May 10 23:48:25 <Knave>	"Doo doo dadoo do-doo..." is the sound of Austin noodling on his ukulele, perched on the fence of the gazebo recently teleported from its place in Pennsylvania to the Fifth Sanctum courtyard. His aimless singing is actually a lot less tuneless and horrid than his ukulele playing. Eyes closed, he appears to be in his own world.
May 10 23:50:58 <Nemi>	Tuneless and horrid musicianship and aimless singing. Now that's just upsetting. So Austin'd probably find a tall blonde girl in shorts and a blue Sanctum hoodie standing not far away, arms folded and staring at him in bemusement. ".. heeeeey what're you playin'? It sounds terrible." The voice is high and soft, though the intonation is a little grumpier despite the sing-song accent with the purred consonants.
May 10 23:53:24 <Knave>	Austin glances up, and can't seem to stop himself from the double-take before he reminds himself that he is emphatically not single, clearing his throat. "Just singing a little something for the gazebo." He pats the gazebo's support gently, "She doesn't complain."
May 10 23:55:02 <Nemi>	The stranger cants their head to one side a moment, green eyes going from Austin to the wood and back again. ".. huh. Well- I uh, I like ya enthusiasm. Ya ever play ukes before really? Or ya just learnin' or what?" Seems this girl's embarassed at having been grouchy and is trying to- no, maybe they just don't go grouchy for long very well.
May 10 23:56:36 <Knave>	Austin shrugs, "I don't do well with learning. I just kinda..." He strumes aimlessly, "That."
May 11 00:00:43 <Nemi>	".. well, at least ya can make sure the thing's in tune. C'mon, ya wan' me to show ya or you can do it yourself or..? Oh, uh, also, name's Andrey. I do music stuff so yah, probably being a big asshole by making big deal of this and everything."
May 11 00:03:03 <Knave>	Austin offers the ukulele to Andrey, holding it by the bottom of the body, "Be my guest. I'm Austin." His gives an easy, warm smile to indicate it doesn't bother him.
May 11 00:05:02 <Nemi>	"Aight, cool.. Lemme see-" Andrey takes the UKES in hand, almost reverently (for a twenty dollar instrument, anyway), and carefully demonstrates to Austin. Turn a knob there, strum the string, turn, strum.. "Ya want it soundin' like this, basically. You get it? Ukelele isn't too precise since is mostly a for-fun kinda thing, even if there's big serious people playing it, but ya want it mostly in tune too." Andrey offers it back!
May 11 00:06:13 <Knave>	"Thanks." His smile drags lopsided up his left cheek as he takes the ukulele back, "Her name's Lucille, by the way." He pats the body of the uke and strums it lightly.
May 11 00:08:25 <Nemi>	It sounds /so/ much better. Andrey, meanwhile, grabs the edge of the fence and hops up beside him, giving a sort of lopsided grin in mirror to Austin's. "Ya named her? That's sweet. Nice name, too. I uh- I got two guitars, they got names too.. Not tellin' just anybody them though."
May 11 00:13:27 <Knave>	"Oh, they're secret names?" Austin's grin grows conspiratorial, and he pulls up his legs, crossed just under the top bar of the railing, "How come? Mystical power? Secret codes?" He tilts his head, "Are they embarrassing?"
May 11 00:14:42 <Nemi>	Andrey too crosses legs, possibly just to keep the chill away. Shorts and winter. Why'd you do that, Andrey? ".. well- okay, maybe it's the embarassing part or maybe I just want to be all tantalizing and make you wonder and not tell you so it bugs you forever." Andrey's grin goes cheeky as he rests her hands on his knees, keeping balance well enough.
May 11 00:18:17 <Knave>	Austin shifts and leans back against the gazebo's support, holding Lucille in one hand and putting the other forearm behind his head. "Don't count on bugging me. I'm a very hard man to bug."
May 11 00:20:05 <Nemi>	Andrey mirrors the motion. Support beams make good backrests, even if it means the rest of you hangs off the edge at a strange angle. Doesn't seem to bother the Finn any. "Yah sure? I mean, I don't bug people lots but you look kinda like person I'd wanna bug maybe."
May 11 00:25:38 <Knave>	"Many have tried, and they have all failed." Austin says with a satisfied smile, "Life's too nice and too short to spend it getting irritated, amigo."
May 11 00:27:13 <Nemi>	"Damn!" Andrey laughs aloud and puts a forearm behind his own head. The wind tousels gold hair, because it's wind and Andrey's is long enough. ".. like ya way of thinking, though. 's a real good way of thinking."
May 11 00:28:59 <Knave>	"It works for me." Austin shrugs one shoulder, then turns his head to send his eyes around the inside of the gazebo, "Man, can you believe they brought this old thing? March hundreds of us through fairyland, but this thing gets brought by magic."
May 11 00:30:46 <Nemi>	".. yah, I know, was here and.. Hope they brought the portal thing to get to the island. Lotsa stuff I loved that I really hope they brought with. Island was my /favourite/ place- just cuz was so different uh, kinda sick of how cold it is here sometimes. I need my beach, ya know?" Andrey follows his gaze on in. ".. I gotta rebuild the sauna. Least they brought the Shrine too, that was a pain to make and I glad they did.. uuh, how long ya been here? Feel it's kinda weird I never met you."
May 11 00:32:34 <Knave>	"I'm a special case." Austin says, grinning at Andrey while his ego explodes out of his eyes, "I only recently got back from a six-month absence. It's not usually allowed, but, you know, the ol' Gee-trips let me come back as long as I promised not to make trouble."
May 11 00:33:48 <Nemi>	"Whaaaat, /seriously/? And you get back JUST in time for WARD to move everybody? Man, that's crazy.. What /happened/? Where'd you go?" Andrey's a LOT more interested now. The exploding ego probably helps.
May 11 00:35:03 <Knave>	"Pennsylvania." Austin admits with a little humble shrug, grin not fading, "I just wandered around doing not much of anything. When I got back they figured I was harmless enough to let back in. But yeah, I really picked my time. People started protesting, the GWNu had their uprising, we moved to Canada. Crazy."
May 11 00:36:46 <Nemi>	".. maaan if I just didn't freak the fuck out when my powers first happened I could still be /home/ right now, this's.. Man, timing, right?" Andrey similarly shrugs before up and hugging a knee to his chest. The other leg rests across the beam they're sitting on, almost reaching Austin. "Is it good bein' back? I just wanna go to town and get to do stuff I used to do again."
May 11 00:39:49 <Knave>	"Well, now everything's out and in the open with the supernatural, I wouldn't mind being out there doing my own thing, expect, y'know, I've got ties here now." /And nowhere else to go, of course./ He lets the arm behind him drop to his side and rolls his shoulders around, "But yeah, it's good being back. Nobody in the world like Sunnybrook students." He smiles.
May 11 00:40:59 <Nemi>	".. yah, I guess I got those too. I /really miss home/ though, I from Finland and like, city of Lahti is .. I miss the big city I guess. Too quiet and too, I'onno, here. Still.. I got friends here too so, yah, like ya said. Sunnybrook students." Andrey mirrors the smile.
May 11 00:42:14 <Knave>	"Never been to Finland." Austin says blithely, looking off at the sky, "Never been much of anywhere, really, but near as I can tell it's all very pretty."
May 11 00:45:34 <Nemi>	"Oh yah! Had all these great huge mountains outside, was awesome for skiing and hiking and stuff and.. we kinda not too far from stuff like that here, I guess, but town's just not.. big and busy enough. Brother and me used to go to music festivals like every weekend or something, was SO much to see and.. I'onno, kinda dull here even if people're awesome. Ya know when we can go outside
May 11 00:45:34 <Nemi>	into town and stuff? Or uh.. man until I got here never left Finland either. English still sucks ya can probably tell."
May 11 00:48:55 <Knave>	Austin's attention snaps to Andrey, one eyebrow raising slightly with inspiration, mouth opening while ideas form. Then he shakes his head back into the conversation, "It's not bad. I can understand you, that's what's important." He leans forward, "But you make a good point, when /are/ they gonna let us leave campus?" He pulls a notepad from his jacket pocket, "I write for the student paper, would you mind
May 11 00:48:55 <Knave>	giving a statement for an article about the continued lockdown? Student voice type of thing?"
May 11 00:50:01 <Nemi>	"What was that look for? And uh.. yah, sure." Andrey leans a little over, almost conspiratorially, perhaps picking up on the feel of the conversation. "Ya do? Oh, cool and uh- yah, sure, I can!"
May 11 00:51:53 <Knave>	"Just, uh," He produces a pen and waves it around over his notepad, "Try to give me a summary of how you feel being stuck here on campus. Do you think it's fair? Or reasonable?"
May 11 00:53:54 <Nemi>	"Oh! Uh.. Yah, sure." Andrey clears throat. ".. hokay, so, I get that stuff in world is kind of going crazy but if this time is supposed to be safe haven for us.. It's been a week, what's taking so long? Why're we stuck in here with all that outside? I wanna go and get actual food and see people and .. Just.. You know, do the things they have us expecting we be able to do! What's taking so long?"
May 11 00:55:04 <Knave>	"Beautiful." Austin smiles as he finishes scribbling the words down, "Do you mind me quoting you by name? Or do you have a preferred pseudonym?"
May 11 00:55:49 <Nemi>	"I uhh.." Andrey blinks, then shrugs. "Name's fine. I uh, don't have a pseudonym, whatever that is."
May 11 00:56:53 <Knave>	"Andrey, right?" He jots it down under the quote, "Do you have a surname, or just the one, like..." He blanks briefly on celebrities with one name, then finishes, "Cher?"
May 11 00:59:18 <Nemi>	".. what? I uh- Maijala, that's last name. Who's Cher?"
May 11 01:00:45 <Knave>	"She..." Austin's open mouth goes through movements while, again, he struggles for what should be a simple explanation, "She did singing. In the 80s, I think." He returns his eyes to the notepad, "Mai... I'm gonna need you to spell that."
May 11 01:04:58 <Nemi>	"Oh, yah? Weird, never h- oh, that's why, that's OLD TIMES." Andrey settles back into that easy position from earlier, knee up and arms hugging it. "That's Em ay ai yay ay ell ay." Andrey seems to have trouble actually pronouncing 'j' sounds. They all end up as 'y's.
May 11 01:08:12 <Knave>	Austin just about manages, and shows Andrey the notepad to confirm the spelling, "That right?"
May 11 01:09:28 <Nemi>	Andrey looks, but doesn't /really/ look, and instead just offers a thumbs-up.
May 11 01:11:12 <Knave>	"Excellent." He snaps the notepad shut and slips it back into his pocket, spinning the pen in his hand and sliding it behind his ear, "These are the questions we need to be asking, Andrey."
May 11 01:12:17 <Nemi>	"They are? Like.. We should ask 'what's taking so long'?"
May 11 01:13:31 <Knave>	"Exactly!" Austin says with undeterred enthusiasm, "They've told us they're a better solution, but what have they done, except move us to Canada?"
May 11 01:14:22 <Nemi>	".. well, I mean, they let me Skype and video chat with my mom and dad and brother and sister so that is one big thing I like."
May 11 01:15:23 <Knave>	The wince is very slight, and the smile barely falters. "Well, sure. There's that. That's... good."
May 11 01:16:18 <Nemi>	Andrey, however, is pretty quick to pick up on things. Andrey frowns and shifts the knee to obscure himself. ".. sorry, shouldn'ta said anything."
May 11 01:17:12 <Knave>	"No, no, don't worry about it." He waves a hand wildly in front of him, shaking his head slightly, "It's fine, really. I'm the asshole for forgetting they let people do that. It's good. Really."
May 11 01:17:52 <Nemi>	"I uh.. okay. Anyway, uh, you wanna get together, play sometime? I think uh, I better be headin' inside, it's kinda.. not wearin' enough to sit in the cold like this."
May 11 01:19:33 <Knave>	"I'm pretty sure I'm not up to your level, but if you don't mind, I'm down to jam." Austin smiles brightly, giving a thumbs-up.
May 11 01:20:35 <Nemi>	Andrey grins and thumbs-up. "Is no big, jammin's just fun, ya know? Anyway I uh, I'll see ya later." Andrey neatly swivels to sitting and hops off the edge of the gazebo and out into that beautifully-composed campus green again.
May 11 01:21:09 <Knave>	Austin gives a casual salute and slides back in his perch, plucking lightly at his ukulele strings.
May 11 01:21:38 <Nemi>	Andrey waves over a shoulder before wandering off toward Andromeda hall and out of sight.
May 11 01:22:04 <Knave>	-scene tuned-