Start of #Exalted buffer: Thu Jan 11 20:07:30 2007 [17:16:12] * It's been several days since the meeting with Walter, and it's midmorning on Saturday. Outside the rooms, the sounds of movement can be heard, and it seems that the bulk of the student body is beginning to wake up and get ready for the weekend. [17:19:19] * Matt_Wright knocks on Hisame's door. [17:20:39] * Hisame opens the door, rubbing an eye and yawning. "Ah? Hello. Good morning." [17:21:02] * Matt_Wright is fully dressed and wide awake. [17:21:34] "Heya. The cafeiteria just opened for breakfast, wanted to know if you ate already." [17:25:32] Ah, not yet... [17:26:07] ( http://demota.sandwich.net/mh3 [17:26:10] That would be good, though [17:26:36] * Karen_C hasn't been seen much since the meeting with Walter, unless you've been to the library in which case you'd probably see her quite frequently. Outside of classes, she's spent the majority of her time reading or on her computer. [17:27:01] Have you seen Karen? [17:28:17] Her room's on the way. [17:28:39] Sorry about waking you up, I've been up for a bit. [17:29:25] Ah... okay. [17:29:33] * Hisame waves bye to her roommate and moves along [17:30:03] So, nothing weird happen to you since talking with Walter? [17:31:39] Nothing very strange, no... [17:32:19] Yeah it's been pretty quiet lately. [17:32:29] Maybe they finally got those seals working right. [17:32:42] * Matt_Wright knocks on Karen's door. [17:33:05] * Hisame walks along. "What about you?" [17:33:29] Yeah, quiet for me too. [17:34:05] * Karen_C calls out a tired sounding "Yeah?" [17:35:39] Do you want breakfast? [17:36:02] Cafeteria just opened! [17:37:57] * Karen_C doesn't answer for a few seconds. There's a sound of bumping around, then "...oh geez, it's really morning." [17:38:58] Are you okay? [17:39:19] We can come by later. ^_^;; [17:42:11] * Karen_C opens the door. "I could use a break, I think." Her hair is a mess and her eyes are somewhat bloodshot. Behind her, you can see a stack of oddly neatly arranged empty soda cans near the computer. [17:43:35] K... Karen? [17:43:51] * Hisame blinks and her eyes widen. "Are you okay?" [17:45:19] * Karen_C shrugs. "I didn't sleep too well." [17:46:15] Up all night, huh? [17:46:24] You got a test that bad already? [17:46:36] * Hisame wrings her hands. "We can help you." [17:47:03] * Matt_Wright resists the urge to pat Hisame on the head and ruffle her hair. [17:47:55] ...something like that. [17:50:02] A break would be good, I think... if we can help in some way, please let us know. [17:51:50] Now, shall we go to breakfast? [17:52:57] * Karen_C nods. "Yeah, I guess." [17:53:29] * Hisame nods, then moves along [17:55:18] "Maybe you should get some sleep after you eat." [17:55:36] "Your mind needs time to rest after soaking in info." [17:56:05] * By this point, some of the kids who left earlier are returning. Vincent and a black girl are sitting on the couch, talking quietly, though Vincent is using exaggerated hand motions. Nearly a dozen identically-dressed students file their way down the hall, each carrying a plastic-wrapped plate with scrambled eggs, two sausage links, and a muffin. They head into the meeting room as you get to the stairs that lead to the lobby. [17:56:07] * Hisame nods. [17:56:40] * Hisame blinks, paying a little extra attention to Vincent and the girl out of surprise, then moves on towards the food. [17:56:47] (The couch in the television lounge, rather) [17:56:57] * Karen_C follows slowly. [17:57:37] * Karen_C watches the identically dressed students, frowning a little. [17:58:24] * Matt_Wright suppresses an eyeroll at Vincent. [17:59:51] * Charles (~CharlesHB@dsl2-161.gsinet.net) Quit (Ping timeout) [18:00:14] ( oh dammit ) [18:00:40] * Charles (~CharlesHB@dsl2-161.gsinet.net) has joined #Exalted [18:03:15] The muffin looks good... [18:04:15] * The lobby is more congested than usual, and a stack of papers is by the doors on a folding table. On the way out, you notice that it's started to get cold, and the winds have begun picking up. The school buildings seem to make an artificial wind tunnel, and some of the lighter students in the quad seem to have trouble making it through. [18:05:31] * Matt_Wright is appropriately dressed for the weather. [18:06:50] * Hisame has dressed up in a parka-ish thing. [18:08:00] * Karen_C is not remotely dressed for the weather, just wearing a light jacket and a sweater. [18:09:24] You gonna be alright Karen? It's pretty bad out there. [18:11:39] I'll manage. [18:13:25] * Matt_Wright shrugs and nods holding the door open for his friends. [18:13:39] * Hisame walks along. "What have you been reading?" [18:14:29] * The cafeteria's fairly noisy. The serving stations are walled off, and a turnstile is in the entrance to them. The line's shortened to the point where there's not much outside the stations, as most of the students are already eating or back in the dorms. [18:14:31] re [18:14:48] ( Hey. ) [18:15:12] (oops, my bad:) [18:15:53] "Yeah, looked like you were up for two days straight judging by the great wall of soda on your desk." [18:16:43] * Karen_C looks down, grumbling a little. "It wasn't anything useful." [18:17:31] (what game is?) [18:17:39] "Light cores through central chakras?" [18:18:49] ( MH. We've only got three players right now, though. It doesn't stand for anything. It's supernatural kids in a school. And there's Bad Stuff. ) [18:19:07] (I thought it stood for Magic High) [18:20:04] (Nope!) [18:20:06] * Hisame looks curious. [18:23:51] "Or was that heart chakras...." [18:24:15] "Either way, yeah, the internet is a horrible resource for any real supernatural research." [18:24:23] (ahh, cool) [18:24:29] (what system?) [18:24:38] "You'll only get scientology and fanfiction." [18:25:06] ( Tri-stat dx. Pretty simple. ) [18:27:44] (ahh, heard of) [18:30:10] ( Is anything going to happen other than Matt and Hisame going back and forth? ) [18:30:31] (That was actually directed at Karen.) [18:30:53] (And her remark about not finding anything useful. Relating his own internet search experience.) [18:31:25] (Yeah, I was sort of waiting for Karen to divulge what she'd found.) [18:31:58] ( Well, she seems to have found 3 pics on danbooru and 2 models. :V ) [18:32:33] (Karen isn't planning to divulge shit.) [18:33:06] ( So... end of session,t ehn? I can't think of any way to progress right now. ) [18:33:39] (She's not even going to comment on Matt's experiences?) [18:34:21] (Matt knocked on her door with the pretenses of friendship. If she never replies to anything he says, I doubt he would have invited her to breakfast.) [18:34:53] * Karen_C looks annoyed. Well, more annoyed. "I know how to look for what I'm looking for. And I used the library too." [18:34:59] * You get through the lines, get breakfast, and pay for them with your IDs. There's a free table over in the corner of the lunchroom, most of the rest of the student body grouped tightly into cliques. [18:35:48] * Matt_Wright shrugs. "Maybe you can help me out then." [18:36:05] "After you get some sleep and take care of your stuff, that is." [18:38:33] Maybe. [18:40:10] * Hisame eats her meal appreciatively. She seems to enjoy it a bit more than she should be. [18:41:06] * Matt_Wright pours ketchup on his scrabbles eggs and makes a sandwhich out of it and two slices of toast. [18:43:00] Mmm... [18:44:25] * Karen_C wolfs her food down. [18:44:34] * After a few minutes of awkward, quiet eating, a Japanese girl of medium height approaches the table. She's wearing a bomber jacket over a dark blue t-shirt with a cartoon character that nobody recognizes, and a pair of black and grey camoflague pants. Her hair's spiked up down the middle of her head in a sort of fake-mohawk hairstyle. She waves at Hisame. "Hey, mind if I sit? I can't quite find anywhere else." [18:44:40] Ah, sure. [18:45:08] Matt, Karen, this is Jessica, my roommate. [18:45:30] * Matt_Wright waves. "Hey there Jessica." [18:46:44] * Karen_C looks up, managing a smile. "Hi." [18:49:30] (Quick question: Have we "met" Jessica before? In her inanimate form?) [18:49:31] * She waves in an abbreviated fashion and holds out her hand. "Hey, Jessica Saru. Were-umbrella." She smiles in an embarassed way. [18:49:58] (Unsure. Though karakasa are animate when they look like an umbrella. Hisame might have used her on a previous rainy day.) [18:50:08] ( I don't think you have. ) [18:50:10] ...Heh. And people look at me like I have three heads when I asked Peter if he was a were-bull. [18:50:51] I'm Matt Wright, uh.. were-something... Not sure what. >_>;; [18:51:43] ( were-lawyer ) [18:53:23] * She picks through her plate, with a muffin, a hash brown stick, and two bananas and begins cutting things apart methodically. "What's going on, anyways? Things've been pretty quiet with you guys since the fake snow a few weeks ago." [18:54:02] Ah... sorry about that. There was a strange shared dream, and I wanted to find out what it meant... [18:54:31] "Yeah, nothing's come after one of us in a while. I think those seals they keep going on about finally started working right." [18:55:27] * Hisame nods. [18:57:15] How have you been, Jessica? [18:59:27] * She shrugs. "Not much. The first bus to Boston doesn't head out for a half-hour, and then I need to find some cheap books to bring to the Literacy Fest. Same old." [18:59:35] * Hisame nods. [18:59:51] "Literacy Fest?" [19:00:16] What is that? [19:02:45] * Her voice takes on a slightly more excited tone, and she leans in over the table. A slight lisp becomes noticable. "Well, there's this club out in the city that's in some weird guy's basement. Can't say I ever caught his name, sort of eastern European, I think. Some of the best acts you'll ever see, but to get in, you need to bring in some book he doesn't have." [19:03:24] * She smiles. "It's kind of a scavenger hunt. One time I got punched by a skinhead over a first edition of Oliver Twist for twenty dollars, and it turns out he already had it." [19:03:41] * Hisame blinks. [19:03:44] P-punched? [19:04:15] That sounds dangerous... and strange. [19:04:30] * Matt_Wright blinks. [19:04:36] "Thats one hardcore book club." [19:04:55] "What do you mean acts?" [19:05:44] * Karen_C just looks at Jessica blankly. [19:06:41] * "Oh, you know. Music, performance art, that sort of thing. Not much local. He tends to get these really abstract weird-shit bands from all over the place. And, uh, some ascetic couple that breathed each others' air for maybe thirty minutes once until they both passed out. It was intense." [19:07:20] "Breathed each others... wah?" [19:07:26] * Matt_Wright looks really confused. [19:08:44] * "They were kissing, and they had their noses blocked off, and they just kept inhaling and exhaling until they fell down." She pauses. "It symbolized unsustainable cycles, I think." She pauses again. "Or brain damage." [19:09:05] * Matt_Wright laughs. [19:09:08] @_@ [19:09:51] "And you have to bring a new book each time you want to go?" [19:10:32] * Karen_C rubs her forehead. [19:10:51] * Charles nods. "It's a little harder each time." [19:10:56] (Whoops) [19:11:56] That sounds difficult to get into. [19:12:01] "I've got a copy of The Art of War in my room, you can try and use that if you want." [19:12:22] "I've got another version of the translation at home." [19:13:04] Ah? I am not so sure about taking any books that would be difficult to find. [19:13:57] * "What edition and translator? And it's not as hard as you'd think. Not as many people try as used to." [19:14:30] Huh... [19:14:32] "Ah, I dunno, I'll have to check. It's one of the newer ones, I think." [19:14:43] (*browses amazon*) [19:14:49] * She looks up. "Hey, would you guys be interested in going? I mean, not to sound like a stalker, but ever since the first few weeks, you've really been nowhere but on campus." [19:15:36] "Yeah... Karen's friend tried to stab me in a past life. Long story..." [19:16:26] It might be good to get out, I suppose, though the story about the person who attacked you makes me worry [19:17:15] * "Ah, it's all in good fun. And I kind of bit him first, so I should have been watching out for that." [19:17:36] "Note to self, don't bite the racists." [19:18:04] Bit him? o.o [19:18:21] "So you think the Art of War could get me in?" [19:20:00] It is an awfully well-known book... [19:21:02] * She shrugs. "I don't know. With all the editions and translators, it's a bit of a crapshoot. Usually I try to hit the used bookstores in the afternoon and find whatever weird-shit books they've got in back. Last year I got in with "On the Movement and Subjugation of the Plane(t)s" by some post-hippie bong wizard, and I found that in Harvard Square [19:21:34] This is true. [19:21:44] (Planes?) [19:22:05] It will be good to spend some relaxation time with you [19:22:18] ...heh. [19:23:30] (Plane(t)s. She made little air quotes and enunciated the 't' sound) [19:24:15] "Yeah, maybe I should test the waters and leave campus. Sounds like a night to remember if nothing else." [19:24:49] Karen, what do you think? [19:27:13] * Karen_C leans back in her chair. "I...guess. I'm not sure how much luck I'd have finding a book he doesn't have though." [19:28:56] I have some from home that I could rebuy easily. [19:33:07] "When is this thing, Jessica?" [19:33:23] * She nods. "Might want to lend it to Karen. She doesn't really look up to the scavenger hunt." She looks up at Karen. "If you want, you could sleep at my parents' apartment while we're hitting the resellers. You look like shit." [19:33:48] * "He usually starts taking books at 8, show starts at 9." [19:37:40] * Karen_C winces a little, and sighs. "Yeah, I guess you've got a point." [19:38:04] Is this tonight, or another day? [19:39:17] * Emily (CharlesHBo@dsl2-161.gsinet.net) has joined #Exalted [19:40:10] * Charles (~CharlesHB@dsl2-161.gsinet.net) Quit (Ping timeout) [19:40:33] (I feel so bad for laughing at this, but seriously, laffo at there being something actually called moon writing) [19:40:39] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_type) [19:40:49] * Emily is now known as Charles [19:41:12] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Charles [19:41:28] * "It's tonight. We've got a few more hours until the buses start heading into town." [19:42:27] ("In more advanced forms of Moon Writing, the characters can represent individual sounds, parts of words, whole words or numbers." 'More advanced forms of Moon Writing' meaning 'Japanese' :V) [19:43:02] ... ah? So fast. [19:44:12] "Heh.. maybe I can hand over my math text book." [19:44:23] * She shrugs. "That's part of the challenge of it. I try not to even think of books until the day of the show." [19:44:47] * Hisame nods. [19:46:17] Where shall we meet before we go there? [19:46:33] * "How about the bus stop, before 12:15?" [19:47:30] That sounds good. [19:47:33] "Do the books have to be in english?" [19:49:01] * "I don't think so, though I never really tried it out." [19:49:48] * Matt_Wright ponders for a bit. [19:54:01] If not, I might have osme problems... where is this used bookstore? [19:55:44] * "Harvard Square's full of them." [19:56:05] * Hisame nods [19:58:25] ( We going to RP that out? Sliptime? ) [19:59:35] (I was thinking that sometime over the next week, we could have split minisessions for Karen with one and for the others with the second, then cover the show in the next session.) [19:59:53] ( Ah ) [20:00:02] Which would you reccomend? [20:00:06] (that sounds good, I'm nearly passing out) [20:00:12] Maybe we can use them for research too. [20:00:15] (We'll end here, then.) [20:00:48] ( Alrigh t) End of #Exalted buffer Thu Jan 11 20:07:30 2007