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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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[orange is a new color, so i'm going to call out if i see you in a classroom.]

What's that team called?

[he turns around, raising both eyebrows]

Drama. What's yours?

Math.

I have to wonder who decided to make a place like this into some kind of fucked up Sabra high school reunion.

It—I'm sorry, did you say Sabra?

-- Oh, right. Yeah, Sabra was a place like this, gods ran games and got off on people dying and hurting. Assuming we get games here past trying to kill each other.

. . . I know what it is, I was there. But I don't remember ever seeing you.

[On hearing that he was there, she immediately takes a half-step backwards and you can practically see her guard go up. She does not want to compete against Sabrans in murdergames...]

... I wasn't there. But I've seen enough of it, and I never saw you there, either.

[well that's a reaction he's never gotten before. At least, not until he tells them about who his patron was]

I looked a little different back then. What do you mean, you've seen it?

...

You answer my question first. Do the names Bluebird or Spark mean anything to you?

[he frowns for a moment, going through all the names - and nicknames - he remembers, before he shakes his head]

I didn't know anyone by those names.

What about... Trill? Her team was 'Wingblades'.

. . . that wasn't one of our team names.

They were orange. And they were in a game run by someone called "Haunted".

I know who Haunted is, but . . . orange was Vulpecula.

... Vulpecula is where Spark was from. Bluebird was from Pyxis, but on a team with him.

[oh. Oh, that explains a . . . lot . . . ]

So you know people from that time.

When I was there, it was a long, long time after them.

Go on.

We were the last round of Blanks before that place was destroyed.

[he shrugs] There isn't much more to it.

Blanks?

... That place should have been annihilated during their time, though. Even if it did get restored, they should have gotten out.

People who gave up their memories. What they called us.

. . . anyone who was - trapped, their souls were released when the pillar was broken.

It sounds to me like we need to trade stories.

. . . mm, it seems so.

What's your name?

... Gray Nightingale. My team- My real team, I mean- is called Takshaka.

. . . another place with teams. [he's frowning again] I'm Shinichi.

Teams and amnesia. It seems to be kind of a theme.

That doesn't sound like a name from a team.