[ He does take a quick glance around the room, and there is a pretty wide range of costumes around here, but... ]

I see weirder every day at school.

[ He's not necessarily exaggerating in some ways. That's the sad thing. ]

But wait a minute...

[ He's pulling some weird chunk of golden metal out of his backpack and holding it in front of him. ]

When you say their weapons are sentient, which I'm pretty sure I heard the lady drop that term too, what exactly do you mean by that? I mean, I had them mess around with this key, [ you know, the chunk of metal in his hand that doesn't look remotely like a key? ] but it's about as inanimate as it's always been.