Pirate Radio - Friday, June 10th
VERONICA: Good evening, Fandom. It's Friday night and this is Veronica Mars. My radio broadcast has not been hijacked tonight.
ARCHIE: And anyone who would dare try to hijack the radio broadcast under the nose of an officer of the Royal Navy would be foolish indeed. Besides, good God, people! She has a taser!
VERONICA: Yes, but I'll only use it if I'm provoked.
ARCHIE: And hijacking your broadcast isn't provocation enough?
VERONICA: In theory, no. But the very untrue rumors that started because of the hijacking are.
ARCHIE: You know, I still haven't heard those.
VERONICA: Hey, you wanna start the news? Look, aren't you in the beach workshop?
You Learn Something New Every Day
ARCHIE: Why, yes. Yes I am in the beach workshop. We built sandcastles today, though no one opted to play Frisbee or volleyball as far as I can remember.
VERONICA: I take it that you didn't get puddinged on again. Is puddinged a real word?
ARCHIE: It is now. But that's why we didn't go out on the water. I do, however, now have a tiny kitten named Davy Jones. Janet and I think he may be a kraken in disguise.
VERONICA: What's a kraken?
ARCHIE: Er . . . legendary sea beast. And now it's my turn to ask: what's Dada? Because the Dada workshop met today as well.
VERONICA: It was an art movement circa World War One that used nonsense to spark critical thought. So apparently the students in the workshop spent a day not making sense this week. Which might explain a lot. Today, however, they played dodgeball. I'm not exactly sure how that's Dada.
ARCHIE: Does dodgeball make sense? I'm not sure. But then again, I wasn't there. I'm also not in detention tomorrow, thank God, although a whole hell of a lot of people are. Oh! I finally get to make my speech! If the lot of you were under my command, I'd have you all flogged at the gratings for such behavior. Or bent over the gun-breech and caned. Only I really wouldn't, because it hurts.
VERONICA: ... remind me not to make you mad ever.
ARCHIE: I've just wanted to make that speech for a long time, that's all. I wouldn't really do it. Wasn't there one more workshop today?
VERONICA: Yes, Flight and Flying also met. They ran practice simulations in an F16 Fighter Jet and then shot stuff. After that, they got to try a different kind of flying. On brooms with Draco and Cedric. I'm pretty sure they don't cover the history of broom flying at the Air and Space museum, just so you guys know.
ARCHIE: Somehow I didn't think they did. Oh, and there was talking. Isn't there always talking? Not in workshops, though, as that was all of them for the day.
VERONICA: No one went to talk to Dean Tick during his office hours today. And I'm guessing there wasn't much talking at lunch since Tempe ate with an army of kittens.
ARCHIE: Unless some of those kittens talk. I don't think Davy Jones here does, at any rate.
VERONICA: I hope not. One talking cat around here is more than enough.
The Dorms: Which Are Rapidly Becoming a Zoo
VERONICA: So, in addition to the kittens from yesterday, the dorms were overrun by frogs this morning. Which apparently freaked Willow out. Jaye wasn't liking the frogs either. But I think Sakurazaki wins because she had a sign about frogs legs on her door.
ARCHIE: If Pip's not still a gosling, I hope he'll pardon me for my reflexive "oh my God, it's the French" reaction to the mention of frogs there. It's a habit. I swear I'm trying to break it. Xander likes frogs, though. He was talking to his.
VERONICA: And Xander's frog later saved Willow from the other froggies. Aw.
ARCHIE: Aeryn played with a kitten? Holy God. Were there witnesses? Sawyer and Tempe played with kittens too. I suspect this was not, however, quite as dramatic a bit of news.
VERONICA: I wonder if the kitten she was playing with was John? It says here that they were adorable this morning.
ARCHIE: Professor Skeeter's gone though. Then again, we have had a spate of spontaneous animal transformations lately, haven't we? It could have been John.
VERONICA: It would explain why Aeryn was playing with it. In non-animal news, Kawalsky wasn't feeling well when he woke up. He went to talk to Sam about his nightmares. Oh, I know what that's like. I have some really good tea that can help.
ARCHIE: Mmm, tea. I haven't had a good cup of tea in a while. I could stand to curl up with a nice hot cup of tea and a book. Speaking of books, that's what Janet and Liz were talking about today. And there will be much, much more about books later in this broadcast. And Cameron sent email to Angel. Was it smurfy?
VERONICA: I don't know, but what's not smurfy is the fact that Nadia and Walter woke up together and were, I quote, adorable, this morning. Nadia? We need to talk.
ARCHIE: Oh dear. Maybe Rory needs to talk to Doctor Pevensie or something, because our notes say she was crazy. Around here, that could be literal. Or it could be figurative. Maybe both.
VERONICA: Well, it also says she was acting weird in the second floor common room. Anakin wasn't worried though and Aeryn told her she wasn't crazy. She apparently told Joxer that the water was blood though. And John offered her drinks that weren't blood. I think maybe you were right about her talking to Dr. Pevensie.
ARCHIE: I hate being right sometimes. But just because Joxer thought Dean was Alec doesn't make him crazy. It just makes him unused to the doppelganger syndrome we have around here. Are Ewoks anything like Smurfs? Because Dean and Rory were talking about Ewoks. And, I quote, weirdness.
VERONICA: Dean asked Anakin about the kitten that's attached to him. And then, oh my, Rory hallucinates at Tim. Gah. Poor Rory.
ARCHIE: Honestly, it's the second floor common room. They're all crazy there.
VERONICA: You might be right. Because in the fourth floor common room, Sakurazaki meditated and Jude sang frog songs. And in the fifth floor common room, Walter and Pippi discussed frogs and kitties.
ARCHIE: And that's normal by Fandom standards. The third floor common room had Bridge, Xander, Anders, and Z reading. Wait. Samuel reading? That's not normal.
Town: Which is also a bit of a zoo
VERONICA: Be nice. We know he's capable of reading because he's capable of writing. Something I discussed with Cally at The Perk this afternoon. I also talked to Janet, who also talked to Tempe. And Chloe was there talking to Clark.
ARCHIE: I can't imagine Mister Blackadder was too pleased with the infestation of frogs at All and Sundries. Perhaps the frogs will apologize, as Tim did to Lana after his, and again I quote, weirdness from the other day.
ARCHIE: Oh, all right. I'll be nice, because I don't want you to taser me. But holy God, Caritas was busy tonight! What with Marie inviting Kaylee to watch cheerleader practice, being introduced to Walter by Nadia, Conner and Nadia talking about detention, Marie and Conner discussing the computer workshop, Kaylee and Conner discussing plastic fish . . . one moment, I need to catch my breath.
VERONICA: Phoebe tried to get Bel to sing with her. Why can't stuff like that happen on nights when I'm working? Marie and Phoebe discussed cheerleading. *snicker* Kaylee and Phoebe discussed Dada poker. Marie told Bel that she wasn't weird tonight. Uh huh. What was your excuse last week, Marie?
ARCHIE: I thought we were all weird all the time here. But I suppose some of us are stranger than others. Nadia and Bel, and Walter and Bel, and Conner and Tim were also talking about detention, unsurprising given the sheer number of detentionees. Walter and Phoebe talked frogs while Tim and Bel talked kittens.
VERONICA: Bel talking about kittens. That's probably pretty high on the list of things I never thought would be reported on Pirate Radio. Tim talked to Marie about dodgeball, Gwynn about his assignment for Artie's class and Conner about detention. Joxer, on the other hand, talks to Marie, Kaylee and Tim about the fact that Callisto took his boots.
ARCHIE: What is it with her and boots these days, anyhow? I think that's everything except for the one big event for the day: the book fair.
The Book Fair
VERONICA: A number of people browsed the Classics area, Piper, Rory, Liz, Parker, Tim, and Bel, who talked Willow and Parker. Tempe browsed the Mysteries. River and Tim talked in Science Fiction while Tim browsed. Tim also checked out Fantasy, along with Peter Parker and John Connor. Seras looked at the Westerns.
ARCHIE: And in the Romance section . . . *rustles through papers* *starts snickering uncontrollably* Ahem. Yes. Nadia and Pippi were there, debating whether or not it was also the humor section. Pippi also helped Anders pick out books. Good God, he needs all the help he can get. Why am I entirely unsurprised to find him there?
VERONICA: Maybe he's looking for writing tips. Nothing wrong with that. Sakurazaki looked at History books, as did Hermione and Zack and English Peter and Elizabeth. Popular Science lived up to its name, with Zack, Tempe, Parker, Sam Carter and Isabel, River, Peter, and Bel all looking. The Biography section was visited by Elizabeth, Anders and Isabel. Languages was visited by Nadia, Sakurazaki, Phoebe, Pippi, Walter, Rory, and the Winchester brothers. Jack Harkness, John Connor, Sakurazaki, Anders, Bridge and Xander all look for Reference books. Jack Harkness and Cedric chat in the Philosophy and Psychology section. And finally, Piper and Pippi both look at Fine Arts.
ARCHIE: And there were refreshments. Refreshments always attract people. Walter, Pippi, and Nadia debated the comparative merits of tea, coffee, and beer; River and Walter compared notes on tea and the places they call home, and Walter and English Peter were -- well, English about tea, and pondered making the United States a British colony again. Can I help? English Peter and Seras talked about Pip and animal transformations, and compared their loot. English Peter, being a polite young man -- well, of course, he's British -- had a cordial conversation with Sakurazaki.
ARCHIE: Tim availed himself of banana bread, Tempe took food and talked to Elizabeth, and John Connor didn't waste an opportunity to get fed, either.
VERONICA: And I think that's finally everything.
ARCHIE: Don't say that. You'll jinx it. That is, however, all that we had in our notes tonight. Hopefully you all are too busy reading to do anything else.
VERONICA: If we leave now, it wouldn't matter what they did, because we wouldn't be here to report it.
ARCHIE: That's incentive enough for me. Enjoy your new books, Fandom -- I think it's about time for us to sail off into the proverbial sunset.
VERONICA: Have a nice night!
[ooc: much love to actingltcrumpet for co-writing and everyone in the dada chat for helping me stay awake with the laughter.]
ARCHIE: And anyone who would dare try to hijack the radio broadcast under the nose of an officer of the Royal Navy would be foolish indeed. Besides, good God, people! She has a taser!
VERONICA: Yes, but I'll only use it if I'm provoked.
ARCHIE: And hijacking your broadcast isn't provocation enough?
VERONICA: In theory, no. But the very untrue rumors that started because of the hijacking are.
ARCHIE: You know, I still haven't heard those.
VERONICA: Hey, you wanna start the news? Look, aren't you in the beach workshop?
You Learn Something New Every Day
ARCHIE: Why, yes. Yes I am in the beach workshop. We built sandcastles today, though no one opted to play Frisbee or volleyball as far as I can remember.
VERONICA: I take it that you didn't get puddinged on again. Is puddinged a real word?
ARCHIE: It is now. But that's why we didn't go out on the water. I do, however, now have a tiny kitten named Davy Jones. Janet and I think he may be a kraken in disguise.
VERONICA: What's a kraken?
ARCHIE: Er . . . legendary sea beast. And now it's my turn to ask: what's Dada? Because the Dada workshop met today as well.
VERONICA: It was an art movement circa World War One that used nonsense to spark critical thought. So apparently the students in the workshop spent a day not making sense this week. Which might explain a lot. Today, however, they played dodgeball. I'm not exactly sure how that's Dada.
ARCHIE: Does dodgeball make sense? I'm not sure. But then again, I wasn't there. I'm also not in detention tomorrow, thank God, although a whole hell of a lot of people are. Oh! I finally get to make my speech! If the lot of you were under my command, I'd have you all flogged at the gratings for such behavior. Or bent over the gun-breech and caned. Only I really wouldn't, because it hurts.
VERONICA: ... remind me not to make you mad ever.
ARCHIE: I've just wanted to make that speech for a long time, that's all. I wouldn't really do it. Wasn't there one more workshop today?
VERONICA: Yes, Flight and Flying also met. They ran practice simulations in an F16 Fighter Jet and then shot stuff. After that, they got to try a different kind of flying. On brooms with Draco and Cedric. I'm pretty sure they don't cover the history of broom flying at the Air and Space museum, just so you guys know.
ARCHIE: Somehow I didn't think they did. Oh, and there was talking. Isn't there always talking? Not in workshops, though, as that was all of them for the day.
VERONICA: No one went to talk to Dean Tick during his office hours today. And I'm guessing there wasn't much talking at lunch since Tempe ate with an army of kittens.
ARCHIE: Unless some of those kittens talk. I don't think Davy Jones here does, at any rate.
VERONICA: I hope not. One talking cat around here is more than enough.
The Dorms: Which Are Rapidly Becoming a Zoo
VERONICA: So, in addition to the kittens from yesterday, the dorms were overrun by frogs this morning. Which apparently freaked Willow out. Jaye wasn't liking the frogs either. But I think Sakurazaki wins because she had a sign about frogs legs on her door.
ARCHIE: If Pip's not still a gosling, I hope he'll pardon me for my reflexive "oh my God, it's the French" reaction to the mention of frogs there. It's a habit. I swear I'm trying to break it. Xander likes frogs, though. He was talking to his.
VERONICA: And Xander's frog later saved Willow from the other froggies. Aw.
ARCHIE: Aeryn played with a kitten? Holy God. Were there witnesses? Sawyer and Tempe played with kittens too. I suspect this was not, however, quite as dramatic a bit of news.
VERONICA: I wonder if the kitten she was playing with was John? It says here that they were adorable this morning.
ARCHIE: Professor Skeeter's gone though. Then again, we have had a spate of spontaneous animal transformations lately, haven't we? It could have been John.
VERONICA: It would explain why Aeryn was playing with it. In non-animal news, Kawalsky wasn't feeling well when he woke up. He went to talk to Sam about his nightmares. Oh, I know what that's like. I have some really good tea that can help.
ARCHIE: Mmm, tea. I haven't had a good cup of tea in a while. I could stand to curl up with a nice hot cup of tea and a book. Speaking of books, that's what Janet and Liz were talking about today. And there will be much, much more about books later in this broadcast. And Cameron sent email to Angel. Was it smurfy?
VERONICA: I don't know, but what's not smurfy is the fact that Nadia and Walter woke up together and were, I quote, adorable, this morning. Nadia? We need to talk.
ARCHIE: Oh dear. Maybe Rory needs to talk to Doctor Pevensie or something, because our notes say she was crazy. Around here, that could be literal. Or it could be figurative. Maybe both.
VERONICA: Well, it also says she was acting weird in the second floor common room. Anakin wasn't worried though and Aeryn told her she wasn't crazy. She apparently told Joxer that the water was blood though. And John offered her drinks that weren't blood. I think maybe you were right about her talking to Dr. Pevensie.
ARCHIE: I hate being right sometimes. But just because Joxer thought Dean was Alec doesn't make him crazy. It just makes him unused to the doppelganger syndrome we have around here. Are Ewoks anything like Smurfs? Because Dean and Rory were talking about Ewoks. And, I quote, weirdness.
VERONICA: Dean asked Anakin about the kitten that's attached to him. And then, oh my, Rory hallucinates at Tim. Gah. Poor Rory.
ARCHIE: Honestly, it's the second floor common room. They're all crazy there.
VERONICA: You might be right. Because in the fourth floor common room, Sakurazaki meditated and Jude sang frog songs. And in the fifth floor common room, Walter and Pippi discussed frogs and kitties.
ARCHIE: And that's normal by Fandom standards. The third floor common room had Bridge, Xander, Anders, and Z reading. Wait. Samuel reading? That's not normal.
Town: Which is also a bit of a zoo
VERONICA: Be nice. We know he's capable of reading because he's capable of writing. Something I discussed with Cally at The Perk this afternoon. I also talked to Janet, who also talked to Tempe. And Chloe was there talking to Clark.
ARCHIE: I can't imagine Mister Blackadder was too pleased with the infestation of frogs at All and Sundries. Perhaps the frogs will apologize, as Tim did to Lana after his, and again I quote, weirdness from the other day.
ARCHIE: Oh, all right. I'll be nice, because I don't want you to taser me. But holy God, Caritas was busy tonight! What with Marie inviting Kaylee to watch cheerleader practice, being introduced to Walter by Nadia, Conner and Nadia talking about detention, Marie and Conner discussing the computer workshop, Kaylee and Conner discussing plastic fish . . . one moment, I need to catch my breath.
VERONICA: Phoebe tried to get Bel to sing with her. Why can't stuff like that happen on nights when I'm working? Marie and Phoebe discussed cheerleading. *snicker* Kaylee and Phoebe discussed Dada poker. Marie told Bel that she wasn't weird tonight. Uh huh. What was your excuse last week, Marie?
ARCHIE: I thought we were all weird all the time here. But I suppose some of us are stranger than others. Nadia and Bel, and Walter and Bel, and Conner and Tim were also talking about detention, unsurprising given the sheer number of detentionees. Walter and Phoebe talked frogs while Tim and Bel talked kittens.
VERONICA: Bel talking about kittens. That's probably pretty high on the list of things I never thought would be reported on Pirate Radio. Tim talked to Marie about dodgeball, Gwynn about his assignment for Artie's class and Conner about detention. Joxer, on the other hand, talks to Marie, Kaylee and Tim about the fact that Callisto took his boots.
ARCHIE: What is it with her and boots these days, anyhow? I think that's everything except for the one big event for the day: the book fair.
The Book Fair
VERONICA: A number of people browsed the Classics area, Piper, Rory, Liz, Parker, Tim, and Bel, who talked Willow and Parker. Tempe browsed the Mysteries. River and Tim talked in Science Fiction while Tim browsed. Tim also checked out Fantasy, along with Peter Parker and John Connor. Seras looked at the Westerns.
ARCHIE: And in the Romance section . . . *rustles through papers* *starts snickering uncontrollably* Ahem. Yes. Nadia and Pippi were there, debating whether or not it was also the humor section. Pippi also helped Anders pick out books. Good God, he needs all the help he can get. Why am I entirely unsurprised to find him there?
VERONICA: Maybe he's looking for writing tips. Nothing wrong with that. Sakurazaki looked at History books, as did Hermione and Zack and English Peter and Elizabeth. Popular Science lived up to its name, with Zack, Tempe, Parker, Sam Carter and Isabel, River, Peter, and Bel all looking. The Biography section was visited by Elizabeth, Anders and Isabel. Languages was visited by Nadia, Sakurazaki, Phoebe, Pippi, Walter, Rory, and the Winchester brothers. Jack Harkness, John Connor, Sakurazaki, Anders, Bridge and Xander all look for Reference books. Jack Harkness and Cedric chat in the Philosophy and Psychology section. And finally, Piper and Pippi both look at Fine Arts.
ARCHIE: And there were refreshments. Refreshments always attract people. Walter, Pippi, and Nadia debated the comparative merits of tea, coffee, and beer; River and Walter compared notes on tea and the places they call home, and Walter and English Peter were -- well, English about tea, and pondered making the United States a British colony again. Can I help? English Peter and Seras talked about Pip and animal transformations, and compared their loot. English Peter, being a polite young man -- well, of course, he's British -- had a cordial conversation with Sakurazaki.
ARCHIE: Tim availed himself of banana bread, Tempe took food and talked to Elizabeth, and John Connor didn't waste an opportunity to get fed, either.
VERONICA: And I think that's finally everything.
ARCHIE: Don't say that. You'll jinx it. That is, however, all that we had in our notes tonight. Hopefully you all are too busy reading to do anything else.
VERONICA: If we leave now, it wouldn't matter what they did, because we wouldn't be here to report it.
ARCHIE: That's incentive enough for me. Enjoy your new books, Fandom -- I think it's about time for us to sail off into the proverbial sunset.
VERONICA: Have a nice night!
[ooc: much love to actingltcrumpet for co-writing and everyone in the dada chat for helping me stay awake with the laughter.]