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 "I'm telling you, this is ridiculous." Adora is reading a book in Chinese, and thus incomprehensible too the others. "Let the ape frolic alone in his field. There is no point in meeting his challenge head-on." Adora closes the book. Though her face doesn't show it, the boy's comments about women have annoyed her. "Instead, why not meet it as the willow does the wind? Does anyone know where his room is?"
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 Alita is actually doing her homework, books splayed out in front of her. She looks up at Adora. "How does the willow meet the wind?"
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Aug 14, 2014 00:02
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 "Don't they, like, get bendy and wavy and flop all over the place and stuff?"
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Aug 14, 2014 01:05
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Adora opens her mouth, remembers her classmate's allergy to metaphor, and closes it. "Here." She stands a book up by its base. "So, this is a tough thing, right? But, if I push it-" she pushes it, and it falls down. "Right? But this-" she pins a piece of paper upright between two books, then pushes it, making it wobble back and forth. "Something that yields, but with a strong conviction, a strong core- it just comes back." She pulls the paper free. "Against that rear end in a top hat Masterton, we're the paper against the book- he'll crush us if we try to make it about pushing." She flashes a wicked grin. "So we yield in one place and hit him where he's not protecting. Again, I ask: Does anyone know where his room is?"
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Alita nods thoughtfully. "I get it." She thinks for a moment. "Wrecking his room would get us in trouble though." She starts putting her things away. "I have an idea. We should go to the park," she holds up a hand to forestall Adora, "but not fight him." She holds up a hand to Ash. "Not because you wouldn't kick his... arse." Alita slings her bag over her shoulder. "That would only be winning a battle though. We should try to win the war." "We should try to make a fool of him in front of everyone."
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 "Yeah, I like the sound of that. I gotta establish my place in this school. I gotta make sure NO ONE fucks with me anymore, not just him." Ash pounds her fist into her hand, cracking her knuckles.
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"Oooh, the social approach! Even BETTER!" Chuck rubs his hands together deviously. "Okay...aw, the airfield's too far away. I can't buzz him and make him wet his pants...maybe you can still use the martial arts stuff for that!"
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 "So, no fight, but a way to make a splash with everyone on campus and knock him down a peg or two. Could get a lot of respect that way." Elodie grins. "What's the plan?"
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 FP: 4 Shadow☆Nova pats Aisling's back. "You are going to make the coolest sidekick. ANYWAY! Fortune favors the bold! I know where his room is, let's hit it already!" Spending a FP to declare I figured out where his room is when placing a smoke bomb in his locker. 
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"How many sidekicks are you gonna get, Nova?" Elodie asks, looking at her curious. "I mean, I don't mind sharing the spot, but it's starting to feel more like Justice League than Batman and Robin here."
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"I ain't nobody's fuckin' sidekick, ninja girl."
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St. Raphael's, 2:59 PM As the clock ticks ever closer to the end of the school day, a palpable tension settles over the campus. Word has spread all over school of the lunchroom confrontation, and the challenge issued. There are two paths that lay before you, one of outright defiance, and one of secretive vengeance. Which will you take? The bell rings in 10...9...8... In the bottom of your posts, could you indicate whether your student is going to the park, or to prank Masterton's dorm? FewtureMD fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Aug 17, 2014 |
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"So what are we waiting for! Let's go pants that guy or something or other!" Ah, park! Davin Valkri fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Alita hefts her bag and waits for the group headed to the park. Park, deffo.
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Aisling cracks her knuckles as she waits for her accompaniment to the park. PARK YO.
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"Hmmmm... I'm going to need some supplies." Room.
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Elodie picks up her skateboard and helmet on the way out of school. Not place to roll in the park with all the grass, but never hurts to have some wheels around Manhattan. To get around and grind on the faces of bullies with. "Heya~" She rolls in to meet the others. Park!
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FP: 4 You don't know where Mio is going yet. When you turn around, she's just not there. Disappearing!
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 Chris arrives, a bit out of breath. "Sorry I'm late, my math teacher wanted to talk to me after class. Something about a special project." Park!
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Elodie looks at Chris as if he grew a second, nerdier head. "Geez, you're already going for extra credit at the first day of school?"
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"Nerd."
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Chuck can barely contain his excitement; he is literally bouncing on his feet. "Come on, then! No point in hiding here forever!"
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Park Patrol You all head towards the nearest subway station, swept along in a stream of prep school blazers. Waving your school-issed metro cards, the lot of you manage to squeeze into a packed train car. All eyes are on Aisling, as the prep-school gossip network works at quantum speed. The train lurches, and the lights of the station slide away to the background music of metal wheels on tracks. Next stop: Madison Park, and a date with Dogs-tiny Adora's Bizarre Prankventure The first stop on your noble quest: St. Raphael's Main Office, location of the Master Dormitory Key. The guardian of this treasure is none other than Ms. Ethel Beavers, feared Head Administrative Assistant. Under her handknit sweater covered with frolicking cats, lies a soul harder than steel. The ice blue eyes behind her hornrims have bored into the soul of many a miscreant. "State your purpose, student." It's do or die time, Adora. Time to make a roll, K Prime! FewtureMD fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Adora opens her mouth and lets the words fall out as they may. Deliberate lying is hard and leads to trip ups- a babble of confusion is far harder to fight. "Oh Ms. Beavers, I locked myself out of my clubroom, you know the one, because I was helping a friend who was being bullied and I just, I just totally forgot my keys inside and I left my stuff in there! Can I borrow the master dorm key? I know it's late and you probably want to leave and I really don't want to be a bother, I'm sorry!" KPrime, ++--+4 = 4 Empathy to weave my way into her heart
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Ash's eye twitches as she notices the eyes on her. "Why don't ya lot take a picture? It'll last longer!"
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"Well, let's not just call everyone a nerd, we're all friends here and- hey, are we all here?" Elodie suddenly gets distracted by something off-screen. Perhaps the call of destiny? Or that sign leading to the subway station. "Hey, come on, let's go!" She spends most of the subway car trip with her headphones on, singing along with the music in her head. The lyrics probably don't match up with the music, though. "Ashy's gonna beat Masterson today, oh ye~e~s she will~"
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"Yaaaaaaaay! Let's go beat on a bully!" ------ Chuck starts by looking out the window on the subway, then he gets bored of the darkness. So he starts following Elodie's beat instead. "And all her friends are gonna come and play--oh ye~e~s we will!"
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Alita split off from the group as they left the school, without actually explaining. She reappears also without explanation. Though now she has on a leather jacket and has a motorcycle helmet hooked onto her bag. She cocks her head at Elodie, then at Chuck. "He should stop." She pauses for a beat. "She can continue."
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FP 5/5 "Aw..." Chuck frowns as Alita tells him to knock it off. "Fine..." He pulls out his smartphone and starts fiddling with it. Hey, these are some very nice images of Madison Park... "Y'know, if you wanna make sure this is a fair not-fight and not a trap, you should probably face that guy...uh..." he shows his phone to Ash and points at a few open areas. "...somewhere around here. Make sure he doesn't have guys with paintball guns ready to ambush you from the flower beds or something. Just a thought, y'know! Don't wanna tell you how to fight (or not!) or anything like that!" First roll of the game, because I totally forgot we could Create Advantages in the Library. Let's try to make sure we have a Scouted Not-Battleground, since, you know, this'll be a social thing. We know the Lay of the Land! (Create Advantage, Milsperg): 4dF+4 6
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"Da~da~da~da~da- oh!" Elodie doesn't even notice the conversation going on behind her until she finds iced coffee in her hands. "Hey, thanks." And that's when she notices them. Windswept hair, leather jacket and a hot red motorcycle helmet. The lingering smell of grease and engine exhaust. Also (somehow) the haunting spectre of a hundred speeding violations. ... A pink-haired ball suddenly jumps in front of Alita, body-checking her hard enough to send some cans flying. "Ohmigosh, you own a bike?" Elodie stares at her in wide-eyed wonderment. "And we're not riding it?"
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Aisling gently pushes Chuck's phone out of her face. "Thanks and all, but I don't need you to tell me how to fight. I got this, alright?" And then Elodie's all over Alita. Ash scoffs at this and turns her head the other way. "Yeah, I guess it's kinda cool. I GUESS. Ah, where is that fuckin' meathead already?!" Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Sep 4, 2014 |
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Alita blinks at Elodie as the excited girl gloms onto her, but seems resigned to it. She says softly to Aisling, "Isn't everyone's head made out of meat?"
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FP 5/5 "Hey, come on!" Chuck whines as he's shot down twice in two minutes. He turns to Alita and shrugs. "Nice helmet! Oh, and my head's, like, half meat and half bone. At least that's what people tell me!"
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FP: 4 While the others continue doing cool things and hanging out, Shadow☆Nova creeps along... somewhere. It is taking longer than it should because Shadow☆Nova is using the ceiling. She doesn't actually have to, but it looks kicking rad. Or it would if she wasn't trying to stay stealthy and hidden. She probably should have thought this through. Still disappeared! 
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Adora Ms. Beavers looks you up and down, as if analyzing every fiber of your being. She sighs, and rummages through a drawer. A keycard is produced, and swiped through a card reader on the desk. "This is good until the date changes tonight. Go get your things, miss." A glare is fired from behind a pair of classes. "But if I find one thing out of place..." with the threat hanging in the air, Ms. Beavers turns back to her knitting. Park A voice booms out, "Who're you calling a meathead, freak?" The sea of prep school uniforms parts to reveal Chuck Masterson, standing atop a table laden with hot dogs, one of his minions holding an mp3 speaker blaring 'Bad to the Bone' at top volume. "Step forward, and prepare for utter humialtion!"
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"Obviously, we're calling you one." Chris replies to Masterton. "Why else did you bring those hot dogs except to refill the empty void in your skull?" He realizes that Masterton might just decide to beat him up anyways, no matter what, but it might be worth it to see him expelled like that.
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Elodie winks at Masterson. "Last chance to back out 'fore you embarrass yourself?"
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