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Song Lan, Shanghai freshman, is dead already. Or not here; one going theory is that somehow he was over the weight limit. This would almost certainly have had to be deliberate sabotage, not accident, because the good enclaves have stunningly good scales and double-check, but it could have happened.


Other things that could have happened: he was ambushed on the way to the cafeteria either by a mal or by a student who thought it'd be a great opportunity to near-anonymously end up with an enclaver's entire welcome package. He had some kind of bizarre unprecedented magic interaction with the induction spell and got dumped in the void. Some student hid in his room in order to poach on the instant of arrival, maybe a senior who wasn't ready to graduate and figured they could pass themselves off as a freshman?? (This theory does not really make any sense.) He tripped and fell into a digester. He got turned around and trapped in a random classroom somewhere. He dropped his backpack into the void during induction and then killed himself in shame.

 

Shanghai is entertaining a weird black hanger-on who smells like a garbage dump and goes around with a squirming box of mals. 

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That is curious behavior on Shanghai's part but Huang does not really want to go near a squirming box of mals to ask about it. Maybe if Tianjin doesn't have space she'll see if she can sit with a subset of Shanghai that doesn't include such a box, and learn more.

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Rumors going around: 

Lan Xichen likes to get to know the freshmen every year, but this year he spent all of breakfast ignoring most of the indies in favor of the weird black hanger-on who smells like a garbage dump and doesn't even speak Mandarin (?!). 

Wen Qing is looking for guards for Wen Ning and she's paying in healing and wards. She grabbed the first three people who came up to talk to her but she's probably looking to trade up, that's not a very good system for finding the best people.

Those two idiots in Chang'an still haven't worked out that they have crushes on each other.

There's an illiterate fluent Mandarin speaker maleficer running around for some reason??? Connection to Song Lan unknown but people are speculating.

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Halfway through breakfast, Xue Yang and Tintin disappear for a private conversation.

No one was really paying much attention.

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