netherworld_academy | nother intro, with 9 times as many tails and 100% less sonic relevance

[Those checking the generic communication device now might spot a transmission from another new arrival.

Who looked rather dark. Her hair? Jet black. Her dress? Black. Her huge, fluffy tails? Black. Even the white of her eyes was, well, not white, but quite black indeed. And were those black particle effects around her? Sheesh, someone really had tried to make her look evol. Or edgy. Or both.

For maximum effect, she was currently lolling on a mound of perfectly white pillows, which contrasted her quite a bit.]

Why, hello! As I arrived during a time of invasion, it's only natural to introduce myself, lest I find myself killed as a traitor or spy.

My name is Himiko. I am, as you can see, a fox - and therefore highly suspicious, so I will avoid the regular 'I am harmless' talk, as true as it may be.

[She stretched, then made herself comfortable by shuffling a bit. One of her tails brought her a gem-encrusted goblet, which seemed to be filled with fine wine, of which she took a sip.]

No, no, there's nothing I want in particular, I don't even have a question, although I am somewhat curious about those winged ones trying to catch me, for whatever reason.

Either way, nice to meet you - even though the circumstances are anything but.

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Well, usually not. You can't find and slay mythical monsters that only exist when I want them to. [Well, for a given value of "exist"]

Hey, one day they might surprise you. Come back with the head of a Chimera and you'll have to give back their kingdoms.

That'd be unfortunate, as I wouldn't like to give them my hand in marriage! I suppose I could just give them a hand in marriage.

And the reign over kingdom of deep-grotto-in-hill-in-middle-of-nowhere.

I've heard if you lacquer them they won't even rot and stink up your house.

Sounds lovely.

Yes, I can imagine the smell would be a bother.

Depends on who you ask, I suppose. A prince would complain after a while. Well, he could complain to the bats, I suppose. Not that it'd do much.

Why would he? He could kick back, relax, and not have to worry about doing actual prince things like waging wars and levying taxes or whatever the hell it is they normally do.

Probably depends on the 'he' in question, some like the glory that they think war brings them.

And how'd you get all this power to make princes do their own laundry and princesses go hunting for mythical animals?

Oh, I have no power to force anyone to do anything at all, I'm only a humble fox.

I'm merely good at making people think things are going on that aren't going on. They usually decide to do all sort of things on their own. I'd never force someone, you see. It's all their decision. I just give incentives.

You know, foxes where I come from can't talk, or give incentives to do anything.

Oh, that's true - most can't. The really old ones can, though.

So if I ever meet a fox with a whole bunch of tails I'll know better than to go looking for whatever it asks me to.

Duly noted.

You better do, else the fox might pout!

And I care about that why exactly?

Out of the goodness of your rotten, black heart!

No? Well, it was worth a try.

If I even had a heart I would be offended.

Sorry, fluffy animals don't make me want to do what they say.

Oh, not even pouting? Now I'm almost offended, and I was trying so, so hard.

Well, not really, but close enough.

You're gonna be real disappointed in the lack of humans to manipulate here.

It works on those penguin things, though. I got some ice cream that way - alas, I wasn't particularly willing to actually eat it, but the thought counts.

They have the brain capacity of office furniture, I wouldn't be too proud of getting them to do what you wanted.

Oh, it's not as if pouting or looking shy takes effort. I'm the laziest 'manipulator' around, from what I can tell.

Then this place is tailor made for you. Enjoy your stay.

Better than some other places I've staid at, though I wouldn't call it tailor made.

Well we've got these handy phone things, so now you don't even have to get up to be manipulative. It's catered right towards laziness.

Oh, true. And I got my hoard, so I also have no reason to be manipulative in the first place. This place sure is convenient.

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