[ what up, crow's by the bonfire. he's already probably tried baked goods and fire by this point, so he has a selection of what looks like... trays of golly-b's food. there are even fries here. and mashed potato. god help us all.
he's got what looks like a perfectly cooked chicken wing skewered on the end of metal stick and is rotating it by the open flames with a look of way too much intensity. ]
...
[ he'll glance up, wave a hand at kon when he sees him, and then go right back to staring at this chicken. ]
... you know, I don't think you can stare it into cooking faster? [ kon sounds a little amused as he comes closer, grabbing one of the skewers and turning it over in his hand with a kind of contemplative look at the food spread going on. why is there mashed potatoes? ]
[ stick mallowed, he comes and joins crow, holding it out into the fire and doing a slow rotation. ]
Honestly not wrong. I've been having a good time in the kitchen, when the staff isn't there. Might as well make use of all the free ingredients to try out recipes that I haven't before.
Wouldn't hurt to bring some of them out here, I think.
crow is looking in the cupboards. and the fridge. and anywhere there might be food or drink honestly. but after a while of what seems like fruitless searching he just...
sighs. ]
It'd be too much to ask for them to have a good, solid bottle of alcohol around here, huh?
You'd want to find a way to sweeten it up if you drank it, since it's usually more bitter and gets sweeter when it's reduced. [ :pensive: ] But, yeah, it's not great for drinking otherwise.
[ also high in calories but he doubts crow cares about that. ]
I don't know, anything can be a dangerous weapon if you're creative enough. But they probably wouldn't think about it for a bottled drink, especially since there's some alcohol sold in plastic bottles instead of glass.
Yeah, I think that's probably their end goal there, not the experience itself. Also, most drinking-aged students are more about the "cheap and quick" route when it comes to alcohol. If it'll get them drunk fast, taste and experience don't matter as much, especially if they can cut on the cost.
Most alcohol sold in bottles is cheap as dirt and tastes like shit.
[ becks why do you keep playing characters who drink ]
Considering I don't drink that often - [ because, in reality, he's underage ] - I'd rather it taste better than subject myself to the idea of "cheap and quick." Nevermind the old saying of "it's an acquired taste."
Why would I want to acquire a taste for something that tastes awful, when I can instead eat or drink something that I think tastes good and enjoy it right off the bat?
[ a sharp breath, and he straightens, mind immediately running. ]
Fuck - fuck, okay. Of course she's mad as hell, she was furious before whatever rewrote them pulled her back under again. I didn't even have her for more than a minute, maybe two, so I wasn't -
I wasn't sure if she'd remember. She didn't when she was Viola again.
Yeah, it wasn't any longer than that last time either. She said it was the third time she's been aware? She broke a mirror or something the other week -- I guess that explains why her hands were sliced up.
[ ... ]
She said she doesn't know how much time she has when she surfaces, and she doesn't know what triggers her becoming aware in the first place.
She was being weird about winter dorm. She didn't want to come down to say goodbye to Rupert, because she felt that we didn't want her there.
[ ... ]
She was hyperfocused on our reputations, and trying to avoid us being stuck with the label of killers because two of our killers have come from this dorm. I was trying to talk her through it, and figure out why she was so fixated on it, and then-- [ he makes a popping motion with his hands ] -- not Viola anymore.
When she slipped out, I'd given her a written report of what happened on our field trip. She insisted we meet in person, apologized that I went through it despite the fact that - how do you prepare for that shit? You don't. But we started talking about preparations, trying to make sure people were a little more ready about what they'd face. Putting our heads together over the whole Wiwaldi situation, since you had just gotten the script before then, and everything was a few more clues to what was going on.
She was worrying about me, the dorm, all of us, but told me that I didn't have to do it all on my own even if we had plans. Then she started to slip.
You think it's the dorm that brings it out? She asked me to come and talk to her after... I guess we argued? It was when she was really focused on the dorm and us especially that she got a headache and a dizzy spell. I was able to stop her from falling, but when she was focused again she wasn't Viola.
Maybe. If she hurt her hands that first Thursday we were locked in, she might have been trying to get to us before the frustration of being trapped in more ways than one got to her.
That would check out, I think, if our safety and our unity are really strong triggers for her breaking out.
... For the most part I don't think we need to worry about if we can bring her out again. The level she worries about us makes me want to stage an intervention. And we're all getting along about as well as we could expect. No one's started an inter-dorm war yet.
I've had like, five people remind me that I can rely on them and others - but I think she outdoes me in that department? [ like, self awareness. he has it. but viola - iris - is practically a machine in how she refuses to stop running. ] It makes sense, in that she's from a political family and wants to go into politics.
[ but, thinking - ]
I can maybe think of something. But I'll do a little more sticking my nose into things, talk to her, hear what everybody reports back from their conversations with her. Get a gauge on it.
... Did you see her tattoo the other week? Whatever she's dealt with, it's probably cut her deep for something like that to scare her. It makes sense that whatever care she has for us is balanced with a need to try and keep some level of distance, especially after such short an amount of time.
[ ... ]
Yeah. I'm not going to go pushing for Iris to come out again. Last thing I want to do is do something that'd hurt her. But if we can coax her out bit by bit, maybe she'll start sticking around longer. Like chipping away at something, instead of dropping it and breaking it.
[ a small peace sign, back, before he ducks his head again to poke around at the design kits before he finishes setting aside some parts. apparently he has itchy fingers after the weekend they've had. ]
Leo, Futaba, and Ichinose are going to lose their minds if they haven't seen this yet, so, yeah.
It's been funny that there's been a place relevant to my interests every week, at least, but I've been hoping for the science room for the science people, yeah.
Maybe they knew you were coming and decided to spoil you. Then again, they knew we were all coming so maybe that's not as funny a joke as I'd like it to be.
[ ah. ]
A real techy guy. Always messing with orbal tech, building something, doing maintenance on something else. Turns out he was way more involved with inventing than any of us realised but--
[ oops. i dropped this memshare (battle covers 2:04 to 6:00, and can be skipped). ]
I highly doubt it, after what they've been putting me through already. But I'll take what I can get.
[ but.
look at this straight up RPG shit. kon is losing his mind that this is a memory that's being presented to him, by whatever the ghosts of winter week two are putting them through. but he's also standing there stupidly, for a beat after it fades.
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w0, tuesday
he's got what looks like a perfectly cooked chicken wing skewered on the end of metal stick and is rotating it by the open flames with a look of way too much intensity. ]
...
[ he'll glance up, wave a hand at kon when he sees him, and then go right back to staring at this chicken. ]
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... you know, I don't think you can stare it into cooking faster? [ kon sounds a little amused as he comes closer, grabbing one of the skewers and turning it over in his hand with a kind of contemplative look at the food spread going on. why is there mashed potatoes? ]
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I want it to crisp up, not burn and this is an open flame!
[ hey… but he does laugh. ]
Imagine if it worked that way though? Glare your food into submission.
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That's fair. Harder to guarantee something like a wing cooking properly over open flame.
[ he pins the stick between his right bicep and his ribs, getting a couple marshmallows to stab for simplicity sake. ]
That's probably a power out there somewhere that'd allow it, though. Think about all the burnt food you'd go through before you mastered it.
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[ he watches kon sorting out his marshmallow stick before looking back at the chicken. the ends are little a little more crisp now. ]
Better than spending my mira on it and then messing it all up.
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Honestly not wrong. I've been having a good time in the kitchen, when the staff isn't there. Might as well make use of all the free ingredients to try out recipes that I haven't before.
Wouldn't hurt to bring some of them out here, I think.
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[ … hmm. ]
It’d make a change from the regular kitchen, that’s for sure.
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It'd be fun I think.
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w0, sunday
crow is looking in the cupboards. and the fridge. and anywhere there might be food or drink honestly. but after a while of what seems like fruitless searching he just...
sighs. ]
It'd be too much to ask for them to have a good, solid bottle of alcohol around here, huh?
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We have cooking wine, for what it's worth, but - [ well ] - I could make some. It'd just take a little time, so no instant gratification.
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...
Not sure I want to hate things more right now. Maybe we can buy some with vouchers?
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[ also high in calories but he doubts crow cares about that. ]
Maybe - wonder how much they'd cost.
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[ hm ]
Well if the uh... bottle doesn't count as a dangerous weapon it couldn't be more than a voucher or two depending on quality?
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I don't know, anything can be a dangerous weapon if you're creative enough. But they probably wouldn't think about it for a bottled drink, especially since there's some alcohol sold in plastic bottles instead of glass.
Harder to break over someone's head or shiv with.
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… That takes away from the experience though. Alcohol in a plastic bottle? Where’s the weight? The chill of glass while you’re enjoying your drink?
Then again it’s a campus. They’d probably assume everyone would just drop their drinks immediately and cause chaos.
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Most alcohol sold in bottles is cheap as dirt and tastes like shit.
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[ delicious ]
And cheap as shit plastic bottles don’t have the same nice feel to them when you hold them. Y’know, the weight of it? [ i don’t drink ]
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Considering I don't drink that often - [ because, in reality, he's underage ] - I'd rather it taste better than subject myself to the idea of "cheap and quick." Nevermind the old saying of "it's an acquired taste."
Why would I want to acquire a taste for something that tastes awful, when I can instead eat or drink something that I think tastes good and enjoy it right off the bat?
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Because people want to get drunk. So they drink the cheap stuff to get there faster.
I mean, whatever they wanna do, right? But quality always wins out over quantity.
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But more power to them, I guess, if that's the route they want to go.
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People are resilient.
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Luckily I'm not much of a drinker, and I can afford better tasting things when I do it.
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[ it he had a glass he'd clink it ]
Enjoy the good stuff and savour it.
w2, sunday
It happened again.
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wryly: ] That could be so many things, Crow. Which I hate to say.
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... She tried to say her name. I think it begins with "I"?
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Fuck - fuck, okay. Of course she's mad as hell, she was furious before whatever rewrote them pulled her back under again. I didn't even have her for more than a minute, maybe two, so I wasn't -
I wasn't sure if she'd remember. She didn't when she was Viola again.
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[ ... ]
She said she doesn't know how much time she has when she surfaces, and she doesn't know what triggers her becoming aware in the first place.
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Yeah, it does. She definitely has been fighting the entire time she's been under, I think, based on that and her reactions.
What were you talking to her about, right before she surfaced again?
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She was being weird about winter dorm. She didn't want to come down to say goodbye to Rupert, because she felt that we didn't want her there.
[ ... ]
She was hyperfocused on our reputations, and trying to avoid us being stuck with the label of killers because two of our killers have come from this dorm. I was trying to talk her through it, and figure out why she was so fixated on it, and then-- [ he makes a popping motion with his hands ] -- not Viola anymore.
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When she slipped out, I'd given her a written report of what happened on our field trip. She insisted we meet in person, apologized that I went through it despite the fact that - how do you prepare for that shit? You don't. But we started talking about preparations, trying to make sure people were a little more ready about what they'd face. Putting our heads together over the whole Wiwaldi situation, since you had just gotten the script before then, and everything was a few more clues to what was going on.
She was worrying about me, the dorm, all of us, but told me that I didn't have to do it all on my own even if we had plans. Then she started to slip.
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You think it's the dorm that brings it out? She asked me to come and talk to her after... I guess we argued? It was when she was really focused on the dorm and us especially that she got a headache and a dizzy spell. I was able to stop her from falling, but when she was focused again she wasn't Viola.
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That would check out, I think, if our safety and our unity are really strong triggers for her breaking out.
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We just need a way to make it stick.
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[ but, thinking - ]
I can maybe think of something. But I'll do a little more sticking my nose into things, talk to her, hear what everybody reports back from their conversations with her. Get a gauge on it.
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[ ... ]
Yeah. I'm not going to go pushing for Iris to come out again. Last thing I want to do is do something that'd hurt her. But if we can coax her out bit by bit, maybe she'll start sticking around longer. Like chipping away at something, instead of dropping it and breaking it.
week 3, monday
crow's scoping out the labs, despite not being the most sciency of people, and he lifts a hand to wave at kon when he spots him. ]
Having fun?
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Leo, Futaba, and Ichinose are going to lose their minds if they haven't seen this yet, so, yeah.
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[ he's going to wander over and lean on the counter so he can watch what kon's doing. ]
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[ look at all these parts... what will he do... ]
What kind of friend is that?
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[ ah. ]
A real techy guy. Always messing with orbal tech, building something, doing maintenance on something else. Turns out he was way more involved with inventing than any of us realised but--
[ oops. i dropped this memshare (battle covers 2:04 to 6:00, and can be skipped). ]
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[ but.
look at this straight up RPG shit. kon is losing his mind that this is a memory that's being presented to him, by whatever the ghosts of winter week two are putting them through. but he's also standing there stupidly, for a beat after it fades.
before there's a very startled laugh. ]
Oh. [ He Sees. ] That kind of friend.
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A what kind of friend?
[ don’t play bullshit with him. neither of them know they’re married ]
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[ the people that are in their dorm, mostly.
also, that was some pride month married behavior, but he won't point it out. (it's now pride WRATH as of this tag, anyways.) ]