Meet and Greet [Intro #2]

[utopiamods]

You are brought to your campus and shown to your dorm rooms before you are given permission to wander the campus and the town. Meaning Fortitude students can mingle with Conquest students, they can go visit the shop (shop post will be up later today), or speak to the headmistresses and mayor. Each student now has the Exaclan manuals, a uniform, a school bag with either a shield or a sword on it, and the glove used to pull weapons.

But make sure to come to the battle area later to see the exhibition match! 

Take advantage of the free day, the freedom won't last long. Sooner rather than the later the round will start, Players will be named, Weapons will lose their privileges, and the battles will begin. So you might as well go out and make friend or start rivalries, anything to help you along later in the round.

Comments

[independencesong]

I lived through them. I'd like to think I know what happened.

[pysankya]

There is not reason to be snippy, Reeta. I em just saying I will heff to trust you to know what I should do.

[independencesong]

Yes. Of course. Sorry.

[After an awkward pause, she stands again, still looking at him. Another pause, and then she offers him her hand to help stand.]

[pysankya]

Is okie, there is just much happening and much stress.

[He'll take her hand and stand up once again, brushing off his pants after a moment.]

Heff you liked what you've seen of your school?

[independencesong]

[She nods, pulling her hand away again, lest that set off another panic.]

There are books and computers. It will do.

[pysankya]

Computers?

[Utter blank stare.]

[independencesong]

[And her face lights up.]

Computers! They're these fantastic technological advances that combine the best of typewriters and wires and electricity, and facilitate the storage of information, some gaming functionalities, and communication via a complex, yet utterly fascinating, network system.

[pysankya]

[Ukraine will stare blankly once again and blink several times as he thinks over what she's told him. It sounds terribly complex.]

So, are like electronic typewriters? Seems strange to heff such thing. You like t'em?

[independencesong]

Latvia accuses me of loving them. And they're not strange at all once you get used to them, I promise. They're terribly useful.

[pysankya]

Cannot be harder than using typewriter and not making mistakes. And they communicate like telephones? It seems very interesting that such progress has been made.

[independencesong]

Precisely. You can write over any information you make a mistake on, rather than dealing with the error in the typoface on the page. I'll have to show you how they work some time.

[pysankya]

I make no promise of understanding. You know how long it took for me to start using phone instead of writing letters. Even now I em not overly fond of tractor. Old plough and ox is much more reliable.

[independencesong]

I'll be patient. It's worth it. [She has this amount of faith in technology.]

[pysankya]

If you say so. I still like working with what I know, it hasn't failed me in centuries yet. But if you think is good, I'll do my best to learn.

[independencesong]

Of course I think it's good.

[And as she realizes she's clinging a little too much to her affection for technology, her smile fades a little.] I should let you get back to whatever you were doing, I suppose.

[pysankya]

No, is okie, I was just looking around. Is very good to see you and to see a familiar face.

We could walk unless you heff other places to be and get back to Lithuania.

[independencesong]

I could walk with you. Lithuania... seems to be doing fine, anyway. [On his own. She'll leave that out for a while yet, lest Ukraine cry again.]

[pysankya]

Ah, that is good. Do you know of anyone else we know of? I heard that Spain's name was called for my school but I heff not seen her at all.

Mebbe she is back at school looking around. It is a big place.

[independencesong]

Perhaps. I don't know, I haven't seen her, but Lithuania mentioned Latvia being here as well.

[pysankya]

Oh, she must be scared... I hope she is okie. I worry about her and how much she shakes, it cannot be good for health. That or I hope Lithuania found her so it will be easier for you to find her and get her to relax. You are very good with your siblings.

[He'll smile at her softly once again. He finds how they act as siblings funny if endearing in their own odd ways.]

[independencesong]

Yes. My... siblings. [She swallows thickly, looking at the ground.]

Let's go this way. I haven't explored in this direction yet.

[pysankya]

Yes... is something wrong? [He'll glance down at her, heading in the direction she pointed and glancing at various shops they pass by.]

[independencesong]

No. Nothing at all. Why would anything be wrong?

[pysankya]

Because you are being very chatty and nearly vibrating with tension. And doing that thing with your lips when you don't agree with something.

[independencesong]

[There's a silence, a calm before the storm, because all that tension vibrating through her turns into loudness to her voice, and an emotion somewhere between complete confusion and the indignance of distress.]

They're male! My sisters are boys, Ukraina! How would you respond to find Russia is here, but male? How would that make you feel?