[Dias stirs in his sleep, and immediately detects something wrong. He usually sleeps in his clothes - he still feels uneasy about anyone seeing his scars, even though Celes got a good look at them the day they arrived - but what he's wearing now isn't nearly as comfortable as his own clothing, so whatHe sits up and finds himself in a tuxedo. He can ( Read more... )

[Dias has heard the news about the box tops, admittedly rather late. He's staring fixedly at the prize book.]

Supplies - 5 box tops
Sword - 10 box tops
Family - 5,000 box tops

[He...doesn't even have words for this. But eventually he picks up the phone.] Is this all some sort of bad joke? Some of these prizes...they're so expensive that you can ( Read more... )

[Dias recently received a package in the mail that had all his clothing from Expel in it, which was a considerable surprise and, since it was actually the first good thing to happen to him here at Mayfield, probably a mistake. So, while he's definitely been wearing his clothes, he's mostly kept quiet about it in case drawing attention to it will ( Read more... )

[Dias only had a day or two to get a feel for Mayfield as it was before this happened, and that was hardly enough given that the world and its technology are all completely unfamiliar to him. This is a man whose planet didn't even have a word for 'machine' - a planet that, as far as he knows, had just crashed into another planet before he left - ( Read more... )

( Waking up to a nightmare )