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In the Danger Shop, Jack looked at the items and pictures on the holo of her desk, a little bemused at them. It was kind of adorable. Norman had brought in an actual burger. He could have taken a picture of the sign at Luke's but.. no, that was an actual burger right there on her desk next to a dandelion. She picked the two-day-old cold burger up and took a bite. Huh. Kind of like McDonald's for mealyness but with more flavor. Still bland. Meh. Calories were calories. She crunched on through the stale bun unbothered.

"So I see you guys did great with the scavenger hunt," she said around a mouthful, "After you finish the confidence course, today's goal is Two Truths and a Lie. With a twist. You'll still choose a captain. Instead of playing this one on one, you're going to round robin the f.. game. Each will take a turn telling two truths and one lie about themselves. The group as a whole has to decide which is the lie and turn it in to the team captain. Captain will keep track. Once everyone's gone, you'll tell whether or not your lie was discovered."

She nodded at the whiteboard on one wall. Then she nodded at the confidence course. "Have at."

[OCD is up. Please wait for Prompto to ping in for the confidence course thread.]

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"This time," said Prompto, dramatically, his grin going as crooked as it could go while he brandished his phone and giving it a little shake in the air, "we're not doing it...in style!"

And he pressed the image of a big red button that was displayed on his phone, which caused the lights in the Danger Shop to dim significantly, replaced with flashing red warning lights and a warning alarm (not too loud, nobody wanted that) while the whole course began to oh-so-artfully start glitching out into pixels and shapes. The glitching pixels got faster and faster until they finally just exploded into shining fireworks of blue, yellow, and pink...

...and when that settled, the confidence course was replaced with a long stretch of a grassy green field with lots of wildflowers scattered around (and a few more glitches here and there and missing pixels; Prompto was good, but he was't that good, this was a complete homebrew here, c'mon!)...and a handful of big colorful chocobos, one for each of the students, in completely moddable (and sometimes changing!) colors.

And Prompto's own jaw dropped. "YES!" he laughed, pumping a fist in the air and bouncing...dancing, really...where he stood, and he laughed again, bouncing over to a chocobo in classic yellow. "It worked! It actually worked! C'mon, guys! Chocobo rides!"

Jack arched an eyebrow and watched the display, but her only comment was a very dry, "Extra credit points for style."

"That... is really cool," Norman decided, blinking as he approached a smallish grey-green bird tentatively. "Uh, hey, buddy..."

Just because it wasn't real didn't mean it wasn't huge and a little terrifying, okay?

"Nah, dude, it's cool," Prompto encouraged him with a crooked grin at that tentative approach. "They're totally friendly! I know, because I programmed them! And, I mean, they're chocobos, they're the best."

"I mean, aside from 'really big bird,' I have no idea what that means," Norman noted, offering Prompto a kind of lopsided smile. "People ride on these? Really?"

"Yeah," Prompto said, nothing crooked about his smile now as it lit up his face, his tone just as wistful as it was excited and adoring. He rubbed an appreciative hand on the neck of the chocobo he'd claimed, and the chocobo little out a little wark of apprecition before a softer little kweh.

And Prompto was going to be a puddle on the floor for a moment. Even if he'd programmed it, he so wasn't even ready for that.

"They really do. Not so much in the city, where I'm from, but outside they do...it's kind of wild, I never actually even saw one first hand until coming here, which makes, like, no sense, but, whatever, man! I'll take it!"

"We don't really have anything like this back home," Norman said, tentatively reaching to rest a hand on his chocobo's beak. It gave a soft 'kweh' of its own, before pressing its face right into his armpit, leaving him standing there and blinking as it nudged him a half-step back with the gesture. "Well. We have horses? I guess?"

He'd never ridden a horse, either.

Lana laughed. "You didn't!" She shook her head. "What are those? They look like weirdly tufted orobirds."

"I did!" Prompto insisted with another laugh of his own, beaming proudly, but also going a little pink in the face over the fact that it seemed to be going really well, too. "And these are chocobos! They're from my world...and Zack's, too, actually, which is kind of cool, because no one's ever heard of them, except Eye-ris has a baby one; she let me babysit him this weekend, his name is Silly, and the name is very appropriate! Anyway, they're mounted animals, and they can go really fast, too, if you want! I figured this would be way more fun than just replacing the course and strolling across, right?"

Or he just wanted an excuse to have chocobos. Take your pick.

Either of those was valid, really.

"Orobirds back home are mounts, too," Lana said, "though I've only ridden one once." She went up to one of the chocobos and held up a hand carefully. When it seemed well-behaved, she ran a hand down its flank.

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