Walkabout: [Shortly after their arrival]

[professorwolf]

Randolph Lyall here. Anybody else dropped into the noisy arcade? Or were most of us lucky enough to wind up in a hotel room or a lobby? Can we have a check-in?

Also, anybody else stuck with animal ears and a tail, or aged up or down? I've heard about a Jaunt much like this place, a while back, though I wasn't here for it: a school for anime magic, basically. Sparkles and animal ears and flowers coming out of nowhere. All the symptoms I'm seeing seem to be lining up for that world.

I'm still working out what's going on. It seems like some kind of multiple-school event, from the signs and the brochure handily in my pocket. I'm even wearing a badge for one of them, so I suppose I'm some kind of representative. The aging up doesn't go all the way up to adults, and I haven't changed any.

Comments

[happyhalloween]

Ooh. Right. But you get to go to high school now, Beato! Just like Jessica! We can do fun big kid stuff together, like... um... hm.

[What do big kids do together anyway?]

[awitchdidit]

[That's a good question.]

...I do hope there's a real high school student here to explain the culture. I spent a great deal of time eavesdropping on Jessica, but after a while I sort of started tuning it out...

[professorwolf]

I taught high school, before I was swept up in all this. If you'd like to talk about it, I'd be happy to explain the particulars.

[awitchdidit]

Thank you, good sir. I have a general idea of how they're organized, at least in my world's version of Japan, but I know very little about how people actually...attend on a normal day. Truthfully, I think I'm only in a student uniform because I look about the right age...

[professorwolf]

Probably true, honestly. It's for the best, really. If you don't know much about how school is organized or a teenager's day is usually spent, being a teacher is probably a very bad idea.

If you want something to do for fun, for now I suggest either the Arcade, catching a movie somewhere, standing around gossiping about friends and-or boys, or practicing your tech magic, if you have any.

[awitchdidit]

I'll try to get in contact with some of the other self-aware students we have here, then. Talk logistics and boys at the same time.

[professorwolf]

Or girls, too, if that's your preference, boys just tend to be more common. But yes. Chatter really is a very important part is high school life, from what I've seen.

[awitchdidit]

Hmph. Well, at least I love talking.

[professorwolf]

Well, then, you're one step ahead of someone like me. I'm just glad they decided I'd make a better teacher.

[happyhalloween]

Well, you kinda have to do that with Jessica.