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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

[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.

[anoblecaws]

[Ooooh.]

How?

That happened to my country in the future, apparently. There were lots of zombies involved.

[uncanned]

. . . No zombies. It was using alchemy.

[anoblecaws]

Even better.

[uncanned]

[frowning sharply, his entire posture stiffening]

Excuse me?

[anoblecaws]

Alchemy is cool! I want to learn it.

[uncanned]

. . . Maybe another time . . .

[anoblecaws]

Yay!