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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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I wish I could.

[Sighs.]

And you have no idea why we're here either.

Not a clue, no. I'm half-tempted to go track down who or what's in charged.

If you see mirrors and roses, it's one of ours, run.

[wow does his head jerk up real fast]

Mirrors?

[... ah]

Yeah?

[there are so many mixed feelings going on right now]

. . . fuck.

What?

My patron in Sabra la Tau was named Mirror. If you're telling me to run from yours, I'm sure whoever they are is just as pleasant as mine was.

[Snorts.]

No one would patron to Nyssa, don't worry. Her and Yaksinis top everyone's shit list.

. . . yeah, I'm sure.

Well... I suggested patroning as a way to try to kill her once, but like hell anyone would try it.

. . . she's that bad, huh.

... In yours, if anyone dies in a game, they're brought back right after, right?

Yes? For the most part.

... When I attacked her realm, hoping we could break whatever she was planning before she did it... After the game ended, my teammate who had been killed wasn't brought back.

. . . at all?

... We had to quest to bring her back from our patron. It took our blood, from a bunch of people. And one of those people was a werewolf, so now she's... got something weird going on.

Then, we had to quest for Nyssa again to fix the broken clock, so she'd ever revive Sparrow again. It took more of our blood, from six people, and had us rewound to kids for a few days.

And then, even after all that, she warned us that the next time Sparrow dies in one of her games, there will still be other consequences.

. . .

[he's quiet for a long, long moment]

. . . if you lost one of Mirror's games, you had to face a penalty. Some of them weren't bad, but others were . . .

She liked to break people - their minds. She shattered one of my friend's mind into three different pieces . . . you could tell, because it was like he was three different people. He's still like that, only it's . . . far more distinct. She never fixed him.

Even when my team took her patronage, we couldn't stop it. If anything, it earned us her protection, but everyone else's distrust. Not that there was much trust going around in the first place.

...

That was stupid as fuck, but I can't blame you for wanting to be safe from that.

Well . . . it was more that we wanted her protection overall. We weren't a very strong team, and we depended a lot on our partner team.

We weren't the only ones to patron ourselves to dangerous Judges, but . . .

... Partner team?

Ah - yeah. Teams were partnered together, and even lived together after we moved blocks.

... moved?

How did partnered teams work, and why were you moving?

Because Sabra - the one I know, was very, very dangerous.

And we . . . worked together in games? For those games where the Judges wanted to put teams together, at least.