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 Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 2:22 pm
All around the island of Deus Ex Machina, hunters wake up for another morning. Many slept heavily through the night, some remembering a loading screen, others remember dreaming that they fell down a rabbit hole that led to empty darkness. A goodly few, though, participated in a game too elaborate and vivid to be any sort of normal dream.
At 0700 the intercom clicks on and Doctor H's voice sounds smoothly throughout the island. "I require all hunters to assemble at the school gymnasium for a briefing. Immediately."
The bleachers have been pulled out in the gym, allowing plenty of room to sit and chat while waiting for the assembly to begin. Pietro, the new Life assistant, is setting up chairs and a podium at center court. Someone in a Moon coat sets up a questionable refreshment table off to the side.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:36 pm
Gale sat on one of the bleachers in the back looking as though he'd rather just go right back to sleep instead of listen to whatever lecture they were about to be given.
He may also have been eating a granola bar.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:39 pm
Kostya, after a night of peaceful sleep and just a little bit of sleepwalking, was well rested. He appeared at the gymnasium just a few moments after the Doctor's request, choosing to imitate Jane's tactics and standing near the middle of the crowd.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:40 pm
Chel also sat down and waited for inevitable yelling.
She also wondered if her other guild mates were hunters. She knew Shun and Uttam were out for sure, but that left Xiu, Robert, Edel, Delph, Mimsy, Clara ...
Were they hunters too? Or with the enemy. It was getting kind of blurred. Just what did ALICE mean by missing them?
Too many questions. She wanted to talk it out with someone, and definitely not the Doctor. He kind of scared her. Oh well. Someone would show up soon enough. Hopefully Milo or Chris- she knew they'd been in the game too, so they were probably the best options for post-game chit chat.
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Ami pointedly sat down in a spot slightly too close to Gale but not too close to make him uncomfortable. Just close enough to keep an eye on him. Yes, that was appropriate.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:40 pm
Rep had a lot of weird dreams. The dreams that night had been mostly standard levels of weirdness. But when at 7 in the morning the intercom woke him up (he didn't even know they had a ******** intercom until it almost gave him a heart attack) he'd gotten dressed as well as was possible, bringing his survival gear and coat, because if there was ever time you probably needed survival gear it was when H's voice ******** interrupted your sleep and made it sound urgent.
He showed up as close to immediately as it was possible for him to do, as always accompanied by the other half of his double act. He sat down, more than a little bit confused and mused aloud.
"The ******** is going on now?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:41 pm
Leslie showed up almost late, rubbing at his eyes. He looked sleepy, almost as if he were, perhaps... a dormouse.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:41 pm
Radley was tired, and all she really wanted was some coffee. She went to the meeting after grabbing some, sipping gingerly as it as she stared through half-lidded eyes.
To some she would probably look grumpy as s**t.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:44 pm
Stormy followed shortly behind, fighting off her drowsiness with decreasingly sluggish motions. She nudged Gale when he looked like he might nod off, her lips pressed together with a wary look otherwise.
She nibbled off his granola bar without bothering to ask. It was a good two or three hours before she normally woke up, and given her less than stellar sleep schedule lately, this wasn't helping matters.
Spying fellow Mists, she waved a little in spite of the apparently grumpy and half-asleep looks. No lack of sleep would make her neglect meeting some of her own, even under what sounded like a grim circumstance unfolding.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:45 pm
Lex was there, sitting next to Ami and giving Gale a very apologetic look. He also had a granola bar.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:45 pm
Deryk didn't have his coffee yet. And so he wasn't exactly awake. He yawned and plopped himself down.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:48 pm
Peyton wasn't entirely sure if she felt rested or not as she made her way towards the gym. She had slept deeply, that at least she knew, but there was a certain lingering weariness that made her just a little less chipper than her normal self. All the same she arrived shortly after the announcement with her hand up to cover a yawn, and made her way towards Kostya under the assumption that her two best friends would likely gravitate in his direction. Logical. "Morning," she'd offer with a small smile as she took a seat in the row behind and a little to the side of him. "I wonder what's going on, and if this has anything to do with the dream.." The small faded into a thoughtful frown, gaze lingering on the figure setting up chairs before twitching down to Kostya. "I didn't see you." Surely if he'd been there she'd have noticed. "Didn't you have the same dream?" Didn't they all? "With wonderland, and the queen?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:49 pm
Leslie stared at the cute girl waving at him, and kindly offered her the finger. Christ, he was still so tired.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:50 pm
"What do you think?" a voice the row above Chel asked casually. Jack was sipping his morning coffee, content and Wonderland-free. He must have had a good day before, given that he was actualy linitiating conversation this time. "Someone died, or we found some traitors?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:51 pm
Somehow, Abbi managed to actually drag herself from her soft, warm bed this early in the morning and into the gymnasium. She hadn't actually been aware they had a regular gymnasium like this, so a good dose of curiosity had been what drove her sluggish feet across the campus. But now that she was here, she just wanted to go back to sleep. So, naturally, she chose the only other person who sleeping on might prove a bad idea: Leslie. "S'like... Too early..." She mumbled as she pushed herself next to him on the bench and dropped her head against his shoulder. "Should still be sleepin'."A moment later she noticed his finger and poked at it. "S'not polite." Stormy, on the other hand, received a dull, sleepy wave.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 9:51 pm
Milo usually got up pretty early in the morning, usually for a morning run, but not exactly this time around. The wake up call nearly got him falling out of bed in surprise, woken abruptly from the whole Wonderland ordeal. He was up.. he was totally up. His heart was pounding a mile a minute but he was up and getting dressed and going. Yes, he was going.
He showed up at the gymnasium not soon after, out of breath from practically running there and plopped himself down on the bleachers. Next to Chel, conveniently. Okay, now he felt tired. That bit of adrenaline was fading from his system and he slumped forward. At least managed a small good morning to the pink haired girl beside him.
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