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Once the message was sent, Mona settled herself to the wider expanse of the academy entrance outside of the building. She conjured up her levitation ball and took a seat on top of it, legs crossed at the knee with one elbow propped to hold her chin in her palm. The instructor dug her heel against the ground, rolling slightly upon her psychic chair. Like this she would be even easier to spot, with her eye searing mint and hot pink aura.

"Heyyy," she greeted casually as her tour participants approached, "Let's get the boring stuff out of the way first, huh? I'm Mona Sinclair, I handle arts and crafts over at the camp. Here at the academy I'm the Crash Course instructor, which means if you skipped out on camp you and I are gonna be seeing a lot of each other." She threw a wink to Lindy, Celine, and Cody.

With her free hand, Mona pointed past the main building. "We'll go around the grounds, get you guys familiar with the layout. Then maybe we'll get to the cool stuff." She locked her fingers together and stretched both arms over her head, then tucked both behind her mass of hair. "But first, you gotta tell me about yourselves. I wanna know your names, favorite color, favorite animal, and what kind of music you like. If you wanna jaw jack more, I'm all ears, but you gotta at least give me the skinny."

[ Zajac | Campus Tour! ]

He stuck close to WuXia as they followed Mona for the tour. She was the one he knew the most about, even if that wasn't really a lot to start with. He looked around to see who would speak first and wasn't very surprised when she did. He had to duck to avoid being hit by her bit he didn't mind. She was excited, the world needed the kind of people that volunteered for things first. He needed those kind of people. After all if someone didn't speak fist it we unlikely that he would speak at all.

He was curious about this Chines classical music, but he could ask her some other time. When she was done he figured it was as good of a time as it ever would be to talk.

"I'm Zajac. Zajac Królik." he paused, looking at Mona and WuXia before contuining. "Um, I like the colors brown and orange, my favorite animal is the rabbit," his hand instantly went to to one of the ears of his jacket, "and for music I like..." he knew no one would know about it but it was his favorite and he wasn't going to lie to an instructor. "It's called poezja śpiewana, it's from Poland." he nodded. It wasn't like people want to know more about him. As soon as he was done he seemed to take a step back, hiding a little more behind WuXia. She might be a little dangerous, but he felt safer with her then any of the others.

As it turned out, Lindy never made it back to Doolittle and Juniper. She wandered between the snacks and the booths, not so subtly eavesdropping on conversations and watching the other students and campers mingle. When Mona's announcement bounced through her head, Lindy jumped. She pursed her lips, faintly annoyed, and they remained pursed until moments before she joined the small tour group. Steps away from where Mona sat, Lindy's face lit up, her smile as genuine as if it had been there the whole time.

When there was a break in the introductions, she jumped in with her own, raising her hand to the height of her eyes before she began.

"It's great to meet all of you! I'm Lindy, my favorite color is purple, my favorite animals are dolphins and pigs, if they're cute, and I love pop!"

There. Short and sweet. Her hand dropped back to her side and she stood there in semi-awkward silence, smiling like her face was stuck that way until the next person spoke.

As each camper and student signed off on their information, Mona grinned. She crossed her arms and let her eyes drift from one to the next, nodding her approval when they finished. Her brows rose with Marcelle but Mona's grin was just as strong as for anyone else.

"Well, alright! Those are some pretty diverse answers, huh? Thank you, guys." Standing from her levitation ball, Mona gave it a slight kick with her heel -- the bright pink and teal energy popped and vanished without a sound. At her full height, she was just barely taller than the campers. "My favorite color is hot pink, i like a whole lot of animals but my fav's got to be the kiwi bird, and I'm all about those 80s hair bands." With a wink and one pointed finger to Cody, she added, "Rock and Metal preferred."

Her hands came together in a swift clap; Mona rubbed her palms together eagerly and looked around the grounds. "Time to get the boring stuff out of the way. Let's see if we can make it fun, though, hm?" The short instructor beckoned with one hand that they follow her. "Tell me if you guys have aaany questions. About aaanything. Like, seriously, anything. Go for it."

As before, Mona's grin didn't falter against Marcelle's callous tone but her eyebrows rose - whether it was with surprise or interest was impossible to tell.

"It is a humble selection, isn't it?" With one hand on her hip, she gestured to Marcelle with the other. "We are a low funded operation. If it's a concern, maybe the Charbonneau line of psychics or Grayson Meridian himself might like to donate for quality assurance?" Her hand held out, Mona clutched at the air as though Marcelle had the money to give right here. "No less than twenty-four karats."

Cody went ahead and gave a double finger pistol in return to Mona's acknowledgement, adding on an "Eyyyyyy" for full cheesy effect. Who knew, maybe he'd have to ask her for some suggestions down the road.

The next words that came up from the golden haired camper were a bit more... loaded, but Mona certainly had a good reply up her sleeve. Cody went ahead and edged in a reply before any possible explosion.

"Is there a gym? Trails? Outdoor climbing maybe?"

Lindy was cataloging as well, storing away names, animals, and colors in what was probably a much less calculating way than this Marcelle Meridian. She was... something. Lindy herself had never wanted for much in her life that wasn't provided, but she had never had even the most remote desire to introduce herself in terms of her family name. The Kingstons were quite well known in some circles, but it had always felt a little blasphemous mentioning her parents around those who might have heard of them anyway. She had to wonder if it had just been circumstance that had kept her from ending up just like this little snob, though she didn't wonder for long.

Side-shuffling a few steps closer to Zajac and WuXia, Lindy gave them a friendly wiggle of her fingers. Cute kids. At least there were some around here.

Thank you all for your attendance here as we attempted to sort some things out. Considering how long it's been, and with the start of the new year, staff felt it best to consider this roleplay finished and get it off of all of our backs. Snoof would like to apologize for the clumsiness of this event in particular but appreciates you guys wanting to go for it all the same!

That said, your troubles will not go unrewarded.








Everyone please remember to document your PSI Points somewhere safe and to deposit your arrowheads into the Psitanium Bank or else they won't be added to your accounts!

We hope to offer more events like this in the future that actually work. In the mean time, for your personal reference, here is what was going to go down through the tour:

Mona would have lead them around the school grounds from the Main Building over to the Sports Field and Gym, where she would have asked if anyone among them knows how to levitate and she'd ask to see their levitation balls, maybe encourage them to bounce around on them together before moving things along. They would walk around the edge of Lake Peregrine for a nice view while Mona introduced them to the Student Dorms where she would show off one of the empty Auxiliary dorm rooms and talk about all the neat ways you could decorate it. This would lead them on the path toward the Outlets Center to show off all of the on-campus stores and entertainment venues they have on offer, like a private arcade and even a roller rink!

That would take them towards the Playground and Pet Park, where they would have met up with Doolittle who would have introduced them to some lessons about the local wild life and pet regulations at Majesco. He would also totally be down for head scratches and belly rubs, should anyone want to offer them. Mona would have let everyone take a break at the playground to mess about, use the water fountain, or just sit and rest before they wrapped up the walk-about. If everyone was curious enough, though, she would show off her own room at the end of the tour (which would look very much like a student's, with band posters and memorabilia plastered all over the walls and otherwise very unprofessional, whoops there's still some dirty laundry, kicks that under the couch).

With that, Mona would escort everyone back to the cafeteria for some food 'cause all that walking sure worked up her appetite!

As always, if there are any questions or concerns please PM them to Mind Over Matter Staff and we'll get back to you ASAP! Thank you everyone, again, for your participation and boundless patience. We seriously appreciate it.