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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

[experiencepoints]

A polite way of saying it's stupid.

Ask her for more details, I'm done explaining this shit.

[starrytear]

That's not what I meant... But you don't need to explain any more. I can imagine.

[experiencepoints]

It's what you should have meant.

There's a lot of you from that library here, though.

[starrytear]

Well, I don't think it's a matter of it being stupid or not. After all, we weren't given a choice, so judging the situation won't get us anywhere.

But... yes, there are too many of us here. I don't understand why... Are there others who come from the same place as you, other than Macaron, Nightingale-san?

[experiencepoints]

... One I've seen so far. On Art.

... She's my teammate, back there.

[starrytear]

. . . Two of my teammates... former teammates are on Art, too.

[experiencepoints]

... That's good, then. It means if the worst happens, there's at least two teams who won't touch Art.

[starrytear]

Drama and Science also have teammates on Art.

[experiencepoints]

Four out of five, then... Assuming they won't hit their teammates. That's a relief.

[starrytear]

Yes. And if it can't be avoided for some reason, I will do my best to try for minimum damage in all cases... Can I expect the same from you, Nightingale-san? Or are you and your teammates the sort to go for the opposite strategy?

[experiencepoints]

[...]

Takshaka never hurt anyone when it could be avoided. We wouldn't play in those games. If we couldn't do that, we'd hit ourselves instead of anyone else. If we couldn't do that, we'd do as little as possible, and fix whatever we did afterwards as best we could.

I can't speak for Math, but I intend to play that way. Otherwise would be betraying my real team.

[starrytear]

[relief goes here]

Thank you. I hope it won't be relevant, but... just in case, it's good to know what to expect.

[experiencepoints]

... We hope, but neither of us believe it, I assume.

[starrytear]

Mm. Even the fact that so many of us come from the Library points to it.

[experiencepoints]

Yeah.

Just don't mistake what I said before for Math being an okay target.

[starrytear]

...

No one is an okay target.

[experiencepoints]

Will everyone else feel the same?

[starrytear]

. . . I know how that sort of competition works, Nightingale-san. But that doesn't make things okay.

[experiencepoints]

I know. I just like to have an idea ahead of time of how dead I'm going to be.

[starrytear]

...

[what to say]

[experiencepoints]

... And if it's going to be permanent again this time.

[starrytear]

What do you mean?

[experiencepoints]

What, did your library never have an Echo leave someone dead?

[starrytear]

...Not forever. Death wasn't permanent in the Library, even if sometimes they didn't bring people back right away.

[experiencepoints]

... Death wasn't permanent at home, or in the castle, normally.

But one Echo killed my teammate and didn't bring her back. We had to quest from our patron to bring her back at all, and even then, if she dies again in that Echo's games...