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

[awitchdidit]

How very interesting. Just how many players does this game have?

Dara should be a focus of investigation, even if she has nothing to do with our "mission" here, whatever it is. Same with any other familiar faces.

[seestheworld]

I've been wondering that for a while, honestly.

Dara and I were on the newspaper together last time out - she recruited me, actually - so she knows me already. We got along fairly well back then, although judging by the hate-on she seems to have for Doki Doki now, I'm not sure if that still stands. But she's wearing the same uniform I am, so hopefully that'll be a point in my favor.

[awitchdidit]

If you're prepared to spin a story about a transfer, you should be able to learn a lot about her own, at the very least...

[seestheworld]

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. And Dara tends to rant about things that upset her anyway, so there's a good chance she'll let something slip.