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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

[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. ]

[anoblecaws]

[Experimentally, Henry waves a hand in front of his face.]

Hellooooo? Anybody home? You weren't soul-wiped, were you?

[footwork]

What-- no! I was just thinking! You're standing right here, I think you'd know if I were soul-wiped, whatever that is!!

[anoblecaws]

Not necessarily! Hee hee.

[He grins.]

What are you thinking about?

[footwork]

You.

[ Errrrrr. ]

Your attitude, I mean!! Don't get the wrong idea!

[anoblecaws]

You're thinking about how my attitude is super great, right?

[This is clearly a joke. He's not that self-obsessed.]

[footwork]

That's what I was trying to decide before you started saying weird things!

[anoblecaws]

Weird things, huh? Like what?

[HENRY YOU CLEARLY KNOW WHAT WEIRD THINGS YOU SAY]