To Be A Richer Man

<KiruGM> It's become customary for you all to meet outside Ohtori's tower and ride the elevator up to the student council platform, which is about a third of the way up.

<KiruGM> A few words here about the tower.

<KiruGM> It is a curious construction, rather fragile-looking, eighteen stories tall.

<KiruGM> Entering from the front, a glass dome covers the first four floors in a capacious atrium

<KiruGM> The tower is quite broad at its base, and houses a lot of classrooms and offices in its first four floors.

<KiruGM> From there it narrows, and the jutting platform from which you all weekly overlook Ohtori campus is the only thing on the sixth floor besides the elevator lobby.

<KiruGM> None of you, so far as you are all aware, have visited higher floors.

<KiruGM> Nevertheless, the elevator is slow enough that you have some time to examine one another before reaching the Student Council meeting space.

* Shimabukuro_Kamiko machine-gun taps an expensive pen on a notebook, not looking at any of her fellow council members.

* Kita_Kiyone presses her hands against the elevator-cage walls, queitly revisiting what she wound up yelling at her duel. The rumors about her and Althea's final break-down have spread around campus since. Likely full of inaccuracy and close-enough truths for discomfort.

* Kseniya_Opasnost contemplates murder, once she's sure of the target. She looks rather cheery.

<Inoki_Aoi> "What a pleasant afternoon."

I didn't want to do it

<KiruGM> It's the end of another school day at Ohtori, and the weather is warm and sunny this afternoon.

<KiruGM> You've each been meditating on what you saw the day of the party.

<KiruGM> Kseniya, you learned that your young friend Issei had been preyed upon by an older student, possibly with the permission of faculty.

<KiruGM> The rest of you were blown through a dizzying swirl of debauchery, ending when you unlocked a secret room containing the swords you had been using to duel, apparently returned to their cases after a break-in.

<KiruGM> Kita, you used a key to enter that room.  Where is that key now?

<Kita_Kiyone> I hid it my room in the dorms, in the lower drawer of my desk.

<KiruGM> And what will each of you like to do this afternoon?

<Shimabukuro_Kamiko> I believe I will gossip with Tesser about the student council and jobber duellists.

<KiruGM> Very well.  Kamiko is heading to the library to lean on Tesser.

<Kseniya_Opasnost> I will be doing an extra tutoring session with Issei, to see how he's doing in his lessons.

<Shimabukuro_Kamiko> No leaning! Tesser is my dearest heart! I haven't seen her in so long, I wanted to catch up!

<MaxFaust> Training, then library.

<MaxFaust> LOUD then quiet.

<Inoki_Aoi> Aoi will be in the library, reading Horace's "Odes"

<KiruGM> Kseniya and Max are catching up on some studying.  Yes.

<Kita_Kiyone> I'll most likely be training on the track field for the afternoon, and keeping an eye on the gate into the forest.

<KiruGM> Right!

<KiruGM> Kiyone and Max will head to their athletics, and perhaps join others later.

<KiruGM> Kamiko and Aoi are heading to Abrasax library.

<KiruGM> Kseniya, are you thinking of studying at the library, or in Valpurgis Labs?

<KiruGM> or perhaps out on the lawn or in the garden, since it's so nice

<KiruGM> Tutoring, I should say.

<Kseniya_Opasnost> Out in the garden, since it's such a nice day.

<KiruGM> Lovely.

<KiruGM> We'll begin at the library!