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Otto hid with Heidi in some nearby bushes, finally spotting a Halloweener on their own. "Okay... remember.. we're after gossip, okay? Do the ghouly thing or whatever." Otto insisted, crawling his way along behind the bushes to find an opening to talk to the ghoul without looking like he'd come out of bushes.

However, he mistook a dip in the hill for a patch of leaves. Which it was. A dip in the hill covered with leaves. Otto yelped, and tumbled down the hill, crashing into Piper in a flailing flurry of arms and petticoats.

Smooth.

Piper had a few seconds to respond, but she was just so startled at the fact that a tumble of clothes was coming down the hill that she spent those few seconds trying to determine where its owner was. She realized a split second before the collision crash that it was actually a person coming at her, but by then it was a little too late to react.

Appropriately, the grand-daughter of Muuts squawked in surprise as she fell over and was groaning by the time a second figure stepped over to her.

"Why do people keep crashing in to meeeee?" Piper whined, squirming out from under Tumbleweed Person Thing, sitting up, and patting down her hair, making faces as she shook dirt and grass from her curls. First her wallet took a hit, and now her hair? This day was just being awful for no good reason! "Ughhhhh. Yeah I'm fine, though could you guys like, watch where you're going next time?"

It was then that she noticed both strangers were of the undead variety. Ohhhh. Poor thing probably lost control of her leg or something. Was that a common problem?

"You guys new here too?" Piper asked curiously, wondering if perhaps her opportunity to socialize had literally stumbled upon her.

"Glad to hear it!" Heidi grinned, tucking part of her forehead talisman behind her ear to get it out of the way. "My friend's kinda clumsy, she's still getting used to her legs." She pat Otto on the back with a sympathetic look. Poor, poor ghoul. She couldn't use her own legs properly yet!

"Yeah! We're new. Still trying to figure out our way around. Do you think you could help us? We're like..really kinda lost and stuff..." This wasn't so bad! It was just like doing improv in theatre, except her partner didn't know the truth of the situation.

Otto narrowed a glare at Heidi, however brief. That was the one thing he should be grateful for, he supposed. Tenya was prattling on about how undeads tended to have un-responsive limbs. He could blame most anything on that fact for now.

Heidi also seemed to be much better at socializing and making friends than Otto was. He was lucky she bitted in on this mission.

Wait...Third Years!? Jackpot. Third years would know all about the gossip mill. He'd just have to be extra careful though. Third years was much savvier to Hunter activity. "Um.." Otto's golem nodded, lightly dusting off the dress again. "Please." He uttered with some trouble. Tenya gigged in his mind, pointing out his awkwardness could be taken as shyness. Whatever stopped them from seeing him as a wolf in sheep's clothing he supposed.

"You uh... have.. many friends?"

<suck at this>> Tenya snorted.

Shut it, I'm tryin not to let my danged accent come through, sassbucket.

Eight

"They probably would, though . . ." Piper still remembered the impromptu fake wedding at Prom and how it had made her want to gag. They were probably still doing something dumb like fake honeymooning. and even if they weren't, if she admitted to needing help, Kettil would get more fodder to tease her about . . . And Jack knew they couldn't have that.

"Nah, there's more adventure in doing it ourselves!" Piper amended with a chirp, waving off her first suggestion with a hand. "Well, ghoulies, you can call me Piper! First things first--did you get settled in your dorms already? Because I do know where those are. I," have like one or two friends maybe, "know plenty of people in case something comes up!"

Though...? Heidi blinked. Though what? She glanced Otto's way as he introduced himself. Enya. Okay. Noted. And they knew their dorms--wait, dorms? They had those here, too? Now Heidi was glad she hadn't named anywhere specific about where they had to be. She'd need to learn more about this school while she was here.

"I like adventure! Nice to meetcha, Piper. And yeah, my room's next to Enya's. S'how we met," she explained as easily as if it was the truth. She glanced 'Enya's' way as she asked about friends. His falsetto was terrible, she would have to teach him how to do that if he was going to be here for an extended period of time. Heidi was up for the challenge if it kept him safe.

Skellyphone? So that's what they called cell phones here. The fact that they had them made things easier. Either he'd have to steal one, or get one of his own and find as many contacts as he could. But that meant socializing enough to make friends.

"Wow... I wish I had one.." He mused in "awe", or tried to. It sounded dead, but maybe that suited the whole zombie thing.

So the only remotely scary things these kids had to deal with was an off limits forest and a labour intensive Detention. Otto felt less sympathetic for students than he already did at this point. Their lives were so simple.

"You've never.. tried?" He asked, gesturing to the woods. He was pretty sure a few golem missions had landed him inside anyway. He wasn't terribly interested. But if he focused too much on just information control he'd miss something.