22nd Tactic

[commentboxtroll]

[phone; no filters]

Not to put a damper on anyone's excitement, but, provided this place doesn't finish breaking down and taking us all with it, school will be starting again on the sixth of September. For those of you who are new or who just haven't been paying attention, there's a few things you need to know:

First, you don't actually have to go to school every day. The town will only force you to go if you miss three days in a row. If you have someone willing to call you in sick from your house, you can extend that time frame for another day or so.

Second, grades don't matter. The worst you'll get by blowing off your work is either dull disappointment from drones or relatively harmless ire from certain teachers.

[You know who you are, certain teachers.]

And finally, don't be surprised if you end up repeating classes. You can end up doing that a lot and it'll have nothing to do with whether you passed or not.

That's it, your annual school announcement. The one that matters, anyway.

[/end phone]

[Caesar sure hopes he won't have to give that speech a third time next year...

Or should he be hoping to, depending? Oh well. He'll go back to lazing about on the front porch with Bonaparte the Second after that, trying to keep from getting too bored between watching the drones glitch out as they wander by and dangling a string over the cat for her to bat at.]

Comments

[commentboxtroll]

Something like that, though it's really poor planning that this guy is going to put everything in its own portal. He should have put them all in one...

[He eventually stops rubbing his poor, door-battered face and sighs.]

Especially if it's going to be dangerous.

[walking_nuke]

[Balin glances at the letter again.]

Puttin' 'em "outside Mayfield" ... Wonder what he means by'at. Are we actually gonna leave'a sim or are we goin' in another program?

[Balin's kind of hoping it's the former. The question of whether or not he is who he thinks he is unnerves him—whether it's wondering if he's just a personality formatted over a drone or if he's just raw data in a computer sim.]

[commentboxtroll]

[That's a worry that bothered Caesar before, too, but it's something he's decided not to think of.]

Beats me. I had to ask what a virtual reality was in the first place. If it's more computer stuff, I can't really help you there.

[walking_nuke]

[Balin hands the letter back to Caesar.]

Guess we ain't gonna know for sure until we do it.

[commentboxtroll]

I take it that means you'll be going through one of the portals?

[He takes the letter back, folding and pocketing it.]

[walking_nuke]

Yeah. If'is place is gonna fall apart like'a other Mayfield? I'm gonna do my part in stoppin' it.