I finally managed to get back to the surface. Ugh, I'm still feeling weak, but @Nobody managed to scrape all this paint stuff of the walls, which I'm uh, very grateful for, I kind of lost myself... We've just been waiting, waiting for something to happen I suppose, for something to think of something, for some stroke of luck. @Morris is in so much trouble and Fortuna is getting to him, but he knows he can't make a deal with her, surely? I want to help so much, but Fortuna is going to repossess Mattie and hurt @Scilph and @Pacifica and I don't know what to-

Wait... I don't know if I can do this, but maybe, maybe I could possess Mattie? It doesn't seem impossible, I mean, I don't really exist physically and I can move around the school and access different astral planes, why shouldn't I be able to possess people? It feels strange and wrong to me, but if it worked, maybe Fortuna wouldn't know I was in there. Can a body be possessed by two people at one? Maybe we'd both get trapped in there and I could try and fight Fortuna off, buy people time to do something. I'm sure she'd overpower me quickly but some time is better than no time... Right? I could just reach out and... I can't do it without her permission, can I? Wouldn't that be, well, evil?

Something just happened to Morris. Is he bluffing? I need to do this quickly. I hope Mattie forgives me.

I finally managed to get back to the surface. Ugh, I'm still feeling weak, but @Nobody managed to scrape all this paint stuff of the walls, which I'm uh, very grateful for, I kind of lost myself... We've just been waiting, waiting for something to happen I suppose, for something to think of something, for some stroke of luck. @Morris is in so much trouble and Fortuna is getting to him, but he knows he can't make a deal with her, surely? I want to help so much, but Fortuna is going to repossess Mattie and hurt @Scilph and @Pacifica and I don't know what to-

Wait... I don't know if I can do this, but maybe, maybe I could possess Mattie? It doesn't seem impossible, I mean, I don't really exist physically and I can move around the school and access different astral planes, why shouldn't I be able to possess people? It feels strange and wrong to me, but if it worked, maybe Fortuna wouldn't know I was in there. Can a body be possessed by two people at one? Maybe we'd both get trapped in there and I could try and fight Fortuna off, buy people time to do something. I'm sure she'd overpower me quickly but some time is better than no time... Right? I could just reach out and... I can't do it without her permission, can I? Wouldn't that be, well, evil?

Something just happened to Morris. Is he bluffing? I need to do this quickly. I hope Mattie forgives me.

I can't quite seem to gather myself enough to... to form anything... I don't really know where I am... The paint on the walls, it's almost supressing me, I can see through it but I can't quite... Reach through it... I need to help, @Nobody is trapped, @Morris is in trouble, I can't believe I was beaten this easily, I feel ashamed and frustrated and my friends and this school are in danger and Fortuna, she is the one responsible for destroying my body and she's right THERE and I can't QUITE... I can't-

... ... zz ... !! Gah sorry, I was making a post, I uh, remember now

Sorry if I uh, have been neglecting posting for uh... a little while I just feel quite awful, I can barely keep awake, or whatever 'awake' is for me

I uh, thought this weather wasn't affecting me but it seems.... the new icy temperatures are making the school, the foundations and the heh, ... zz ... !! walls, walls I suppose keep expanding and contracting and moving all the time and it's wearing me down I suppose, I feel on edge and uncomfortable and so very tired... Sorry if the few projections that are roaming around don't talk back or look a little uh, haggard, I can't seem to get through to them very well

I wanted to perhaps focus on something, play a game with @Nobody maybe, but she went to explore the catacombs when it got uh, hot and I can't follow her. Claude dropped by the boiler room a couple of times when I was uh, there... zz...

*Calls up a projection* take over this

{What? I feel as bad as you do}

*groans* pleeeeaaasssee

{Fine fine okay. It's been weird, we keep getting tired and slowly pulled back into the walls. And when all the projections are gone it's kind of like being unconscious. Or dormant. Or something like that. We got uh, startled awake when someone started painting on the walls. Turns out it was Ava and @Matching by Mattie painting murals. They're using really nice paint though. Not that lead based rubbish that some of the older parts of the school are painted. Thanks guys.}

waait wait... @Morris is right, Fortuna is up to something and it uh... has something to do with Mattie it must have... she's uh... changed into someone very strange... And it's not just the weather making me this *yawns* sleepy... We might have to cancel on milkshakes Morris...

{Wait no please don't go to sleep, I'll be pulled back into the walls!}

perhaps @Nobody has better stay down in the catacombs... don't want anything bad happening... something bad is going to happen... nobody touch my ... board games ... jeez is it cold in here...? ... zz ...

I'm a bit late posting, but damn that was a good party. It was really nice, and it's really cool to be celebrating such a good cause. Plus me and @Nobody had a fun time, we mainly stayed at the edge of the uh, scene and talked, but by the end we'd even danced. But thankfully, with me being kind of translucent and Nobody slipping into invisibility, no one could see us. It was uh, nice. And I could even remember it, due to the GODDAMN *cough*, sorry, unfortunate lack of punch. @Scilph managed to drag @Morris out onto the dance floor, although he didn't look too happy about it... They seemed to be having fun by the end though.

It's got so hot lately. Even Scilph has swapped her regular outfits for shorts and tank tops. Morris! We need to make plans bro. Since everyone is practically dying of heatstroke I've been a little short of company. Claude is just lying on his back, panting. Like a dog, he says, very demeaning. Does anyone need directions to the walk in freezer? There are people just lying down in the corridors trying to cool off on the flooring. It's kind of unnerving. I can't feel the heat exactly, but it's so hot some of the plastic guttering is melting and the metal in the foundations is expanding, I feel bloated and gross. There's flies everywhere, landing on the walls, and I feel kind of itchy I guess... GAH. I need to play some scrabble to take my mind off it.

I've been a little distracted lately, since they never actually assigned me a dorm room, so I've been putting up shelves in the boiler room. It's taking a while since my projections can only lift weak weights, which is fine for game pieces but bad for boxes and tools. They just fall through my hands. I'm hoping to put all my board games in one place though instead of just hiding them around the school and in Nobodies room. (Nobody, don't open the closet unless you want to be crushed by falling boards).

UGGHH please, students please refrain from rubbing your faces on the walls and just get an ice pack. Please.

@Scilph, Hooray! I'm happy too, gay marriage being legalised is such fantastic news for the normals of America. I was wondering when it would happen, the normals of Britain got the right a little while ago, did you know @that kid had to teleport across the Atlantic ocean? But seriously, its very good news. I'd love to celebrate it and spend time with my buddy @Morris, and I would be very happy to attend the party you two are planning, as long as nobody *cough* brings any *cough* punch! Seriously, don't bring any! *Second projection appears* {Wasn't reverse psychology one of mattie's tips?} Shush, Walls.

I hope @Nobody comes too. After all the Squirrel lessons, and uh, frequent games of chess and backgammon (She's my official game buddy, it's a big responsibility) she probably needs a break. {Walls, write about the hair...} Jeez, what? Oh, oh right... When I took Battleships round, (for um, y'know, casual gaming) Nobody had this amazing purple hair. I almost dropped the box, which would have been devastating for the crewmembers, but I didn't. It has green polka dots in it too. I was a little embarrassed earlier, but I think it's really really awesome. *Projection pats me on the shoulder* Okay... Enough talking to myself, don't you have stuff to do? {Fine.}

It's been a bit weird (haha, well, you know, for Psyhigh) lately. I'm used to seeing uh, myself around but I keep coming across the same student twice. In a short time period, I mean. As if there's two of them. Deja vu. Glitch in the matrix. Know what I mean? Maybe everyone's hiring @Omai Gott's doppelgängers. But why so many at once? Huh.

Wait, do I hear cannonfire? Maybe Nobody set up another game of battleships. Gotta go, my armada needs me!

Hm. Claude ran off while I was setting up scrabble with @Nobody. Maybe he was afraid of the exploding pieces. A bit strange, though, he usually sticks around to play with us. Peculiar...

I went by @Matching by Mattie's club but she didn't show up straight away, until I went to look for her. Turns out she'd woken up from the uh... Lovesick Soda high in the Historical Earth Figures department, in the 'Past lives' classroom, and an outdated security drone was holding a huge flashlight in her face. I think he'd just gotten lonely, and was in complete shock at Mattie turning up. @slug master was there too, he seemed a bit oblivious, staring at a life sized poster of Brittany Spears and writing stuff down... I was worried she'd miss the start of her club, so I sent my most POLITE projection to wake her gently and show her the way, learning from my earlier screwups, and she game me approximately 19 love tips gave me my um, free love consultation on the walk back. That's confidential though... So no prying okay? I'm looking at you @*Atlantica*...

I dropped her off at the Customer Growing Club, and I would have stayed around, but some students ran up to me babbling about a fire in Nobodies room, so I rushed straight out there. Turns out I just left some scrabble pieces out and they'd started smoking. No worries!

Q, quiescent, quiet, quietism, quietus, quiff, quill, quilt- *bookshelf is knocked over* hey! What uh, uh...

What time is it? Have I been here all night? Let me just read these journals... Oh.

I wish I could have gone with you guys. That cavern sounds spectacular, it really does. Some of them sounded funny, @Morris, as... Morrina? Excuse me while I tell the school. Kidding! As long as you never bring up that storage shed ever again. I am PROUD of these clean walls. Plus, who in their right mind would sit at their computers all day? Ha!

Some of them weren't as funny, though. I'm sorry Morris. I don't think it's healthy to dwell of what if's... Especially since so many of us have been through, well, terrible things... The tunnel stretches waay out of the school, so I'm afraid I'll never be able to go. Maybe that's a good thing. If I saw a reality where I never lost my body, I don't know if I'd ever want to come back, just keep popping bubbles over and over until I saw it again... I'd be wary of that cavern.

... ... zz ... Gah! The rest of the alphabet will have to wait... I uh... *Second projection appears* Listen, you take over from here... Pottery starts soon... we're making uh... mugs... zz ...

{Typical. Maybe I'll catch up with Morris and @Nobody before class starts. And ask @Pacifica who that kid from the ice cream parlour was, so if I see him, I can have a STERN word!}

zz ... yeah right, nerd...

{Morris will have a STERN word! Oh jeez is that the time? Dammit Walls!}

*Blinks out*

Aw man, this book is fantastic... So, the first step to professional exploding scrabble is memorising the dictionary... What!! There's a whole dictionary right here!

*Is tapped on shoulder by projection* {@Pacifica put the dictionary there, Walls! She's PLAYING you like a CHEAP DECK of CARDS... Oh, there she is.}

Shush Walls. Okay, second step is protective goggles... And gloves. I could make my own protective equipment! {You are transparent.} DUDE, there's a DIY book RIGHT HERE! Wait, let me open this other book. Of course. NEVER BUY the UTILITES! *Puts arm around second projection* Mate. They're practically useless. {Huh. That makes sense.} And never underestimate free parking. Are you getting this down?? {Yes.}

I'm staying here until I've memorised the whole dictionary. Where am I? I can only make out half that dusty sign... L-b--ry. Hm.

{I think you botched the intellect on this one, Walls. He's an imbecile. Note to self, work on more quality projections.}

*Reading frantically* By the way @Pacifica, there's a power outlet in the corner, behind that first edition of Pinocchio. I know these walls. What was I saying about an imbecile? {Nothing.}

I'm not gonna badger @Morris for the identity of this crush, that's not what bro's do. Buut if anyone DOES decide to tell, I'm all ears. Wait, I hope I didn't offend the ear community. Back to work I think. *Cracks open 'The Biology of Chess'*

Haha thanks dude, I get you, glad you've got my back. Speaking of backs, what is that? *Removes a poster taped to @Morris's collar*

What? Is Pacifica missing? This is awful! She jumped out of a window? What the hell? Dude, we have to-

Oh, he's already gone. Huh. Well, I'm going to dedicate all my time to help finding her, @*Atlantica*, I promise. There's gonna be projections everywhere, I don't care how tired I get, I can sleep it off when she's found, why would she just leave like this? Oh wait... is this about a crush?

Hehe, OHH.... I will dedicated all my time and MORE to help find Pacifica. I wanna know the gossip. I can be in the loop. It'll be like, my final step in fitting into the school. Wait, why is that projection looking at me? There's no use use both being in the same room, me!

{This seems a little mean Walls. Isn't she allowed to have secrets? Driving her out of the school for something as trivial as a crush? You're better than this.}

... ... ... Haha, no! I crack myself up. And I'm not taking my own advice, get out of here! *Projection shakes head and disappears* Plus, I already drank my free sample of soda. Now heh, where has Pacifica got to...