GRAVEYARD...... 2!

[dormheads]

graveyard

students in time out: 16

It's a little hard to wake up when the melody that drifts into your ears is so comforting that it'd be so much simpler to stay asleep. Maybe everything that you remember last - the cold seeping into your fingertips, the pain of injury, or the darkness creeping into your vision - will just be parts of a bad dream.

But it's not.

When you wake up, it's probably a little disorienting - you have to push off a blanket and rise from this nice comfortable mat on the floor. Seems like you were all curled up for nap time. Literally. The room that you're in has furniture meant for small humans, children as some might call them, and everything is soft and plush to the touch with rounded corners. Blocks with the alphabet etched onto them, coloring books and crayons, and even a rocking horse dot the room to really give it that childish charm. If you can think of a child-safe toy, it's probably in one of the baskets that line the shelves of the room!

Around the room they'll find baby monitors that broadcast the antics of the living. Hopefully that doesn't feel creepy.

There is a yard outside through the glass doors, but it currently seems to be locked - and the glass won't break no matter how hard you try. There's a large pink door that feels enormous, ten times as tall as you, on one side of the room, but there's no way through that either. At the very top, you might see a directory sign that says: TO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

Huh.

Well... for now, get comfortable. It looks like you might be here a while.

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Grandpa and Kid

[ercnerd]

[Sieghart eyes the assignment and then the paper and paint.]

We have to paint the entire campus? Even if it's a map, isn't that too much?

[headsplitter]

[ Stop he's 26 (allegedly) and 6'10". ]

Euuuhh. Can't be that hard can it? Just a bunch of green and a bunch of squares?

[ Taking off a glove. ]

[ercnerd]

[He sighs as he, too, takes a glove off. It's fingerless, but he'd rather not get paint on the palm.]

Then I'll start us off with the dorms.

[Following Aikawa's suggestion, Sieghart pours out a generous dollop of green paint, rubs the flat of his index finger on it, and paints a circle at the top of the sheet.]

[headsplitter]

Wow, why are the dorms green? Wouldn't you want all the places that are actually green to, you know, be green? Do we even get a guide on what the campus looks like?

I can start on the daycare?

[ As he says that, there is a solitary, ominous, honk. ]

[ercnerd]

I'm just going by what you . . .

[ . . . said, he means to say, but the honk grabs his attention in the middle of smearing yellow paint on the drying green. He looks to his left and there, staring right into his soul through his eyes at his side, is a goose.

Ah!]

[headsplitter]

Weeee have a friend.

[ Honk honk. ]

Weeeeeee have two friends.

Maybe they want to be included?

[ercnerd]

Where did they come from?

[The nearest goose honks at Sieghart, who gives it an incredulous look before cautiously turning back to the paper. Finishing the arc of yellow paint, he then applies two black dots in the top center of the green circle and sits back to observe his work on the dormitories.

A green cartoonish goose with a yellow beak and black eyes stare back at him.]

. . . Huh?

[headsplitter]

Heh, they're kinda cute. [ Giving one a scritch, except it goes directly from finding it nice to nipping at his finger. Creatures. ]

Ow! Jeez. What's wrong with you, so rude!

[ That being said, he's going to start fingerpainting a goose. God, even just his pointer finger is already so big. ]

I feel like I need more paper.

[ercnerd]

What are you doing? We're supposed to be painting the campus—not geese!

[Just as he's about to suggest that they start over, his goose companion clamps sharp teeth down on the corner of the paper with a resounding food! while Sieghart gasps.]

[headsplitter]

We can paint whatever the hell we want! That's the takeaway I got from art class, you know, it's called freedom of self-expression! [ He made that up, probably. Meanwhile, the geese seem to be staring at the goose he's painting. ]

Look at me, meanwhile, who's giving great representation of the Wiwaldi populace --

[ 'BAD PORTRAIT!' And the goose rips his goose bit and eats it too. ]

Ah! That's so insulting!

[ercnerd]

[There's a rip as Goose A tears off the corner of the paper between its beak and runs around the table to devour it in honking peace. Closing his eyes, Sieghart dumps blue paint onto the spare sheet of paper.]

Stop painting portraits and start coloring in blocks!

[He sets out to paint in the moat around the green goose.]

[headsplitter]

No! Don't tell me what to do!

[ He's going to fight this goose for his paper. Which is to say, he holds his hands out before it and asks politely. ]

Please give me back my portrait, I need it for the campus.

[ercnerd]

[While Aikawa begs Goose B for the portrait, Sieghart curses at the blue goose that greets him on his portion of the so-called map.]

Why is it always a goose!

[headsplitter]

They just want to be included! Maybe they'll leave us alone if we just include them in our Wiwaldi map, damn!

[ Look, he's drawn a square for the daycare! And puts another thumbprint goose on there! ]

[ercnerd]

[All he has to show for his side are geese. The cartoon geese are everywhere. He sucks in a breath through his nose, then attempts to paint in the cafeteria, except that the urge to add another colored goose is too strong to resist. He frowns at the circular blob of paint before sighing.]

I give up. All the buildings are geese now.

[headsplitter]

Goose goose goose...

[ One of these geese has climbed him. It's just standing with its fat legs on his shoulders, long neck looking over the top of his head. Honking intermittently. ]

We don't actually have to have a good drawing for it to count, right? Goosewaldi counts? Wiwalgeese?

[ercnerd]

[Sieghart ignores the honking. He won't judge if Aikawa wants to be intimate with a goose.]

Making the map good wasn't part of the assignment. Just do a rough approximate and we can call it a day.

[headsplitter]

[ Incorrect, it should be if the goose wants to get intimate with him. ]

Oh, so you've finally given into the allure of geese!

[ Thumbprints another goose. Goose-shaped waterslide. ]

[ercnerd]

[He's never wrong.]

There's nothing alluring about them.

Quit detailing the daycare and add some more buildings already.

[As he says this, he finishes adding the gymnasium and adjacent field in the form of red and green geese, respectively.]

[headsplitter]

[ First time for everything, bucko. ]

Whyyy, it looks like you've got the main campus covered. Where do I even put the daycare anyway? [ He holds the paper closer, just around the main campus zone. Where??? ]

[ercnerd]

If you're not sure, just set it aside for now and help me fill out the rest of this.

[Meanwhile, Goose A has finished tearing the piece of paper apart in its beak and now watches Sieghart and Aikawa across the table with piercing eyes.]

[headsplitter]

Don't get too nervous, they can smell fear.

[ He reaches for some paint, only to find a goose pecking at it. ]

-- Oi! Don't eat paint! This is non-toxic, right! [ SHOO. He wants this turquoise paint for the gardens! ]

[ercnerd]

Why would I be afraid of some geese?

[Following a loud honk, the goose bites Aikawa's bare hand for daring to keep the paint away. Sieghart does nothing, speechless as he is.]

[headsplitter]

Ow! Stop it! [ He's about to double-fist this shit. Or not, he's actually just letting the goose deal with his gloved hand while trying to use his one free hand to finish this assignment. ]

You say that, but wait until these geese start biting you!

[ercnerd]

Did you forget? I was bitten by them weeks ago.

[Shaking his head, Sieghart pushes the paper between them in order to give Aikawa better access before adding more goose-themed buildings.]