On the platform: Meet the new characters!

[utopiamods]

As you all crowd onto the platform and peer through the thick fog that chills the air, you are met by four girls and five boys. One of the girls is a somewhat humanoid grey-skinned, finned alien, but the rest all seem human. All nine 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 dense fog. They're all sodden and cold, and most are irritable. Each has a beret with a crest pinned to the front - three depicting a shield on green, the other six a sword on red.

At the first lull in the chatter, one sickly-pale, shield-crested girl speaks up, cutting through your conversations with her cold, soft voice.

"Attention, please."

She explains that the nine of them are the current prefects of Rakuen, representing the two schools on the island. Nanami, she points to herself, Yuri and Lelouch of Fortitude; and Santana, Flynn, Feferi, Gino, Nephenee and Kevin of Conquest. She doesn't care to explain why the prefects in red and white outnumber those in green and black two to one.

Santana interrupts, "Yeah, yeah. Look, 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, and the two that spoke read off names from their clipboards.

Comments

Re: CONQUEST

[autofairy]

Hey! There's nothing wrong with my name!

[and of course she immediately homes in on Feferi, because wow this HAS to be a dream bubble if she's here! Except she looks kind of... not dead. Huh.]

[greenspaces]

I think she's just mean to everybody and doesn't really mean it. Most of the time.

[ Wandering over to the Conquest people because she CAN ]

[autofairy]

Oh! Hey, Jade!

[...wait.]

Um. What are you doing here?

[greenspaces]

[ huh? ]

Um. Who are you...?

[autofairy]

We haven't met? [Hm, she must be a Jade dreaming in the past, from before they met. Or maybe she's an alternate timeline Jade who hasn't realized she's dead yet? Tricky waters.]

That's okay. We're meeting now, so that's that! [:)] I'm Aradia. I don't think I trolled you that much before your game started, but my username is apocalypseArisen. Do you remember me?

[greenspaces]

[ ugu~~~ ] I don't remember anybody but Karkat. But this place steals memories away...so I think I believe you.

[autofairy]

It steals memories away? [She hadn't quite heard this part yet. That seemed a little disconcerting.]

[greenspaces]

Yeah. I couldn't remember what my friends look like...I don't remember colors, either.

[autofairy]

It can do that?! ... I don't think I've forgotten anything important. I would notice if I did, wouldn't I? [unless she totally forgot about what she forgot, aaahhhh memories are important this is bad.]

[straightupzorra]

No, really. There is. It's dumb.

[autofairy]

Wow, someone got out of the wrong side of the recuperacoon this evening. [you are incredibly rude, she dislikes you already]

What is this place, anyway?

[straightupzorra]

Ugh, I hate that word, recuperacoons are dumb too, how do you get any rest covered in slime? You just wake up messy and gross.

This is Rakuen, you're going to school now.

[autofairy]

You clean off after, and the slime helps you sleep. I wouldn't dream of sleeping without one! Do you know a lot of trolls?

Actually, I think I'm good for schoolfeeding... but okay, if that's where this is going. [Might as well let the memory run its course. It would only take longer to get out if she avoided it.]

[straightupzorra]

Well, it sucks for you, we don't have those here. You can probably buy one from Recette but it'll cost you. Hope your roommate don't mind a slime filled cocoon in their room. I know enough, I've been with Dolorosa for long enough.

Trust me, you haven't learned what we're teaching.

[autofairy]

Well, I guess that is something I'll have to get used to... [No recuperacoons floating around furthest ring and all that.]

What are you teaching?

[straightupzorra]

I personally am not teaching, I'm a student just like you, but in Conquest we have Advanced Summoning, Astronomy, Battle Tactics, Cooking, Crime Solving, Dance and Hairography, Economics and Money Management, Existentialism and the Anxiety of Immortality versus the Anxiety of Mortality, Fashion, Gardening/Farming, Geology, Government, Poisons, Prussian Military Tactics and Training, Science of Deduction, and Sword Fighting. Fortitude has other classes.

[autofairy]

[That is a lot of classes. Is Hairography really a word?] They sound interesting... did you say Geology?

[It's kind of like archaeology? But not as close as it could be, so slight disappointment there.]

[knightime]

[Oh it's a troll. Hello troll. Gonna wave at you a little awkwardly. He hasn't really met you yet. Oh gosh you guys are appearing like crazy.]

[autofairy]

[Oh, it's Dave! She smiles and flutters her way over, clearly happy to see another familiar face (because they've totally met already, right?).]

Hi Dave! I guess we're going to have to delay our good-byes for now, huh?

[knightime]

[...What? He hasn't even met you yet. How can he say goodbye to you?

Have a PDA shoved into your hand.]

wait
what???

[autofairy]

[She's a little confused by the PDA at first. Why was he giving this to her...? But she looks at the screen before she can ask, and oh! He left a little message for her. That's... kind of strange, but okay.]

It looks like we all ended up in another dream bubble! I was going to explore them anyway, so I don't mind hanging around for awhile longer. [Even if this memory was dragging on for an unusually long time now. Maybe there was still something important for them all to see here?]

Anyway, what are you typing for? I'm right in front of you, silly!

[knightime]

[He just takes it back and types into it. He's suddenly glad he's relatively fast at typing.]

uh
well for one
this isnt a dream bubble
youre actually here
everyone here is actually here
and apparently everyone doesnt come from the same times
and we dont always come from the same universe
like we got two egderps
which is really weird because theyre different in some ways too

[He pauses before he types something else then holds the screen out.]

okay
so im pretty sure
that me by default should be able to talk
because kanaya asked about it
and rose did too
so i guess ill tell you too
this me
aka
the me youre talking to right now
cant talk
nope
no sweet strider voice
to grace your ears
just the great sounds of me typing

[autofairy]

[She patiently waits for him to finish typing, remaining just a wee bit confused/concerned. He was talking just fine when they were at the Green Sun.

She starts with the first bit, frowning.] ...Um, sorry Dave, but that sounds exactly like a dreambubble!

[Then she reads the second bit quick before handing it over, aaand...

Uh, wow. Maybe there was a... a doomed timeline where he lost his voice? Or something? But that didn't seem right at all, no. This was getting more odd by the minute.]

You can't talk at all? Did something happen?

[knightime]

[Oh my god. It isn't a dream bubble.]

do dream bubbles have people that know jackshit about the session???
theres like an entire town of people here and everything
there are even older trolls and what not
but it seriously
isnt a dream bubble

[He's getting tired of people assuming he should be able to talk. It was kind of unsettling. Like he always should have been able to talk and the fact he wasn't able too put him out of place. Fuck his talking version.]

i was never able to talk
since the start of my life
you can ask sis
she can vouch for my lack of talking

[autofairy]

[But it's exactly like a dreambubble!! Or at least kind of vaguely similar and also expected. She still doesn't look entirely convinced, but,] If you say so... I guess it's possible.

I don't need anyone to vouch for you, it's just that... well, I just heard you talking a little while ago! But if you're not the same Dave, that's okay. I understand!

[And if he is a different Dave-- She smiles.] I'm Aradia!