Fourth wall mingle post

[wrnpcs]

[For the regular denizens of Balamb Garden, it's an ordinary day...until more off-worlders start showing up, for only a few hours at a time. Unsure what to make of these more temporary visitors, the Garden faculty is holding off on registering them as cadets or offering them jobs.

[Maybe someone you know might turn up?]

Mod note, to reiterate:

4th wall characters can only be seen at certain hours of the day. They may appear for two hours a day, or four... or seen only in the early morning... the time doesn't matter to us, but they're not permanently here. They may return to Garden again through the rest of the month, but they're not around 24/7.

Like apped characters, 4th wall characters can't be ridiculously-sized. Transformers, Gundams, and similar concepts/characters will become human-sized (and in the case of mechas, not allowed altogether.)

Players (like you and me) are not allowed to visit Garden. We're breaking the 4th wall, not destroying it altogether!

Apart from this post, 4th wall characters are free to reply to open posts in witchesreign or open logs in concoursec. Apped players have the option of closing their posts to in-game characters only.

All BBS posts are locked to in-game characters only. 4th wall characters do not have access to any sort of logged in posts unless they hijack someone else's log-in---and in those cases, we need to know this beforehand.

For those unfamiliar with the setting, here is more info on Balamb Garden's facilities and layout. Additionally, some of the NPCs around and some player characters may be wearing Balamb Garden's cadet or SeeD uniform.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask on the OOC post or through the mod channels (wrmods or witchesreign).

Comments

[first_sting]

[Hello Garden, or at least the Quad area. Have an upset bee kid, because he was totally going to get someone else to by him ice cream only now he's here.

And he is totes gonna be asking for his mom and dadEspio and Vector in case they're here too.]

Hey, um. Help? [SNIFFLE SNIFFLE, looks like he's gonna cry.]

[bunnypassingby]

[Mikuru blinks at the bee-ness of the bee kid for a bit, but the sniffling seems more important, especially to someone who's met Espio. And, well, Mikuru likes kids.]

What do you need?

[first_sting]

Um!

[Ah a girl! Charmy must stop sniffling, at least for one second as he wipes at his eyes with a hand before answering.]

I'm looking for my uhhh... Co-workers! Ones a big a crocodile, like huge! [He waves his arms out in a wide arc, trying to indicate the fact that Vector is much taller than him.] His name is Vector!

Um and then there's Espio, but he might yell at me for gettin' lost while working. ... If you know, or have seen them ma'am, that'd be really really nice if you could tell me where they are.

[pause.]

Or where this place it.

[bunnypassingby]

[Her eyes widen.] Espio the Chameleon? I'm not sure where he is right now but I could help you find him! [Yes, she's completely sidetracked from "where are we" by "HE KNOWS ESPIO".]

[first_sting]

Yes, that's him... How do you know him?

[Hey he'll go with the pretty lady, but Espio knowing someone who isn't him and Vector? Let alone a girl? Unpossible!]

[bunnypassingby]

He's one of my... [She isn't sure if she can call him a friend, considering they don't spend much time together and most of the time it ends in him yelling at her for spilling food on him.] superiors here. [Technically true: He's a SeeD and she's still a cadet.]

[first_sting]

[Watch as Charmy's expression changes quickly to a "are you kidding me" look.]

Espio, in charge of people? Are you okay ma'am?

[bunnypassingby]

[Mikuru coughs, trying to mask her amusement. Espio is generally someone she thinks of as pretty damn competent, so to hear someone who apparently knows him from home expressing concern? Hilarity.]

I'm fine! He's not really in charge of me, or anyone usually; he just has a higher rank than me.

[first_sting]

Really?

[Charmy is gonna sound all smug now... and probably lie, but hey Mikuru won't know any better.]

In the Chaotix he's the lowest ranked, even I outrank him and I'm a kid!

[bunnypassingby]

[Okay no she can't stop herself from giggling this time.]

Well, he's been here longer than I have; I haven't finished all my classes yet.

[first_sting]

... This is a school?

[Aaaand the topic of embarrassing Epsio is derailed for now!]

I thought schools were supposed to be dull and boring, not have a pretty garden and stuff.

[bunnypassingby]

It's just some of the classes that are dull and boring sometimes, but yeah, Balamb Garden's a nice school.

[first_sting]

Huh... Never been to school so I wouldn't know!

[and he seems proud of this fact of not having been to school.]

[bunnypassingby]

[Mikuru being Mikuru, she kind of just assumes he was homeschooled.] I guess Garden's a pretty neat first school to step foot in, then!

[fierybluebird]

[Awwww dude... don't cry!]

Hey, what's wrong little man?

[first_sting]

[Bloo hoo ho-- holy crud this dude is tall, Charmy has to lean really far back to see, being only 2'3" tall though everyone is tall to him.]

I can't find my teammates! The jerks. [Huffs.]

[fierybluebird]

Are you sure they're here? What do they look like?

[espio]

[ALAS, the local chameleon is not entirely familiar with this particular bratty bee. Nope, the bee he knows is about 1000x more irritating, and is pretty much only on the team because he has a lot of money.

So yeah. Oh seeing Charmy in the middle of the place, Espio's just going to stop, stare, and... uh, complain about it. He's actually kind of thrilled to see even the idiot bee, but complaining about stuff is like his whole existence.]

Of all the people Time Compression could have dumped on me, it had to be this moron? Really?

[It doesn't help that the Charmy he knows is a fair bit older than six.]

What are you sitting around sniffling for? Don't you have new people to drive up the wall?

[first_sting]

[Hope Espio is ready for this reaction then, as Charmy cheers right up at hearing the grumpy Chameleon.]

Espio!

[He's going to attempt to hug Espio, quiet possibly with some flying tackle thrown into it as well because gosh! It's someone he knows, even if it's someone as grumpy as Espio.]

[espio]

[Actually, he was expecting some incoherent babble. Charmy attempting to hug him? Kiiinda makes him kind of freak out, flail, and try to push him away.

Sorry, kid!]

No! No no no, get off!