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[pummelling]

[The camera clicks on to Maya waving wildly in the halls of Oska. Jin is also in the room, standing… awkwardly off to the side, having clearly been strong armed into all this mess by the camera woman herself]

Hey guys! Especially new people! Jin and I are gonna do a virtual tour of Oska so you guys know where everything is!

[jin gives a half-hearted wave to the camera, he was trying to go to the library maya please let him live?????]

So here’s a door, and here’s a wall, and here’s--

[The camera tilts around, showing-- a ladder propped up against a wall, and she’s immediately distracted]

Hey, it’s a ladder!

[Jin, just visible in the background of the shot, turns to the camera with an eyebrow raised]

Actually, Maya, that looks more like a stepladder than a ladder.

[Maya’s been through this song and dance, so she just puffs out her cheeks a little bit!] So? What’s the difference? You need to stop judging things based off of narrow-minded cultural assumptions!

What’s so narrow-minded about it? There are clearly steps on it. It’s a stepladder. There’s a difference.

[oh no the ladder discourse] I’m telling you, it’s the same thing! Don’t get weird about this!! [like Phoenix did smh]

You’re the one who’s getting weird about this, they’re not the same! [does he actually care this much? Is he just arguing to prove a point? ARE THEY BOTH JUST TRYING TO PROVE A POINT………]

[Maya puffs her cheeks out like an angry hamster. Obviously, this is going to get them nowhere. She has to defeat him another way--]

You! Hey, you! [She points at the camera, yeah, she mean you, bub] What do you think it is?

[And thus the discourse begins… Is your character Team Ladder, or Team Stepladder?]

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[spacerhyme]

I'm busy.

[ he's not. ]

[feytality]

Oh? Doing what?

[calling your bluff thanks]

[pummelling]

[he's joining in again cause he smells bullshit]

Uh huh. Last time I checked, we weren't on a new mission yet.

[spacerhyme]

[ wow? can he live ]

...Reading.

[ pans his camera over his surroundings - which happen to be the library! (and which he found just fine on his own, evidently.) ignore the brief shot of the table in front of him as the camera passes, on which stands an unreasonably elaborate house of cards. one that's actually only partially made of cards: also books, paperclips, string, sellotape, and possibly small motors, since some of it seems to be moving.

important reading. ]

[feytality]

....Uh.... Doctor.... I really wouldn't mess around in the library, if I were you.

[SUDDENLY SERIOUS]

The librarians, are, uh....... D-Don't let them catch you doing that!

[Maya may or may not have been banned from the library for making a bookfort with Owain]

[spacerhyme]

I'm not-- [ he glances over his shoulder...

whispers: ]

They're not the deadly sort of librarians, are they?

[feytality]

........

You gotta get out of there. Fast!

[spacerhyme]

[ he gives his beautiful card house one rather forlorn look (he worked hard on that, for several minutes!)... then quickly shoves bits of it back into his pockets, before getting up.

he's outtie. ]

[feytality]

[he better be getting his wrinkly butt to Laddertown]

[spacerhyme]

[ a handful of minutes later, he comes striding around the corner, hands in his pockets. blinking at them with the mock-surprise. ]

Oh, you were only here, the whole time.

[feytality]

Wow, you made it! Without a single librarian after you!

[she checks around him just to be sure...]

I'm proud of you, sidekick.

[spacerhyme]

Gave them the slip, we're safe.

[ looks behind himself, as if also making sure.

he may have created a minor distraction during his exit. just in case. he needs access to that library, y'know. ]

Now, aren't you going to show me around?

[feytality]

[At least he thinks ahead.]

First things first, [She gestures to the ladder] This is a ladder. Yes?

1/2

[spacerhyme]

[ he was hoping she'd have forgotten about that by now.

oh well. he sighs, shakes out his right hand. ]

Fine, I'll ask it myself.

[ he steps up to the (step)ladder and carefully lays his palm on it. for a moment, he just stands like that with his eyes closed . . . clearly communing. with the ladder. ]

Shh. It says...

[spacerhyme]

"Shut up."

And it prefers to be called Stewart.

i lied im threadjacking

[pummelling]

[Flatly:]

Stewart's pulling your leg, Maya. As is gramps over here.

ur weak

[feytality]

You totally made that up!

[but she's laughing at 12's antics] Stewart, buddy, I'm just trying to help you out, here!

just according to keikaku

[spacerhyme]

[ wow? maybe he's serious, you jerks.

totally affronted: ]

I did not!

You were both wrong, sorry, get over it. And after you lot've spent so many years trampling all over it without ever once apologizing, I think you ought to respect its wishes.

Or I'd watch your step next time, if I were you...

[ trails off ominously. as he gives the ladder a friendly pat. ]

translator's note: keikaku means plan

[feytality]

You've got a pretty good imagination, sidekick! That's part of why I keep you around.

[But Maya seems to be satisfied by this answer, so she's going to go take Twelve's arm]

Okay, Mr. Champion of Stewarts, you've made your point. To the tour!

[spacerhyme]

[ he was gonna say something, but she's got his arm(!)

he immediately extracts it. ]

Not that. Just lead the way.

[feytality]

Not a touchy feely kinda guy, huh? Okay, let's go! C'mon, Jin! It's tour time!

[they both get to be dragged along]

[pummelling]

Hey, you know it's usually frowned upon to manhandle stra-- whoa!

[Not even Jin's a match for the unstoppable juggernaut that is Maya Fey.... look at this tiny girl dragging two grown men by the arms.]

[spacerhyme]

[ he's keeping his hands in his pockets, thanks!! ]

So, where to first?

[feytality]

He's not a stranger. He's my sidekick! Pay attention, Jin. [just Jin can get dragged...... somehow, from a girl who probably weighs less than one of his biceps]

The most important part of the castle! The kitchen!

[spacerhyme]

[ looks at jin, shakes his head. there's a hint of pity in his expression: no one deserves to be dragged around by a tiny child like that. ]

Not really. I'm the Doctor.

[ but he brightens up at the second bit. ]

Oh, good, I was feeling a bit peckish.