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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

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[uncanned]

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

Re: MINGLE

[anoblecaws]

They bring us here and leave us full of disappointment. Seems normal so far! Nya ha!

Re: MINGLE

[uncanned]

I don't think it's very funny.

[anoblecaws]

Hey, I was trying to lighten the mood.

[uncanned]

It doesn't seem like a mood that can be lightened.

[anoblecaws]

Pfft. No mood can't be lightened.

[That's how Henry chooses to approach it, anyway.]

[uncanned]

You must not be in many bad situations.

[anoblecaws]

I've been fighting in the same war for two different sides since I was eleven.

[ C: ]

[uncanned]

—Ah. I'm . . . sorry?

[anoblecaws]

Nya ha, don't worry about it! You didn't know.

[He doesn't seem even slightly upset.]

[uncanned]

Still . . . but if you're not bothered then I guess it's fine.

[anoblecaws]

No big.

So what about you? What are your "bad situations"?

[uncanned]

. . . Someone tried to wipe out my entire country. They came close to doing it.

Re: MINGLE

[experiencepoints]

The kind where we're going to get killed, probably.

Re: MINGLE

[uncanned]

[fffrowns, given the kidnapping that's not actually that farfetched, but . . .]

Why bring so many of us here and claim it's a school just for that?

Re: MINGLE

[experiencepoints]

Hey, look at that, my degree in interdimensional sadist god psychology has gone mysteriously missing.

Re: MINGLE

[uncanned]

. . . What makes you think they're gods?

Re: MINGLE

[experiencepoints]

You have a better way to describe a being that can do all this?

Re: MINGLE

[uncanned]

Humans can do a lot of things that you'd think are impossible. I doubt other races are any different.

Re: MINGLE

[experiencepoints]

[Shrugs.]

In Sabra, it was gods that ran these games. In Kyriakos, they were called Echoes, but they still held absolute power in their own little realms.

They're gods, or close enough to omnipotent to make no difference. If you've got time to get hung up on the words, start working on how to kill them instead.

Re: MINGLE

[uncanned]

They didn't say anything about a game. I want to figure out what's going on, but isn't it a stretch to leap to assuming this has to be the exact same thing that happened to you so soon? If you're wrong we could be putting ourselves at a disadvantage!

Re: MINGLE

[experiencepoints]

At current count, there's people here from four different other places that use the same team and game setup. We're in teams. It's hardly a stretch to assume the rest will remain the same.

Re: MINGLE

[uncanned]

If they introduce a game, then I'll believe it.

Re: MINGLE

[experiencepoints]

[Shrugs.]

I can respect that.

What's your team called? I haven't seen it yet.

Re: MINGLE

[uncanned]

I think it was History . . . ?