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Managing to somehow guide her humanbot out of the gym, Sulmanon wondered if it was programmed to react to anything but it's game console. Wondering if there might be some buttons on the console she could press to get it to react to her, Sulmanon peeked over its shoulder to inspect the console. Evidently, it took this as a chance to show off its game to someone new and started chatting her ears off talking about some obscure golden turnip.

Starting to wonder if her ears would fall off, Sulmanon looked around to see if she could find anyone to help her shut up her bot, at least temporarily.

"Yes.", Sulmanon replied, "This thing keeps ranting on and on about its game and this golden turnip thing. I don't even like turnips." Noting the ghoul was being followed by a similarly chatty bot, she smiled and asked, "Are you having troubles too?"

Finally realizing it had lost its audience, the as-of-yet-unnamed human bot pouted saying, The golden turnip is a very important plot item that I can't progress the story line without. It thought its game was one all should enjoy, that no one would ever be bored talking about, but it did not realize it had been tromping on Sulmanon's nerves.

Having already had to listen to the bot's chatter for some time, Sulmanon just turned and screamed at it, "SHUT UP!" When she realized what she had done, she went to apologize to it, especially because it looked like it was about to cry.

Trying to get her humanbot to stop crying, Sulmanon only made things worse. It was crying louder than ever. Almost desperate to stop the wailing, Sulmanon was happy to hear the suggestion of showing them around campus, Sulmanon started to smile at the ghoul and then frowned. "I still don't know the campus that well yet, so you'd have to show me around as well."

Cringing as the bot's wailing hit a new pitch, she added "...and we'd better make it quick before this thing is confused with a banshee."

"Elizabeth? It that your bot's name? Maybe I should name mine too, that might get him to quit crying..." So Sulmanon started randomly trying out names on him. "Do you like the name Arlen? What about Floyd? Maybe Efflam would suit you? No? Then how about Gawain. That one's good? Then Gawain it is."

The entire time she had been trying out names, the humanbot had been quieting, and shaking his head at each name he did not like. Finally settling on Gawain, he nodded, rubbing the last of the tears out of his eyes.

Happy to see that her humanbot had finally finished wailing, Sulmanon then tugged at his arm. "Come on, we're going to show you the dorms." Unfortunately, it seemed Gawain was as brave as Elizabeth when it came to exploring and he instantly looked insecure at the thought of it.

Remembering how timid Gawain had been before, Sulmanon was not sure how he'd react when the other ghoul started mentioning the graveyard, but it seemed somehow he didn't hear that, rather, all he heard was maul.

"Is there an arcade there?" He asked excitedly, no longer scared. An arcade meant games.

Surprised at his enthusiasm, Sulmanon just sighed a bit. She just did not get humans, or at least humanbots. Then, no longer having to deal with a wailing bot, she finally remembered her manners. "By the way, I'm Sulmanon. I'm still fairly new here." She said, offering a hand towards the ghoul, in case she was one who liked to shake hands in greeting.

"It's nice to meet you too." Sulmanon replied, smiling and returning the hearty handshake. It seemed that Xiu had been correct, most of the students here were nice. That would make it much easier to learn about other races. Thinking along those lines, Sulmanon remembered that she had forgotten to ask what race her new friend belonged to. That could be easily rectified, though.

"I've never really gotten a chance to meet anyone but dragons before, would you mind me asking what race you are? I'm a welsh dragon, by the way." taking her on race on, so as not to be rude.

At the mention of dragons, Gawain stopped in his tracks. "D-d-d-dragon?" he stuttered.

Hearing her bot stutter, Sulmanon turned around and smiled at the humanbot. "Don't worry, I'm not as haughty as my parents. There's very little to actually fear from me." As long as you don't aggravate me too much, she mentally tacked on. Her parents had said that she was a bit of a hothead when angry. Somehow, it seemed her reassurance worked, but the bot still seemed shaken.

About to ask about the celestial dragon, Sulmanon was cut off by Elizabeth's terror. Sighing at the ghoulbot's reaction, she shook her head. "I'm not skilled enough to breathe fire and no one from Halloween, that I know of, would eat people. For my family specifically, we weren't eaters we were rulers and what ruler eats their subjects?" Well it was true, which was why some humans had seen fit to place her ancestor's image on their flag.

One of the games Gawain played on his console was a war strategy game, so when she mentioned her family had ruled people before, he just looked at her in admiration. Here was a character from one of his games in front of him!

Looking over at the female bot, Gawain could not figure out why she was scared. A dragon and a necromancer, it was just like one of his games. He was living one of his games. How could a gamer not take joy from that, especially when he was assured that no harm would befall him.

Looking between her boilbot and Circe's ghoulbot, Sulmanon wondered why Gawain had grown more confident when Elizabeth grew more afraid. Were they linked with a set amount of courage between them? Or was it the proximity to the gym that changed their courage? Sighing, she decided that she was just going to wind up more and more confused with this assignment. Offering a suggestion to Circe, Sulmanon asked "Do you think we should start back to the gym? Elizabeth seemed braver when we were near it."