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Characters: Lyra Silvertongue, and anyone who drops by!
Format: Whatever you want.
This log is: open
Location: Red Common Room.
Summary: After finding out she's a player and poking around the campus a bit, Lyra spends some time in her dorm's common room.
Warnings: Probably none.

That woman was unnerving, and had been no help at all as far as answers went, but at least she'd given Lyra everything she asked for. Notebooks, paper, pens, pencils, markers, and a large pile of sugary snacks and candy, along with six cans of cola- she'd realized she couldn't remember what it tasted like, but it was one memory that she could recover through experience. The same with whatever the word was for that color the sky was.

Leaving the candy untouched for a moment, she tacked up her first two pieces of paper to the noticeboard, both written in Lyra's messy hand. The first read "I'm a Player looking for Weapons", and the second read "How much does anyone know about this place?"

She decided that would be enough for now, and started trying to draw a picture of Iorek from out of her memory in the meantime, as she curled up on the most comfortable chair she could find.

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"I dunno if anyone has ever put armor on them, but Xing has really big bears called pandas. Though don't see them very often. They're black and white instead of just white." Mei held her hands up to her face, index fingers and thumbs making circles to go around her eyes. "They have black around their eyes. Kind of like glasses, I guess."

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"The bears put the armor on themselves though- But pandas sound really amazing!" Although she couldn't imagine a bear wearing glasses.

A panda wearing actual glasses would be a sight to see.

"They put the armor on by themselves?" Mei looked at the picture again and squinted. "Wouldn't that be hard for them to do?"

"Not really. Besides, they make it themselves- they're better at handling metal than humans are, that's for sure," Iorek handled metal the way Lyra hand handled the alethiometer- by instinct.

"Oh." Mei will have to take her word for it. "I guess it's okay for animals to do stuff like that. Xiao Mei can use chopsticks just as well as I can, though that isn't anything like wearing armor."

"Xiao Mei? Who's that?" Lyra asked, looking rather curious now.

"My best friend! We're like sisters! She's a... a..." She couldn't remember. Huh. "A cat? A... bird?"

"You... You can't remember, can you?" Lyra can't remember what her own daemon is shaped like, so this isn't too surprising. But it's troubling.

"No... I can't..." Mei sagged against the arm of the chair she'd been leaning against. "I can't remember what she looked like. I wish she were here."

"I know... I wish my daemon were here too. He'd probably be mad at me for forgetting his name and what he looks like, though," Lyra paused, thinking.

"How many kids are at this school, anyway?"

"Your daemon?"

She had a demon? Or... maybe that meant something else. Mei looked upwards for a second or two, trying to recall how many children were about. She really only knew Fletcher, really, but there'd be others she had seen around.

"Not counting us? Umm. Maaaybe... nine or ten others?"

"So... If we all got together, we could probably do a lot, right?" Lyra suggested. Wheels were starting to turn in her head.

"All of us? Well, yeah. I guess so!" Mei drummed her fingers against the chair and thought it over, too. If there were ten, maybe even twelve kids altogether, that made up a sizable portion of the entire school.

"Like win the rounds, you mean?"

"Yeah, that! And we could all work together to find out more, too!" Lyra had realized some buildings were blocked off, and wanted to find out more about them.

"That's a really good idea, except..." Mei stepped away from the chair and crossed her arms. She looked uncertain. "I don't think a lot of them know how to defend themselves and we might run into some scary things if we start poking around."

"Well, Only those of us who can will do that part?" Lyra suggested, "Besides, being able to keep other kids from having to fight would be good."

"Alright. I can agree to that." Mei wouldn't have liked the idea of putting kids like Fletcher into danger. He looked like he might break easily. "Yeah! If the kids always won the round, I don't think they would have to fight at all!"

"And that'll ruin their plans for sure!"

"Now we just have to get everyone together to explain the idea!"

"Bet they didn't count on that big of an alliance forming!" If they could manage to get it to form at all, anyway. "We could go pass notes to them to meet somewhere? Maybe in the woods, if we don't want anyone else spying on us! There are a bunch of random buildings out there."

"Yeah! Somehwhere no one knows about... We can have our own secret base!"

Lyra grabbed a fresh sheet of paper and started scribbling notes on it.

Mei peered over the chair's arm again, watching Lyra start her notes.

"I guess we should see who's interested before deciding how it'll all work out?"

"Yeah... Find a place to meet first, then spread invitations around?" Lyra suggested.

"If people want to show up, they'll show up. And if we do this before the next round starts, we'll be ready."

"Alright!" That sounded like a good enough plan for now. "Lemme go get my map. I've been writing down the places I've found in the woods."

That said, Mei turned and dashed off to get the map. Once she did get back, they could figure out the rest...

[[ OOC: I guess we should plot for srs now! Grab me in chat sometime? \o/ ]]