Start of #Exalted buffer: Tue Jul 11 19:47:24 2006 [17:13:47] * It's been a week since you came to the Winthrop Academy. Since, you've mostly spent the time settling down, signing up for the year's classes, and trying to get used to your roommates. This morning, you awoke to find notices of a student assembly in the auditorium on the ground floor of the dorms tacked onto the noticeboards. [17:15:52] (ahahahaha "No wonder she didn't know how to use it properly. http://awfulimages.r1ch.net/files/ef/efff05e91eae77eb3e8c72b26fbd7d10f53d980c.jpe ") [17:16:19] ( I loved that. ) [17:17:09] ( I love this thread. Also replacing Closed Space with UBW is fucking great. ) [17:19:20] * In addition to being a notably long and awkward sentence, it signals the beginning of education and actual responsibilities, which isn't an entirely unwelcome change to the last, fairly awkward, few days. After breakfast, you make your way to the auditorium. It's a large room, with rings of seats, stadium style, around a central pit. In the pit, a tall, slim man with blowdried black hair is testing the sound system [17:25:28] * He introduces himself as Walter Moore, the assistant headmaster of the school. He runs through an outline of the following year, talks about the school rules, and all the standards of a beginning-of-the-year assembly. Afterwards, he dismisses the students, save for several dozen, including Karen Conner, Matthew Wright, and Yoshida Hisame! Oh my! He promises he'll be back shortly and leaves through a door in the pit [17:25:36] * Aaaand, start [17:26:12] * Matt_Wright looks around. [17:26:41] * Matt_Wright smiles and waves hello to the others. "Hey, my name's Matt. I'm from Ohio." [17:27:35] * Hisame is a very short Japanese girl who looks almost too young to be attending here. She waves back uneasily, and stares at the floor for a bit [17:27:44] * The room's lost about ninety percent of its population. You notices your roommates here (Well, aside from Karen, who's never seen her roommate, and doesn't even really know her name (Hellen?)). [17:27:54] * Karen_Connor frowns as her name is called, and looks around the room at the remaining students. [17:29:43] * Matt_Wright kinda sees that no one is up for conversation, so he turns to his roommate and starts talking about possibly bunking the beds for more living space. [17:30:05] 2d8 [17:30:05] * Dicething throws the bones for Charles (2d8) and gets 8. [17:31:13] * Karen_Connor starts to open her mind to respond to Matt, but then stops. She looks around the room again, more nervously this time. [17:31:14] (http://www.chiyochan.net/fate/src/1151539831794.jpg Hahahahhahaha) [17:32:41] (...mana restoration?) [17:32:54] ( Ref to a Fate/Stay Night doujin ) [17:33:11] (Ah) [17:36:13] * Also notable are all of the student-volunteer RAs. Millicent MacFadden, a tall, quiet girl with auburn hair, Peter Papachronopolis, a stocky, deeply-muscled greek boy, and the Dios twins, a pair of willowy girls. They occaisionally glance at one another, and after a short time, one after the other, point at the door Walter left from. He reenters. [17:37:02] (Sorry for being so slow. I haven't GMed for, like, two years) [17:37:29] ( It's no prob. I've got no plans for the rest of the evening, so it doesn't bother me. ) [17:38:39] * Matt_Wright turns back from talking with his roommate (What was his name again?) and turns to Mr. Moore when he enters. [17:40:28] * Walter is, when he returns, carrying a leather book and his wireless microphone. "Hey, kids, sorry about that. It's time to talk about why you're here." He drops the book on a stand and begins paging through. [17:40:41] * Matt's roommate is Vincent Delroy. [17:40:44] * Karen_Connor glances at Walter as he returns, but goes back to looking at the RAs quickly. [17:41:04] * Hisame watches, curiously. [17:42:42] * "I mean, I'm sure you're here for a lot of reasons. Personal growth, a good school for a college application, whatever. I mean why, specifically, we invited you here." He clears his throat. "None of you are normal. I hope this doesn't come as a suprise." [17:44:42] * Karen_Connor returns her attention to Walter. She's frowning, but doesn't seem taken aback. [17:45:01] * The RAs, one by one, begin looking at Karen. [17:45:10] * Matt_Wright turns to Vincent with mild suprise. [17:48:20] * "The headmaster started this school as... A haven, I suppose. There are people out there who don't have your best interests in mind. Witch-hunters. Excorcists. Brain dissectors. We started this school to protect you, and train you. To make sure that you have both the ability to control and the wisdom to hide your gifts." He smiles broadly. [17:49:42] * However, his mood darkens, and his movements take on a new intensity. "However, the majority of students at this school are not aware of this gifts. Their ignorance protects themselves, you, and the staff of this school. It is in our best interests to keep them unaware. Are there any questions from the crowd?" He raises the microphone above his head. [17:50:00] ... [17:50:04] * Matt_Wright raises his hand. [17:51:25] * With an eerie grace, Walter throws the microphone at Matt. [17:51:57] * Matt_Wright blinks and re-directs his raised hand to catch it. [17:52:50] * Matt_Wright looks around first before speaking into the mic. "Uhm.. what if our gifts... are really obvious?" [17:53:06] * Karen_Connor frowns as she looks at Walter, and mutters something under her breath. [17:53:26] * Hisame shrinks a bit. [17:54:46] (Literally? :q:) [17:54:54] (Also, hahahahahahahh http://imagesocket.com/images/ponybb2.jpg ) [17:54:55] ( hahaha ) [17:55:04] ( That's distressing ) [17:56:15] * Walter shrugs. "I suppose the burden is on you not to use them, then. The administration will work with you to create plausible stories, but prevention *is* easier than covering it up." [17:56:42] "What if.. we can't control when it happens either?" [17:56:56] * Matt_Wright turns a little red in the face. [17:57:53] * Karen_Connor turns to look at Matt. [17:58:35] * "Well, then we have a problem. We'll have to work with you to try and fix this. In the meantime, try... to avoid the stimulus?" He shrugs. [17:58:56] "oh.. okay.." [18:00:13] (That's disappointing. One of the things on the news ticker was "Crisis in neonatal care" and the font made the r in care look like a v) [18:00:56] * "Anything else?" [18:01:39] * Matt_Wright shakes his head and motions with the mircophone as if to throw it back. [18:02:04] * Walter puts his hand up to catch it [18:02:29] (...I kind of see Walter's motions being sort of like Yuki's, come to think of it) [18:04:10] * "Anything else, or can we wrap this up?" [18:05:24] * Matt_Wright sits quietly in his seat after throwing the microphone back. [18:06:39] * Karen_Connor finally speaks up. "Isn't this...dangerous? You don't want the other students to know what's going on, but you, well, single us out like this?" [18:10:43] Walter frowns slightly. "I'm sure all of you have experienced the... identity crisis that comes with realizing that you are distanced from the rest of humanity. It's given you a sort of resilience, and a sort of power, that your classmates don't yet have. They have to discover their powers for themselves, and until then, it's in all of our best interests to make sure that they stay unaware of the true nature of things." [18:11:15] * "As for singling you out, it was decided it would be better to let you know that you are not as alone as you thought, rather than be allowed to go on in isolation." [18:12:43] * Hisame looks over the other students, a bit encouraged by the though [18:12:47] (+t) [18:12:49] * Karen_Connor looks away and mumbles "That's not what I meant..." [18:14:50] * Walter looks around the crowd. "Anyone else?" [18:18:49] * He shrugs. "Thanks for staying, and enjoy the school year. If you need anything, my office is in the Belltower building. Later, kids." He picks up the book from its stand, waves, and heads out one of the pit doors. [18:19:17] * Hisame nods softly, and looks aruond nervously. [18:20:33] * The students are starting to leave the auditorium, talking amongst each other, with the RAs in the lead, exchanging glances as the push open the doors and lock them into position [18:21:29] * Matt_Wright looks around. [18:21:45] (Are we supposed to go to classes now?) [18:22:27] (Classes don't start until tomorrow. This is just free time.) [18:24:18] * Matt_Wright gets up and heads out of the auditorium. [18:26:21] * Hisame fidgets a bit. "What will he do next?" She speaks with a moderately heavy Japanese accent. [18:26:58] * The dorms' lobby is a wide-open space with a set of elevators, a few stairways, and offices for the RAs and a few amenities, like a room with a fooseball table, and a room with a set of washer-driers and an old arcade machine. The building looks like it was built in the late 1800s and renovated heavily several times [18:29:23] ( Ugh. My computer's acting up. Even mIRC is being ludicrously slow. ) [18:29:45] (No that's just me GMing :V) [18:30:30] (Heh) [18:30:42] ( No, the hard drive's ticking like crazy, if I alt tab and tab back, there are huge patches of white that take forever to refill, and it takes several seconds between the time I type something and the time it shows up on my bar ) [18:31:05] * Matt_Wright looks around at the space, evaluating it as a parkour course... [18:31:40] (Funny, that's my computer every day) [18:33:25] * It's *pretty* awful in that regard. It's just a few-hundred-square foot open area with a few rooms branching off of it [18:35:01] * Karen_Connor stops by the RA office, looks in suspiciously, then heads back to the dorms. [18:35:07] * Matt_Wright makes a ticking sound with his cheek, a clear sign of dissapproval. He moves outside to find a courtyard or something so he can blow of some steam by leaping off handrails and such. [18:37:26] (Oh man, that was a whole new way for my desk to collapse) [18:37:39] * So, are you guys basically done for the day? [18:37:55] (Yeah) [18:38:18] ( So it seems, unless someone wants to talk to all of us. Maybe another student or one of the roommates. ) [18:38:23] (Looking for my roommate but pretty much) [18:39:12] * Your roommate is *still* nowhere to be seen, Karen. Other people have seen her, but haven't really been able to say where she went. On the upside, it's looking more and more like you got a single. [18:39:52] (Or someone wants to stop that crazy kid jumping off stuff) [18:40:09] 3 2d8 [18:40:09] * Dicething throws the bones for Charles (3 2d8) and gets 7 9 3. To Hisame: The night is... Well, quite fucking strange. You have a dream of a drowned city at a right angle to the world, of vast, windowless towers of some kind of strange stone. You wander the city until you find a golden figure tearing down a spun building of glass and light, tearing it peice from peace. The spun building moans as it is deconstructed. You wake up in a cold sweat. [18:47:50] * Karen_Connor wakes up early and in an uneasy mood. She immediately looks out the window to see what the weather's like. [18:48:39] * It's not quite light out yet, but the weather seems clear, if a little humid. You can hear noise out in the halls, which is quite unusual for this early in the morning. [18:49:35] * Hisame wakes, and stirs from bed uneasily. The sound in the halls attracts her attention, and she considers taking a look [18:50:32] ( http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/07-07-06-sounds/CarnivorousThing.jpg Ahahaahahahhahaahh ) [18:51:24] * Matt_Wright wakes up and looks over to Vincent's bed. "Hey.. Vincent... you awake?" he whispers. [18:53:52] * Vincent pushes open the black sheet he's put around his bed. "Yeah, I'm- Jesus Christ, your head!" [18:53:56] * Karen_Connor then looks to see if her roommate ever showed. Signs of her stuff, even. [18:54:40] * Matt_Wright blinks. "Wh-what about..." He raises his hand to his forehead, slowly recalling the disturbing dream. [18:57:49] ...What the hell... it was just a dream... [18:59:07] * Matt_Wright looks out to the hall. (Is there still noise going on?) [18:59:23] * The other half of Karen's room is now somebody else's. There's really not much there, save for a minifridge, a poster of a Mona Lisa with a moustache and goatee drawn on it with "LHOOQ" in... lipstick?, and an old, yellowed flier that says "Si vous aimez l'amour, vous aimerez le surrealism." The bed doesn't have any sheets or pillows, but a short girl with platinum-blonde hair is curled up on it. Her eyes are open. [18:59:51] * The hall is still active. Most of those awake have congregated in the meeting room off the main hall. [19:00:12] * Hisame pushes the door to the hall slightly open, hoping not to be seen. [19:01:07] C'mon, Vincent... maybe other people had the same dream I did... [19:01:19] * Hisame succeeds in not being seen! [19:01:37] * Hisame blinks, wondering what's going on [19:01:45] * Vincent mumbles, pulls on a pair of pants, and follows Matt [19:01:54] * Hisame dresses up and moves out. [19:02:07] * Karen_Connor does a doubletake, as much surprised that her roommate did show up as that she managed to show up without her noticing. "Oh! Uh...hi." [19:02:44] * The girl on the bed sits up. "Good morning, Karen. Sleep well?" [19:03:09] * Matt_Wright walks out into the hall, a hand towel pressed to his forehead. [19:06:08] * Karen_Connor manages an awkward smile. "Um. Yeah, thanks. Uh, sorry, I don't actually know your name yet." [19:07:20] * Matt_Wright (NovaSeaker@cpe-24-168-42-157.si.res.rr.com) Quit (Ping timeout) [19:07:25] * The door to the meeting room is closed, to keep the noise from getting out, but there are glass panels. Inside, about a dozen students are talking animatedly. [19:07:28] * Matt_Wright (NovaSeaker@cpe-24-168-42-157.si.res.rr.com) has joined #Exalted [19:07:32] * The door to the meeting room is closed, to keep the noise from getting out, but there are glass panels. Inside, about a dozen students are talking animatedly. [19:07:53] ( ANy we recognize? ) [19:08:28] * The girl frowns slightly. "I don't think you slept well at all, Karen." She holds out a hand. "Elena. Elena St..." She pauses briefly. "What do you think is a good saint?" [19:09:49] * They're all from the second assembly yesterday. Millicent and Peter are there, as is a stubby, doughy looking girl, a lean boy with a sketchbook, and a couple oters. [19:10:35] * Hisame looks in curiously. And wondering when they all decided to get together. [19:12:02] * Karen_Connor starts to extend her hand to Elena, then stops. She tries to stop from looking incredulous, but doesn't do a very good job. "Um...er...Peter?" [19:12:20] * Matt_Wright enters the meeting room, looking at anyone else for gashed forheads. [19:13:54] * "Elena St. Peter, then." She smiles broadly, and shrugs, curling back down on the bed and continuing to stare [19:14:42] * Matt finds that he's the only one in the room with a deep, bleeding headwound. [19:14:51] Uhm.. guys? [19:15:08] * Matt_Wright tries to speak loud enough to interrupt, but not rudely. [19:15:48] * Karen_Connor stands there for a minute, trying to process this, then shrugs and goes to take a shower and get dressed before venturing out. [19:17:24] * A couple of the students look up. Millicent looks somewhat distraught. "Excuse me, mister Wright, but did you know that you're bleeding? You ought to use the first aid kit over by the sink before you pass out. Or stain the carpet." [19:17:42] Uh yeah.. about that... [19:17:52] Did anyone else have a really twisted dream? [19:18:00] ( hee hee. "Mister Wright" ) [19:18:08] (heh) [19:18:18] ( Isn't that right, Wright? ) [19:18:27] (OBJECTION!) [19:18:29] ( "DId you know that you're bleeding?" "OBJECTION!" [19:21:42] * Peter nods. "Basically everyone here. Probably some others, too. Milly's got tea on, and I've sent the Dioseses out for a french press. Sit down. When you think you won't bleed on everyone." [19:22:21] * Hisame slips in behind the door after Matt's gone in and chatted a bit, feeling a bit safer. [19:24:46] * Matt_Wright nods, giving a half-hearted smirk, but too freaked out to really be jovial. [19:25:09] * Matt_Wright heads over to the sink and washes up, looking in the mirror to assess how deep the cut is. [19:25:11] * Karen_Connor finally heads out of her room to see what's going on. [19:26:56] * The cut's not *too* deep. It's mostly long, and it bleeds quite a bit. But if you bandage your head and keep it clean, you should probably be okay. [19:27:32] * Millicent nods at Hisame. "Morning. Rough night? [19:27:36] (Do I need to roll something to see how well I bandage it?) [19:28:09] ( It's a regular first aid kit. I think anyone knows how to use those reasonably well. ) [19:28:19] (I don't >_>) [19:29:26] * Karen_Connor enters the break room quietly, not moving far from the door. [19:29:54] (Jesus, I hardly know how to do anything and I can bandage myself.) [19:30:23] (Let's assume your character, being an active person, has a working knowledge of how to disinfect and bandage a gash) [19:32:31] (kk) [19:33:59] * Hisame looks at Matt concernedly. "What happened?" [19:34:48] * Peter looks up at Karen. "Morning, miss Connor. You look like you had a bad night." After a slight pause, Millicent adds "Same bad night as the rest of us.", as she pokes at the inside of a coffee mug with a fork. [19:34:54] 2d8 [19:34:54] * Dicething throws the bones for Charles (2d8) and gets 4. [19:35:37] * Matt_Wright looks at Hisame. "I.. think my dream hurt me." [19:35:43] * Karen_Connor nods slowly. "Yeah, you could say that." [19:36:16] * Hisame shivers [19:37:05] * Karen_Connor looks at Matt curiously. "You're saying you got that...in a dream?" [19:37:21] Sort of... [19:37:37] A.. murderous woman touched my forehead... and I woke up.. [19:38:00] I'm not sure I can really explain it... [19:38:54] Are you going to be alright? [19:40:15] Yeah.. cut isn't deep.. [19:40:38] * Matt_Wright looks around. "Do you guys this it could be like... a psychic?" [19:40:48] * Karen_Connor frowns, looking uncomfortable. [19:41:45] I do not know anything about that... [19:43:11] (Do you guys mind if I call it here? It's not the greatest place, but it gives me something to think about in terms of picking it up next week) [19:43:21] ( I guess. ) [19:43:26] (Alright..) [19:43:30] * Karen_Connor studies the ground for a moment, then glances at Millicent quickly before looking away. [19:43:33] (Sure.) End of #Exalted buffer Tue Jul 11 19:47:24 2006