1st Sign - Video

[alwaysoutspoken]

[Oh look some serious-looking glasses girl staring at the webcam like she has a problem with it. She is probably going to start yelling at you all. She looks like she wants to yell at you all, or at least say things very sternly.

Instead she starts waving her arms and hands around.]

[Hello. My name is Shizune Hakamichi, and it seems I'm one of many people captive here. Personally, I find this whole situation unacceptable. While I admit the Exaclan system sounds a little fun, considering it's being forced upon us, as well as the player-weapon system, it's just atrocious. Having a majority of the population being subject to the whims of the few who can grant them rights is practically a tyranny.] [Her impassioned "speech" is such that you can hear her arms cut through the air as she swishes them around while she signs] [And worst of all, our very minds themselves have been violated! I'm finding myself unable to recall important parts of my life, and who knows what else I'm not even aware I'm missing. And on top of what's happening here, what about at home? I'd just come back from a vacation, so Student Council matters were already piling up, what do you think is going to happen if I'm gone even longer? I trust Hisao and Misha to manage admirably in my absence, but the burden is simply too much to bear without my leadership.] [A pause] [Well, I'd love to be proven wrong on that statement, but that's beside the point. I have a lot more important things to do than be fooling around with some kind of inter-school rivalry in an overly-complex and admittedly fun-looking high-stakes but probably rights-violating game over memories that shouldn't be missing in the first place. I demand to speak with whoever is in charge!]

[And now that she's done waving her arms around like the conductor of the world's most indignant orchestra, she types up a text version of what she justHAHAHA NO SHE DOESN'T. SORRY, IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIGN LANGUAGE, ALL YOU'RE GETTING FROM THIS IS SOME ANGRY CHICK WAVING HER HANDS AROUND LIKE A MANIAC. Feel free to text her back though.]

Comments

[alwaysoutspoken]

[Good you are also on the never compromising list oh also they are roommates?]

[So you've resigned to obeying the rules of this system?]

[smupette]

[She could be. She's never in the room enough. Her bed is usually made and neat. She's only there for showers and clothing changes. She's pretty content with sleeping outside.]

Not at all. I spend most of my time at Fortitude watching over people. Not spying. I just don't condone thirteen year olds fighting one another on a more than daily basis.

Basically I do everything to get on the prefects and headmistresses nerves.

[alwaysoutspoken]

[She'll catch you one day, roof ninja]

[So what, do you break up the fights then? And what about those older than thirteen?]

[smupette]

[Will she?]

I can't if I'm a weapon, however if I am a player I fight to have them on my side. Once you hit six weapons you don't have to fight any longer.

[alwaysoutspoken]

[IS THAT A CHALLENGE?]

[I guess that's one way to keep them out of fights. It sounds like people are weapons more often than players though. What do you do then?]

[smupette]

[Perhaps it is.]

You deal with the hand you are given. Really. It's a mess around here and not many of us know what to do about it. Right now, I believe myself, my brother Dave, and John Egbert are the only ones fluent in sign language.

So we have this to our advantage if need be. What do you propose we do if you do not like your situation? Because we sure as hell don't like ours.

[alwaysoutspoken]

[Oh, you're related to Dave? I was talking to him earlier. I don't know any John though... I'll keep an eye out for him.

Well, we should appeal to those in charge. I've been told the headmasters are more like us than that, but what about the mayor?]