The little bird sings her feelings to the people.

[former_endboss]

[Video]

Hey. So, has anyone noticed that we are in a school where nobody teaches class except for that plant-lady? And she just plays Tetris all day. There's a ton of abandoned class rooms, waiting for people to move in and do something. I mean, I found an orchestra pit with a fully functional organ in it.

So, I'm going to make people an offer. I've got a working knowledge of music, and if there's anyone who wants to learn or form a band, or learn the quantum-mechanical underpinnings of magic that will blow the back of your skull off, get in contact with me. Meanwhile, I'm going to treat everyone to the sound of me blowing some of the dust out of this thing.

[Cue Tocata and Fuge in D minor.]

Comments

[Action]

[former_endboss]

... I be creating myself draconic, but is slow.

[Mir can't quite pronounce Draconic right yet, and her grammar and vocabulary are like a hatchling, but she's at least speaking Ixie's mother tongue.]

[Action]

[dragon_moe]

...?

[the switch to draconic catches her off guard]

Um... teaching. Creating is creating.

[Italicized is draconic]

... I... ah, I could help you learn it. I think.

I've never taught anybody before, though...

[Action]

[former_endboss]

Great thanks. I am attempting, but is slow.

[But let's not murder an ancient and beautiful language.]

To tell the truth? I've never taught Hymmnos. All revyateils are born knowing it or learn it naturally at puberty. I know it forward and backwards, but the teaching will be new for both of us.

[Action]

[dragon_moe]

Ah... I guess we'll figure out teaching together, then?

[Action]

[former_endboss]

Yeah. I don't think it should be too hard, and we're good friends, so that will help us.

[Action]

[dragon_moe]

Yeah.

... and since we don't have CO giving us missions, I guess we should have a lot of time to do it, too.

[Action]

[former_endboss]

That's true. Sure do have a lot of time to kill since they stopped telling us to fill out forms in triplicate every time we sneeze.

[Action]

[dragon_moe]

[Nod]

It's really weird having so much free time...

[Action]

[former_endboss]

It's better than jail, I tell you that. when I was locked up after the rebellion it was nothing to do but read and write. I spent three centuries with an uncontrollable urge to scratch my nose.

[Action]

[dragon_moe]

Ah...

... you couldn't scratch your nose?

[Action]

[former_endboss]

Couldn't move at all. My body was technically not even real at the time, frozen in crystal so I couldn't move. It sucked so bad.

[Action]

[dragon_moe]

Um... then... how did you write?

[Action]

[former_endboss]

My body was bound, but my mind was free to wander, and interface with computers. It was basically letting me access the Binary Field. There's a Dive Machine in my bedroom, so I can show you if you like.

[Action]

[dragon_moe]

Ah... well, yeah, sure, I'd like to see.

[Action]

[former_endboss]

Right then, let's go and make sure it's working right first of all.

[Since after all they wouldn't be the a room with the Dive Machine. Mir's bedroom is full of books and even has a small alchemy station-but it's the secret panel in the wall that opens up to deploy the pair of pods that is the most obvious part of the Dive Machine.]

[Action]

[dragon_moe]

So... ...

... this isn't the same as the uh... jail you were talking about, right?

[Action]

[former_endboss]

Well, you won't be aware of the outside world while this is operating. And there is a slight risk of total psychic collapse, since there's going to be nobody monitoring from the outside. But we should be fine.

[Action]

[dragon_moe]

...

[She hesitates a bit]

Um...

... slight risk of...?

[Action]

[former_endboss]

I'm a professional, I won't kill you like that.

[Action]

[dragon_moe]

R-right...

[Action]

[former_endboss]

Less talking, more getting into the pod now.

[And less than a minute later, the two are knocked out and Ixthalluz is standing in the middle of an infinate, brightly lit nothing with lots of blue stuff in the distance.]

So yeah. Welcome to the Binary Field. There's not much here right now.

[Action]

[dragon_moe]

Huh...

... so um... where are you?

[Action]

[former_endboss]

A good question! We would also accept 'Who are you' since I'm not the Mir who put you in here. I am the Mir who is apparent on the surface. The Mind guardian says that I'm the most superficial layer of Mir, but I'm also the public face, so I think I'm pretty important.

But anyways, I'm not here. You get to choose what kind of game we play. Do you like school or fantasy or science fiction?

[Action]

[dragon_moe]

Er...

[Ixthalluz is a little confused...]

... I, uh...

... I don't know.

[Action]

[former_endboss]

...Oh. Well that's a pain-there's nothing here unless a story starts. Well, nothing except Stonehenge and Ayatane.

[There does seem to be some sort of stone formation over there and a...wow, that's a hot guy.]