testing

[blue_ice]

[A note appears on all the dormitory bulletin boards. The handwriting is excessively tidy and on the small side, as if the writer had spent hours upon hours perfecting it.]

I'm testing the capabilities of this...spell system. I'd appreciate it if you'd sign your answers with your name and house while verifying that you read this message, though of course I don't know the particulars of any of your handwriting. A glaring flaw in the design, so I may have to follow up in person later.

In theory the structure of this 'spell' should be similar to the internet: an image is uploaded, then transferred and downloaded in a peer to peer sharing system. In practice, it looks to be as nonsensical as anything else in this school. Let's test this, shall we?

-S. Kaiba, Purifeul

[As he finishes the note and affixes it to the board, he has the fleeting thought that he will probably regret this. Too late.]

Comments

[puzzlers]

👀 👀 👀 👀
new spell, who dis?

[blue_ice]

I already answered that. Read better next time.

[puzzlers]

S. Kaiba?
Hm 😕 unhelpful.
i need a full name plz&thx!
i can't just given out my own information willy nilly

[blue_ice]

Fine. Seto.

['Don't' appears on the paper before it's scribbled out.]

Satisfied? Can we proceed now?

[puzzlers]

seto, huh, 🤗
i like it!
🙁 don't?
don't what☹️??
and sure 👍 let's proceed

[blue_ice]

[He pinches the bridge of his nose. This is rapidly spiraling out of his control. Ugh.]

Don't call me that. Kaiba is fine.

Now who am I writing to?

[puzzlers]

[ fff, he's sure kaiba's half passed pissed at this point, and he's not there to see. he stifles a chuckle as he slaps down another note. ]

ok, i get it,
👏👏👏 kaiba it is
call me kog 👋

[blue_ice]

[Kog. K.O.G. He sounds that out...and something about it is familiar to him.]

You remind me of someone.

[puzzlers]

[ crap! he knew he should have thought of something else. ]

oh yeah 🙃?

[blue_ice]

A pint-sized someone who's always pestered me.

[puzzlers]

😚 it sounds like you're being too hard on them.

[blue_ice]

I might have been. Perhaps I regret that now.

But I trust they're strong enough to make it through.

[puzzlers]

things change
as do people
so try not to sweat the small stuff
and, yeah, maybe
guess you'll see

[blue_ice]

I definitely hope so.

[Oh the dawning horror when he realizes who this was.]

[puzzlers]

i certainly think so 😉
hey, why don't we meet up?

[blue_ice]

Fine. Courtyard, after class?

[puzzlers]

sounds good.
see you there 🤐 seto

[ don't kill him, kaiba, plz. ]

[blue_ice]

[and then yugi was hexed to heck]

[puzzlers]

[ KAIBA! ]