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[principals]

Who: All y'all
When: Day 1 – Morning
Where: Everywhere
What: School is in

[Somewhere, a bell begins to ring. You may know the type—obnoxious and loud, signalling the start of a brand new day of lectures and learning. Rise and shine, lovelies; wakey wakey eggs and bakey! And with that, just as the toll falls silent, you hear the sound you may have been waiting for: the click of a lock.

You're free to explore.]

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[anoblecaws]

A pleasure! [He shakes with one hand, while picking up a frog with the other.]

N'aww. Look at this little froggie. Hi!

[The frog looks up at him and croaks phlegmatically.]

[footwork]

Hehe, that's a cool one! You've got good taste in frogs!

[ He wants to try and catch his own now, so he crouches down and stares into the pond. ]

[anoblecaws]

Well, I like all frogs!

[No really. He does. Henry the Dark Mage: terror of Plegia, mass murderer, friend to all living things.]

[footwork]

I don't know much about them, but a place that's got frogs and fish can't be all bad.

[ He'll probably eat those words later.

For now, with a soft a-ha! he snatches a frog up and holds it out for Henry to see. ]

Whoa, look at this one! Can you tell if it's a girl or a boy?

[anoblecaws]

Let's find out.

[Henry sets his frog in his lap and leans towards Noya's.]

Hey! Are you a girl or a boy?

[Croooooak.]

...She says she's a girl. Nya ha!

1/2

[footwork]

You speak frog?!

[footwork]

... wait, that's not a real thing, is it?

[ He's looking veeeeeeeery closely at the frog, just in case it just. Said it was a girl somewhere. ]

[anoblecaws]

Of course it is! I've had the power ever since I was a kid.

[He starts petting the frog, smiling at her.]

[footwork]

No waaaaay, I'm not convinced! What else is she saying?

[anoblecaws]

[He pauses for a moment.]

She says you're being kind of loud. Nya ha ha!

For real though, there's no way for you to confirm or deny whether I can do it or not, because you can't talk to animals.

...Right?

[smiiiiiiiirk]

[footwork]

This isn't loud at all!!

[ He's still doubtful, but damn he's got a point there. ]

... Ask her what her name is, then?

[anoblecaws]

Her name's Ghie.

[Frogs have weird names, apparently.]

[footwork]

It suits her! That's really lady-like.

[anoblecaws]

[The frog croaks. It sounded happy-ish.]

Aw, she says thank you!

[footwork]

You're welcome, Ghie!

[ Quite possibly one of his more successful conversations with a female.

He sets her back down at the edge of the pond now though, giving her a little nudge to go back in. ]

[anoblecaws]

[She happily goes back in, making a small bloop as she goes under the water. Henry waves.]

See, what did I tell ya? Totally legitimate animal whisperer, right here.

[footwork]

Alright, alright, I believe you. You don't have to keep rubbing your cool superpowers in!

[ He's grinning, though, because still thinks Henry is 98% playing around. ]

[anoblecaws]

Why shouldn't I? You said yourself, my powers are awesome.

...Even if they have been sealed to a fraction of their normal capacity.

[STILL GRINNING]

[footwork]

What, are you cursed or something?

[anoblecaws]

I don't know! Dispelling curses is kind of my specialty, but I haven't sensed a curse on anyone else. I can just feel my magic not working properly, you know?

And I think other people have the same problem. One guy from my team tried to punch things down with his huge metal arm and barely made a dent. That's... probably not supposed to happen normally.

[footwork]

Wow... that's a lot to take in!!

[anoblecaws]

Yeah, it's pretty worrying, to be honest!

[STILL SMILING.]

[footwork]

You don't look worried at all?!

[anoblecaws]

Well, I'm in a pretty good mood other than that! So why frown?

[footwork]

[ He can't decide if that's super genius or still really weird, so he's just going to stare at Henry very!! intensely!! until he decides. ]