Gooooooood Morning Soleil!

[unpunchman]

-Email to faculty, a few days ago-

The top brass at the UN already worked out the details with your headmaster, so this is really just a heads up. After the disaster at Perth, SOME nations are actually interested in listening to you guys. They've sent a few experts each to study at Daybreak until this whole Nightfall mess is over with.

They've also sent me, as like...a baby sitter, I guess? I've actually had a fair amount of personal experience with the kind of stuff you guys deal with, unlike most of the suits that'll be showing up with me, so I'll make sure none of them get eaten by daemons or start taking blurry photos of non-human students and post them on facebook or anything stupid like that.

You guys are supposed to be the best in the business, though, so this shouldn't be too hard, right?

Lieutenant Josuke Higashikata,
Japanese Supernatural Advisory Unit

-Action, July 10th-

A bus full of specialists and agents from various nations across the world arrived via chartered bus at Daybreak's campus to get enrolled as temporary students and absorb as much of this nonsense as they could as quickly as possible. They were mostly serious looking men and women in somber suits. Most of them looked various levels of cynical and unimpressed as they arrived. Most of them had never ACTUALLY seen anything supernatural, and considered the whole thing a waste of time, at least until a group of golems arrived to help carry luggage to their temporary accommodations, which raised a fair amount of surprise and consternation among the group.

One of them definitely stood out, though. He was tall, at least six feet. His suit was ostentatious with purple and yellow highlights. Also he had arrived by motorcycle right behind the bus, rather than riding on it. His bike had a couple of luggage cases strapped to the back, including a guitar case.

Josuke pulled his helmet off after coming to a stop, and ignored everything going on around him in favor of IMMEDIATELY peering into his own side mirror so he could fix his hair back into an elaborate pompadour right out of the late 50s.

Only once that was dealt with did he deign to pay attention to any kind of welcome committee.

"Yo! This is the UN delegation! I'm Josuke!"

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[nor_iron_bars]

[Message sent from a faculty account, listed on the school's mage-accessible website as belonging to the professor of Alchemy and Artifice. The professor's name is not listed.]

dude. buddy. my guy.

you have years of experience with the supernatural community.

in that entire period of time, was there any group you encountered where the most powerful and skilled members could not be immediately identified by finding the most eccentric motherfucker in the room?

this school is not the exception.

get your guys a tolerance for weird shit fast, they're gonna need it.

[unpunchman]

They'll learn quick, or they'll lose their shit and go insane.

Either way it will be a valuable learning experience. A bit of culture shock will do them good.

[nor_iron_bars]

welp, can't argue with that. you want in on the betting pool for how all this is gonna go?

[She's always got one going for something.]

[unpunchman]

Tempting, but I probably shouldn't since I actually know like half these guys.

Pro tip though don't fuck with those two guys from Ethiopia. They don't fuck around. I heard one of them once killed a vampire with a belt.

[strings_theory]

Oh no, that noise sounds horrid and Jolyne has been unfortunate enough to be not too far away from where this damn bus is rolling up. She's already bristling given she doesn't like the looks of these guys.

The second the motorcycle arrives she's turning her attention towards it and immediately frowning once that helmet comes off. God. Dammit.

And then comes the introduction and she's groaning from her spot leaning against a wall not too far away with Stone Free next to her.

"Oh my god. You are not making any friends yelling out that shit."

[unpunchman]

"You think it would have gone over better if I'd called them a crew?"

He waved her concern off. "There might be some tension at first but it'll be fine. Nice to see you too, by the way."

[strings_theory]

She's huffing a bit at his words, hands immediately on her hips after she pushes herself off the wall to move towards him, Stand ever in her shadow.

"Mostly everyone isn't fond of the UN from what I hear. And the fuck they put you in charge for? Jeeze."

[buddinghopes]

The noise had gotten Lia's attention as she'd been wandering back from the library, so naturally, she just had to investigate.

"UN delegation?" Since when was that a thing? But... Hm. Well. These folks sure weren't going to be too popular with most of the people here after the Herald mess.

[unpunchman]

"That's the idea! I figure with this, at least the big men making decisions will be ignoring experts who actually know what they're doing, rather than ignoring experts who are just as out of the loop as they are."

[buddinghopes]

"Well, luck does favor the prepared, at least..." She glances between Josuke and the more plain-looking bunch and then back again, tilting her head. "I guess you're the one corralling this bunch?"

[soft_focus]

Reira is not a welcoming committee. Reira is just some kid who doesn't know how vacation works, and wants to look at the cool motorcycle. Also the cool bus. But mostly the cool motorcycle now that she's looked behind said bus, and noticed it.

More importantly-

"...what's a 'delegation'?"

Important questions, very key.

[unpunchman]

Josuke pointed at the guys coming off the bus. "That is."

[soft_focus]

"...."

"...That's just a person though."

Reira, no,

"...What makes that person a delegation?"

[moonlitdancer]

[Someone who's probably being stared at is Cat Dancer, who's accompanying Serena on a light jog. She seems more amused by the looks than anything, waving a finger chidingly in their direction.]

My, it's like they've never seen a giant cat woman before. Do you think that could be the case, Serena?

Almost certainly. Remember, just because I grew up with the supernatural doesn't mean there aren't those from outside the masquerade.

[unpunchman]

[Josuke stood between the wildly pointing and gesticulating government agents from many governments and Cat Dancer, calm. This was probably nothing to worry about, but a very faint glow about Josuke seemed to suggest he was taking the situation seriously.]

I mean, I've been up to my neck in this crap for ten years now, and I don't think I've ever seen a giant cat woman before either.

[moonlitdancer]

You haven't? Well now, I certainly feel special.

Hah... Either way, we should introduce ourselves. My name is Serena, you may or may not know me as Ray's daughter.

I'm called Cat Dancer, I am my dear Serena's Familiar. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, as well as that of your accompaniment.

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[partiallysquirrelblood]

I'm not TAing any of the courses that would teach it, but you should probably make sure the first thing they learn is that irradiating monsters is probably just going to make the problem worse.

Doreen Green
Computer Science TA
Squirrel Girl

[unpunchman]

Oh yeah, that decision made a lot of people mad over here too. There's been a lot of arguing going on by very important people.

[partiallysquirrelblood]

That's good at least.

If you need any help getting them used to the whole fighting monsters thing, I've been fighting monsters since I was ten.

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[stavros]

[Kokoro was standing at the side of the steps, frowning seriously right back at the UN delegation, but once Josuke starts his "greeting"... Well, she can't help but make a confused face.]

Yo...?

[unpunchman]

Yeah. Yo.

[Not quite sure why she looks confused. He felt that he was perfectly clear!]

[stavros]

Uh... greetings. So you've all come to... observe class?

ACTION...

[betheman]

Gongenzaka has only been back for perhaps a few hours, mostly because he wants to be able to properly celebrate and prepare for a friend's birthday. As such, he's dressed rather casually...if casual in the middle of summer can mean jeans instead of shorts anyway.

Not to mention the geta...headband...sash...

But hey that pompadour right?

At any rate, Gongenzaka seems properly alarmed and takes a minute to actually say something. "Th...The UN..?"

[unpunchman]

Just so long as we're all agreed that Josuke's pompadour is cooler than Gongenzaka's

"Yeah. You know, the guys responsible for the mess down in Australia?"

[betheman]

Gongenzaka has definitely not gotten over that mess in Australia, given how fast his face falls and his mind seems to try taking him right back to it.

"A...Aauh...that..."

He's still very upset about how many died in that.

He thinks he recognized some of the faces that were reanimated, and he's trying not to think about it. "I... ...I see..."

A topic change might be needed, before they even dig into the topic!