I snap back into a projection, I've finally managed to escape the Queen's grasp, but as I pluck the last tendrils of my mind from hers, I can hear her... Screaming... Her hive mind connects, I realize, to every EBIB in the school, and they are burning...

I hear a terrifying roar form @Scilph. I can feel the pain. The walls shake. Blackie is turned over on his back, a corner of his box melted, fusing to the floor...

Hot globules of black sludge are raining down on us. The Queen boiled from the inside.

I throw up a projection, over our heads, hoping that I can maintain it against this barrage of molten black ooze, hoping I can-- - --- I need to-- --

My projection flickers a little. The Queen... Her mind is pulling me in, I can feel--- - --

--- --- --Queen Quin-- - - --- --

It's time for me to move... My sharp needles clack on the stone, I slick up the ground with a black ooze as I walk... I've only got one thing to do, my sole purpose, consume Psyhigh and everyone inside... I yearn for it so badly, me, my bugs, they're been waiting so long for the call from their mother... Their Queen... They're in every crevice, under every chair, hiding, waiting in every room, and when I signal, they will begin to eat...

But now I'm being summoned... To the surface, a place with black smoke... Only one person has the power to summon me, I know this... I feel her presence, strange, not how I remember, but nevertheless... Fortuna... I must answer her call

Then my bugs will answer mine

--- - ---- -- ---- - - --- - - -- - --

'I'm Walls' I tell @Scilph. I don't feel like explaining further, not until we've found @Nobody. I want to get to know her more, but... Whenever she notices my projections her eyes light up for a second, then she just gives me a sad smile... I think I should wait until we get Morris and the others back. We all stand in awe at the generator. Dense smoke is filling up the room, and I can't help but feel a bit homesick, it's just like that time the villagers tried to burn me and my formers room-mates house down... Good times.

I can feel Eralonia in the walls. She's getting very, very close to Nobody. I can see inside...

++ Nobody is sat tightly in a corner. The EBIB's have made a kind of veil around her. She's trying to bat them away but them keep reforming... This is the Queens doing, that evil physical form-stealing piece of... sorry, Eralonia is getting close. I hope she can see through that veil, and I'm projecting as much salt as I can to try to disperse them. I hope she knows what she's doing, we don't have much time to get to the safe zone... ++

I think @slug master will be able to lure the Queen here. As soon as we get Nobody back, we can get this thing started! Oops, sorry if you're in the library right now, I got excited and the walls shook a little. Nothing you're not used to around here, I suppose.

I'm following Blackie. He's going a little fast, and I think about disintegrating this projection and following just as psychic mist, but that won't do for a school environment. I have to fit in.

Blackie's turning the corner to a room though, is this @Scilph's room? The box is meant to be taking me to @Nobody! Maybe he won't listen to @*Atlantica*. Maybe Scilph will have to help us find Nobody.

I hover a little in the doorway. I see Atlantica, she's still crying. But... Is that Eralonia? I didn't know she was a cat. Maybe I can talk to her on the astral plane. Although that would be rude on a first meeting. She seems to be about to say something.

Getting Nobody to the generator must be important. But for what? My mind must be straining from keeping up this projection. I contemplate returning to my pasta, but when I quickly check it through the cafeteria walls, EBIBs are already circling it...

Huh. Something is happening to one of my projections. The one in the cafeteria.

I snap into it and @*Atlantica* is trying to hug me, I almost feel bad, her hands are passing right through me...

She's already walking away, while I try to figure what she just said... I need to give more attention to my projections, the fewer the better, probably?

The little black box... Dog... Is scuttling away. I should follow it. And if salt repulses the EBIBs... Maybe projected salt will too. She's right.

Now I can get to @Nobody. And give her projected sprinkles, which she can eat without getting unstable since they don't even exist!

I start following the black box. I'll be with @Nobody in no time, I hope she managed to get to Claude...

There's someone in the walls. @Nobody... You're...

You're right underneath her. The Queen.

Everything is coming back to me. I remember what she did to me. I shouldn't have taken no for an answer, now you're in do much danger, and Claude...

You'll need to get to Claude, I know the EBIBs will try to swarm you, but you need to take her and run. I can put a barrier between you and the bugs, so you can find a way out safely, but I can't break down the Walls... It would hurt too much. This is the biggest swarm yet, they can't escape into the school, they can't-- -

Please let me help you

I'm (Well, part of me. A projection) eating this pasta right, contemplating psyhigh's imminent doom, and feeling a little bitter at all the friends I never had change to make, but I heard a weird staticky sounds, like someone was trying to get back into the school network from... Somewhere.

Then I checked the journals. @Pacifica??

I can try to insulate my walls to boost the signal, let it bouce around inside the school for longer. Do you know anything about the Queen? Is she there, in Forever?

This is a disaster. My first few days will be my last. People can't just keep de-materializing! Not before I've introduced myself...

Disaster, disaster

The Queen is too strong, too evil, the students left are too good, and too mentally unstable. I've seen her astral form, and forgive me if I lose hope. I might as well just wander down to the cafeteria and eat nutritionless food projections. Pasta sounds good right now.

Wait, where did it go? Am I in the right time? Where did the picnic go? What day is it?

The EBIBs are everywhere

I need to get back

I can finally get down to learning. I can leave my former room-mates and physical existence behind me! (PS, if anyone ever comes across @that kid's body, I apologise for the terror in advance). I can't wait to head down the the Psychic Crime Family picnic, maybe I can get some insight on different psychic cultures, my home was not very diverse when it comes to the uh, supernatural arts, unless pitchforks have psychic powers... Haha. But isn't it a little strange that this picnic is taking place just before @Nobody and @Gretel predicted... Apocalyptic doom? And all those black limousines, with black, matted windows... Something seems to be uh... moving a little inside them... like a swarm... Or I could be wrong, my projections don't have the best eyesight. It's also difficult to keep track of them if I run too many at once. Gotta keep tabs on myself.