[physical education 101]

[sevenhorrorsmods]

Who: transfer students
When: July 1̷̝̤̳̙̫̭̻̝͓̄̇̾̀̕͝9̸̙̱̹͍̮̈́́̀̅͛̐̔̋ 20
Where: the. . . gymnasium?
What: an ice breaker
Warnings: moderate physical injury (not debilitating), psychological horror (absolutely debilitating)

[The school is empty. The school is quiet. The only sound that cuts through the silence is the soft ticking of the hallway clocks that mark the passing of each second.]

[. . .]

[At least. . . until a stiff breeze whips through the classrooms, scattering dirty papers and jerking the curtains aside. The clock strikes 6:00 a.m.]

[The school bell chimes.]

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Comments

[selfportraiture]

Oh my god. He asked the same thing. Not blue, though. He was in a light pink.

[Christ. So two teams tried...]

We found it under the teacher's podium.

[reapoman]

Damn it. I knew we should have checked there.

[ He scrubs a hand over his face. ]

You guys made it out okay, at least?

[selfportraiture]

Yeah, looking back on it, it was obvious, but. We can't really brag or anything. It was the last place we looked.

[She's smarting over that, too--and the cuts in her track suit, the coagulated blood that looks like it trickled from her ears, the way she keeps tilting her head from side to side as if trying to think through the tinnitus.]

But yeah, I mean. Better than almost everyone else, I guess.

[reapoman]

It let us out of there, at least, but I'm pretty sure we got cursed for our troubles.

[ His gaze slides off somewhere over her shoulder and then back again. ]

I'm seeing things.

[ He's so calm about it?? ]

[selfportraiture]

[HOW IS HE SO CALM ABOUT THIS???]

C-cursed?! What kind of curse?!

[reapoman]

[ Points. Calmly. At nothing. ]

The creepy dolls are following me.

[selfportraiture]

[JUST...




THIS FACE.

HELLO??????]

[reapoman]

It's fine. I doubt they'll bother you.

[selfportraiture]

You're not worried about being super cursed?!

[reapoman]

Not really. I'm used to hauntings and strange things happening.

[selfportraiture]

[She is fighting hard to search for words to respond to that.





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]

Why?

[reapoman]

[ ...

Points to himself. ]

I'm a grim reaper.

[selfportraiture]

[Ena gets up and leaves--




No I'm joking. Mostly. She does stand up as if to go and then thinks better of it, and sinks down again.]

I don't know how to respond to that.

[reapoman]

[ Huh. ]

After everything that just happened, I thought that would go down a little easier.

[selfportraiture]

None of this is going down easily, and if it ever does, I think I've got new problems...

[She just... sighs, exhausted.]

But alright, I'll bite. I wouldn't have thought they could capture and kidnap a grim reaper.

[reapoman]

You'd be surprised how fast resignation kicks in.

[ Check back with him in a couple of weeks. ]

I didn't think so, either. Also, thanks for playing along.

[selfportraiture]

[She doesn't like the sound of that, thanks.]

... You're pretty laidback for a grim reaper, aren't you?

[reapoman]

I wouldn't get very far by being high-strung.

[selfportraiture]

I... guess?

I mean, I guess high blood pressure isn't really going to do anything to you then--

[reapoman]

Most souls don't need some high stress guy coming up to them after they just died. Gentler is better.

[selfportraiture]

... So you're a laidback and gentle guy.

... Yeah, alright, I can see how that'd be better if you died. Still, maybe be a little gentler with the "I'm a grim reaper" lore drop? Especially right now. I think a lot of us just almost died.

[reapoman]

You asked.

[ Lifts a shoulder in a shrug. ]

I think it's better in the long run if we accept the reality of this place sooner rather than later.

[selfportraiture]

[Did she?




Aw, fuck, she totally did.]

... I guess. It's only been a few hours though, you know? It's... not really that easy.

[reapoman]

[ SIGH ]

I guess so.

[ This grim reaper is also SOCIALLY AWKWARD. ]

[selfportraiture]

[... Buddy.

She's... starting to pick up on that.]

Uh. What are you going by, here?