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[principals]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 1 – noon
Where: The Auditorium
What: ROUND 1 BEGINS

[Some hours have passed, leaving you time to mingle and explore to your hearts content. However, as the clocks tick over to noon … the bell rings again. And this time, it's followed by the hissing static of an intercom system.]

Ahem! Ahem, is this thing on? Ahh, yes … If all Students and Instructors could kindly make their way to the Auditorium, our first class can begin.

[Those people who are understandably reluctant to follow that instruction may just find their feet moving for them, plodding them into the massive assembly hall. Once they're there, the door slams shut and locks behind them.

… There's nobody there, but the intercom is still on.]

Comments

MINGLE

[principals]

[Well, you're trapped, and the Mysterious Man behind the intercom seems content to leave you all stewing in suspense. How do you pass the time?]

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[lionrogue]

...This really is a stoopid school.

[anoblecaws]

Are they gonna... do anything?

[Headtilt.]

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[experiencepoints]

Anyone bring a deck of cards?

[anoblecaws]

[Henry's response to that announcement was to shrug and say "sure, why not". Maybe he'll find some things out about this stupid place.]

[So enjoy one kid lounging on an auditorium chair, feet propped on the back of the seat in front of him.]

[tsuns]

Huh? What kind of quiz competition starts like this?

[ panicking a little more than he'd like ]

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[soldieronwards]

[ Bucky passes the time by looking for any secret exits or other places a Mysterious Man could be hiding, which means that while he at first checks out the team-colored doors, soon enough he's on the stage, investigating the curtains and the backstage area...

...he does shy away uncomfortably from the center of the stage, though. It's really not his style. ]

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[clocksandroses]

[ H. Hahahahahaha. ]

[ Coco takes up a position nearer to one of the walls, fidgeting idly with the knife she tucked away in the waistband of her skirt. She's smiling, but it's tense and humorless. ]

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[islandcourage]

[And I was still at the stage where my new tazer has two triggers on it.]

[...welp. Guess I'll just call it a doubletazer for now and like, get back to that later.]

[Sure is an instructor over here.]

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[uncanned]

Just what kind of school is this supposed to be . . . ?

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[carptricks]

[. . . someone is clinging tightly to the door frame while his feet involuntarily try to drag him into the auditorium]

Not-- this-- time!

[evenimprobable]

[he stands off by himself, hands shoved in his pockets and expression eerily calm. He sure looks used to this]

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[cantstopthebeat]

[hovering near a wall, looking obviously nervous and tense about the situation—she honestly looks ready to bolt if given a chance.]

Not again—

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[goodbyenurse]

[This Math lady is just going along with things.]

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[carnatious]

[ This instructor has finally put on some clothes! … kind of … She's mutilated the shirt, cutting off most of the bottom, the collar, and both of the sleeves, and she's hacked the pants into shorts.

She just flops into a chair and lounges there, watching everyone. ]

[footwork]

[ okay, after some of the things he was told earlier, he's-- incredibly wary.

so he's sticking close to the walls for now as casually as possible. ]

"Class", sure, that's totally normal... in an auditorium.

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[ninetyninelives]

[just sits in a chair, kicking his feet]

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[pitching]

[Then there's this guy who is currently flopped facedown on the floor, feet dragging him into the auditorium. He isn't trying to put any effort into going against the weirdo magic, but he sure isn't attempting to move either.]

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[endsintheocean]

[this science nerd is just sitting in a chair to the back, watching everyone else]

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[desensitization]

[Henrie came pretty willingly though, chilling in a chair.]

You should have really given instructors guidelines for lesson plans a lot earlier than now, you know.

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[takencontrol]

[ staring intensely at the door, her hands folded together in front of her; her eyes. . . ? are both swirling vortexes of red and green, glowing - energy seems to fill the air, like something's building up - ]

[ and when it's released . . . . nothing happens. the lock - her target - looks as undamaged as before, and rena sighs wearily. ]

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[barrette]

Great, another one pretending they're trying to each us something.

[ crossing her arms over her chest and looking irritated while her tail lashes slowly from side to side ]

[knightceties]

[it's a good(?) thing Ace couldn't have gotten lost even if he'd tried. not that he's necessarily happy about that.]

Another meet-and-greet...?

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[deadrising]

If patience was a virtue we all wanted to cultivate, we would have done so before now. Suspense is really getting us nowhere.

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[andallbite]

[ He's here, eyes glancing around like he's trying to look for something. ]

Where was that voice coming from?

[ Intercom technology: totally beyond him. ]