[Round 3, ongoing] Treasure Hunt Exchange

[utopiamods]

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This log is: open
Location: The lobby
Summary: Exchange treasures for clues here! Or just chat to the staff or mingle.

[throughout the week, the receptionists are fairly into their roles as 'sages', putting on mystical voices when appropriate and generally being helpful to friendlier students. Other than that, there isn't much to note about the lobby. Students wishing to exchange treasures for the next clue should come here.]

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Morning, 2nd Day

[monkeystail]

Considering the weather, Huashi had grudginly started to use a rain cape; umbrellas were for delicate human nobles and were only in the way! She was basically only using this to cut down on how many times she had to dry up during the day. As it was, her feet and shins were either wet and muddy, or dry and muddy, due to her still walking around barefoot...

Ignoring all that, Huashi was bounding towards breakfast when she took a leap up into a tree and swung to the next to get past a particluarly huge and muddy puddle instead of having to walk around it, scaring up the birds who'd huddled in the lower branches at the same time.

"You should be higher up if you didn't want to be disturbed!" Huashi giggled as she landed, her stomach growling. Silly birds! But she didn't care about the birds breakfast soon... Tilting her head as she skipped through the forest she suddenly remembered some of the people ate...

"What's that, Wujing?" Huashi peered over the water spirit's shoulder as he prepared his, Xuanzang and Baije's dinner.
"Eggs, Huashi. I have to---"
... Break them before they could be used.

Huashi stopped, sliding slightly on wet ground, grass and leaves, then grinned. Setting off at a full dash, Huashi barged into the dining hall, waved to Kotarou who was already there and shouted at him that she'd be coming soon, picked up an egg, and ran out again.

"Hey! Hey, hey, hey!" Huashi slid to a stop in front of one of the receptionists, bouncing on her feet (and having trailed a wet and muddy track inside). "Here you go!" Huashi grinned brightly and carefully put the egg on the desk, so it didn't roll away.

[utopiamods]

"Oh, well done!" The receptionist smiled even as one of her colleagues made a small sound of dismay at the trail of mud. "Let's see... Huashi? It says you're Kotarou's Weapon, so we'll just tick him off. Would you like the clue now, or are you going to wait for him?"

[monkeystail]

"I'm going back to breakfast, he's there, so can I please have it?" It wasn't as if she couldn't be vaguely polite when the situation warranted it, and she had a good memory, so she wouldn't forget any words of the next clue told.

[utopiamods]

"Of course. The next clue..." What a lovely girl, her expression seemed to say. For the clue, she did her best rendition of a mysterious sage. "A tongue I have, and a soul too. Yet I speak not, nor do I live. Though I am trodden underfoot, I remain firm and proud."

The clue over, she went back to her smile. "Is that all, dear?"

[monkeystail]

No, it really wasn't. But then, that was the point of a riddle, wasn't it? She was no good at riddles... Huashi restrained her pout to an internal one and nodded.

"Yes~ Thank you!" She waved and bounded out again, barely slipping the raincape on as she dove out into the rain. That hadn't made any sense at all... Daddy would have known, surely, or Yu Long, or... well, any of 'her' adults surely would have, except for Baije. She... doubted... his, what was the term? book smarts? Something like that.

With a sigh, Huashi flipped the hood up and began the run across campus to get to the dining hall, to tell Kotarou their next clue. Not that it was much of one.