rules as written

[subtly_artistic]

This door was supposed to lead to the hall closet with the cleaning supplies, but Bella doesn't see any good way to mop up spilled soup from the kitchen floor. "Extraplanar studies students," she mutters, stomping into the bar in her nice useful boots. If she takes notes on this place she can probably get extra credit somewhere for it. She goes up to the bar, and notes the lack of bartender. Maybe they stepped out for a minute.

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[castmyown]

Someone else opens the door, and stares at the place that is very definitively not a library. He might have thought that he'd made a mistake, but it's the school library.

It has to be magic. Darren is extremely excited about magic. In about two seconds, he looks equivalent to a kid in a candy store, despite being in high school.

He steps inside and looks around, grinning madly.

[subtly_artistic]

Bella looks over her shoulder. "Hey, do you know where we are?" He doesn't look old enough to be in college - she could be wrong and he is anyway, he could be as young as he looks and the door thing is extending beyond MU, she's not sure.

[castmyown]

"I have absolutely no idea where we are!" he replies, brightly. "This is supposed to be the school library, but you know what, I'm not complaining."

[subtly_artistic]

"For me it was supposed to be a closet. Uh - what school would yours be?"

[castmyown]

"Forks High. What closet, are you in Washington, or should I start giggling madly about magic?"

[subtly_artistic]

"What's Washington?"

[castmyown]

"... State that's part of the United States of America. One of fifty. Are you extremely foreign and from a weird place that has never heard of Washington, or are you not from Earth?"

[subtly_artistic]

"...Earth, the element, or Earth, something else? I've never heard of the United States of America."

[castmyown]

"Earth is the name we creatively picked for our planet. Because we're awesome at naming things. See: the Sun, and the Moon."

[subtly_artistic]

"Ours don't have great names either."

[castmyown]

Darren snickers. "What about geography, do you have seven continents? Or - actually, wait, do you have more species than human?"

His planet does, but he's not going to freak her out with 'I am a magic flying deer' from the get-go.

[subtly_artistic]

"...Uh, yes? To the species thing; there's either five or eight continents depending on how you count some of them. Does yours not have non-human people? I can't decide if that sounds boring or like a really convenient solution to racial tensions. ...Do you not have non-human living things, what do you eat, just conjured food or do you get by on rings of sustenance?"

[castmyown]

"Sentient species, sorry, we've got plants and animals. We also have non-human people, I'm one of them, hi. We're technically in hiding, it's kind of terrible."

[drop_by_drop]

A teenage girl wanders through the door, with a tabby cat sneaking in just before it closes. She is holding a water bottle with an open top, and has two more somehow fastened to her belt. She appears to be deep in thought and not all that aware of her surroundings. Indeed, she doesn't seem to notice something's off about the room until she bumps into a barstool.

She looks around, taking stock of the sudden change. The young woman standing at the bar seems to be her best option for information-gathering. Which means she'll need to-shudder, shudder-talk to an unfamiliar person.

"Pardon me," she says, "I seem to have somehow wandered into this bar. Have you any idea where we are or how I might have gotten here from my living room?"

[subtly_artistic]

"It was a closet, for me. I have no idea what this place's deal is, sorry. I'm blaming extraplanar studies majors."

[drop_by_drop]

Parvati blinks. "Extraplanar...that's not an area of study I've heard of."

[subtly_artistic]

"It's kind of niche, I don't think every college offers it."

[drop_by_drop]

"I see." Strange, she's done enough preparation for college that she's sure she's heard of most every possible major by now. "What college do you go to?"

[subtly_artistic]

"Magisterius University. You think this place is pulling from farther flung than across campus...?"

[drop_by_drop]

"I have never heard of Magisterius University, and have certainly never visited the campus!" she says, clearly agitated.

[subtly_artistic]

"Huh. Where do you go?"

[drop_by_drop]

"Edina High School," she says. She forces herself to calm down. This situation has done nothing more irritating than interrupt her day. She can figure out what exactly is going on first, and be frustrated later. "Do you have much experience with spontaneous, unexplained supernatural phenomena?"

[subtly_artistic]

"I've never heard of your school either - and no, sorry, subtle arts major aiming for therapist career, none of this -" She waves a hand vaguely. "Stuff. I'm Bella, what's your name?"

[drop_by_drop]

"Parvati. Pleasure to meet you," she says. The mention of subtle arts piques her curiosity, but it's already been established that this Bella person goes to a weird school with weird majors, and the strange magic bar is probably more pressing. "It seems this bar...teleports, somehow? What part of the country do you live in?"

[subtly_artistic]

"Prax, when I'm at school. I doubt the entire bar is teleporting, it's probably just co-opting doors."