↬ February 6, 2014

[knightly]

Somehow, it's only now that I've reached the human experimentation portion of my senior project that I've realized my senior project involves human experimentation.

[WARDED TO SENIOR RIBBONFINS]
No, this isn't official business. Well, it is, if we want to discuss giving each other homework help. [...] Actually, let me make a list of which subjects we'd be willing to organize for.

But only after I say what I wanted to say! Which is to say, I warded you all because I wanted to ward my friends, but then I realized I had far too many friends at this school. At that point, most people would give up and simply write this as a public post, but upon considering that for precisely six seconds, I started getting heart palpitations at the thought of making my love life subject to public discussion. Yes! You read that right. Ravinder Dhaliwal is proverbially "eating crow" over those years of saying he's not interested in dating, and will never date until well after graduation. I'm not going to ask how many of you made bets over when I would cave, because I'd like to optimistically think the answer is "none."

Why do I make so many terrible jokes when I'm uncomforta Right. So. I have a boyfriend. His name is Diego. He's an Azurcrest. And beyond this highly embarrassing announcement is an important question: do I get him flowers? If so, what kind and how many? Because roses seem rather serious, don't they?

Tabitha, I hope

[WARDED TO DIEGO MORALES]
Hi.

Comments

[knightly]

Hello, Levi. (Or should I say, Levviiiii?)

To be clear, I'm not looking for volunteers... yet. I'm still trying to figure how I can determine that this is safe.

[gdilevi]

Raaaviiii~ My sweet Ravi~ 🎵

[Ravi]

I BET DIEGO WOULDN'T MIND EXPERIMENTING WITH YOU

[knightly]

Ravi/Levi

[knightly]

...Ah. Diego told you. Of course he told you, you're one of his best friends.

It's not that kind of experimentation. But thank you, Levi.

Ravi/Levi

[gdilevi]

No, I mean that kind of experimentation. Like, your senior project could be testing chimaera repellent and I bet he'd be down.

... I'd be down, that sounds cool.

Ravi/Levi

[knightly]

Ah, but what if the chimaera repellent was poisonous and instead gave you semi-permanent chimaeric characteristics? An occurrence like that rather seems like the death knell for a relationship not even a week old.

Ravi/Levi

[gdilevi]

SIGN ME THE FUCK UP.

[bambae]

Safe how? What are you experimenting for?

[knightly]

It's a variant of sleeping draught. In addition to giving you a good night's sleep, it's supposed to guarantee good dreams as well. Most sleeping draughts on the market tend to either produce entirely dreamless sleep, or leave it up to chance.

Unfortunately, I've come to the realization that the only way to verify that it works is if I have someone drink it and report on their experience. Seems chancy.

[bambae]

That sounds so much more thoughtful than my doomsday rings.

I have insomnia, I'll try it.

[knightly]

Your doomsday rings?

I'm learning a lot about people's sleeping habits today. [...] Thank you, Chris. I'll consider it.

[bambae]

Yeah, Youngblood gave me the idea. I'm incorporating all the basic necessities you'll need in the event of a zombie apocalypse, or if the world ends and you survive in a small gadget that you can carry on your person forever. Like muggles do it all the time with swiss army knives and shit like that, so I thought with a little artificing, why can't we magically do that shit. I'm making two. And they have a distress signal linking them to each other, in case you get separated, or get fucked up on a food run during a zombie invasion, and you need to send out an SOS. Trixie's testing out one. I just need to figure out how make that distress signal nonbattery reliant, since the whole point of it is to not have an expiration date.

However, my plan B, in case I accidentally blow off Trixie's finger, is a howler than can punch the recipient, to fully express how disappointed you are in them. And I am coming very far along with that.

[...]

So yeah. If you need a volunteer.

[gdilevi]

If you need a volunteer...

[bambae]

i wonder if you can turn being a volunteer into your senior project

but if you get a howler at breakfast, let me know how that goes

[gdilevi]

Dude. Do I get double points for being part of two senior projects? Does it average in? HOW ARE SENIOR PROJECTS EVEN GRADED? ARE THEY PASS/FAIL??

Also, I rarely wake up for breakfast. Try lunch instead.

[bambae]

I'm not putting in this much fucking effort for pass/fail. I want numbers.

Fine. But I'm not awesome at the aiming situation. So either I have to throw the howler at you, or the person next to you might get it instead. And I feel like I might get in more trouble for punching head boy than for punching you indirectly via howler.

[indiefolk]

Look who's smart.

[bambae]

I mean duh. It's Ravi.

[indiefolk]

Yeah, he's pretty fantastic.

[knightly]

This is practically a gifted learning school. I'd say I'm about average.

[indiefolk]

There's nothing average about you. You should take that back before I do something embarrassing. I'm this close to publicly talking about how exceptional you are.

[knightly]

Please don't that, or you'll see how exceptionally mortified I can get.

[indiefolk]

I'm not going to do it. I promise. But if you want a list later we can talk.

[knightly]

[...] Find me later. I'll listen to anything you want to talk about.

[indiefolk]

Can I steal you for lunch?