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

[professorwolf]

Are they all part of the competition, then? Are they the "home team" as it were, or are we all someplace unfamiliar? I mean, all the schools, not just us as Travelers.

[littleladyluck]

From what I can tell, no one is really the home team? I could be wrong, but this place seems like neutral territory for a regionals or nationals sort of event.

[professorwolf]

Then I suppose the goal here would be to see which team is supposed to win, and facilitate that somehow. Or else simply the goal is to keep the competition civil, and it doesn't matter much who wins.

[That's the goal he'd prefer, himself.]

[littleladyluck]

I'm definitely making a effort towards the latter. If anyone knows how to calm the rapidly climbing flames of intense rivalry, it's me. When your brother and guardian is France and your top tourist is England, you learn.