Ah, good morning, criminals.

I have some -- unfortunate news, although those of you who are experiencing it will already be aware and likely will not be appreciative of the admission.

It would seem that a half-hour ago the dimensional stabilizer code began mutating, and now some criminals are completely overlaid with their childhood selves. This added complication has also undone my previous 96% completed progress in repairing the problem. It is most inconvenient for me as well, I assure you, and I am doing everything I can to address it immediately.

I hope you will all understand if I minimize my external processes, so as to focus on solving this issue before the code mutates again.

[Spike is sitting in the kitchen when his bleached hair turns a light brown and his body becomes alive and human.] Oh, dear.

[Looking around at the unfamiliar room with big eyes, growing more afraid and frantic as he sees strange, metallic devices like...microwaves.] Where in heavens am I!? What the devil has attached itself to my face?! What manner of beasts are those!?!?!

Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum!??!?! [Small, scared former vampire is small and scared and now hiding under a table.]

[ not long after Sentience's morning announcement, have a shriek of terror and a teary voice ]

Where-- where am I? I don't-- [ rustlerustle, surprised yelp ] P, please don't bite me!

((ooc: C.C. is now mentally and physically ten years old and last remembers the year being some time in the 13th Century, whee! Just a warning, anyone who comes within physical sight/earshot of C.C. can be affected by her geass when it's activated. Her geass is temporary, but anyone caught in it will think she's the cutest, sweetest, most lovable little girl in the history of ever. They'll want to be near her, want to do things for her, want to give her things and fall all over themselves to make her happy. When she turns it off, or the person is out of range, they'll return to normal. If you like her already, you'll just be much more eager to show her (so no more tsun-ning, Kallen <3). If you don't like her, you will, fufufu. The geass will not work via the communicators, of course. :) ))

[Where is he? What is that weird thing on his head!? Running through endless halls, he is sure there was another person with him when he woke up, but he got scared and ran so fast he couldn't really see who it was or if there was a person at all.

What is this place? Is he still in Shin Makoku? The furniture of this place look nothing alike to those back at Blood Pledge Castle!]

M-Mother!! Big Big Brother!! Little Big Brother!?

[What is this place? Is he still in Shin Makoku? Where is everyone? Scared, he sits down on a nearby couch. Help.]

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{ooc: He is at the shelter common room. Wolfram has been reverted to his younger state (Let's assume he's around 10 years old in human years.) Meaning he's cuter, way less hot headed, kinda wimpier and openly fond of little big brother Conrad. Also, he doesn't remembers a thing about Yuuri or Murata. But that also means he's back to hating humans, so he might give you the attitude and turn racist if he finds out you are one;;;}

[Curled up against a building, tucked into the ally way is a little girl. Her legs are pulled up tight to her chest and she's trembling. If you listen closely you can hear the tears and fear in her voice.]

S-Scary...It's scary. Headmaster...

[She sniffles several times, shifting. Pulling into herself more if possible, her head is buried in her arms and she's shaking, irrationally terrified. Lost...with no memory of how she had gotten here, it reminded her of that one time so long ago. She hiccuped on a frightened sob.]

A...A vampire...c-could...

[There is currently a little boy looking about 6-7 years old with red-orange hair hurrying through the corridors of Sector 0. He's really worried, having woken up in a place he doesn't recognize, and finding this strange contraption on his head, but when he can't figure out what it is-despite having connected his voice to the network--decides it's better not to remove it.

Now he is on a search.]

Mum! Mum, where are you?!

[Josak is lost, but all that matters is that he find his mother. She's been ill too often lately and he needs to make sure she is okay. This place is very strange to him, and he wonders if this is a new place that the soldiers have brought them to.]

{ooc: Josak is young (ignore the age of the icons, please >>), but half-Mazoku aging makes him look even younger. He's from before his mother died and he met Conrad and his father Dan Hiri Weller.}

[What was worst for a young ten years old kid than wake up in a strange room, with no memories of ever being there, being woken up by a strange voice coming from his head and without his family? Probably nothing. A soft crying could be hear when Len didn't recognize his surroundings. Once he has calmed down a little (but not much) he gathers the courage to leave the room and search for his family.

Once in the hallways, he starts screaming]


Riiiiiin!! Mummy! Daddy!! Where are youuuuu? I am scared...


[He then notices the strange thing in his head and freaks out again]


Wh-what is this thing?!

[Physically, Fletcher looks no different than he did before. He's maybe a centimeter or two shorter, if that. But his face is much more worried and troubled than usual, and he's wandering around the shelter without his communicator on.]

Brother? Brother, where are you?

...Mr. Mugear? Are you here?

[Hey, if you're paying attention, you miiight just hear someone taking a deeeeeep deep breath over the communicator. But unless you've got quick reflexes and yank your headset off right at that moment, you're probably going to be deafened in one ear, sorry]

OOOOIIII! AAAAACE!!!

[Never mind that his brother is sitting a mere fifteen feet away from him in the same room. Everyone else was yelling for people, right?]

[Maya wakes up after the morning announcements and finds herself in a strange bed in a place she doesn't remember. It's not Kurain Village, that's for sure.

She hasn't visited Mia's apartment in the city yet, but she guesses that's where she is. It's not like she's seen much of the world at her young age. So if it wasn't Kurain Village, it had to be Mia's apartment she woke up at. Even if she doesn't remember leaving Kurain Village at all.

Maya finds the headset on the nightstand beside her and puts it on. Mia did say she was going to buy a new cellphone since she's going to college now, maybe this is it. She presses the button labeled "voice" and talks, though she's not sure how it works really.]

Mia? Where are you?

[She sees the "Steel Samurai" poster she put up yesterday, but has no recognition of it. Though it does look neat.]

And what's this wall hanging, Mia? "Steel Samurai", what's that?

...Mia? [She looks in the other room in the suite but finds nobody there. So she steps outside into the corridor and notices there's no real sunlight.]

...Where is this?

For those of you who have not been reduced to children, could you answer me one simple question. Does this type of situation happen often around here?

[With Sentience's announcement, and seeing two of her friends already thinking they're children again, she's jumped to conclusions and thinks her other two friends are out there with no memories of this place either.]

Riku, Sora? Where are you two? Please...come out.

[A pause as she mulls over her options.] Has anyone seen them in the shelter? I need to find them as soon as possible.