by bit, she could hear the sound of rustling leaves, thuds on dirt or grass and the muffled noises of what was... Voices? Animal noises? It was difficult to tell...[/quote]

-...allow her to hear things. From afar. Like an actual animal. Ok, now she could hear it all as well if she was hearing the same things. So the ears had function for this outfit somehow? Or, well, for their outfits in general if the had any? Hmm. That would be something to take note of for later then. 

[quote=Aria]"I don't hear anything in particular."[/quote]

[quote=???]“If you don’t like that outfit, we can swap."

“I don’t hear anything either.”[/quote]

[color=gold]"Actually, I can hear something as well. Voices or something, maybe, but it seems maybe the animal ears on these costumes actually [i]work[/i] somehow. 

There's something moving in our direction, I believe. Perhaps we should try to hide for the moment just in case."[/color]

Yes. That sounded like a far better idea than still panicking. In that vein, Charlotte tried to grab the arm of the panicky Sayu to drag over behind the nearest large and wide tree in proximity to them. Well, if the other girl would allow her to anywho. If Sayu didn't allow her to bring her to cover, then Charlotte would just go hide behind such a tree (if any) herself alone as a precaution. Either way, if the others didn't believe them she was going to try to save her skin at the very least (and someone else's in the process if she could maybe).

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