On the platform: Meet the neulings

[utopiamods]

As you all crowd onto the platform, which is drenched with sunlight though the air is cool you are met by six girls and eight boys. One of the boys seems to be a blue Hedgehog; but the rest all seem human. All twelve are in uniforms that would match if not for the colour differences - skirts and trousers, waistcoats, and light summer shirts that seem totally inappropriate for the chill. Some seem irritable while others look excited. Each has a beret with a crest pinned to the front - eight depicting a shield on green, the other seven a sword on red.

At the first lull in the chatter, a frail looking girl with a shield on her cap steps forward.

"Excuse me, may I have your attention please!"

She explains that the eleven of them are the current prefects of Rakuen, representing the two schools on the island. Nanami (she gestures to herself), Lelouch, Yuri, Sonic, Jade, Sora, John and Rebecca of Fortitude; and Santana, Flynn, Kevin, Gino, Suzaku, Golbez and Cirno of Conquest.

The introductions are over fast and the girl named Santana seems impatient, "So come over when your name is called so we can all get inside." They all move to stand in two groups some distance away from each other; two girls step forward and begin to read names from a clipboard.

Cirno, the Conquest Prefect starts, "Welcome to Rakuen! I'm Cirno and when I call your name, Come over to me."

The Fortitude prefect, Rebecca, follows after, "So uh...hi. My name's Becca, I'm one of the prefects at Fortitude. Uhm...so yeah, you can ask me anything if you need to, but mostly everything's covered in the rulebooks you got. You should read 'em. I'll take you to the dorms. So c'mere when I call your names...."

Comments

[unflinchable]

[Arthur should be having deja vu, from that time he met Sophia in the forest, helped her, and she tried to sacrifice him to a lake, but he isn't. He'll save that for Merlin]

Any good man would offer the same.

[leadscrows]

[ Don't worry, she doesn't want to kill him yet. He's being useful. ]

I'm terribly sorry, m'lord, my name is Aly Homewood. [ Bobbing another curtsey. ] I have no idea where I've been taken captive to, and there was that strange metal thing that moved, it's all too much for me to understand.

[unflinchable]

[Yet.]

I am Arthur Pendragon, this place is known as Rakuen and is not on any map those here have seen. Many believe it to be another world entirely, but that it runs on technology [such a foreign sounding word] rather than magic, same goes for the metal box.

[leadscrows]

I've never seen such a thing...not the metal box, or all these things they talk about, the Exa-clan...

[unflinchable]

The metal boxes are unfamiliar to myself as well, I know very little about them except for the fact they brought us here but cannot bring us back.

Exaclan is the battle system, but surely a lady as yourself will not be forced to participate if she does not wish to do so.

[leadscrows]

That's unfortunate... [ Sniffle sniffle oh dear ]

There was so much fighting at home. My ladies, they were both great warriors. I was never allowed to participate, being a slave first...oh, but the lady knights at home were so grand. I loved to watch them pass on royal parades and such.