01[20:48] <Antichthon> For attention whores like Cass, this tournament was a godsend. Of course, a good routine required practice. Wait, why not practice in the arena, or at least in the courtyard where you had plenty of space? Because fuck you, that's why. No, actually Cass did have a reason, but it wasn't any of your damn business. The end result was the same: Cass, short skirt, leggings and orange cropped vest today, sitting on the couch eating chips while Hex danced goofily to unheard music.
[20:56] <+gumbal1> As usual, of course, someone ended up inadvertantly fucking with the commons room tv, turning it on to blaring static. Uncharacteristically, however, they managed to do so without ever having stepped foot into the room. Aside from a rather loud "FUCK", it took a while for them to actually make themselve's known. Six feet tall, pale, with shoulder length chestnut hair, a pierced septum, clumsy eyeliner, and an outfit suited for a night at some underg
[20:56] <+gumbal1> round metal venue, the mystery person rushed downstairs to fix their mistake. "Fuck, 3rd time this we-" Their gaze is suddenly preoccupied with the girl(?) on the couch, before turning back to the (suddenly turned off) tv. "...yeah. Hi."
[20:57] <+gumbal1> "...that robot yours?"
01[21:06] <Antichthon>  Cass was always a tiny, sickly, fragile beanpole, so her body structure gave no clues, but she was 100% girl today. Wild girl, Very much a "rave and arty hard" girl by the outfit. The sudden static from the TV made her jump and spill her bag of chips. "Fucking hell...!" Her cursing was synced almost perfectly with Joshua and his arrival. He turned off the TV, and she glared at him. "Yup," she rusponded dully. Hex joined her on the couch, attaching to her back and letting her doc ock over to the TV, where she'd made some interesting modifications. In fact, it looked like she'd recently tied the TV into the common room lighting system, and it was mere luck Joshua hadn't destroyed something.
01[21:07] <Antichthon> "Party hard" even. "arty hard" was Kat's thing.
[21:09] <+gumbal1> "...huh. Interesting. You, uh, new around here?" It did seem a lot like an entertainment system, which was what made Jay's own projects that much harder. You do enough work for underground venues and muscle memory takes you from behind, dry.
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01[21:12] <Antichthon> "Nope." Cass cleared her throat, and when next she spoke her voice could be heard clear as a bell, relayed by tiny speakers spread across the common room. "Testing, testing." The lights dimmed. brightened. Changed colors. Did a little lighty-testing-pattern dance. Went out. the TV flickered, sparked. Cass hit it a few times with a metal tentacle and the lights came back.
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[21:16] <+gumbal1> "Well, fuck dude. Haven't seen you before." Joshua does a bit of examination of the system, both through sight and through mentally drawing a blueprint of the whole thing. He'd definitely be frankensteining the schematics to a more efficient and, more importantly, patentable form. "Man, I don't remember the commons ever being //this// flashy. Did some rave club pop up under my nose?"
01[21:22] <Antichthon> It was a horribly jury-rigged system, not meant to last and incredilby ingenious in unexpected ways while being bone-headedly stupid in other, obvious ways. Basically, it was what you'd expect if evolution dealt in electronics. Cass didn't respond. Instead she moved to the center of the room, limbered up, and... "//Put on your war paint!//" music exploded from the spaeakers and every light in the room swiveled to spotlight Cass, hands in the air triumphantly.
[21:24] <+gumbal1> Yeah, that part would need improvements if he ever wished to actually work with it. Joshua isn't sure how to respond once the music actually starts, and settles with "nearly jumping in surprise".
01[21:33] <Antichthon> She danced in a circle around Joshua glaring, pointing a metallic finger at him, lights following. "//You are a Smith tied to me that's dragging me down, fuck my shit and I'll burn you to the ground, what's this Josh been doing you just fried, half my work it ain't no lie, here, here it comes this shit don't fly, so COME ON!"// The music went crazy, as did the lights. Projections of tanks in battle lined the walls. //"PUT ON YOUR WAR PAINT!"//
[21:34] <+gumbal1> Fffffffffffffffffffffffffuck, this was insane. Joshua, weighing all his options (of which there were surprisingly few), came up with his favorite one: run the fuck away from all this.
01[21:40] <Antichthon> The lights wents out and when the came back up Cass was right in Joshua's path, punching the air and doubled over with the passion she was putting into the song. "//cross me you cross death, you'll hope to die, no clouds with silver lining.//" And Cass' chair, hidden until now would try to hit Joshua in the back of the shins to fall back into the comically tiny chair, where metal straps would try to bind him there.
[21:42] <+gumbal1> Ohhhh shit. Oh fuck. So it was gonna be like this, wasn't it. Caught off guard, the chair does manage stumble Joshua into it. Whether or not he's trapped, well...yes, he is. Right now he's sort of internally panicking, somewhat.
[21:44] <+gumbal1> Kinda hard to know what to do in that situation.
[21:45] <SavanahHolland> What the... fuck? Elspeth was being the amazing student that she was and studying for her main classes.. when suddenly from down the hall where her dorm resided was this.. noise. Of course her and the Ram had to investigate. Putting on a white dress, a pale blue hooded cap paired off with white fluffy lining and little white balls dangling on the strings from the hood, also wearing matching blue leggings and some
[21:45] <SavanahHolland> black mary janes. The Ram holding her bridal style as they investigate, peaking into the commonroom. "Cahss?" she mumbles, likely unheard over the music.
02[21:47] <+gumbal1> And then ElspRam walks in, and suddenly, fear gives way to confusion, which gives way to bemusement, which gives way to embarassment. "Fffffffffokay, this is not how I normally am, alright? This is, uh..." Joshua gives a bit of a worried look to Cass.
01[21:50] <Antichthon> "//Suffer the most badass heart attack, we--//" The music did a record scratch, the lights flickering off, then back on as normal, just before the bundle of wires hooked into the TV exploded with fire. "Ah, damnit." She might have been a bit too casual getting the fire extinguisher, but, eh. Place had to be fireproof, even if the TV wan't. "Yo, El, tend to your new boyfriend, make sure he doesn't fuck up anything else." The straps holding Joshua down released him.
02[21:52] <SavanahHolland> Elspeth sighs, she should be used to Cass's hijinks by now, yet she's always somehow surprised. The Ram brings Els over to Joshua, the girl tilting her head "Youh're new." she says rather matter-a-factly.
[21:52] <+gumbal1> Good thing, too, or Joshua might have just fried the circuitry and got out himself. Or just force it to let him go, but the former came to mind first. Eh, Josh isn't so good under pressure. The "boyfriend" line gets a weird look from him, before it's turned back to Elspeth. "You're, uh, also new."
02[21:54] <SavanahHolland> Elspeth shakes her head "Noht new." she sighs, looking over to Cass "Youh friends vith him?"
[21:54] <+gumbal1> "Fuck, they're a dude?"
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01[21:57] <Antichthon> The awkwardness was interrupted by the FOOSH of the fire extinguisher, and Cass cursing. "why the hell don't these things have a setting between 'off' and 'high?'" Well, the fire was out anyway, so Cass tossed the extinguisher on the couch. "You better be prepared to foot the bill for any new parts I need to fix this," Cass said to Joshua, shaking the bundle of wires in a metal hand.
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[21:58] <+gumbal1> "...that's a nice proposal. Consider the following." Hex, very suddenly, raised one of their claw hands, every digit down except for the middle one.
01[21:58] <Antichthon> "And she was talking to me, jackass." Cass shook his head. "Never met him, just read his file a few days ago. Another tech-o."
01[22:00] <Antichthon> Cass looked at Hex's hand, clearly unamused. "Keep it up Aiko-lite, you'll be getting a steam-powered piston up your ass."
02[22:01] <SavanahHolland> Elspeth points to Cass "Vhat she said." she nods "Ah tech.. fun" she says somewhat sarcastically "Cass, youh should tell me vhen someone shows uph vith powers lihke mine, vho else am I gohing to sacrifice goats vith?" she's pretty obviously joking, mostly to freak this new dude out.
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[22:02] <+gumbal1> Oh right, he was still sitting in the chair, wasn't he? Blushing, he fixed that real quick. "Did this suddenly become a tech school?"
01[22:06] <Antichthon> The chair sprouted legs and crab-walked to Cass, who sat down in it. Hex interfaced to the chair, disappearing save for the tentacles. Cass scowled "Damnit, your fat ass totally messed up my seat." She wiggled in place trying to get comfy, which, despite her attitude, could only be described as "adorable."
[22:08] <SavanahHolland> "I vould hope noht.." she mumbles to the tech school comment "So vhat vas vith the music?"
[22:09] <+gumbal1> What the fuck was with this kid. Seriously. Joshua had lived through Jeb Bush and Bernie Sanders hijacking the tail-end of the 2016 election and this kid somehow had them beat for the pinnacle of absurdity. "Maybe try not fitting a square peg through..." Joshua winced, blushing again. "...just don't do that!"
01[22:10] <Antichthon> "I was just down here practicing, and this this chucklefuck burned out half the system I'd put together to practice for the tournament." She never took her glare off Joshua.
[22:10] <+gumbal1> "Hey, it's not my fault you can't engineer for shit."
[22:13] <SavanahHolland> Elspeth should go watch some tournament shit one of these days, if that's even allowed anyways. "Howh'd youh even manage that?" she asks the dude.
[22:14] <BobaFettuccine> It is at that moment that a short, chubby dude with buzzcut black hair on a head that looks just a litte too round walks up to the doorway but stops just short of entering the room, taking in the scene, he's wearing a loose, dark green t-shirt and blue jeans.
[22:14] <+gumbal1> "Fffff...okay, so I was engineering..." Beat. "...//something//, and apparently this whole..." Vague gesturing to basically everywhere. "...mess somehow got in the way of working through the kinks."
01[22:15] <Antichthon> "Why you-" Elspeth interrupted her and Hiro's arrival disrupted her train of thought, and so Cass just sort of mumbled something.
[22:16] <+gumbal1> "Huh?" Joshua turned to face the newcomer. "...another new...lemme guess, not actually new?"
[22:17] <BobaFettuccine> The short dude sloooooowly reaches into thin air, retrieving a small bag of popcorn, "Nah, I'm new, only been here a week." He says. "Hang on a sec, I gotta go make this. Shit like this cannot be watched without popcorn."
02[22:18] <SavanahHolland> The Ram plops Elspeth on the couch near Cass, the girl sighing "Youh know, one second the commonroohm is empty.. the next fifty people ahre here.."
01[22:19] <Antichthon> To Joshua, "Hey, here's a hint to help you figure out object permanence: Things existed before you first saw them. Just because you're new doesn't mean everyone else is." she shrugged at Elspeth. "I was kinda making a racket." Glare back on Joshua. "Since someone burned out the sound suppression system."
[22:20] <+gumbal1> "Pleasantly surprised." Joshua sits back down. "I've been here a month. I'm sure I would've noticed..." One again, vague gesturing towards the sound system. "...//this//."
01[22:22] <Antichthon> "I just put it together today, I was going to text Els down and rock her world." Cassgrin.
01[22:23] <Antichthon> "Also like shit you've been here a month, your file just turned up today."
[22:23] <+gumbal1> "...yooooooouuuuu have too much free time."
[22:23] <SavanahHolland> "Maybe there vas a mistake in the system?" Elspeth offers curiously
[22:23] <BobaFettuccine> Hiro then kind of takes a step towards the kitchen and... isn't there anymore, like that step took him farther than it should have. The sound of a microwave starting up soon follows.
01[22:24] <Antichthon> "The only mistake was mistaking a side-show freak for an anomaly."
[22:24] <+gumbal1> "Well, shhhhhucks, blame the system. Or Ashley. I dunno what their deal is but it's too King Crimsony for my tastes."
[22:27] <SavanahHolland> "...Vho is Ashley?"
01[22:28] <Antichthon> Elspeth would realize whatever anger Cass felt towards this new boy had dissipated well before she'd arrived; by Cass standards the way she was treating Joshua was borderline flirting. "Oh, you know Ashleigh, c'mon. catgirl, dick the size of a man's forearm. You know, Ashleigh."
[22:29] <SavanahHolland> "Never meht her.. buht frohm the sound ohf it- I think I vant to." she snickers
[22:29] <+gumbal1> Joshua's got that look on his face. The one you have when you think something should be obvious, only to be proven wrong, though it's a mix of the subspecies of "because it isn't obvious" and "because Jay's just wrong". "...catgirl? That's...that's a thing? An actual thing?"
[22:30] <BobaFettuccine> At that, the last few sounds of popcorn being prepared finish and Hiro steps back into the room, directly next to an unoccupied armchair and settles down in it with his bowl of popcorn to continue watching the train wreck.
01[22:35] <Antichthon> To Elspeth, "She's your coworker, bitch." Hiro earned a glance. Cass leaned back in her chair, hands folded across her midsection deliberately. There was calculation going on behind those eyes as they turned back on Joshua. "Yes, catgirls are a thing. A horrible, horrble thing. There is no God."
[22:36] <+gumbal1> "...well. Huh. Guess a lot of things make sense and or feel less bad, now." Joshua just nods. "Alright, sure."
[22:36] <SavanahHolland> Hmmmmmm "Ihs she the robot?" Elspeth rolls her eyes, lowkey looking like she's going to have an aneurism.
02[22:37] <BobaFettuccine> Hiro snrks at Cass's comment regarding catgirls and god. He barely manages to contain outright laughter at the look on Elspeth's face.
01[22:39] <Antichthon> "Don't mind her, she's special." Cass intense attention was still on Joshua. "So. What do you think of the tournament?"
[22:39] <+gumbal1> "...tournament? What?"
[22:39] <+gumbal1> "What are you talking about?"
01[22:40] <Antichthon> "Akemi sure looks hot in those pants, doesn't she?"
01[22:41] <Antichthon> "Who would you bet on in a rematch between the living spear and the snakegirl?"
01[22:42] <Antichthon> "You have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about, do you?"
[22:42] <SavanahHolland> "Gungnir?" Elspeth asks curiously, tsking at the special comment "As if youh're any better" she teases
[22:42] <+gumbal1> "Who are you talking about? And, uh...living spear? What, is this some sort of...illicit betting ring?" Blink blink.
[22:43] <+gumbal1> "And, hey, wait a minute! What is this about reading my file, anyways?"
04[22:43] <BobaFettuccine> "Heh, I kicked the snake-girls ass. Took me ten seconds, tops." Hiro chuckles at the mention of Athene and the tournament, eating more popcorn.
[22:44] <+gumbal1> "...holy ffffffffffrick you're a bunch of criminals, aren't you?"
01[22:45] <Antichthon``> "Real quick on the uptake, aren't you?" Cass looked up at Elspeth, while Hiro got a very low power electric shock from Hex's tazer. "Either of you up to date on the whole dimension shift shit?"
[22:48] <+gumbal1> "...okay, cool. Bunch of delinquents, catgirls, real fun. Uh...yeah, yeah."
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[22:48] <SavanahHolland> "Throwh some popcorn mhy vay, I'm hungry" she comments idly
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01[22:50] <Antichthon`> Cass returned her attention to Joshua. "Last chance: What's the name of the school?"
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[22:51] <BobaFettuccine> Hiro flicks a piece of popcorn towards Elspeth aiming for her forehead.
[22:51] <+gumbal1> "Fffff...Fifth Sanctum? School for misguided youth? Supposedly full of a lot of occultists and gay kids?"
01[22:53] <Antichthon> "...Okay, so you got one right." Cass looked faux sympathetic. "Sorry to break it to you Joshy, but either you're from another world or that one memory chick had her way with you. Oh, what was her name." Cass snapped her fingers, looking at Elspeth and Hiro for help. "You know, the one no one can ever remember?"
[22:55] <+gumbal1> Joshua scrunches his face. "Come on, I'm s-I'm ace, dude, knock it off. Another dimension? Come on."
[22:55] <BobaFettuccine> Hiro shrugs, that was before his time. He then decides that it was unfair to leave Josh out of this whole popcorn throwing thing, so he throws a piece at him. Just for fun.
[22:56] <+gumbal1> He isn't prepared.
[22:57] <@Nemi> * A small caramel-skinned girl with long black hair and big brown eyes peeks into the common room. Despite the weather, she has a far-too-large hoodie on, almost like a minidress in length over her shorts.
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01[22:59] <Antichthon> She shrugged, letting the subject of the forgotten girl's name slip from her mind. Hex caught the popcorn kernel that bounced off of Josh's head, rubbed it against Joshua's leg as though he were some sort of dipping sauce, and popped it in Cass' mouth. She was having way too much fun with this. "Yeah yeah, denial, all that, don't care. The question is, how the hell did they get your file on, uh, file, without filling you in on things?" The arrival of the caramel-skinned girl had Cass do a double take, because Mads sightings were rare these days.
[23:00] <+gumbal1> "I don't know! I've been living here for a month since...whatever." Joshua's attention is taken by the new girl. "Oh, hey. New person."
01[23:01] <Antichthon> "Hey Mads, want to get in on blowing this sucker's mind?"
01[23:06] <Antichthon> "Seriously, this is his mind," Cass mimed holding something long and tubular. "I'm reality." She mimed putting it in her mouth, doing the tongue-in-cheek thing.
02[23:07] <@Nemi> * Madeline stares at Cass. "Wait, you- oh, /god/.. Um. What's going on? He's new? Or.." She steps into the room properly, fidgeting all the while. "So um, hi, I'm Madeline."
[23:09] <BobaFettuccine> As Mads steps into the room, Hiro throws a piece of popcorn at her too. It's his thing now, he's owning it.
[23:09] <+gumbal1> "...high. I'm...ugh, Joshua. Call me...Jay, whatever." Joshua tentatively waves at Madeline. "Yeah, this kid's just...doing things, apparently. Keeps talking about some underground fight club or something."
01[23:12] <Antichthon> Cass dropped all the joking for the time being. "In all seriousness dude, something's not right here." To Mads, "He doesn't recognize any of us, he doesn't know anything about the tournament, and that whole dimension thing happened on Monday."
[23:13] <@Nemi> * Madeline is bopped with the popcorn! She sniffles, and pouts at Hiro as she throws herself over the couch back from.. behind him. Wait, what? "Oh.. um- ooookay. We're at the Fifth Sanctum, right? Um.. Joshua, Jay, you're- here, right?"
[23:14] <+gumbal1> "...haven't left my room since Monday. No class on Tuesdays. And...yeah." Joshua nods. "My dad sent me here."
[23:16] <BobaFettuccine> Hiro blinks at Mads sudden change in location, huh. That was different.
01[23:18] <Antichthon> "Says he's been here a month. His file only popped up yesterday." Cass' brow furrowed. "Which room is yours?" Surely he would have noticed strange roommates.
[23:18] <@Nemi> * "Ohh! Um- I don't know.. I don't really get out a lot anymore so like, I miss a lot of people.."
01[23:18] <Antichthon> "How many boys you know have missed Akemi after being here a month?"
01[23:19] <Antichthon> "Or anyone, for that matter."
[23:20] <+gumbal1> "West wing, 276. I room with Ashley. Brad and Keith are my neighbors? You know any of them?"
[23:21] <@Nemi> * Madeline looks blank. "I.. don't.. really know anybody so.."
[23:22] <+gumbal1> "...yeah, same. I guess that means we have a bit in commons."
[23:22] <BobaFettuccine> Hiro shrugs, he was new here, so most of this conversation was not stuff that he really knew or cared about anyways.
[23:22] <@Nemi> * Madeline peeeks over at Hiro. "Hi! I'm um- you heard my name when I said it when I came in I think so um anyway hi."
01[23:25] <Antichthon> Had it been someone else Cass would have said something nasty, but she and Mads had a history. What she said to Mads and Hiro was, "...Seriously? Guy talks about being from the West wing of Andromeda, and you two don't have anything to say about that?"
[23:26] <+gumbal1> "...wait. Where are the files stored, again?"
[23:26] <+gumbal1> "Nah, fuck it. Invasion of privacy."
01[23:28] <Antichthon> Back to Joshua now, ignoring his question. "Alright smartass, why don't you just go west and find your room for me."
02[23:28] <@Nemi> * Madeline looks up at Cass, and blinks. ".. I-um.. I don't- n-not really? I mean.. we have one now, don't we?"
[23:29] <+gumbal1> "Fine, alright." Joshua finally gets up, and heads for just that. Whether or not he finds it depends on whether or not the setting is as gumbal1 remembers it.
[23:29] <BobaFettuccine> Hiro shrugs, "He's from another world. So are like twelve other people at the school, right? Didn't a bunch of people get replaced or some shit?" He asks, "Not like it really matters, they're here now." To Mads he responds, "Hi. I'm Hiro."
[23:30] <@Nemi> * "Wait.. wait- replaced?" Madeline goes big-eyed. ".. that's.. that's um- okay that's-"
[23:30] <@Nemi> ".. hi- hi, Hiro."
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[23:31] <+gumbal1> "...fuck, I could've sworn that was the west wing I cam in from." Joshua's back in, seemingly confused. "I...think I'm in the east wing now? I...urgh."
01[23:31] <Antichthon> Cass called after Joshua. "Dude, that's not West, that's East."
[23:32] <+gumbal1> "Right. Right."
[23:32] <BobaFettuccine> "There's no west wing dude." Hiro calls after Josh, finding this whole spectacle a little amusing.
[23:33] <@Nemi> * Mads stares blankly. ".. um. Could he be a duplicate of somebody I never knew?"
01[23:34] <Antichthon> "I'm glad you at least caught on," Cass said, crossed arms and more than a little bit Tsun at the moment. "Was starting to think I was the one transported to another world."
[23:34] <+gumbal1> "...ah, shit. I think I'm gonna need to look some stuff up." And with that, Josh heads back to his room.
01[23:34] <Antichthon> "Doubt it, Mads. the new Akemis and Zita look like their old self. Sort of."
01[23:35] <Antichthon> Her gaze followed Joshua out. "So, any bets how long he stays in denial?"
01[23:35] <Antichthon> "I'm thinking a week."
[23:37] <BobaFettuccine> Hiro then finishes his popcorn before reaching into thin air, his hand disappearing for a moment and returning with a pack of chips ahoy cookies. The soft kind with the chocolate chunks. "I'm gonna say that he'll always be in denial about a lotta things." He says, opening the cookies.
[23:38] <@Nemi> * "Aw.. poor kid and- wait wait. Wait. New Zita? But-" Mads just gawks, big-eyed. ".. she was- she was like, she was my friend and she's.. gone?"
01[23:40] <Antichthon> "Oh, yeah. Trapped in another universe, basically as good as dead. Probably back to being a vampire slave or whatever." Hex made grabby hands at Hiro, asking for cookies.
[23:42] <BobaFettuccine> Hiro drops a couple cookies in Hex's grabby hands and holds one out to Mads as well, not reading the room at all.
[23:42] <@Nemi> * There's a soft strangled noise from Madeline- and Hiro realizes he's holding a cookie out to empty space. She's gone.
[23:43] <BobaFettuccine> "Huh." Hiro then retracts the held out cookie and starts munching.
01[23:47] <Antichthon> And Cass honestly felt a pang of guilt. It was more that she hated Zita, not that she'd wanted to hurt Mads. ...Whatever, the girl was a lost cause. "Anyway. Back to work." Hex jumped up and started to do the thriller dance.
[23:49] <BobaFettuccine> And Hiro would watch, amused for a time, before leaving to eat his snacks elsewhere. "See ya." He says with a wave over his shoulder.