[seasonality] catchall for malik

[wtfox]

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[godcards]

[ Malik glances down to her little comic, then back to-- nowhere, really. The middle distance? ]

You don't have to, but I'm going to.

[wtfox]

I'm just taking a break and keeping an eye on what other people are reading. Then I can make sure to cover the things they don't.

[


also manga is fun.]

[godcards]

Then are you coming or not? I'm trying to find some things.

[ the fuck is the dewey decimal system ]

[wtfox]

Sure, I'll come!

[she leaves her manga behind and gets up! and gives him a curious look.]

You seem touchier than usual today. Did something happen?

[godcards]

I don't really want to talk about it.

[ Anyway he takes off, figuring she'll still follow even though he's being Like This. And he quickly adds: ]

It's nothing you need to worry about.

[wtfox]

[she is in fact following!]

Fine, fine, if you don't want to talk about it, I won't make you. [she smiles] I'm just trying to be a good friend!

[godcards]

[ he gives her a Look. lila, please. ]

Is there anything you want to look for too? Or is it just whatever you feel like at the moment? Otherwise... I think this is the right direction...

[ hewwo?? histowy section??? ]

[wtfox]

[this may be a private convo, but they're in a public space. she's on good behavior.

she scans some of the titles on the shelves they're passing by.]

Oh, history... good choice. Maybe we can find out more about this place.

[godcards]

That's the idea... Something about this place, or before the school was founded. Knowing more about the area might give us a better idea of what we're working with.

[ he also wants to pick up some books on ancient egypt. as a tweat. ]

[wtfox]

[you can take the boy out of the tomb but you can't take the tomb out of the boy...]

I wonder if they have, like, old yearbooks somewhere...?

[godcards]

Is that... normal? [ His tone isn't quite as bitchy here, because he genuinely didn't consider that. ]

[wtfox]

It depends on the school? Some schools I've been to have kept them, some haven't. But if we can find them, we can get a better idea about what sorts of people were students here before.

[godcards]

The dorm heads attended here in previous years, didn't they? Would that mean they'd be in a yearbook?

[wtfox]

It's possible! It would depend on what kind of stuff they have in the yearbook.

[godcards]

Hm... Well, why don't you see if you can find any? I'm going to look through this for a minute.

[ It's one of those massive tomes on The History of Ancient Egypt that, despite its size, is fairly generic in terms of information and historical events. ]

[wtfox]

Sure, I can do that!

[and so she looks!

she finds some and now is just sitting here browsing through photos of all these generic students]

[godcards]

[ rip ]

Try to see if there's anything about... spirits, gods, things like that as well.

[ he has never looked at a yearbook okay he has no idea if they'll mention the great god of wiwaldi or something. ]

[wtfox]

[she hums as she flips through a yearbook...]

Oh, there's this! "Most Likely to Become a Ghostbuster"... what kind of name is Spee Ritsbayn?

[godcards]

I don't think that'll help, unless they can actually bust ghosts.

[ frowning. hm. maybe he needs to stop being so pissy that lila can't read his mind and actually say something. ]

There's something powerful here if it can lock us into our dorms and erase memories... or even control the other two people who didn't die last week, if they can't remember anything. Possibly like a local god that oversees the area... This could be their doing.

[wtfox]

An evil god, huh...?

[that does not sound like the sort of thing that would end up in a yearbook, but she'll look anyway.]

Mm... I'm not seeing anything about a local god in here.

[godcards]

It may not be evil. It could be unhappy... Vengeful.

[ but. no dice! hm. ]

I suppose it'd be too easy if that information was lying around somewhere, waiting to be found... But it was worth a try.

[wtfox]

We've only just started looking... it could be in another book.

[she sighs]

But yeah, if they didn't even let us have the library right away, it's probably not just going to be sitting somewhere we can stumble across it.

[godcards]

We might not even be on the right track... But I don't know what else it could be. What else would have that much power?

[wtfox]

A hypnotist, maybe? No... they seemed to have their own minds, at least, it was just their bodies that weren't totally in control.

[godcards]

[ He makes a little frustrated noise. ]

We aren't going to learn anything like this. There's nothing we can do... This is an exercise in futility. If there is a god, it's doing this on purpose. It's watching us struggle for its own amusement.