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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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[experiencepoints]

You're that guy from Tiamat, right? With the yelling matches with Aoko.

[carptricks]

[S. . . TARES]

[Please do not tell me this means what he thinks it means]






What's Tiamat?

[experiencepoints]

Oh.

[carptricks]

[Ffffuck fuck fuck]

. . . is it a team name?

[experiencepoints]

If I said it wasn't, would you believe me?

[carptricks]

No.

[A blunt and totally resigned answer]

[experiencepoints]

[Sighs.]

I didn't know you at all, anyway. You going to want me to explain it again?

[carptricks]

. . . you probably don't have to.

[lets out a small sigh]

What's the name of the place you're from?

[experiencepoints]

Kyriakos. I don't know if that's the name of the castle, or the weird space it's in, but.

[carptricks]

[Sabra. Aather. The Library. Kyriakos. Just how many places was he going to wind up. . .]

I'm from Aather. And a place called the library. It never really had a name.

[Gives her a tired shrug]

[experiencepoints]

From what I've heard, just call it Bullshit.

[carptricks]

Heard?

Who told you about the library?

[experiencepoints]

... I know her as Belt. You know her as Macaron.

[carptricks]

. . . why is Macaron in Ky--





You know what? Nevermind, I don't want to know why.

[experiencepoints]

Same as everyone else. Her world got destroyed.

[carptricks]

[record scratch. suddenly she has his full attention]

-- destroyed by what?

[experiencepoints]

How many times am I going to have to explain this today...

Monsters called Reapers. They destroy worlds. People get unmade, except some don't and just have their souls shattered into a zillion pieces, one piece gets brought to that castle so we can play games and try to rebuild ourselves, that's Kyriakos.

[carptricks]

[Reapers. . . not the darkness. But still, he knows other worlds all had different names for it, so he has to ask]

Who are the Reapers?

[experiencepoints]

Monsters. That's all I know.

[carptricks]

Monsters made of darkness?

[experiencepoints]

Is there a part of "that's all I know" that was unclear? I don't remember, on account of dying with my world and then my soul getting broken and losing all my memories.

[carptricks]

. . .

It's just familiar, that's all.

[experiencepoints]

... Familiar, but you don't know Tiamat?

[carptricks]

[Shakes his head]

No. I don't.

In Aather, we were fighting against a world-destroying force we only knew as the darkness. Each game we played in produced power to push it back.

[experiencepoints]

... Tell me about the darkness, then.