“Oh, okay. I guess I’ll need to figure out how to get to the graduation hall, then. How long until that becomes an active risk? I’m guessing only once a year from the name, but I don’t know what time of year it is now, here.”

"It's November eighth, graduation isn't for months and months, seniors aren't even doing runs in the gym yet."

“I don’t know what seniors doing runs in the gym means but more time is good!”

"They practice what it'll be like trying to fight through the graduation hall. By that time they're all supposed to have their alliances sewn up and be working on a strategy."

“Ah. Hopefully that’ll be a waste of time, then, but there’s no reason to expect them to risk it.”

"Quite. - clothes. The standard is people come in with four outfits, one per year, and we can do some repairs in here, but we're guessing how much we'll grow, and -"

“Ah! Okay.” She has a pretty reasonable understanding of how clothes work so she doesn’t have to limit herself to things she personally has handled. On the other hand, she doesn’t really understand the ambient risks of exposed skin, so not every garment she invents out of her Santa sack is remotely practical for the Scholomance. But there is a good selection of practical stuff, including miscellaneous forms of underwear.

"- generally we're going to want sleeves, stuff snug enough that it would be hard for a grub to drop down the neckline, thicker fabrics than that as long as we're not trading off weight allowance..."

“Oh, huh, okay.” Lots of turtleneck jumpers, then, that seems to fit all requirements. Though even there she gets pretty creative with the designs, just because why not?

No complaints about the designs. "I'm personally a fan of my mesh pockets in my pants but they're not universal so I assume other people are partial to other ways to solve the 'mals hiding in your pockets' problem."

“Of course that’s a problem.”

"Oh, if you can't see some place there's probably a mal in it, as a general rule. Most people come in with instructions to disassemble the desks that come with the rooms so they don't have drawers, day one, before going to sleep, and there aren't even that many mals in the school after the between-term mortal flame cleanse."

Well, Kareen will throw in some mesh pockets. Also lace pockets, fancier but just about as transparent.

"Oh boy, lace. I decided early on that if I ran out of space on my clothes for embroidery I'd take up lacemaking, I'd hate it soooo much." She's holding up turtlenecks to herself to guess at a size and goes for a blue gradient one and she will also help herself to a lace pocket pair of jeans.

“Well, it will take you much longer to run out of space, now. I don’t do much in the way of physical crafts, generally, but this is a very nice exercise for the visual imagination.”

"It looks fun. I am so, so jealous," sighs Bella.

“I bet there’s some way to get at least part of the benefit with your magic, if you don’t have to ration mana.”

"The spells don't exist yet. There are not - spells designed around not having to ration mana. Nobody's ever been in that position. There's frivolities, but... that's not the same thing. But I'm creative writing track, if you live through the night I can start whipping stuff up for it."

“I figured there had to be some way to come up with new spells!”

"Yep, we write 'em! But it's like writing poetry, sometimes surprisingly time consuming for how short the spells often are and sometimes unsurprisingly time consuming for long ones."

“Are there textbooks for writing spells?” Kareen wants textbooks for writing spells VERY BADLY.

"Yeah, the one I have on me is the junior year Traditional Metered Forms book but you probably want to start with the intro level, the library may have a copy. Do any of your powers let you just patch into the school system, it seems like it might be useful to let it assign you classes, it'd give you books and worksheets and it's - not exactly adaptive, but it's attentive -" She flips through the pamphlet. "...you could try Backchanneling the Scholomance directly and see if it can make an exception if you dump a backpack full of mana on it?"

“Backchannel only works to help me understand other entities, not to help other entities understand me—there was another power that added the reciprocal, but I couldn’t  afford it on top of everything else. …That being said, I did get something from Dragon Fairy Elf Witch that might work. But I think I will wait until the cafeteria closes to try it.”

"...did you Dragon Fairy Elf Witch the school?"

“…No! Although I should definitely try it. I Dragon Fairy Elf Witched my dad, and I’ve been running through things he can do and not getting anywhere, and one of the things I haven’t tried yet is—‘projective telepathy’ isn’t really the thing but it’s closer to the thing than most things I can think of.”