Outside the Command Center, All Day Friday

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Inside the Command Center, with the doors propped open, Dean Zordon can't help but hear the endless chatter of students going back and forth during enrollment. Unfortunately, stuck in his tube, he really has no choice.

[OOC: All IC interaction during the signup process should go here. No OCD threads unless someone else wants to set some up. I'm beat, yo.]

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Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander considered this. "Avoid getting between Jake Gavin and coffee. Avoid--" he lowered his voice. "Principal Smith 'cause he is creepy, and I say this as someone who grew up in Creepydale, USA."

Re: After registration

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia leaned in slightly and nodded. "Coffee, creepy, got it." She tilted her head and stood back up. "And just where is Creepydale, USA?"

Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

"California," Xander answered a day later. "The sign might say 'Sunny' instead of 'Creepy' but the sign also says 'Population 38,500' and that's only true if you're counting the dead people and the giant snake, so I'd take anything it has to say with a grain of salt."

Re: After registration

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia gave a slight nod, then decided she probably shouldn'd ask about the dead people or the giant snake. She was beginning to suspect there were things she just didn't want to know.

Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

"So where are you from?" Xander asked. "I can narrow the accent down to not-from-around-here, but beyond that..."

Re: After registration

[nadiathesaint]

"I'm from Argentina. Buenos Aires, to be exact."

Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

"South America - that's cool. I met an exchange student from Peru once. She tried to kill me, but before that, she was great."

Re: After registration

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia raised an eyebrow. "Oh yeah. those Peruvians are like that." She shook her head. "So you're used to the weird schools, then?"

Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander nodded. "I'm not so used to a school where everybody realizes weird stuff is going on, though. My old school was kind of Denial Central, so Fandom High's kind of a new thing to deal with even for me."

Re: After registration

[nadiathesaint]

"Is that why you came?" Nadia cast a sidelong look at Xander. "You were sick of denial central?"

Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander shook his head. "Not saying that wasn't getting old, but no. They shut down the school for safety reasons, and shipped the students off to a bunch of different places. I ended up here."

Re: After registration

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia winced. Getting 'shipped off' didn't sound that great. "Did any one else from your school come, or did you end up here alone?"

Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander snorted. "There's a headache you might not want to try to tangle with unless you're a Quantum Physics type. Short version is yes, there's a bunch of people I kind of know here. Longer but less sensemaking version is that none of them are exactly the people I went to school with, because we all somehow got here from different times."

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[nadiathesaint]

"Different . . . times?" Nadia shook her head. "You know, I'm not sure I want to know."

Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander chuckled. "Yeah, I get that. Though that might be one of the things you need the Cliff's Notes on, anyway -- not that I want to blow your mind on your first week here, but you're gonna come across it all, sooner or later. There's people here from other dimensions, other planets, other times, and ... pretty sure other species. Not even counting the vampires, who kind of used to be human. "

Re: After registration

[nadiathesaint]

"Okay, vampires?" Nadia said. "For some reason I thought there was only one?" Was it Marty who'd told her that? Because, well, she knew now that everything he'd told her was suspect.

Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

"There's only one at the school; there's a couple more in town," Xander clarified. "Spike owns the pub, and he's... apparently under control, though God knows we thought that about Angelus. Dru and Darla are loose out there somewhere, and they are not. You meet up with a freaky brunette chick with a British accent who talks like she's on some really good acid, or a blonde who... actually I can't think of anything that really stands out about Darla. She's hot, but that's not gonna narrow it down around here. But you meet up with either of them you run the other way, and fast."

Re: After registration

[nadiathesaint]

And, okay, if Nadia was going to follow her big sib's advice, she'd be running away from any blonde she happened to run into. "Should I shout, 'hey, is your name Darla?' just to be sure before I run?" She shook her head with a grin. "What about the one in the school? Is it dangerous?"

Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

"Yeah," Xander answered seriously. "But not in the run the other way sense. Just in the 'if he gets too happy he can turn into somebody you have to run the other way from' sense. He's got a soul, but it's kind of stuck on with Scotch tape."

He considered the question about Darla just as seriously. "The Investigators' Club probably ought to hunt up pictures of Darla and Dru, to warn the students to stay away from them, actually. If nothing else I bet Angel could draw some - he's pretty good at sketching, and he's sure as hell known them long enough to do it from memory."

Re: After registration

[nadiathesaint]

"The soul makes him not dangerous." Nadia's definitely skeptical of that. She's run into way too many dangerous people who supposedly had souls to think that they're a magical way to make someone good.

Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

"No," Xander said, pleased to hear what sounded like cynicism in her tone. "The soul makes him not evil. He's still plenty dangerous."

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[nadiathesaint]

"Ohhh. Not evil. Well. That makes all the difference." Nadia rolled her eyes. "Because if he's only just kinda bad or malicious, it's all good?" She shook her head. "I've known too many 'not evil' people who still wanted to hurt me. But I guess I could give whoever it is a chance, if he's not going to eat me on sight."

Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander shrugged. "He's not my bestest bud - you won't find me on the friends-with-Angel train anytime soon. But he passes for a Good Guy - please note capital letters to indicate the side of law and order versus me actually liking him - when he's got the soul. The dangerous part is where it can disappear and turn him into a complete psycho."

Re: After registration

[nadiathesaint]

"It just, what, randomly goes away?"

Re: After registration

[soldtoarmenians]

"Not exactly random, no," Xander said. "It's a curse - and let me head you off at the pass here on 'why would they be that stupid' with the answer 'I have no idea, and believe me you're not the first to ask' - and because it's supposed to be a punishment, they threw in a loophole where he's not allowed to like it. One second of true happiness, and poof, soul gone, evil guy back in charge."