Sep 12 17:20:55 <Knave>	In the common room, Austin lounges flat on the couch, staring at the ceiling. From behind the only evidence of his presence are his sneakers resting on one arm rest and his arm dangling over the other. Every so often, an aimless whistle escapes his lips and fills the empty room for a moment.
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Sep 12 17:28:37 <SirGoldFish>	Sam enters the common room, still a little bit in the funk. She goes to snatch the remote and plop herself on the couch, changing the channel to FX. Sam while in a little better mood compared to yesterday, is still in a bad mood. She is wearing jeans and a shirt.
Sep 12 17:31:00 <Knave>	"Hey," Austin says absently as he scooches his legs out of the girl's way. He regards the TV for a moment, then turns his attention back to the girl, smiling blankly.
Sep 12 17:34:04 <SirGoldFish>	She stares at the boy for a few moments, looking him up and down as if looking for something. Sam licks her sharp set of teeth. "Hi.
Sep 12 17:34:26 <SirGoldFish>	" She says a bit coldly, returning to her TV.
Sep 12 17:35:15 <Knave>	Clearing his throat, Austin pulls himself up from his splayed slouch and rights himself so he's say facing the TV, rather than Sam, "So what're we watching?"
Sep 12 17:38:51 <SirGoldFish>	It seems to be some really dark thriller mystery about getting in the mind's of serial killers. "I don't know, some shit."
Sep 12 17:40:02 <Knave>	"Huh. I'm not much of a TV guy myself," Austin looks sidelong to Sam and offers his hand, "I'm Austin, by the way."
Sep 12 17:42:39 <SirGoldFish>	Sam looks at the hand for a few moments before finally deciding to shake it firm and quickly. "Name's Samantha but call me Sam."
Sep 12 17:43:32 <Knave>	"Sure thing, Sam." Austin smiles, "If you don't mind my asking, what're you in for? Sunnybrook, I mean, not the common room."
Sep 12 17:48:18 <SirGoldFish>	Sam licks her teeth. You think people would guess by now, seeing her pale skin and stitches. "Is it really not obvious?" She says, scratching her neck stitch.
Sep 12 17:50:26 <Knave>	"Well, it's not polite to make assumptions." Austin smiles amiably, and gives a little shrug, "And for all I know, you're just very clumsy."
Sep 12 17:53:15 <SirGoldFish>	Sam grits her teeth. In a quick motion, she pops off her head. "This." She shakes it around a bit so he knows that it's really off and she puts it back on. There were other reasons, but that was the most obvious.
Sep 12 17:55:29 <Knave>	"Impressive," Austin nods, smiling wider, then his face falls into concerned curiosity, "Does that not hurt?"
Sep 12 17:58:02 <SirGoldFish>	"It does not hurt at all." He answers the boy. "Just something my body does."
Sep 12 18:00:11 <Knave>	"Huh. Neat." Austin whistles quietly to himself as he scans around the room, "So, you been here long?"
Sep 12 18:02:15 <SirGoldFish>	"About two months or so, guessing you're new since I've not seen you in this dorm."
Sep 12 18:02:58 <Knave>	"You haven't?" Austin puts a hand to his chin, "Maybe I didn't put up enough posters...?"
Sep 12 18:05:33 <SirGoldFish>	"Meant I've not seen you around around. Honestly I did not know those posters were you until you mentioned it."
Sep 12 18:06:32 <Knave>	"Yup." Austin beams and gives a thumbs-up in imitation of his own doodles, before slumping back into the couch, "It's not really going so well though."
Sep 12 18:08:40 <SirGoldFish>	Sam shrugs. "You're new, that's why. Just wait awhile and it'll work out fine."
Sep 12 18:11:37 <SirGoldFish>	*wait till next month
Sep 12 18:11:59 <Knave>	"You're probably right." Austin nods along, slouching back into the cushions of the couch. He crosses his legs and puts his hands behind his head, focusing idly on the TV
Sep 12 18:22:14 <Complete_Zero>	A boy walks into the common room. He looks to be about 17 or 16 years of age. He has hazel colored eyes and short dark brown hair. The boy is dressed in a black zip-up hoodie with a white shirt underneath and blue jeans paired with white and black running shoes. He gazes around the room before taking a seat away from the others to read a magazine.
Sep 12 18:24:21 <SirGoldFish>	Sam waves at the new guy entering the room, looking him up and down before going back to watching TV. She's taken on a cool and even tempered attitude after talking to Austin, he seemed cool.
Sep 12 18:24:58 <Knave>	Austin glances at the new arrival, and returns his eyes to the TV for a second. Then, which a shake of his head and a brief exhale, he heaves himself from his seat and glides behind the couch and across the floor. Leaning on a table beside the boy, Austin takes on his broad, confident grin and peeks over the top of the magazine, "Hey."
Sep 12 18:31:25 <Complete_Zero>	The boy doesn't look amused. He lowers the magazine a bit to get a better look at Austin. "Greetings." He says in a somewhat placid voice. "Is there something you need from me?" He watches Austin, looking him up and down, waiting for an answer.
Sep 12 18:32:48 <Knave>	"I was just wondering if you'd taken the time to vote on dorm prefect yet?" Austin smiles, then offers his hand over the magazine, "Austin Silver."
Sep 12 18:33:51 <SirGoldFish>	Sam rolls her, already whoring for prefect. "Hey, new kid, name's Sam." She says idly, watching TV.
Sep 12 18:35:08 <Complete_Zero>	He looks at Austin, staring at him before giving him an answer. "Damien. And what is this 'dorm perfect' and why should I be interested in voting?" He glances at Sam, not giving any response before casting his gaze back at Austin.
Sep 12 18:36:38 <Knave>	"Just a student liaison to the staff, looking out for your interests and such." Austin shrugs while silently withdrawing his hand and running it through his hair, "And, I mean, you don't know me from Adam, but I have cool posters."
Sep 12 18:39:44 <SirGoldFish>	"It's sorta not important since they can't actually discipline students."
Sep 12 18:39:51 <Complete_Zero>	"I'm sure you do, Silvers." He flips a page in the magazine. "Not interested." Damien looks back down at the book, hoping he'd be left alone.
Sep 12 18:41:49 <Knave>	Austin shrugs. "If you're sure. Sorry to bother you." Austin thrusts his hands into his jacket pockets and, presumably for his own amusement, skates with exaggerated slowness across the floor, letting each short slide come almost to a stop before switching feet and pushing off again.
Sep 12 18:42:57 <Complete_Zero>	"Sliding. That's your... 'power', I take it?" He looks up again. He still hardly seems interested at all.
Sep 12 18:43:54 <SirGoldFish>	"THEY'RE ALL DEMONS!" Is what the psycho on the TV screams out. Sam continues to watch, idly listening into the conversation and taking glances at sildy boy.
Sep 12 18:44:28 <Knave>	"Pretty much." Austin turns on the spot to face him, still moving, sliding with both feet on the ground through Sam's field of vision and flopping inelegantly into his seat on couch.
Sep 12 18:46:32 <SirGoldFish>	"Damn man, sounds like you got the short stick when it comes to powers, man." Sam chuckles a little, honestly that does suck.
Sep 12 18:46:44 <Complete_Zero>	"Hm." He looks back down at his magazine, occasionally glancing up at the television set to see what was playing.
Sep 12 18:49:29 <SirGoldFish>	The TV is clearly from the perspective of a killer who sees everyone as monsters. Even the attractive female lead.
Sep 12 18:49:58 <Knave>	"You think so?" Austin cocks his head, grinning wryly, then gestures elaborately, "The Powers The Be have gifted me with the smoothest moves in the continental United States, and I for one feel truly blessed."
Sep 12 18:50:08 <Knave>	*The Powers That Be
Sep 12 18:52:54 <Complete_Zero>	Damien scoffs. Austin seems a little cocky to him. He flips another page in his magazine that appears to be about current events. He sighs and looks up at Sam. "And what about you? What is it you do, if I may ask?"
Sep 12 18:55:31 <SirGoldFish>	Sam scoffs, seriously this should not be hard, it's stupid obvious. She almost missed the frankenstein insults.  Seriously, this is not hard. "Half dead." She licks her sharp teeth and continues watching the show. Currently the female lead is trying to get through to the killer
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Sep 12 18:57:42 <Complete_Zero>	He stares and thinks. "I meant, what is it you /do/? It's quite obvious what you /are/." He lowers his magazine again. Honestly, it's like dealing with kids... oh, right.
Sep 12 19:01:11 <SirGoldFish>	Sam grits her teeth. Seriously fuck this guy. "Maybe you should just learn. All my powers or whatever the fuck you call them are sorta part of how I operate. What my body does." ~And some fuckery that my creator did~
Sep 12 19:02:03 <Knave>	Austin clears his throat, "What about you, D-Man? What's your deal?"
Sep 12 19:03:29 <Complete_Zero>	Damien crosses his legs. That is the last time he tries to make peaceful conversation. "I apologize if I offended you, Sam." He turns to Austin. "My 'deal'?" He asks, unsure of what he's asking.
Sep 12 19:05:33 <Knave>	"You know. Powers. Paranormality. Supernature." Austin's brain runs dry and he finishes, weakly, "Funky stuff."
Sep 12 19:07:14 <Complete_Zero>	"Well, my 'funky stuff' would be my ability to shift between the veil of reality. Among other things." He seems nonchalant as ever about this. So natural to him, as if he's had it for years beyond his age.
Sep 12 19:08:11 <SirGoldFish>	"Whatever it's fine. I just think it's kinda rude to ask about ablities like that honestly." She shrugs
Sep 12 19:08:25 <Knave>	Austin looks to Sam to see if she understood what Damien just said.
Sep 12 19:11:36 <Complete_Zero>	"Would you like for me to put it in simpler words?" He asks, still uncaring.
Sep 12 19:12:54 <Knave>	"Well, the words were simple enough..." Austin muses, gesticulating, "I mean, I understood all the words, individually. But what's the veil of reality? How can reality have a veil? What does it mean to shift between it?"
Sep 12 19:14:56 <SirGoldFish>	Sam just sorta hears blah blah blah from the new kid as he describers his powers. She opts to continue watching TV. currently the male lead is driving trying to chase down the killer who has a hostage.
Sep 12 19:16:03 <Complete_Zero>	He nods. placing the magazine down in his lap. "Let's see..." Damien thinks a moment and looks off to the side so ha may choose his words carefully. He looks back at Austin in the eyes. "The veil of reality is sort of like a wall between worlds. Think of it as a sort of... road block that doesn't allow normal people to pass into another dimension. I can
Sep 12 19:16:04 <Complete_Zero>	bypass that road block without being stopped."
Sep 12 19:17:19 <Knave>	"Oh. You can travel to parallel worlds. Why didn't you just say so?"
Sep 12 19:19:46 <Complete_Zero>	Damien shrugs. "Maybe I have lived for too long while trying to understand it. I tend to make things more complicated than it might seem."
Sep 12 19:20:17 <SirGoldFish>	Blah blah blah. Sam goes to get her pack of jerky and she starts eating a pack of jerky. "Yah well," she says with a full mouth. "Work on that."
Sep 12 19:22:32 <Knave>	"Forget complicated, you need to work on waxing poetical." Austin shakes his head, chuckling, "Honestly, veil of reality is no way to refer to hypertime."
Sep 12 19:23:36 <Complete_Zero>	"A veil is how it was described to me, it stuck."
Sep 12 19:27:19 <Knave>	Austin leans forward, intrigued, "Who described it to you? Did you have, like, a wise, ancient master teach you the ways of interdimensional travel?"
Sep 12 19:28:55 <Complete_Zero>	"Eh. No. It was a man I knew in the past. That's all." He thinks of a way to change the subject. "I can do other things, as well. Such as bend reality to some extent."
Sep 12 19:31:00 <SirGoldFish>	Blah blah, pretentious blah blah. Sam is clearly unimpressed a Dman, finding him a bit of a snore fest.
Sep 12 19:31:39 <Knave>	Austin turns to Sam with a smirk, "See, at least my power is easy to explain."
Sep 12 19:32:12 <Complete_Zero>	"I can summon a sword. Is that simple enough to explain?"
Sep 12 19:32:48 <Knave>	"Very straightforward." Austin points to Damien, "Lead with that in future."
Sep 12 19:33:52 <SirGoldFish>	"You know swordsmanship?" Sam asks, curious.
Sep 12 19:33:59 <Nemi>	There's a soft padding sound from the stairwell before one Madeline Maddox emerges. She looks, quite simply, like garbage. Eyes all red around the edges, hair a mess, expression vague and unfocused, drowning in one of her old far-too-huge hoodies that extend down to mid-thigh. It hides her shorts and makes it look like she's just got hoodie and socks. She's sort of hunched and tries to
Sep 12 19:33:59 <Nemi>	sneak through the far side of the Commons to the kitchen. Gotta eat something.. At least her legs aren't torn up and she's not covered in huge bruises anymore.
Sep 12 19:35:08 <Complete_Zero>	"It's not my primary power. But... I'll think about it." He looks at the back of his hand, then turns his head to Sam. "I do indeed." He says. "I like to think I'm quite adept at it." He looks at the Madeline walking in and gives a half-hearted wave to her.
Sep 12 19:35:50 <Nemi>	Mads tries very hard to pretend she didn't see him. It doesn't work. She makes a tiny wave. Just gotta get to the kitchen and-- oh god that's /Sam/ maybe she didn't see maybe..
Sep 12 19:36:26 <SirGoldFish>	Sam spots the sneaking Mads and is not all too pleased  by the sight of the girl, becoming actively uncomfortable but largely ignoring Maddy. "Uh," she turns to Dman. "We should like spar sometime. If you're looking for a challenge that is."
Sep 12 19:37:17 <Nemi>	Mads looks like shit enough-- and franky, hasn't been showing up at class or generally around /at all/ in the past few days-- that if she's Kat's latest conquest, it's clearly not anything to be enjoyed.
Sep 12 19:38:07 <Knave>	Austin watches Madeline with a look of concern, an uncharacteristic frown on his face.
Sep 12 19:39:08 <Complete_Zero>	He thinks about this offer for a bit. "Perhaps. I have not needed to summon Riftshatter for quite some time. It would be nice to exercise it." Damien really doesn't care about Madeline's look. To him, this may be normal, but the look of the others' faces seems to prove otherwise. He still doesn't acknowledge her.
Sep 12 19:39:57 <Nemi>	Mads disappears into the kitchen! There's the sound of pans and baking sheets clattering about, then drawers opening and the like. She's up to /something/.
Sep 12 19:41:04 <SirGoldFish>	Sam chuckles at the name 'rift bearer' "Man, now that's a name." Sam is instantly relived once Mads is gone. Now focussing on the hilarity of the named sword.
Sep 12 19:41:14 <Knave>	Getting up, Austin skates purposefully to the kitchen doors and busies himself looking into the fridge.
Sep 12 19:42:38 <Complete_Zero>	He shrugs, his facial expression unchanged."I did not name it. I have only heard legends of what it could do."
Sep 12 19:43:23 <Nemi>	Austin! Mads looks to be trying to figure out how to make.. cornbread. A lot of it. Something to ideally be calorie dense and last her a while of 'not going outside ever'. She's presently staring at a few boxes of Jiffy corn muffin mix-- the source she's planning on using-- in apparent confusion.
Sep 12 19:45:28 <Knave>	Leaning his arms on the fridge door, Austin pokes his head over and says, "Hey Madeline. What's up?"
Sep 12 19:45:33 <SirGoldFish>	"Well whoever the fuck named it must've had some liteary stiffy. And honestly, hearing you talk. Not convinced that you did not name it." Sam laughs a little
Sep 12 19:48:33 <Complete_Zero>	"None of the things that I have explained about my power has come directly from me. From who it came from doesn't matter. I haven't had any reason to call this by any other name, so I use what was given to me."
Sep 12 19:50:47 <SirGoldFish>	Sam shrugs. "Whatever man, but meet me in the gym if you wanna have a duel, see if you can use that thing."
Sep 12 19:50:56 <Nemi>	".. hi. Nothing. Just.. just things are bad. Don't wanna talk. Shouldn't .. get anyone else involved with me. Just gets bad."
Sep 12 19:52:59 <Knave>	"Pfft, Trouble's my middle name. Besides, there's nothing you can get me into I can't wriggle out of." Austin's jokey smile flattens into a look of sincerity, "So if you do want to talk to someone later, you can talk to me, okay?"
Sep 12 19:54:14 <Complete_Zero>	Damien sits back. He's forgotten what it's like to talk to other people of this age. "I may take you up on that offer. And yes, I can use it. It is bound to me." He lifts up the magazine and flips a few pages before closing it and placing it on his lap. HE stuffs the magazine in the front pocket of his hoodie and sighs.
Sep 12 19:56:24 <Nemi>	Mads just gives Austin a long, expressionless look, before nodding. And then she turns back to what she's doing. Dump all the mix in the big metal bowl, get some milk and eggs, mix it all up.
Sep 12 19:57:53 <Knave>	Austin quietly shuts the fridge door and slips to other side of the kitchen, leaning on a counter, "Need any help with that?"
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Sep 12 20:00:50 <Nemi>	".. .. yeah. Can you like, grease the pan?"
Sep 12 20:00:54 <Nemi>	She's busily mixin'.
Sep 12 20:01:57 <Knave>	"On it, boss." Austin salutes and rolls up his sleeves, getting to work enthusiastically.
Sep 12 20:03:34 <SirGoldFish>	Sam's stomach rumbles. "Ah jee, I am gonna go and get some more food from the kitchen." Even though Sam is eating jerky, it's hardly enough for a breakfast. She enters kitchen, her eyes narrow on Maddy.
Sep 12 20:03:59 <Nemi>	Of course she'd ask the guy who can manipulate friction to grease the baking sheet. Of /course/. Mads' heart really isn't into it and she occasionally watches to make sure Austin's doing what he do. Sam! Mads looks like /garbage/. Plus the whole 'been apparently missing the last four days' bit.
Sep 12 20:05:34 <Complete_Zero>	Damien shrugs when Sam leaves. He decides to go elsewhere. He's had enough of dealing with these teenagers.
Sep 12 20:05:58 <Knave>	Chirpily, whilst working the butter around the pan, Austin whistles to the tune of 'whistle while you work'
Sep 12 20:06:42 <Nemi>	Mads shies away on seeing Sam.
Sep 12 20:07:56 <SirGoldFish>	Sam licks her teeth, clearly not comfortable around Maddy. She goes to the fridge and starts looking for some meat to eat.
Sep 12 20:10:27 <Knave>	"Anything else you'd like me to do, Madeline?" Austin smiles cheerfully, apparently oblivious to the tension in the room.
Sep 12 20:12:06 <Nemi>	".. I-I'm sorry I told her to stop.. to stop leading people on and like.. like collecting everyone since if it went on it'd just.. people'd be hurt even more and if they found out without her telling it'd be worse and since even /I/ figured it out it wouldn't have been good at all and.." Then Austin speaks up and she blinks. ".. oh um.. oven, three twenty-five?"
Sep 12 20:12:11 <Nemi>	Way to go. You forgot to preheat.
Sep 12 20:13:25 <Knave>	Stood awkwardly in the corner between the two girls, Austin slides his hand to the oven knob while his eyes flit back and forth between the two, and he twists the dial without the rest of his body moving
Sep 12 20:14:41 <SirGoldFish>	Sam, growls at the girl at Maddy, still trying to find something good to eat. "Whatever." She grumbles lowly, licking her teeth. Honestly Maddy seems pretty good to eat, but she keeps that to herself. Hungry as hell
Sep 12 20:15:58 <Nemi>	".. and like.. god /everyone/ hates me for it, I haven't even seen her in almost a week and .." She /shrinks/ away at the growl, face immediately going pale and expression falling somehow even more.
Sep 12 20:18:26 <SirGoldFish>	"One good fucking thing that happened to me." She slams the fridge door shut. "And it's gone." She says, staring at Maddy with a pissed off look.
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Sep 12 20:20:10 <Knave>	He can't stop himself. Austin puts up both of his hands in a placatory gesture and begins, "You know, I'm feeling a lot of anger in the room. What's say we talk this out like responsible adults, huh?"
Sep 12 20:20:15 <Nemi>	"I just wanted her to stop lying to everyone!" Mads backs away reflexively, flattening against the wall. Her eyes are huge.
Sep 12 20:22:15 <SirGoldFish>	 "Maybe, just fucking maybe if you did not intercede, she would've stopped herself and just maybe she would've chosen me!" Sam says a tear falling down her face, her expression becoming a mix of rage and misery.
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Sep 12 20:24:06 <Nemi>	Mads' face screws up. No wonder. Jinxy's right. Everything she touches goes completely wrong. /Everything/. She shouldn't have tried to get something-- some food, anything. Mads starts to cry, loudly and openly, and turns to sprint from the room.
Sep 12 20:24:21 <Knave>	"This is over a girl?" Austin prompts nervously, clutching at hand-holds as ricochets down the cliff that is this conversation.
Sep 12 20:28:18 <SirGoldFish>	Sam slouches on a chair and she begins sobbing softly as well. She begins sobbing into her hands just loud enough for Mads to hear as she sprints away. "Fucking good." Her face twisted by sadness and anger.
Sep 12 20:29:36 <Knave>	Sighing heavily, Austin crosses to the abandoned bowl and begins casually mixing, leaning his butt against the counter and fixing his eyes on Sam, "Need someone to talk to?"
Sep 12 20:30:19 <Nemi>	Mads is heard, feet softly padding against the stairs as she sprints away and crying echoing even from far off. Then there's the slam of her dorm room door-- cornbread and thoughts of staving off starvation evaporating.
Sep 12 20:33:03 <SirGoldFish>	Sam just gets up takes like a bit of meat from the fridge and marches out, wiping tears from her face. Fucking Maddy, fuck you maddy.
Sep 12 20:34:15 <Knave>	Shaking his head, Austin focuses on the job at hand.
Sep 12 20:34:53 <Knave>	Twenty minutes later and one floor up, there is a knocking at Maddie's door: shave-and-a-hair-cut... two-bits.
Sep 12 20:36:10 <Nemi>	No reply.
Sep 12 20:36:44 <SirGoldFish>	Sam just goes back in her room to mope about and eat. She's pissed off.
Sep 12 20:37:18 <Knave>	"It's me. Austin. I am literally not leaving until you open the door, and you don't know me very well, so I'm gonna tell you right up top that I can be extremely annoying, so it would save us both a lot of time if you opened up."
Sep 12 20:37:52 <Nemi>	Still no reply.
Sep 12 20:38:49 <Knave>	"Madeline, come on, I seriously need you to open the door it's, like, really urgent I swear." Austin knocks again, to make his point.
Sep 12 20:50:41 <Knave>	(Redact)
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Sep 12 23:22:08 <Nemi>	Madeline is /upset/. Midway through making food-- THAT didn't go anywhere-- Sam cornered her and did the whole intimidating monster thing act. Which, being that Sam IS an intimidating monster thing, was both terrifying and only better served to reinforce Jinxy's suggestion that Going Outside Is Bad. She's in socks and shorts and too-large hoodie, running up the stairs toward the second
Sep 12 23:22:09 <Nemi>	floor and the relative safety of her room.
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Sep 12 23:31:29 <Nemi>	It's a fair few moments before the door opens a crack. The knocking wasn't with the violence Mads expected from Sam, and so she actually dares to peek out and see who it is. Her eyes are all red from tears and she looks somehow even more miserable than the other day. ".. hi."
Sep 12 23:34:39 <MobileSavy>	Wendy looks worried, her bottom lip collecting another little droplet of blood as she wipes it away. "May I come in?" She asks, her voice soft and soothing.
Sep 12 23:36:39 <Nemi>	".. okay. You're bleeding." Mads just stares at her for a few moments before finally actually leaving the doorway. She doesn't open the door much wider, though. The room's almost exactly as it was yesterday, but for clothes just strewn about the floor and bed and some dishware in a stack on the nightstand.
Sep 12 23:40:53 <MobileSavy>	Wendy walks into the room, slowly shutting the door behind her with her foot. Moving a hand up to try to wipe away all the blood that was on her lip. "What happened?" She asks with the same tone "I saw you running up the stairs.."
Sep 12 23:42:28 <Nemi>	".. Sam blames me for her and Katlyn splitting up."
Sep 12 23:43:00 <Nemi>	Mads is back to sitting on her bed, now hugging a blanket about herself and looking simultaneously cold and miserable.
Sep 12 23:44:27 <MobileSavy>	Wendy for a moment actually looks, surprisingly mad "what? Why?" She says, not letting her expression of anger seep into her voice, making sure not to scare Mad's in any way.
Sep 12 23:45:10 <Nemi>	".. cuz I found out how Katlyn was like, getting with a whole lot of people and told her to like.. confess to it because it'd probably be worse if everyone else found out on their own? .. so they broke up. I don't know."
Sep 12 23:47:14 <MobileSavy>	Wendy goes to sit next to her on the bed, putting an arm around her again and taking a deep breath. Shaking her head softly "then you did the right thing... I kinda wish Katlyn confessed sooner... She was, part of the reason I had to break up with my girlfriend in the past, but I realize that even with that out it would still have happened.. You did the
Sep 12 23:47:14 <MobileSavy>	right thing really, I'll talk to Sam about it."
Sep 12 23:51:00 <Nemi>	Mads just nods dumbly. ".. okay. Thank you. She.. doesn't wanna listen to me at all and I don't wanna go out anymore because I'm afraid to and.. beh."
Sep 12 23:52:21 <MobileSavy>	Wendy gives Mads a small squeeze, taking a deep breath. "Yeah, I'll have to talk to her.. You don't deserve that, Sam's going through some stuff right now, I hope you know that she doesn't really mean it.."
Sep 12 23:54:06 <Nemi>	Mads sniffs. ".. thanks."
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Sep 12 23:56:05 <Nemi>	So that's.. Wendy and Chris at least who don't seem to hate her guts. And maybe Austin. At least, yet. Can't let them get too close or they'll just get burned too.
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Sep 12 23:56:06 <MobileSavy>	Wendy smiles a bit, moving a hand to playfully rustle mads hair "Have you been eating at least? Just want to make sure, I've been in that place before and I know that eating can be a chore but you have to do it."
Sep 12 23:56:49 <Nemi>	A sullen look over to Wendy and then Mads shakes her head. Hard to eat when you're afraid to leave the room to even head to the dorm kitchen.
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Sep 13 00:03:52 <MobileSavy>	Wendy takes a deep breath "Mads, do you think later, you'd be willing to go out? I'll go with you, make sure no one picks on you and you don't have a problem, staying in here, even if you think it'll be better will only make you feel gloomier."
Sep 13 00:04:58 <Nemi>	Mads stares at her feet. ".. don't know if I can."
Sep 13 00:10:26 <MobileSavy>	Wendy gives her another squeeze "I know you can, I'll help you seriously, if Sam shows up I'll defend you and make sure you two get it sorted out, just... Being cooped up in here isn't going to make you feel better..."
Sep 13 00:12:56 <Nemi>	".. don't think I can go out. Don't want to. Maybe.. later."
Sep 13 00:14:04 <MobileSavy>	Wendy takes another deep breath "of course you don't have to right now, but later, I'll go with you so nothing bad happens, we can grab you some food too, I made cupcakes earlier if you like them, they look like little watermelons with chocolate chip seeds."
Sep 13 00:15:38 <Nemi>	Mads just silently nods to that. It sounded reasonable. But then she'd be relying on someone and that'd breed resentment...
Sep 13 00:16:45 <MobileSavy>	Psh, Wendy hardcore relied on Jace, Wendy realizes it won't be forever and mads really seems like she needs someone to lean on for a bit. "Alright, for now do you want me to go down and grab you something to eat?"
Sep 13 00:17:55 <Knave>	At the door, a knock comes to the jaunty rhythm of "shave-and-a-hair-cut... two-bits"
Sep 13 00:19:57 <Nemi>	Mads just stares up at the door at the knock and goes entirely silent. Oh God, who's /that/?
Sep 13 00:20:58 <MobileSavy>	Wendy raises a eyebrow, giving Mads a small reassuring look before cracking the door open and peeking her head out of it.
Sep 13 00:21:43 <Knave>	"Hi, I-" Austin cocks his head, "You're not Madeline." He cranes his head around the door again to check the sign, "This is the right room, right?"
Sep 13 00:22:08 <Nemi>	There's definitely that big ol' sign on the door. MADELINE, heart to dot the i, flower with 'you're beautiful' and little heart with 'future disney princess'.
Sep 13 00:24:58 <MobileSavy>	Wendy smiles at the mysterious male, opening the door a bit more so mads can see who it is. "Do you know him?" She asks the girl quietly.
Sep 13 00:25:30 <Knave>	With a small, reassuring smile, Austin holds up the tray of corn bread he's holding
Sep 13 00:26:43 <Nemi>	Mads nods upon seeing Austin and-- he actually finished making it for her. That's.. that's unexpected enough that she actually looks very much gobsmacked.
Sep 13 00:29:37 <MobileSavy>	Wendy opens the door fully, looking at the cornbread with a raised eyebrow "come in, I guess?" She says, a little reserved.
Sep 13 00:30:09 <Nemi>	".. oh jeez oh.. you actually finished it.. for me?"
Sep 13 00:31:34 <Knave>	Austin's cheeks flush a little as he shuffles in and offers the tray, "You did most of the hard work, I just had to finish mixing and pour it into the tray and stuff. Figured it beat letting it go to waste. It really wasn't any trouble..."
Sep 13 00:32:32 <MobileSavy>	Wendy closes the door behind them, sitting back on her place next to Mads, looking at Austin and offering her hand "It's nice to meet you, I'm Wendy, are you a friend of Mads?"
Sep 13 00:35:11 <Knave>	Laying down the tray, Austin shakes Wendy's hand gently, "Yeah, she was the first student I talked to when I got here. I'm Austin, by the way."
Sep 13 00:35:18 <Nemi>	Mads leans up off the bed to snag the tray o' cornbread! She'll.. well, for now she just sits the whole thing on the bed, contemplating how to actually attack it. At least she won't starve.
Sep 13 00:38:36 <MobileSavy>	"I met her a week or two ago, I'm probably one student who's been here the longest, I think I've heard your name somewhere before but I'm not sure if I remember where..."
Sep 13 00:39:25 <Knave>	"This help?" Austin gives a cheesy grin and a thumbs-up, the pose drawn on a plurality of his posters.
Sep 13 00:43:01 <Nemi>	Mads looks up and cannot help but make a little weak grin of her own. That cheesy grin is just infectious. And frankly, having some cornbread to munch on cheers her up enormously.
Sep 13 00:43:57 <MobileSavy>	Wendy's mouth goes wide "you're the other person running, right?" She pauses "uh uh, you're the silver guy too right? I've only really heard of you before, it's nice to meet you finally"
Sep 13 00:45:34 <Knave>	"Austin "Slick" Silver, the San Francisco Kid, the Sultan of Slide, the Grandmaster of Grease, and the guy you are beating handily, at your service." Austin bows low.
Sep 13 00:46:18 <Nemi>	".. oh jeez he came up with /titles/..."
Sep 13 00:48:41 <MobileSavy>	Wendy seems pretty delighted, a hand going to her mouth to try to stifle a laugh from how corny that was, no cornbread pun intended. "Wendy Strauss, no other candidate can handle the heat, at least that's my phrase or something, I think it sounds pretty cool." thanks for that Dave
Sep 13 00:50:22 <Knave>	Austin straightens up and looks slightly puzzled, "Is that a pun? Do you have heat powers?" He looks past Wendy to Mads, "I still feel rude asking people."
Sep 13 00:51:44 <Nemi>	Mads slowly nods. ".. I don't really ask about powers anymore. Don't wanna. Um.. scuse me. Cornbread." Mads wiggles a piece of the stuff free and munches, getting little crumbs of the stuff all over.
Sep 13 00:53:47 <MobileSavy>	Wendy moves a hand up, showing off her powers was always kinda fun she'd have to admit, a white, almost glowing ribbon of fire dances around her hand, almost like lace. "I have fire powers"
Sep 13 00:55:52 <Knave>	Austin nods, "I see." Rubbing the back of his neck, Austin continues, "So, - and feel free to say no, 'cause I know I'm like nobody and your business is your business - but anyone wanna explain that drama with Stitches down there to me?"
Sep 13 00:57:31 <Nemi>	Mads just slumps more under her blanket and further stuffs her mouth with cornbread so as to not have to explain it. She already told Wendy and she's somehow afraid that even mentioning the situation would just summon Sam back up to do horrible things.
Sep 13 01:00:03 <MobileSavy>	Wendy makes a small sigh "From what I understand, Mads told a girl that she can't go around dating everyone because it eventually will hurt someone when they find out. Sam was also dating the girl that was trying to win everyone's heart, the girl told Sam and broke up with her, so now Sam blames Mads."
Sep 13 01:02:14 <Knave>	"Rather than blaming the girl who was dating everyone, and who did the breaking up with her?" Austin gesticulates and shrugs, "I mean, yeah, it's like... obviously this is a high school. I shouldn't be surprised."
Sep 13 01:05:26 <MobileSavy>	"Trying not to say her name for privacy reasons.. As much as I dislike the girl involved I think it shouldn't be said to everyone, but if you don't go spouting it around I think it'll be fine. A girl named Katlyn was dating everyone, Mads just told her that's not something you should do so Katlyn broke up with Sam, Sam now blames Mads for some reason, which
Sep 13 01:05:27 <MobileSavy>	is insane.."
Sep 13 01:06:18 <Nemi>	Mads nods along. That's not the whole of it, but when you have an undead stitched-together killing machine mad at you, and you're already feeling somewhat /tenuous/ about things, well. It's no wonder she's scared to go out.
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Sep 13 01:09:07 <Knave>	"Well, look, I'm not any kind of professional psychologist," Austin runs a hand compulsively through his messy hair, "But it seems to me like Sam is just frustrated and is misplacing her frustrations on you, because it hurts too much to acknowledge the source of the issue might have been her or this Katyln chick. Once the wound's not so fresh or once she addresses those underlying issues, she'll mellow out
Sep 13 01:09:07 <Knave>	towards you." Austin shrugs, "But that's just me thinking out loud."
Sep 13 01:11:08 <MobileSavy>	"Yeah, I think that's going on too, I'll have to talk to her when I can about it, I know she's taken the whole break up really hard, and she won't ever blame Katlyn for it, Katlyn has done some pretty bad things, I talked to Sam about them and she will defend her to the bone. She's just using mads as a scapegoat which isn't fair at all.."
Sep 13 01:13:59 <Nemi>	".. pretty sure that's what's happening but I'm super on edge anyway cuz like.. you know the reputation I have around school an' all that other .. stuff. I'm .. like.. least super person here. I don't fit like, at all."
Sep 13 01:15:34 <Knave>	Austin folds his arms and raises an eyebrow at Madeline. Then, very lightly, he pushes off the wall with one finger and slides extremely slowly to his left, folding his arms again, to make his point.
Sep 13 01:17:52 <MobileSavy>	Wendy makes that face, that fucking face at Austin, one that is just trying so hard to not laugh her fucking ass off, moving a hand in front of her mouth, cheeks turning red and aching from holding back so much. Finally calming herself down after a minute, so badly wanting to laugh.
Sep 13 01:18:26 <Nemi>	Mads gives Austin a bland look and slinks further into her blanketcover. Her eatin's slowed considerably: She's just nibbling on a smaller hunk of cornbread and resumes staring at her feet. ".. better than what I got."
Sep 13 01:21:15 <Knave>	"Dude, you just gotta get creative," Austin snaps his fingers in epiphany, "Hey, if you're worried Sam might go off on you if she sees Madeline walking around, you could just not be Madeline for a while."
Sep 13 01:22:41 <MobileSavy>	Wendy stands up, finally out of her bout of holding back laughter "yeah, you have the power to be anyone you want, do you know what kind of wacky hyjinx that could lead to? It's actually pretty useful compared to slick over here" she says the last bit jokingly.
Sep 13 01:23:31 <Nemi>	Mads just gives them both this absolutely horrified look.
Sep 13 01:23:54 <Nemi>	".. I don't want to be /lying/ to people anymore!"
Sep 13 01:30:36 <Knave>	"Well you can't just stay here because you feel threatened." Austin frowns, "I won't stand for it. Austin Silver will not abide a sad girl." He paused in thought, then added, "And by my count there's like three involved in this mess."
Sep 13 01:32:07 <MobileSavy>	Wendy bites her lip, shaking her head "there are a lot more people involved than we realize. And Mads, you don't have to lie or anything.. Like I said, we can go out later when you feel like it, I'll protect you and make sure nothing goes wrong, but he's right, you can't lock yourself in here.."
Sep 13 01:34:23 <Nemi>	Mads slowly nods. ".. yeah. Yeah. Just.. just like, later. I don't want to do what I can do like, ever. Ever."
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Sep 13 01:37:05 <Knave>	"Nobody can ever make you do anything you don't want to." Austin beams at Mads.
Sep 13 01:39:29 <MobileSavy>	"I'll wait until you're ready, but I really think it'll be good for you, getting out of this stuffy room, and nothing will go wrong if you let me join you, I can promise you that."
Sep 13 01:41:03 <Nemi>	".. yeah. Except that kid who possessed me earlier. And... beh. Wish I didn't have any powers or anything so I could.. like, just go home or something.." She sighs and pushes the tray of cornbread to the foot of her bed. ".. thanks, though. I think.. I need people to help me along for things. Just in general."
Sep 13 01:42:47 <Knave>	"I'm always around to help," Austin salutes, "Feel free to call on me any time. For anything. Even if you just want help in the kitchen."
Sep 13 01:44:15 <Nemi>	She needs people to help but to not get too close to her. That's what she needs. They can't be hurt if they're not close, can they?
Sep 13 01:46:20 <MobileSavy>	Wendy moves to plop herself back on the bed, giving mads shoulder a comforting squeeze "don't worry too much, we're here to help when you need it."
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Sep 13 01:53:22 <Nemi>	".. yeah. I thiiiink.. I wanna rest a bit. Thanks for.. like, coming and making sure I'm okay. And listening."
Sep 13 01:56:20 <Knave>	"My pleasure and my honour, amigo." Austin bows slightly, arms out, then straightens up and smiles at the both of them, "I'll leave you to it. Pleasure meeting my distinguished competition, Wendy. Hope you enjoy the cornbread, Madeline." Austin throws up a peace sign and moves for the door
Sep 13 02:00:22 <MobileSavy>	Wendy nods to Mads "I'll come by again later when you're done resting and we can do some stuff, alright?" She stands up, walking over to the door "good meeting you as well Austin, nice to meet the competition"
Sep 13 02:03:12 <Nemi>	"Okay. .. Okay. Seeya. And um, good luck, both of you."
Sep 13 02:03:59 <Knave>	"Thanks." Austin flashes a smile to Wendy, "I'm gonna need it. Catch you later, Mads."
Sep 13 02:05:22 <MobileSavy>	Wendy heads out with Austin, closing the door behind her and heading off to do her own thing, maybe eat some cupcakes if Austin doesn't try to continue conversation.
Sep 13 02:05:46 <Nemi>	Mads nods vaguely in their direction. She'll.. find the plastic wrap from its roll somewhereorother tucked under the bed and cover the cornbread. Once they're all gone, it's under the blankets she goes. People should stop even mentioning her powers.
Sep 13 02:07:19 <Knave>	With a two-fingered, casual salute to Wendy, Austin skates off in his own direction, whistling
Sep 13 02:09:36 <Nemi>	~ Corn bread~