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fourth leaf, [action/BBS]

[The game must be broken.

David had known that before. But now...no, this had only made it worse. This has all happened before.

If one were to walk into the infirmary, they'd find David Lalonde finally awake. Wearing that heavy "dark knight"-style ensemble he doesn't bring out much outside of the training center--that's strange. Around him are all manner of flowers and other such passive-aggressive gifts, most of them given by the same sender. Typical.

Just going to oh-so-casually get out of bed and try to find a way out of this room past all the goddamn baskets and balloons, Rose why.

...he might not have noticed you just yet, if you're there. Shadow's still as lively as ever.]

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[and a fair bit later, on the BBS.]

fear not ladies
or gentlemen i suppose
im not the pickiest sort if im to be entirely honest
which itself feels strange enough of that
the honesty quota has been absolutely fucking surpassed for the month
best to halt production for the time being
in any case your knight has returned
cast from a veritable deathtrap of predestination into a merely immensely irritating hotbed of it

now would anyone care to get me up to speed

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[she's there. she spends a lot more time here than she'd ever care to admit, although lately she's had trouble situating the new facetious gifts in such a way that she could actually still sit in the chair provided for visitors.

she's startled by the sudden movement in the room, having grown accustomed to the relative silence. she looks up from her laptop, making no motion to bat away the balloon obscuring her face. it gave her more time to settle on an appropriate expression.]

Oh, have you decided to get up now? And here I thought you were going to avoid the holiday season altogether.

I'd have avoided it if possible, but evidently Garden couldn't bear to part.

I see you spared no expense. Such hard work! Rest assured, it's worth it.

Edited 2011-10-30 03:01 (UTC)

What a shame. If it could have simply cut you loose I'd have been able to round off the month with a full quartet and one boomerang.

[she inclines her head a little, moving enough out of the balloon's path enough that her sour expression is evident] The gift shop declared bankruptcy while you were napping. This is more out of a pity for the soon to be unemployed workers than anything else.

Yes, well, that's what you get. A spanner in every mechanism.

[...okay his own expression is usually a little dour but she's usually more. amused at the other's expense. what is going on here. his own experience and those fractured memories suggest Something Is Definitely Up.]

... how magnanimous. I'd forgotten.

At this point I'm beginning to wonder if there even is a set of cogs for the wrenches to be thrown into, or if I'm simply being pelted with wayward hardware.

[you would be correct, twin dearest. not that Rose is going to say anything. or do anything beyond school her face into something a little more neutral] Yes, sometimes I can be spurred to altruistic action despite my better judgement. It's a flaw that hasn't abated.

Yes.

[because that answers the question. slightest of frowns.]

What seems to be the problem?

I'm afraid that I have no idea what you're alluding to, as there are no issues on my side. [no idea what you're talking about nope nope look how neutral my face is]

How delightfully obfuscating. [deadeyes]

I'm glad that it amuses you so. [flat stare in return]

Hardly. [but ugh he knows his chances of getting anywhere here aren't great.]

Well, you can't hope to please everyone. [a light shrug. she has the advantage here and she knows it]

I suppose not, L-- [shit.] ... Rose. [he's a little bit fucking furious over recent developments, but hell if he's going to show it as anything more than just his usual displeased look.]

And it would be folly to think otherwise. How nice that we agree on something. [that pause gets an eyebrow raise out of her, but she writes it off for the moment. Rose captchas her laptop and stands]

I think that I've paid a sufficient amount of customary relieved pleasantries, don't you? I'm confident that you can find your own way out.

Seems doubtful at best, with the maze of gifts you've built up. [he plucks an apple from one of the gift baskets, taking it over to the nearby sink.] I'd had the impression our talks were somewhat more borderline-contrived than mere idle palaver.

Are you telling me that you aren't clever enough to find your way out of a facetious labyrinth by yourself? And here I'd almost bought into your facade of being capable.

As to that accusation, it holds true for most of our discussions. I'm not inclined to include this one under the usual subfolder, however.

Much more than just a facade, dear Briar Rose. [yes, he fully realizes the irony of calling her that after he just woke up from a month-long coma. therein lies the point.]

Would there be any particular reason for that? Or is it just another enigma. Hm, will the mysteries never cease...

[oh yes very funny. her lips quirk downward in a half-frown] That remains to be seen.

I doubt that the entanglement will ever lessen itself, even if I felt the need to extrapolate upon motivations. Some things are simply destined to remain in the dark.

[deal with it] If you say so, though I think you'll find empiricism is on my side. Science, because it works.

That hardly prevents us from trying to shine some form of light on the matter.

[no I don't want to] You have absolutely no data to back that outlandish claim up with. The fronting you're doing is only insulting hardworking scientists everywhere.

Shine away to your heart's content. Just don't grouse when you waste all your flashlight batteries on nothing.

[He's so shocked that he forgot to put down his name on the response.]

[It's cool. He. Recognizes the ID.]

observant as ever

they wouldnt have given me a bed if i werent alive idiot

yes because leaving a corpse in a hospital bed for weeks after death is absolutely something practiced by medical professionals
the cornerstone of a new paradigm
now all we need is a syringe filled with a green reagent and i do believe were completely set

[...Something about the tone here is off, but Danny is honestly just too happy to see this purple font again that he barely notices it, much less brings it up.]

david

yes
its david not dave
not in this lifetime or any other

one that i dissuade them from at every turn

[HE IS SO CONFUSED RIGHT NOW HOW DOES FRIENDSHIP WORK]

yes

despite their irritating habit of referring to me as dave theyre still important to me
its not a dealbreaker but it hardly wins points

[IF I CALL YOU 'DAVID' DOES THAT MEAN WE'RE NOT FRIENDS?]

i have always gone by david
keep up

ill thank you to do that

regardless i can count the number of people i would tolerate calling me dave on my hands and only one of them is here

Edited 2011-10-31 15:08 (UTC)

[So not him, then.]

essentially yes

You speak in a rather tasty color.
I do not know what you expect to be told though, unless you can tell me the last of what you know.
Quarter has started, so you best keep up with your classes oh precious, plum knight.

sound counsel
and of course lavenders an excellent shade

in any case it was late september

I am more partial to red, but lavender is nice.

You probably mostly missed the exams and the ball that follows it. Not too much has happened since the strange time when people were gaining strange and new abilities.

[On the other side of the infirmary, Rider only entered the room to grab a few band-aids after a small incident she had from today's sewing.

Well, that is when she saw all the balloons moving wildly, she made a small shriek but quickly covered her mouth.]

[and this blonde kid just. moves a cluster of balloons apart like tall grass when he hears the shriek. What.]

[Oh no what to do? Maybe there was some sort of monster there ready to attack her, on the other hand, it might be a person try to come out from all those balloons.

In a state of panic, she brought her hands to the moving balloons' direction and concentrate.]

Vento! [At least, maybe if it was the latter, the small wind might clear out most of the balloons.]

[WHOA WHAT he stumbles back and then forwards when that hits him, out of the balloons.

normal kid, Rider.

y'know, save for the moving shadow. eh, probably not important.]

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