3rd Invasion (Monday at school)

[moemoetentacles]

[Squid Girl's finally had it explained to her that she needs to attend school or risk droning.  She isn't sure what that is, but she's pretty sure it's bad, so today she's hanging around Mayfield Elementary trying to figure out what the heck she's supposed to be doing.  Mostly it takes the form of wandering the hallways, walking in and out of various classrooms, and just generally looking really confused about the whole place.  Feel free to bump into her in any of the following situations:

A. Squid Girl is wandering the hallway aimlessly, just staring blankly at people as they go by and peeking into the different classrooms to see what everybody's up to.  She isn't exactly sure where she's supposed to be going, and no one really told her, so she's just on a leisurely stroll about the school.

B. She's finally been herded into a classroom, and is doing her best to try to pretend like she knows what's going on.  Unfortunately, she's a bad reader, and happens to be holding her textbook upside-down.  Correct her?  Laugh at her behind her back?

C. In her travels through the school, she's found the teachers' lounge and has decided to claim it as her own territory.  Any teachers coming back for their lunch breaks might find her in there rummaging around through the filing cabinets, drinking the soda in the fridge, or standing on top of a desk loudly proclaiming that she's in charge around here.

D. Gym class!  It's basketball day, but she has no idea what basketball is, and is instead just grabbing the balls and lobbing them at the other students while laughing like an idiot.  Maybe one just hit you!  Maybe you feel like teaching her a lesson by throwing one back!  Either way, hilarity ensues.]

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[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

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[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[Lets out a surprised yelp and turns around.]

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

Shh, hey. Keep it down.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's you!

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

Y-yeah, just me. Got your book upside down, is all.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[Flips the book, blushing and looking irritated.]

"I know that!"

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

...oh. Okay, then. []

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[Turns the book every which way over the course of the next several minutes, grumbling.]

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

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[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

What is it? I'm trying to decipher this secret human code!

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to know if you needed any help.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[She does need help, but is way too proud to admit she's having trouble reading this stuff. So instead she just makes pouty faces.]

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

... just... I had a lotta trouble when I first got here, so... if you wanted...

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[Points.]

"How do you read that word?"

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

...just that word, or the words around it too?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

"The words in this... sort of... general area..."

[Waves her hand all over the page.]

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

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[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[Pays rapt attention to this!]

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

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...that all... make any sort of sense?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[It's actually not that hard to make friends with Squid Girl. You really just have to agree with her viewpoints and humor her idiocy. Or be legitimately afraid of her. She likes that too. In either case, Ren's doing better than just about anyone else in Mayfield so far!]

"Human history is complicated."

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Pretty long, too. Hey, but shorter in America, so that's something...

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

America? Is that where we are now?

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Least as far as we can suss anything about this place out, y'know?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

I was in Japan before, I think.

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

Really? Me too! Where in Japan, d'you remember?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

On the beach!

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

...right. Because of the squid thing. Gotcha.

Y'doing okay here, by the way?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Actually, someone else showed up and is trying to contest control of my home base! He yells a lot and uses made-up words to sound smart.

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

...really/

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

He's a jerk! He laughed at my name and everything. And kept calling me 'zero' and 'yoctogram' and stuff like that!

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

Really? 's not very nice. Sorry ya had t' meet such a jerk.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

He's trying to say he lives in my house and everything! I think he kidnapped the one guy who used to live there or something, because I haven't seen him around since.

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

...oh. Oh.

That happens. Probably shouldn't be too hard on him if he's new here and stuff.

...still sucks he's a jerk.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

It's okay, he'll be one of my slaves soon enough.

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

...ne, d'you have to make people your slaves just because they don't agree with you?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

If anything, I'm being too easy on them! What I should do is fill their cities with oil and trash and destroy their food supply! That's what they did to us creatures of the sea, after all.

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

...okay. Point made.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

I have to make everyone understand.

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

You will. Just... maybe it'd be better if you did it by being nice rather than... enslaving people.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

But they won't listen if I just do that...

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

...have you tried?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Most people don't even take me seriously when I say it.

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

Sounds frustrating. 'm sorry.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

People are so selfish.

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

...not all of them. Most of 'em are real good. Mean real well, anyway.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

I guess I know a few who aren't too bad...

[teh-sword.livejournal.com]

's good. I hope you find more.

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