Editing Chuubo-1:1 (section)

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''<@Soun_Shounen> I'm born ready! :-)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Principal Entropy the Second walks across the dark green carpet of his office, and sits at his dark wood desk.<br>
''<@Lili> (And I can wear ''anything''!  ^^  )''<br>
''<@deMontreal> (you forgot the J-Pop theme and the ridiculous poses and smoldering looks)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> He's a tall and thin guy, mid-to-late college age, and wearing an unbuttoned suit and a loose tie.  His hands drip with blood.<br>
''<@Natalia> (Hush, that comes after the vaguely foreshadowing intro scene!)''<br>
''<@deMontreal> (oh right)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> At his desk, he opens a manilla folder labelled SNURC in ominous gothic letters.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Photos spill out.  A Russian girl.  A young catgirl.  A heartless mad scientist.  And so forth.  Lillimund and Senko's pictures ''are'' included.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> He pulls a pair of sunglasses from his pocket, looks at the camera, and smiles.  Light from no obvious source glints off the sunglasses.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Various acronyms float across the screen.  SNURC.  SEED.  SITVW.<br>
''<@deMontreal> (NERV)''<br>
''<@Luthien> (... great, he's played by what's-his-name, Supercop of CSI Miami)''<br>
''<@Mrs_Senko> (POPKRN)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Dramatic music plays, while images of your characters doing cool things show.<br>
''<@Lili> (Or the dad from NGE.)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> The screen goes dark, showing only the word SNURC.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> And then the first scene opens.<br>
''<@Natalia> (I was thinking he was Souji Mikage, but that works too.)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> You're sitting in the classroom assigned to SNURC.  It looks like a fairly ordinary schoolroom, with desks, windows, and a chalkboard.<br>
''<@Mrs_Senko> (Mrs. Senko's cool thing is standing there shaking her head and waving her finger while Glum pops up out of her shadow.)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> However, there are two peculiarities.<br>
''<@deMontreal> (Only two?)''<br>
''<@Mrs_Senko> (We don't count.)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> First, it's a normally sized room, while the hall outside is a huge and gothic thing, with a ceiling at least a hundred feet high.<br>
* @Soun_Shounen sleep with a soft "zzzzzzz...."<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Second, despite that the windows show the outside, it's on the interior of the School building.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> And yet.<br>
''<@Luthien> (Luthien's is to appear out of night!)''<br>
''<@Random_Nerd> (Please describe your characters either sitting or coming into the room.)''<br>
* @deMontreal is tweaking a disturbing-looking whatsit<br>
<@Luthien> Luthien is busy putting heart stickers on the desks.  They're happier for it!<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Chuubo sits at his desk attentively in a vaguely distracted way, like a pupil who's hoping that the teacher is about to ask a question and he knows the answer.<br>
''<@Random_Nerd> (Also, please describe the physical appearance of your characters.)''<br>
* @deMontreal drops a 7-legged spider-bot on the desk<br>
* @Natalia has her legs crossed in a chair on the right side of the second row, drumming her nails against the desk. She's both bored and annoyed, and makes a point not to look at either Mrs. Senko or the obnoxiously impossible window view.<br>
* @Soun_Shounen sleep with a soft "zzzzzzz...." at the very back of the room<br>
''<@Lili> (Is this the first meeting?)''<br>
''<@Random_Nerd> (Yes.)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Mrs. Senko, you know three things.  First, that as this is the first meeting of the Club, it will be necessary to determine a first project.  Second, that this is to be determined by a Club vote.  And third, that you must have done something to offend Principal Entropy more than usual for him to put you here.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> And with that, Lillimund walks in.  Perfect.<br>
* @Lili will burst in through the door of the room!  "Hello, children!  I am happy to be invited to...oh.  Senko."<br>
* @deMontreal is 16, a little pale, hair just a little out of line of otherwise carefully styled. He's wearing the black-and-gold uniform, seemingly with the sun symbol emphasized.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Chuubo glances at Lillumund in a friendly but vaguely puzzled way, as if he just saw his pet hamster walking down the street in a suit and with a briefcase in one hand.<br>
* @Natalia is a fifteen-year-old girl in a black sailor uniform with a red scarf, and red highlights. She has dark eyes and dusky blonde hair, shoulder-length and uncombed.<br>
<@deMontreal> His hands have slight scratches and grease under the fingernails.<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> Mrs. Senko is standing and quietly taking attendance. Her hair is pulled back into a tight ponytail, there are stars in her eyes and she wears reading glasses...because it makes sense for a teacher to wear reading glasses. She wears a black skirtsuit that looks ALMOST martial.)<br>
<@deMontreal> His spider-bot is crawling around the desk vaporizing stuck gum.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Lillimund, you know that Principal Entropy II has asked you to assist with this club's projects.  You also know that when he did that, he smiled as if you were wearing a flamingo on your head that only he could see.<br>
''<@Lili> (I possibly was.)''<br>
''<@deMontreal> (de Montreal ... sees the flamingo. :) )''<br>
''<@Mrs_Senko> (Don't be silly. There's no such thing as visible invisible flamingos!)''<br>
''<@deMontreal> (Obviously it's related to the invisible pink unicorn.)''<br>
* @Lili would check the room number but has already seen her Boss there.  "Hello!  I am the representative of SITVW."  She pronounces the acronym perfectly.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> The spider-bot stretches its legs on the desk, and begins to skitter back and forth.<br>
''<@Mrs_Senko> (In that neither of them exist! Really, Mr. de Montreal! These ideas!)''<br>
''<@Mrs_Senko> (*tuts*)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Mrs. Senko, you know that everyone who should be there is there.<br>
<@Luthien> (Luthien is a shortish 10-year old catgirl, with a cloaklike thing over her uniform.  It has a hood.  She thinks it looks awesome.  She has chibi-large blue eyes and tawny fur on her ears and such)<br>
* @Mrs_Senko finishes taking roll<br>
* @Soun_Shounen is 16, with a really cool uniform that vaguely resemble the standard one. Is dark with golden touches here and there that underline his eyes. He have a slighly wild haircut that enhances his awesome appearance<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Strictly speaking, none of you should be there, as the students should be studying something useful, and you should be on a sunny beach in the Deep Outside lecturing a nameless horror on proper deportment.  But still.<br>
''<@Luthien> (Oh, Luthien's cloak looks like the night.)''<br>
<@deMontreal> My uniform is just a little bit dirty. Can't get anything 100% clean where I live.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Luthien's cloak would be a violation of the required uniform, except for the fact that magical cloaks, obviously, don't exist.  So she isn't wearing one, and thus is properly attired.  Obviously.<br>
''<@Lili> (Explains why you're here, Leo, if it's a punishment.)''<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "So, was there a plan in forming this club or were you kids just planning to slack off and play euchre for the period?"<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "Because I will not abide euchre."<br>
<@Luthien> "I've heard canasta is good"<br>
<@deMontreal> "Well, there are other games."<br>
<@Luthien> "But there are problems to find!  People to help!  Streets to expl... clean!"<br>
''<@deMontreal> (There's this one that uses a 20-sided die that I've heard is interesting.)''<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "Neither will I abide canasta, though I do admit to its sensible superiority."<br>
* @Natalia glares at Mrs. Senko. Then her eyes widen as she notices for the first time that the teacher appears as clueless about the reason as she is.<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "Let's go clean some streets, then!"<br>
<@Soun_Shounen> "zzz... z..."<br>
* @Lili smiles at Luthi.  "Indeed!  Lots of opportunities for intelligent out-going young people!"<br>
<@deMontreal> "We could... go out into Town and... well, do whatever is needed to improve peoples' lot."<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "MR. SOUN!"<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Town does, of course, have its seedy aspects.  Urban jungles growing in Old Moulder!  And some of the rats of Fortitude have ''appalling'' table manners!<br>
* @Lili will make friendly overtures toward the spider-bot.  Maybe offer it a biscuit.<br>
<@Soun_Shounen> "Whoa! I mean Yes Teacher!"<br>
* @deMontreal directs his spiderbot to 'check out' Soun<br>
* @Natalia rolls her eyes and shrugs her shoulders in an exaggerated "Oh brother" expression.<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "Do not sleep! It is a waste of energy."<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Lili, the spider bot examines you curiously.  Its methods of construction appear nonstandard.  Of all the seven-legged spider-bots you have seen this week, it is the most peculiar.<br>
<@Soun_Shounen> "But I was rehearsing toughs"<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Chuubo, quietly: "Could... does anyone have a project they think we should work on?"<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "That excuse is and will always be unacceptable."<br>
* @Natalia snaps back to attention as Mrs. Senko snaps at Shounen. There is Something Up here. She needs more information.<br>
* @Soun_Shounen try to ding smile<br>
<@Random_Nerd> It totally works.<br>
* @Lili will let the spiderbot do as its master commands.  Wouldn't want to bother the poor thing while it's on the clock.<br>
<@Soun_Shounen> ( :-D )<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Natalia, Senko, it is obvious to both of you that that smile just ain't right.<br>
* @Mrs_Senko frowns.<br>
* @Natalia isn't looking at it. She certainly didn't glance back and notice it out of the corner of her eye! Even though anyone looking would have seen differently.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> The spiderbot peers curiously at the glint of light.<br>
* @Soun_Shounen ask under voice to the nearest ... folk ... "what we are doing now?"<br>
<@Random_Nerd> And at that moment, there's a brief knock on the door, and then it opens.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Principal Entropy stands in the doorway.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> His hands are covered in gloves of thin, slightly stained leather.<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "Mr. Entropy! What a surprise!"<br>
<@Random_Nerd> He's wearing sunglasses, despite that it's both indoors and evening.<br>
''<@Soun_Shounen> (practical!)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> He smiles.<br>
<@Luthien> "Principal Entropy!  How are you!  That sandwich the other day was excellent, thank you very much :)"<br>
* @Natalia exhales, glad of a reprieve as the door begins to open. Then she freezes lie a deer in the headlights, when the Principal steps in.<br>
* @Lili freezes in the manner of beings in the presence of a greater predator.<br>
<@Lili> (Man, that was horrible spelling.)<br>
* @deMontreal subtly signals his spiderbot to return<br>
''<@Lili> (He smiled?  I'm getting cognitive dissonance.)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Entropy II: "Ah, yes, Mrs. Senko.  I wished... *he winks at Lillimund* to stop by and see how the Club was coming along.  I have high hopes for this group of students!"<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Entropy II: "So, what project will your students be beginning first, Mrs. Senko?"<br>
* @Lili smiles at the Principal!  How wonderful of him to see how helping the community will help the students!<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Totally unfair.  He hasn't given even close to enough time for anything to even be proposed, let alone voted on.  And yet.<br>
* @Soun_Shounen fake emote being at ease<br>
''<@deMontreal> (BTW, the spiderbot is Not Fully Perfected. :) )''<br>
* @Natalia grinds her teeth. . . o o O ( ) ( Is he toying with me? With us? )<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "We'll begin with cleaning streets, sir."<br>
''<@Random_Nerd> (Did you have any particular flaws in mind, or should I come up with something?)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Entropy, broad grin: "Cleaning streets!  Excellent!  Which streets?  We do, after all, have so many."<br>
''<@deMontreal> (Well, for one thing it's missing a leg.)''<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "Perhaps near the Market Street."<br>
''<@Luthien> (to whom is that directed?)''<br>
''<@Soun_Shounen> (obviously the bot will explode ... in due time)''<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Entropy: "Perfect!  Well, don't let me delay you!"<br>
<@Luthien> "I've never been to ''[crud, some district on the other side from my home]'' - let's start there!"<br>
<@Random_Nerd> He sweeps out with all the solemn majesty of a twenty-two year old school principal.<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "..."<br>
''<@Lili> (Huh.  I'm only a year younger than him.  I think I should be worried.)''<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "Does everyone have gloves?"<br>
* @Lili remembers to breathe again.<br>
<@deMontreal> "Several types."<br>
* @Soun_Shounen nod<br>
* @Natalia mutters, under her breath, as the Principal departs. "Is this his idea of a joke?"<br>
<@deMontreal> and a larger version of this spiderbot to do the actual work.<br>
* @Lili is wearing a skirt and a jacket with many pockets.  Pockets on pockets.  She will search a number of them and finally pull out a pair of gloves triumphantly.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Chuubo shrugs at Natalia.  Who can know the ways of gods, demons, and senior administrative personnel?<br>
* @Natalia's brain logs the question but it takes her some few moments to actually notice it, as angry as she's become. Finally she answers. "I will need work gloves."<br>
<@Luthien> "Gloves?"<br>
* @Soun_Shounen nonchalantly take gloves from a pocket<br>
<@Random_Nerd> What do Soun's gloves look like?<br>
''<@Random_Nerd> (Err, Shounen's.)''<br>
''<@deMontreal> (Only one, white, sequinned. :) )''<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "Mr. de Montreal, please share some of your gloves with your fellow club members who lack preparedness."<br>
<@deMontreal> "Ah yes. Do be careful of the stains, a few are caustic."<br>
''<@Soun_Shounen> (are dark as the uniform he wear, with furs and a golden logo on the pad)''<br>
''<@Soun_Shounen> (good for a leisure walk not for work)''<br>
* @deMontreal gives his grungiest pair to Chuubo...<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> "Children are resilient. Stains won't hurt them for long."<br>
* @Natalia grits her teeth. After only a couple more moments hesitation, she steps over to Leonardo and half-bows. "Please."<br>
* @deMontreal hands Natalia a comparatively clean pair.<br>
* @Soun_Shounen take the deMontreal gloves with a "oh good what kind of gloves are ''those'' emote<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Chuubo accepts the gloves as if they were the most kingly of gifts.  Always he mocks with with false courtesy and ironic friendliness.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Soon.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> (Err, mocks ''you'' with.)<br>
<@deMontreal> "So, where is this street you've ''kindly'' directed us to clean?"<br>
<@Random_Nerd> (So, should we cut to a particular street, or have some be proposed, or other projects suggested?)<br>
<@Lili> (Let's see how the first one goes.  ^^  )<br>
* @Natalia looks the gloves over methodically before putting them on.<br>
<@Soun_Shounen> (ok for the cut)<br>
<@Mrs_Senko> (cutting to the street works for me)<br>
<@deMontreal> (OK)<br>
<@Luthien> (ok for cut, but Luthien still doesn't have gloves.  Not that ''she'' cares.<br>
<@Random_Nerd> Mrs. Senko, you have of course memorized the map of town.  Well, most of it.  Certain portions had a disconcerting way of moving around while you tried to pin down their locations, sometimes entirely leaving the map and hiding in your cupboard or behind a spare pair of shoes.<br>