school: crow

[shaft]

tbc

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[shaft]

Their statuses? What do you mean?

[chevaliered]

We were all Expelled, or had our failed classes. Those were easy to change.

We were able to change their names back to their actual names, but all their statues were listed as assigned. Trying to change that just caused errors.

[shaft]

Assigned... [ He sighs. ] I'm afraid that whatever lies in store for them won't be good.

[chevaliered]

Yeah. Pretty much that.

[ … he looks distinctly unimpressed and a little concerned with the whole situation. ]

[shaft]

[ They walk into the dining hall... ]

Perhaps we should celebrate a little tonight before we're thrown back into business tomorrow.

[chevaliered]

Before it all goes to Gehenna in a handbasket, you mean?

[ hmmm. ]

Sure. Might as well have a little fun before everything implodes on us.

[shaft]

[ He looks thoughtful. ]

Spring always has alcohol stocked, but I don't know where Hugo gets it. The cafeteria?

[chevaliered]

You can get it from the food stalls in the union, right? Unless he has the fancy kind, not the cheap college beer kind.

[shaft]

They look like nice bottles. [ Don't ask him about quality.

In any case, they can swerve over to the SUB! Shitty beer it is. ]

[chevaliered]

Well we won't be finding those over at the SUB. [ haha sub. like claude is. ] Unless Hugo's the kind to pout his crap beer into a fancy bottle to hide his taste?

[shaft]

I don't think Hugo drinks at all, he's only 17.

[ Not that 17 year-olds don't drink, but he's also kind of a stick in the mud. In any case, Claude will retrieve a beer from the stall and slump down into the seating area. ]

Ugh.

[chevaliered]

... I mean, I drank at 17. Who knows what he gets up to.

[ mmm. terrible beer.

he takes his own and just drops into one of the seating area chairs with an "oof" ]

"Ugh" is about right.

[shaft]

[ He makes a beer at the crappy beer, which probably isn't even cold, but it doesn't matter. ]

I know we should be positive for the kids, but man. I'm tired.

[chevaliered]

[ a beer at the beer? ]

I think at this point the kids are more than competent enough to keep their own spirits lifted.

[shaft]

[ Stop I'm tired.

... But then he remembers the detectives. ]

Yeah, they're really something. They figured out a lot more than I did.

[chevaliered]

Right? Rita just... dove right on our meaning for last week's message. I'm impressed.

[shaft]

She's a bright kid. So is Maya.

[ ... ]

Now I'm just wondering what photo is supposed to be.

[chevaliered]

[ maya and her murder hands ]

... Yeah. It's been here since the beginning, right? Right under our noses.

[shaft]

Yeah. It makes no sense.

[ He sounds annoyed? He hates secrets that he's not privy to. ]

The simplest answer would be that he's the author of our story.

[chevaliered]

… But like he keeps saying: who is he?

[ he sips his beer ]

[shaft]

Perhaps he's someone who was here first, and he lost his identity like the dorm heads did.

[chevaliered]

Or someone who was made here with no proper identity. You’ve seen the script right? That thing was a patchy mess, they didn’t even remember to give the city and capital proper names.

[shaft]

That could be the case. They tried to make a person from scratch and it failed, so they began abducting others?

I always thought there was something unusual about this school, but to think it extended to the entire dimension...

[chevaliered]

Like an extra character gone wild?

[ ... he doesn't like that. ]

Unusual's one way to put it. This whole place has been... off. But it would explain the whole ... people getting dragged off to seemingly other worlds without a warning. If this place can play with everything like it's a toy, then making whole other worlds isn't such a stretch.

[shaft]

[ Instead of answer, Claude just gulps down his beer.

He's tired. ]