Did anyone order a half-dragon girl with an extra serving of snark?

[whitescalesbigmouth]

[Well this certainly was new...

Wandering around the campus after waking up in it's clinic is a young woman, she looks to be around 17-19 years of age and more or less looks super confused about where she is right now. Judging from her wardrobe, she clearly isn't from any kind of modern-esque world either, she's in a blue and white tunic.

This doesn't appear to be any kind of building she's used to and it's structures and such just don't seem at all right.

She rubs slightly at the side of her temple and grumbles a little to herself. Normally if she had woken up in a place she wasn't familiar with it'd had to be the work of a fairy or maybe some other magic user - but what sort of person would bring her to such a weird place as this?]

...What is this place?

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[whitescalesbigmouth]

...Ryou, has anyone ever seen who's in charge of this place?

[fluffydeathdealer]

...no. We've heard her voice over the intercom, but we've never seen her.

[whitescalesbigmouth]

So there's no indication as to what she looks like or where we can even find her?

Well that blows.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Un. Even my Ring can't find her. It's like there's some magic protecting her.

[whitescalesbigmouth]

Your ring?

[fluffydeathdealer]

My father gave me an artifact he bought in Egypt. It's able to track things within a certain range and direct me along the best path to get to them. But it's thrown off entirely by her and anything she 'borrows', so it's not much use here.

[whitescalesbigmouth]

[She sighs and looks to the floor.] I'm sure if Uncle Glad was here he'd know exactly what to do...

Until the head of this place shows herself then I guess we're stuck.

[fluffydeathdealer]

It's not so bad. I've been here a few months now. It's kind of peaceful, like going on a really long vacation.

[whitescalesbigmouth]

You mentioned games earlier. What kind of games do you play?

[fluffydeathdealer]

I really like board games! My roommate's got a lot of video games, which are kind of fun, but they're not as fun as playing games with your friends. My favourite's Monster World, but Yugi-kun and I have been collecting games we've found in the north wing.

[whitescalesbigmouth]

..."Bored games"?

[Yeah, she's not so sure she quite gets what you're getting at there Ryou. Saft's never played anything like that at all. Normally she enjoys a good race or a good game of hide and seek with younger dragons back home. The type of games you're speaking of don't mean anything to her at all.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

Ah... that's right. You look like you're from a world that's pretty outdated... Ah, sorry! I don't mean it as an insult.

[Now how can he explain this...]

Board games are games that are played on a board! They usually involve rolling dice to make decisions, and they're played as a group. You pick a 'counter' to represent yourself, and you move it on your turn based on either a strategy, or by rolling the dice to decide how to act. There's a preset condition for winning, but it depends on the game. Some games just require you to conquer your enemy's counters until they can't move any more, and some require you to use strategy to amass land or figure out mysteries.

[whitescalesbigmouth]

No, that's fine I guess I just don't really get what you mean by 'outdated' [Don't worry Saft you'll figure it out soon enough once you start getting introduced to all these electrical devices and stuff.]

They sound pretty complicated but I suppose if people find these 'board games' fun then I should keep an open mind about things. My idea of fun though is just being out in the open air and just...enjoying life!

I hate the idea of being stuck on a island like this.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Well... your style of dress is kind of like something from the really, really far past.

[He fidgets a little awkwardly.]

I've never seen anyone in the modern day wearing it. That's why I wondered if you were roleplaying.

[Man... she makes it sound like his hobbies are really weird.]

Can't you enjoy life here? There's plenty of nature on the island. There's a whole jungle out there.

[whitescalesbigmouth]

I guess I can give it a try.

[Still the thought of not being able to fly around the place as freely as she wants to puts a slight damper on things.]

...Has anyone ever managed to leave? You know, for curiosity's sake.

[fluffydeathdealer]

If they have, they didn't tell anyone. There's a lot of people I haven't seen for a while, but they usually turn up eventually. Most of the people I know here have been here for months, so I don't think it's that easy to leave.

My roommate had an idea about how to get out, but I think it failed, because he got really depressed for a while and we're still here.

[whitescalesbigmouth]

That's too bad...

[She sighs and then puts her hands on her hips.] Well there's no point over moping over things! There's stuff here I've gotta check right? New people to meet, new experiences to try out?

I should look at this as an all new adventure for myself.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Un! That's a good way to look at it!

[...though it sounds like a boring adventure. Come to think of it, with so little challenge, if this was an adventure, they'd have to fire the DM.]

[whitescalesbigmouth]

Right!

[Not to Saft it doesn't. Who knows what kind of people she'll bump into here.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

And if you ever want to try boardgames, I'll show you how to play.

Was there anything else you wanted to know? I know it can be kind of confusing being in a place like this.

[whitescalesbigmouth]

Well to be fair, I don't really know where to start.

This place looks so different to anything that I'm used to. I know you're concerned about how I look bt your clothing's different too...

Not to mention I don't know what kind of magic you must use here. The rooms are so bright yet I don't see any flame torches anywhere! Are they fireflies?

[fluffydeathdealer]

...

[Oh wow. She really is from an outdated place...]

W-well, it's not magic. This place uses electrical lighting; to keep it simple, it's a type of natural energy that can be generated and controlled. So they can turn the lights on and off by controlling whether or not electricity is getting to them. When it is, they light up. But if they cut the flow of power, they go dark. So they can regulate how much light is in the building.

[whitescalesbigmouth]

So in a way, this building's capable of making it's own energy, I guess it is a little like magic afterall.

What else it can do?

[fluffydeathdealer]

All buildings in my time can do it. Electricity powers most things. Like the refrigerators in the dormitories. You'll see them when you go to your room. They're like big white boxes. They're controlled by electricity, and they keep food cold and prevent it from rotting or anything.

There's other things too; like the temperature controls in the dormitories.

[whitescalesbigmouth]

That's incredible Ryou.

Can you teach me more about your world's magic. It'd be really great to be able to tell my uncle I've actually been educating myself whilst I've not been with him. He probably thinks that I'm slacking off somewhere.