daybreakacademy | Afternoon at the Museum

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Afternoon at the Museum

Who: Yang... and you!
What: It's time for a field trip to the Musée de l'Armée in Paris, France. The afternoon is in the museum. But Yang took everyone at like 10 AM as an excuse to get out and see Paris.
Where: Paris! And at the Army Museum.
When: February 25
Notes: The following prompts are if you want to interact with Yang directly! Otherwise, please feel free to use this as an excuse to do threads in Paris! Yang's taking basically anyone -- heck, even other teachers, TA's, and RA's -- because he really just wanted an easy field trip after grading all the papers and despairing over the fact he might have made his courses too hard.

A. WE'RE ABOUT TO HAVE PARIS RIGHT NOW

[The helicopters have landed at Charles de Gaulle airport, everyone has bused into the city center, and it's now about 11:00 in the morning. They aren't supposed to be at the museum until two. Thus, standing in front of the crowd, Wen-li Yang...

...is due to give a speech.]

So, Paris! It's a pretty big deal.

[Hm, what else is important...]

Meet at the Army Museum at 2! And try to not get in too much trouble. Have fun!

[He'll hang around for a second in case anyone has questions.]

B. AND NOW: OLD STUFF!

[At about 1:57 PM, Yang comes running up with a sandwich still in his mouth and a paper cup with tea in it in hand. He skids to a stop in front of the museum's steps, looks around, and... peers at the people waiting for him.

Then, sheepishly, he waves.

The museum is much too big to do a guided tour. However, unlike the free roam period in Paris, Yang is actually a good source of information here. He roams between the different groups of students, answering questions, providing historical detail, and showing that he isn't actually terrible at his job all of the time.

He'd be easy to approach during any of this.]

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Me either, so I plan on taking at least one class~!

[He's pretty sure he'd lose any fight imaginable, especially if the opponent has powers or is any form of monster or Outlands creature.]

I bet it's nice~!

[He turns down a street to the right after seeing a sign for the canal.]

It shouldn't be much further~! Then we can... eat snails.

[This was somehow a good plan when he'd first suggested it.]

Good idea! I'll probably take one soon - maybe not now, because I'd like to pass what I'm already taking...

[She's worried she's going to fail everything. She transferred in so late in the quarter - but she's going to try her best!

She follows him, swinging her arms.]

Yeah! Or...maybe something else.

[She's... She's willing to give the snails a chance.]

It's hard when you're new to this~!

[He's failing almost everything despite being here for the entire quarter. More due to lack of initiative than time constraints like her.]

And there it is~!

[The restaurant/bakery is in the corner of the building. There's a small black awning over the entrance and one table outside, dusted with snow.]

That's how it seems...

[Surely at some point things will get easier to handle and she'll start passing her classes.]

Oooh, wow, it looks super fancy.

[She looks in through the windows, trying to get a better feel for the place. It seems like a nice enough place, snails aside. She's even more excited for this visit now.]

Are you ready for the snails?!

So ready for the snails~!

[They can't really be much different than octopus and eel, maybe a little... gooier? Snails just don't seem like food somehow. Still, he's going right in to confidently order some chocolate-pistachio snail pastries. As in most service places in France he's encountered, they don't like his dramatic ways, and are matter-of-fact and abrupt with their replies. But snail pastries are obtained in short order.]

[Yeah snails!

Adelaide hangs back as Toki orders, getting a better look at the place and taking a few pictures. She immediately snaps a few once the pastries are acquired.]

Well...here goes nothing!

[And she's going to take a bite.]

[He watches Adelaide for signs of disgust.]

Are they gross~!?

[He's taken a pastry, but he's waiting for her to taste test before he eats it. Instead, Toki's commemorating this event by taking a picture of her trying one. Adelaide is so brave.]

[She at least doesn't notice anything out of the ordinary.]

They taste pretty good!

[Granted, her taste buds might not be the best judge anymore.]

I trust your judgement~!

[He takes a bite of the pastry. It's flaky and the snail tastes somewhat like a cross between an oyster and an eel. It's not bad, but really, the pistachio is the weird part here. Those things do not go together.]

It is good~! Odd mix of flavors~!

[He drank a devil; nothing will ever taste bad again after that experience. His bar for "good" is set very low now.]

[She's not sure if he should, but he's taking a bite before she can even say anything.

Oh, well. It's not bad enough not to finish - and it's not like it's going to do anything bad to her anyways.]

I wonder why they decided to go with snails? Seems kind of weird.

[It's at least more appetizing than blood.]

France is famous for snails~!

[But that wasn't why.]

Honestly? This is was just the first restaurant that came up in the search that wasn't too far away and you said you wanted chocolate, so I looked at their menu online for the first thing that had chocolate in it and apparently they're known for this particular chocolate pistachio snail thing, so I figured it couldn't hurt to try it~!

[He's already reaching for a second one; they at least taste better than the macarons he tried in Soleil.]

Oooh.

[Makes sense to her. She'll also reach for a second pastry, though she's much slower to eat it than Toki is.]

They're not so bad, and it's a pretty nice place! You found somewhere pretty great, Toki.

[She offers him a bright smile, forgetting for a moment to hide her teeth.

It's fine. Hopefully he won't notice that her incisors seem sharper than they need to be.]

It was luck~!

[Which he usually doesn't have. As evidenced when she smiles.]

Are you a vampire!?

[He's met a vampire before, the professor he went on the Vegas mission with was one, but it's surprising as he hadn't picked up on it previously. It doesn't really change his opinion of her as a person, but he can't help but be a little wary. He tries to offset that with rambling on like everything is perfectly fine.]

Should we not have gotten snails!? Does human food make you sick!? D-do you want like blood instead!? Because we can do that! Somehow. Like a butcher shop! Do you have a preference of like pig or cow or uh, chicken, or do you have to drink human blood!? Does it have to be human!?

[That doesn't work.]

[She's about to respond, but then Toki notices.

And apparently, when he notices things, he goes from zero to one hundred. Adelaide panics, reaching towards Toki to- to calm him down? She makes awkward patting motions with her hands, trying to get him to at least lower his volume, and awkwardly fumbles over her words.]

I- No- I mean, yes- but-!

[She takes a deep breath, looking around the bakery. People seemed to have noticed them and are shooting them dirty looks, but Adelaide's more concerned if any of them are understanding what Toki's saying.

If she's lucky, they'll just write it off as teenagers being dumb teens.]

It doesn't have to be! It's okay!

[He didn't mean to be that loud; it just happens, and people in the vicinity are always an afterthought.]

Sorry!

[Still too loud. So he's just going to eat another snail pastry while he's still freaking out a little. The blood doesn't have to be human, so that's good...]

Sorry, I'm not like afraid, it was just unexpected and then I thought about the blood thing because we were eating! But like do you want... something else?

[He eyes the pastries instead of looking at Adelaide. So awkward.]

It's okay!

[Is it? She's not so sure. She just wants him to calm down, but she also doesn't want him to, like, feel bad about freaking out? She'd probably freak out too if she was in his shoes.

She does feel relief when he says he's not afraid. She's not sure she quite believes him, but he cares enough to say that and that...means more than she thought it would.]

No, no, the pastries are fine. I don't...I don't need to drink blood that much. It's fine.

[She's only actually had blood once - before even coming to Daybreak. So, clearly, it's fine.]

[The other patrons seem to have lost interest, since they probably didn't understand the conversation.]

Really? I'd think you'd need it like every day or something! I don't know anything about real vampires though, so I'm going from movies and that's probably stupid... So were you born a vampire; does that happen? Or were you bitten!? Did you want to be a vampire? Does Dracula exist, have you-

[He stops talking stares blankly...

A castle looms in the distance; a fortress perhaps, with high walls and places for sentries. Lightning strikes behind it, bright yellow streaks across the red and black sky. The path to the fortress is surrounded by a forest of dead trees. He follows the path in a group of people, but they appear shadowy and unidentifiable. Somehow he knows they aren't dangerous to him. Lightning flashes closer; he's no longer with the group, but watching them. Daemons with red and yellow scales and bat wings are closing in on them. The girl with antlers stands beside him, watching as well. She laughs as a daemon drives its lightning sword through one of the shadowy people.

...He turns to yell at the girl who is no longer there.]

Why are you laughing!? Somebody just died!

[He's at a restaurant with Adelaide. He remembers talking to her at the beginning of the field trip, she wanted... chocolate and he'd looked up restaurants. So apparently they'd found one. It wasn't important. He's ignoring her for now while he gets the details into a text file on his phone.]

[Man, he's a motormouth. Adelaide's not sure she can get a word in before he just - stops.

And that's what's most concerning of all. He stops talking and is just staring out and nothing and is he...okay? Is this something that normally happens?

She flinches when he yells, wondering what he's talking about. She keeps her voice low, watching him type on his phone.]

Toki...? Are you okay?

[He doesn't answer until he's done with notes. Then he looks up at her.]

I'm fine! I had a vision, it's fine!

[It wasn't too bad; the antler girl was creepy, though.]

So, we found a restaurant!? Did you like the chocolate~!?

Are you sure...?

[Because that seemed pretty intense. She also wants to ask more questions, but... ]

And, yes! The chocolate was good! They're not that bad at all.

[She's still worried about him, but if he wants to keep moving on like that didn't happen she won't stop him. She'll just keep a close watch on him, just in case.]

I'm sure~!

[He's going to have to start prefacing every outing with "hey, so this might happen..."]

I saw a daemon stabbing somebody, but I don't know who it was! I think they're the same as the ball daemons, because of the lightning swords, but I didn't go to the ball, so I didn't actually see them and can't be certain!

[He tries one of the chocolate pastries left on the table, and... what were they eating? This is not how pastries are supposed to taste.]

Okay, good. You had me worried for a second.

[It would definitely be a good idea.]

The ball daemons...? I don't know what you mean. I think the ball happened before I came here.

[It definitely happened before she transferred here. Should she feel lucky that she missed it?]

Oh, there was a ball for Valentine's Day and daemons attacked! I don't think anyone was hurt too badly and nobody died~!

[At least no one told him anyone died.]

I think it was pretty uneventful as daemon attacks go~!

[Not that he has any idea how daemon attacks usually go.]

What? Really?!

[Oh geez, what the hell has she gotten herself into?]

I'm glad nobody was that badly hurt but are those...are those common?

[Please tell her no.]

I hope not~! I haven't been here long either and really, I don't know much more about what goes on~!

[Partially because he spent the better part of a month freaking out, partially because he doesn't pay attention.]

But as thing are going, I'd say avoid all school dances just to be safe!

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RNG just fixed the vampire issue, for now

i'm not sure this is better

me either

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