Jun 20 17:27:02 <SpookyBee>	-Claimeth-
Jun 20 17:33:51 <Knave>	A soft buzzing accompanies a gentle, tuneful whistle into Fifth Sanctum's indoor pool area, along with the tap tap of boots on tile. Callum emerges in jeans and a t-shirt from outside, looking around as if seeking something and followed by a robotic bug, hovering in the air behind him and watching him intently.
Jun 20 17:35:17 <SpookyBee>	In the pool area is Nora, clad in a black, skull-patterned bikini! She's got a pair of aviator sunglasses on, and flip-flops! "Goooooood afternoon~!"
Jun 20 17:39:32 <Knave>	"Hey," Callum says softly, waving a hand and furrowing his brow as he thinks, indicating her with an open palm, "Have we met? You look familiar."
Jun 20 17:40:44 <SpookyBee>	"... Do I now? Lovely ta 'ear it..." She grins, then looks at the little bug. "... Your name's Callum right? Saw you at the christmas party, I think."
Jun 20 17:42:34 <Knave>	Callum crosses the distance to her, extending a hand, blushing softly at the memory of the party. Cass was very loud. "Yes. That's me. Sorry, I don't think I caught your name."
Jun 20 17:44:36 <SpookyBee>	"Name's Nora..." She grins, then looks to the bot. This was Cass' boyfriend... Perfect. There's a bit of a 'zap' sound and Callum might feel a little static shock, as the room is filled with electromagnetic energy- Short-circuting the spybot... Nora was smart. And out to win this war.
Jun 20 17:47:35 <Knave>	Callum looks round as the bug drops out of the air and onto the floor, and his shoulders droop, "Aw, gosh dang..." He scoops the thing up, "I should probably run this back to Cass to get fixed." He says, mostly to himself, still down on one knee. He looks back to Nora and gets up again, "Sorry, nice to meet you properly, but..." He lifts up the bug.
Jun 20 17:48:38 <SpookyBee>	"... You in a rush? I won't take up much of your time, Call, I promise..." Nora's grin turns into a sweet, rather lovely smile.
Jun 20 17:50:12 <Knave>	"Well, not exactly." He says, pained and glancing the way he came, "But Jimmy's meant to be watching me. I don't know what knocked him out, but I don't want to spend too much time without his eye on me." He looks apologetic and fretful, which is almost comedically boyish on his mountain of a frame.
Jun 20 17:51:26 <SpookyBee>	"Oh come ooooon... Just take a short dip with me~" She chuckles. "I need a racing partner, anyways!"
Jun 20 17:53:32 <Knave>	"I, uh, I don't really swim, actually." He glances bashfully at the pool, "And I didn't bring a swimsuit. I only came here to look for-" He hesitates for a moment, "Something."
Jun 20 17:54:48 <SpookyBee>	"Ooooh please! I'm /sure/ there's a swimsuit in here somewhere you could borrow, riiight? I could teach you, too! I'm a great swimmer. I was the one nerd on the school swim team in middleschool."
Jun 20 17:56:29 <Knave>	"I /really/ don't have time. Sorry." He grows increasingly distressed and fidgety with each passing moment, and gives a weak smile, "Some other time, maybe?"
Jun 20 17:58:28 <SpookyBee>	"Soooo lame... You're SO lame!" She waves her hands, hopping a little, with a rather... Bouncy effect. "Awe fine... Want my number, then?"
Jun 20 17:59:55 <Knave>	"That's me." He concedes with a little smile, settling down in place, "Yeah. If you really want a swimming partner, I'm happy to oblige, just-" He looks with puppyish concern at the fallen bug in his big hand before pulling out his phone, "Not right now."
Jun 20 18:00:45 <SpookyBee>	"I'm /suuure/ it's fine... Anyone as... Technologically savvy as Cass is SURE to get that little thing up'n runnin' again!" She grins, and walks over to her pile of clothes, retrieving her phone!
Jun 20 18:02:32 <Knave>	He shrugs, "They have spares anyway, just..." His mouth pulls to one side with cartoonish worry, "It's meant to be keeping an eye on me. Actually..." He looks down at the phone in his hand with a shrug, "I guess I could just get Cass to send a replacement down..."
Jun 20 18:03:44 <SpookyBee>	"... Suuure! Maybe we could get some swimmin' in then... Yeah?"
Jun 20 18:06:44 <Knave>	"Yeah." He says as he taps away at his phone, and then "Okay, they're sending down another bug." He sets the one in his hands down at the side of the pool, "Sorry Jimmy, you wait here a little while, okay?" Then he returns his attention to Nora, "Don't mind if I go hunting for a pair of trunks, do you?"
Jun 20 18:08:02 <SpookyBee>	"Cool beans~" She grins, and shakes her head! "Naaah not at all! I'll be here~"
Jun 20 18:10:29 <Knave>	Callum disappears into the changing rooms, and emerges a few minutes later wearing just a pair of Sanctum-owned trunks, regrettably tight around his muscular frame. His return is met with the arrival of a new, hovering bug which speeds up to him once he's in sight, "Hey. Enjoy the view." He smiles, then turns red and looks at Nora, "I was... talking to the camera. Not you." He looks off to one side, bashful,
Jun 20 18:10:29 <Knave>	"I've been spending too much time with Jimmy."
Jun 20 18:13:49 <SpookyBee>	Nora grins wide, and before he gets to the 'not you', she responds with "I am..."
Jun 20 18:16:52 <Knave>	This only causes his blush to intensify and spread across his nose and out to his ears. He rubs the back of his neck, eyes cast down, "Let's just get on to it, shall we?"
Jun 20 18:17:37 <SpookyBee>	"Aaaaabsolutely!" She nods, then proceeds to do a backwards dive into the pool!
Jun 20 18:18:47 <Knave>	Callum doesn't have any appetite for grandstanding - he just swings himself in over the pool edge.
Jun 20 18:19:32 <SpookyBee>	Nora swims just under the surface, her back spines jutting from the water like some kind of demon-monster-shark.
Jun 20 18:21:41 <Knave>	Callum's been here long enough that a demon-monster-shark isn't any kind of a shock to the system. Treading water, he watches Nora with mild amusement.
Jun 20 18:22:35 <SpookyBee>	She surfaces, making a joke 'RAWWWWR' sound, swimming towards him!
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Jun 20 18:24:25 <Knave>	Callum just chuckles, moving to one side along the edge of the pool as Nora comes up to him.
Jun 20 18:24:59 <SpookyBee>	"Sooooooo... What do /you/ like to do around here, my musclebound friend?"
Jun 20 18:25:07 <SpookyBee>	She floats about all fun-like!
Jun 20 18:26:40 <Knave>	Callum floats awkwardly, with special attention paid to keeping distance, "I don't know, I mostly just read. Jog. There kind of isn't much /to/ do. What about you?"
Jun 20 18:27:40 <SpookyBee>	"I work out in the gym a lot, aaand... Hang out with my friends, too... You don't do any of that? Sounds /suuuper/ borin'!"
Jun 20 18:28:25 <Knave>	"I, uh..." Callum looks around the room, "I hang out with Cass, mostly."
Jun 20 18:29:15 <SpookyBee>	"... Really? Well... Can't be /that/ excitin', right? Hang out with the same person long enough and... It gets a bit stale I imagine... Just like a lot of, uh... Other things."
Jun 20 18:31:13 <Knave>	Callum smiles gently, "Cass is very exciting." He glides around the pool backwards, "Anyway, I do hang out with other people. Just mostly Cass."
Jun 20 18:32:27 <SpookyBee>	"... But no fun? No parties, no workin' out? I imagine a kid of ye'r build must lift what... Two-fourty?" She backpaddles happily, watching him.
Jun 20 18:33:10 <Knave>	"I, uh, don't really keep track." He says, absently, then shortly after adds, "I lifted a ferris wheel once."
Jun 20 18:33:50 <SpookyBee>	"... A /ferris wheel/?" Her eyes widen. "Uh... Damn- Superman much?"
Jun 20 18:34:19 <Knave>	He stops in place, and looks at Nora seriously, "Please don't call me that."
Jun 20 18:35:00 <SpookyBee>	"... What? I mean, he's got super strength, right?"
Jun 20 18:35:55 <Knave>	"Yes." He says, resting against the edge of the pool, eyes closed, "Just please don't, okay?"
Jun 20 18:36:26 <SpookyBee>	"... Kay then, I'll respect ya. You know, my friends used to call me 'thunderthighs' before I came here? After I... Mutated. Of course."
Jun 20 18:37:19 <Knave>	"Yeah?" He looks at her with mild curiosity, "Why's that?"
Jun 20 18:37:45 <SpookyBee>	"I mean first off- My legs are ten-out-of-ten. Second, I can shoot lightning from my body."
Jun 20 18:38:55 <Knave>	"Oh." He says, "That makes sense, I guess." Then he returns to his gentle gliding.
Jun 20 18:39:45 <SpookyBee>	She sighs, and relaxes as she continues to float. "... So... What's your thing? Other than, like... The superstrength?"
Jun 20 18:40:33 <Knave>	"I don't get hurt easy." He says casually, floating on his back, eyes closed, "And I got some kind of... thing, where I can sorta sense how people are feeling, sometimes."
Jun 20 18:42:02 <SpookyBee>	"... Can you tell how /I'm/ feelin'?"
Jun 20 18:43:12 *	ChanServ gives channel operator status to Kioku
Jun 20 18:44:10 <Knave>	`calc 4d3-8+1
Jun 20 18:44:10 <GameServ>	4d3-8+1 = 4
Jun 20 18:45:11 <SpookyBee>	"Actually... Don't tell me..." She twizzles. "I'd rather not know if you can read my feels..."
Jun 20 18:45:47 <Knave>	He briefly squints in concentration, then stops, "Sure. I'm not really very good at it anyway. Not when I'm trying to be."
Jun 20 18:46:20 <SpookyBee>	"Eh, you'll learn!" She shrugs, and flips a onto her back!
Jun 20 18:47:42 <Knave>	"Sure." He says blankly, going back to aimless floating.
Jun 20 18:48:24 <SpookyBee>	"... You don't sound to hopeful." Nora drifts over, tilting her head. Her aviators reflect his face, giving no inclination to her true expression.
Jun 20 18:49:46 <Knave>	He attempts to shrug, and just ends up accidentally splashing a little. He tilts his head right back, "I dunno. I'm just... not all that smart with stuff like that."
Jun 20 18:51:06 <SpookyBee>	"I mean ye'r not gonna get anywhere if ya don't try, Call." Nora readjusts, floating upright. Oh yes, she has a pair of horns jutting from her skull! She'd mutated further a week ago, changing her body moreso than the last time he'd seen her. "Like... You jus' gotta try, man."
Jun 20 18:52:33 <Knave>	"I know." He says with mild irritation, like a child being told he needs to get out of bed before school, "I know."
Jun 20 18:53:46 <SpookyBee>	Nora grumbles, her eyes flaring a little. This wasn't going very well... "... Why're you like this?"
Jun 20 18:54:56 <Knave>	He straightens up in the water, brow furrowing, "Like what?"
Jun 20 18:55:55 <SpookyBee>	"Just... Defensive, I guess... I was jus' trying to be supportive is all." She shrugs.
Jun 20 18:57:04 <Knave>	"Sorry." His mouth pulls to one side, "Just... I don't know. Sorry. Don't mean to be." He rolls his shoulders uncomfortably.
Jun 20 18:57:40 <SpookyBee>	"... It's fine. I mean... I dunno, I guess I just say what I feel like people need 'er somethin'. I'm not good at bein' supportive, but i'm trying."
Jun 20 18:59:00 <Knave>	"Thanks." He smiles weakly, then pulls himself up to sit on the edge of the pool, "You're doing fine."
Jun 20 18:59:27 <SpookyBee>	"Oh, uh... Thanks I guess." Nora smiles back! She ends up pulling herself up afte a moment, then lies back on the deck.
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Jun 20 19:01:55 <Knave>	"I appreciate that you're honest and you're trying." Callum says, "I mean, it's nice to see people being genuine and not just... y'know, rude."
Jun 20 19:02:39 <SpookyBee>	"... People are really like that to you?"
Jun 20 19:03:38 <Knave>	"Not really, no. People here are real nice." He looks down at her, with a smile, "I just think sometimes people hold back about how they feel."
Jun 20 19:04:53 <SpookyBee>	"Oh, yeah... I guess... People like me, though. So I've not realy run into that kind'a stuff."
Jun 20 19:05:51 <Knave>	Callum nods slowly, and looks around, "I should probably get going."
Jun 20 19:07:06 <SpookyBee>	"... Oh, uh... Okay then. Bye, I guess." Nora sighs, nodding.
Jun 20 19:08:33 <Knave>	"It was nice meeting you properly. I'll see you around." He smiles warmly to her as he gets up with a wave.
Jun 20 19:09:10 <SpookyBee>	"See ya later." She waves back!
Jun 20 19:09:42 <Knave>	Callum scoops up the fallen body of Jimmy the bug and heads into the changing rooms, replacement bug in tow.
Jun 20 19:11:49 <SpookyBee>	-Scene met properly-