Sara and Angie follow on, knives out in the latter case, but Alexei pauses to wait for everyone to file in, his fireball hovering in the doorway and lighting both sides of it. 

"I'm not actually sure how the scholomance even stocks these rooms, maybe expectation has something to do with it?" 

In the corner is a small, but very full box of empty glass jars.

Well now how d'you like that. Alexius spots a small clear plastic bin of what looks like cardstock, and nearly makes a beeline for it before he remembers his job. He instead sets about poking each and every one of the excellent finds, the pinnacle of a paranoid pointman. 

Alexei joins him at that once everyone's inside, while Sara surveys everything from a central location, eyeing a packet of paper on one of the bottom shelves.

Nia waits for things to be checked, and takes the flashlight and three jars and a big three-ring binder already full of paper and folders and a whole box of mechanical pencils, though she will portion those out if anyone else urgently wants them, and two rolls of tape, and a bright pink permanent marker. "The spell for finding is tremendous!" she exclaims.

Small shy smile. "Thanks. Took a long time to write."

Tomonori collects his paper and an empty three-ring binder and no hole punch. He'll deal with that later.

Many, many pens, though, and highlighters in a variety of colors (no blue, but that's fine). He offers a few pens (though not many...) to anyone who wants some.

"It's smart! Not many spells are so friendly with the school."

"Best spell I have heard of all year. Knight in shining armor of spells. Sir Spell the Marvelous."

"We're very proud," Angie brushes against Zed's side as she passes. 

Aha! She prods at a shelf carefully, double-checking, and then takes the two small cases of coloured pencils and a packet of sketchbooks on it, and grabs a quartet of spiral notebooks from the shelf above it to give to Alexei. Tape! She takes some of that, too, they hadn't spent space on it, figuring they'd be able to get a fairly early supply run in with both a combat specialist and Zed among their number. 

-oh, and she grabs the packet of paper Sara was eyeing, too. Nice, sturdy stuff, maybe she needs it for shop? Angie makes a note to ask about it later. 

Okay they're just going to blush and not actually reply.

He'll take a pencil and...oooooh, pens. One or two of those and a highlighter would be great. He spots a Sharpie on the lower shelf and snags it. And a fancy notebook...it tries to snap closed on his arm and he jerks back and thunks his mini-machete into it. Time to find a different notebook. 

Eventually he locates a decent alternative, albeit with half the paper missing. 

Alexei grabs some extra pens and pencils and a trio of highlighters in blue, yellow and green. Nothing needs stabbing on his end, but he's still keeping the fireball in the air. It's not very expensive and he could toss it at something, so it's technically in-affinity. 

It's a good thing everyone else here has offensive capabilities! Tomonori will pretend he is also prepared to do more than notice an incoming mal.

Carrying all this paper without a way to get it in the binder..troubling. He looks around for a hole punch. ...there must be one near the binders, because that's where one would belong. Maybe it's hiding where Nia got her binder.

There! Hole punch. Tomonori picks that up, too. He starts putting paper in his binder as long as the others are still looking around.

Lily is late in, but there's enough even for her. She takes a nice large binder, some tape, a pair of Matsumoto's pens, and a couple highlighters. She also snags some lined paper and - ooh, is that a stapler? She prods it with her athame. Yep, that is indeed a stapler. It's a pretty cheap plastic one but it's already loaded with staples and she will absolutely take that.

There's still some paper left - she should fill her binder -

"Matsumoto, can I use your hole punch once you're done with it?"

Yolanda finds--yess, there are a couple of graph paper composition books. She scoops those and a box of regular pencils and a package of erasers aaaand yep there's a pencil sharpener. 

"Your spell is awesome. Hypothetically are you interested in trading it."

They hesitate, but they can't just outright refuse, this is the Scholomance. "Do you know Swati?"

"I do not. Damn."

...Angie passes Zed one of the packs of coloured pencils and a sketchbook, "We might be able to work something out where we trade for supply runs they lead," she tells Yolanda - and the room in general. 

"I would be extremely interested in doing that," she informs them. 

They nod to Yolanda, and tilt their head to the twins. "Talk to them, they can arrange it."

"I can't take anything. Spell requires that I don't."

"- how far can you not take supplies? Not today? Not these specifics? Not things traded for them?"

"Sure."

"I can punch things for you," Tomonori offers to Lily.

"Can't take things for myself or add what I want to find into the spell. Other people can take things and gift them to me later. But I can't have or give any preference."

"That's a little strange. Definitely a spell you want to have strong allies while using."