cooperation

[alicornucopia]

Two girls are moving their hands through the air and speaking together in perfect parallel.

Two girls are looking expectantly at a circle of red chalk on their floor.

Two girls have done something exceptionally stupid.

with Harry (andaisq)

with Isabella (Eva)

with Arcane (kappa)

with Miles (kappa)

with Nick (Rockeye)

Comments

[alicornucopia]

"Yes."

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"This is a school, does it teach wizardry? As long as I'm here I might try to learn it."

[alicornucopia]

"It's a school of wizardry, but you probably can't learn it, it's unlikely you have a channeling capacity."

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Can you check?"

[alicornucopia]

"Yes." She does a gesture and a word. A symbol appears. "No CC," she reports.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

Sigh. "Come on, fate. If you're going to summon me to a strange world and sink my ship, at least give me some magic in return."

He finishes his meat, apart from a few scraps. "Okay, so where's the compost bin? And where am I going to sleep?"

[alicornucopia]

"The what?" asks Keo. "Compost? Why would we have a compost bin?"

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"To recycle food into fertilizer. I guess you don't need it if you have more than bare rocks to grow plants on."

[alicornucopia]

"We don't," she says, and she knocks on the table and everything on it disappears.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Convenient. This is a surprisingly relaxing place to be irreversibly summoned against my will to, you know."

[alicornucopia]

"I'd say 'we try' but it's actually not a common problem," she says dryly.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Which is probably a good thing for all concerned. Are you particularly busy? I know I couldn't have left my ship alone this long even if it weren't about to hit something - show me a place to sleep and give me shopping money and directions to a store and I'll get out of your hair."

[alicornucopia]

"Korulen can take you shopping in case the city or the products are confusing," says Keo. "To work off her misbehavior. I'll show you to an empty room so you can form an idea of what you want to put in it."

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Sounds good." He follows to the lift and memorizes its destination.

[alicornucopia]

And here is a room like Korulen and Saasnil's but undecorated.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

And when Korulen comes to take him shopping, he smiles sweetly. "Nobody died."

[alicornucopia]

"That's, um, good. I mean, I know. Mom told me," says Korulen.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"I hope you can see why I was so upset earlier. In my world, it's hard to live to adulthood without a healthy dose of caution."

[alicornucopia]

Nod nod.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Good. Let's go shopping. I want clothes, paper, and crafts supplies. Lead the way."

[alicornucopia]

She nods and shows him to the lift, which takes them to the entrance hall, and then leads him to a city.

The city is very tall. It ends abruptly, but not for lack of land to spill out onto.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

Nick has no comment on the architecture. It's not like he's seen a city built on solid land before. He does seem slightly awed at the sheer size of the place, though.

[alicornucopia]

She takes him to a clothing store first. There are plenty of options; the men's side is however all variants of one sort or another on pants and shirts.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

So Nick buys some pants and shirts. Nothing too fancy or expensive. Are those some shoes? He gets a pair of those as well.

[alicornucopia]

Korulen pays for everything with some kind of credit system, and then shows him to an art store, which has paper as well as miscellaneous craft objects.