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Nina didn't even have time to protest before the half dwarf boy scooped up one of her suitcases and brought it to the top of the staircase, returning in under half a minute. "Wow, um..thanks i suppose. You must be pretty strong to do that so quickly." Her attention turned to the meowing that had started up again from the cat carrier perched upon the remaining suitcase. Ooh i forgot, it's rather cramped in there isn't it? Opening the carrier, Nina gently lifted her cat out of its confinement and attempted to comfort it by cradling it in her arms, murmuring an apology. "Well..." She started, returning to the conversation. "in my opinion, the four way capture the flag does seem the most appealing." She gave a nod towards Naomi "Though im not really sure how'd it work with four teams and four flags. Plus we'd have to do it in the day if it's to be in the forest with the Blood Pact running around and all." Nina gave her cat a comforting squeeze. "But unless we come up with a better idea, im up for that."

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Naomi shrugged. "Alright, not at night. That's asking for trouble. But during the day is boring, too, because the forest isn't as interesting in broad daylight." She pursed her lips, thinking. The night was out, obviously, but... Naomi snapped her fingers. "Why not late afternoon into evening? It won't be nearly as dark then, so the worst of the little beasties won't be out. It could be right after dinner too, so the houses would have time to strategize beforehand."

At the consideration of the games, though, Naomi fell quiet for a bit longer. Finally, she said, "Capture the flag or something like it would be better, because if we set up a scavenger or treasure hunt then it won't be nearly as entertaining for us. Plus, there's plenty of factors that neither of you have remembered." She started counting them off on her fingers. "The teachers can patrol the forest to make sure we're all playing fair and keep us safe. Carrmin's sphere of influence keeps out the worst of the creatures in the forest, and if the rumored Pact unit gets anywhere near us, then he'll be sure to alert us. It wouldn't take long to set up, either - we could ask the fairies in the Spring to help erect the flags." She paused. "We can draw out a rough map and have Miss Pilon duplicate it for us. And if anyone's dumb enough to get sucked into a dimensional rip, then it's on their own heads. They aren't hard to get out of, really."

At the mention of the rep, Naomi shrugged again. "We haven't voted for one. I think we're gonna vote one in a week before school starts, and that's the window we have to submit our proposal."

Averill shrugged, giving in. If people wanted to fight, instead of build an event around exploring and finding things, they could do what they wanted. It didn't say that the event was compulsory in any of the rulebooks he'd seen.
"Well, Shanta and Aerykah, from the other houses, seem to be keen on the idea of a capture the flag game." He offered with a slight grin. I wonder if that will put her right off because she'd give them what they want, or if she'll only want to do it more to beat them...

A girl with strikingly red hair just wandered in, mid conversation, walked circles around her housemates and then began talking to her owl. He waved at her, wondering if she was on drugs or something. She was even having trouble walking, by the looks of it!
"Hello? Miss? Yoohoo?" He called to her "Please don't leave your luggage down here- the commonroom is crowded enough as it is." The dwarf boy asked the new elf girl politely.

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Solara continued to wander, finally removing her shoes. Dammit, she was going to get back at her friend for this. A polite tone and a shapr tone came at her all at once and she jumped back, startled. ...Yeah, maybe she wouldn't wear those noise canceling headphones in school. The headphones slipped down her, resting calmly on her neck. They weren't connected to anything. The red-head blushed sheepishly and gave a small bow. " I-i'm sorry. I tend to get side tracked... S-sorry... " She grumbled. Glancing at the girl who gave her the sharp tone, she held back a shiver and gave a small 'thank-you' smile to the shorter male. Taking her luggage, she hurried up into the dorms with a sigh. " Congratulations, Solara. Made a fool of yourself the first day... " She mumbled to herself with a sigh. This was going to be one hell of a year.

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Naomi nodded. Averill had a point. "No sense in talking in circles. Rep votes are in a couple weeks, so once we know who it is we'll have seven days to send in a proposal." She glanced at the redhead with the great fashion sense (even though she stole her top) and offered a shrug. "Don't do it again. The common room's already crowded enough as it is. You can't get from one side to the other without tripping over some freakin' books." Well, if she was going to be spending the next year or so with this elf (the headphones revealing the ears confirmed it), she may as well know her name. "Naomi Pritchett, third year. Welcome to Ekat, newbie."

She stretched in her seat. God, today was shaping up to be pretty boring. The first few weeks of school were. Naomi wished something interesting would happen, like last year when that dryad had run loose for a week.

The weeks passed by quickly, in the leadup to classes beginning.

Averill mostly got his bearing around campus, though some parts were still a mystery. He seemed to do a lot of exploring alone, and never DID end up going into town with the girls from the other houses. He reckoned it was because outings were too hard to organize when the school didn't have a formal postal system. Relying on rats and owls and bats and frogs seems so inefficient. Animals can't tell time, so how will they know if they deliver a message late? And how do they even know where the recipient is? None of us even have mailboxes! And using the bulletin board doesn't work either. I don't know if anyone but me checks it.

Before they knew it, it was time to elect a representative and hand in an event proposal. Well. Averill knew it was time- it was marked on his calendar which was stapled to the (ceiling? Underside of someones bunk?) above his pillow. 'Organization is key to success.' Was the quote of the month, and he agreed with it wholeheartedly.

Averill stomped his way down the dorm stairs on purpose, hoping to wake everyone up.
"We're going to have a meeting, Ekaterines!"
He tacked up a piece of paper to a wall in front of the couch. It may have covered like, three maps and one possibly-map-possibly-Rorschach-Test, but he was going to take it down later, anyway.

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Sylvia was already awake. She had been awake for the past two consecutive days. Her eyes were hooded and obviously sleep deprived, and there was something bright pink burning into her jeans. She didn't seem to notice that or much of anything. In fact, she hadn't gone down the stairs after Naomi for Averill's calling of a meeting at all. This much was obvious, as she seemed to be slowly dragging herself to the common room's door while muttering under her breath.

She passed Averill and Naomi without even a greeting, a long stream of chemical equations and combinations of odd ingredients leaving her mouth. Cinnamon was nowhere to be seen.
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[Ask and ye shall receive. Sorry timeskips will get more efficient once there's more crew than just me gonk

EDIT: woops wrong pic.]