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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.]

Comments

[clocksandroses]

Macaron … on Math, huh …

[ mmmboy oh boy how I do love being on a different team from my teammates! w-whatever Coco, suck it up, it's not like you're not used to this. ]

And there are six teams in total.

[cantstopthebeat]

[her expression sinks more when she realizes that there are only six teams, and there's someone from Teal or Iris on four of them.]

I don't have a good feeling about this.

[clocksandroses]

Teams, bloodstains on the floor, no more than two of us to a team … mm, it looks like it could be. Um.

Troublesome.

[cantstopthebeat]

. . .

As it is, if this is like the library... if there's a bad competition, we might not be able to get away with avoiding each other—the odds aren't in our favor.

[clocksandroses]

[ Tightens the hug a little. ]

If it turns out like that … we'll do everything we can. We all know we can trust each other—we all know we wouldn't do anything unless we had no choice.

[cantstopthebeat]

[tightening the hug on her end, too.]

I know—I know that we all trust each other and that we wouldn't hurt each other if we could avoid it, but—[I DON'T LIKE THESE ODDS oh god]

[clocksandroses]

We'll work something out.

[ ughh this is awful this sucks this is the worst ]

In the meantime … I'm worried about that stupid rule against sharing.

[cantstopthebeat]

. . . I am, too.

We can—we should be able to figure out something, right? If we can hunt and gather, we could split the jobs up ... some of us can gather, some of us can hunt, and then we can trade.

[clocksandroses]

Yeah … hopefully.

Hopefully there'll be more food here than there was at the Library. And at the very least, at least we're all used to hunting.

[cantstopthebeat]

[... nods...]

We learned how to make due in the Library. Hopefully—that helps here.

[clocksandroses]

We'll be okay, Ferril. We didn't get through that just to be brought down by some other stupid place.

[cantstopthebeat]

[another nod]

I know. This can't be as bad as there ... there's a rule against murder, so—

[clocksandroses]

Here's hoping, at least.

[ She has a feeling that it will be just as bad. ]

There's another thing I've been wondering ... if we're supposed to be students, who are the teachers?

[cantstopthebeat]

I ... I don't actually know. I'm not sure if I want to know, either.

[clocksandroses]

[ Snorts. ]

Ha. We'll probably find out sooner than we'd like.

[cantstopthebeat]

[nods...]

I know. I'm expecting that, too. I know how these places work.