a gift from Kojiro (open to all)

[hogwarts_kojiro]

Bei Nacht und Nebel, when all through the House, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse, Kojiro left an early Yule present for everyone.

He installed it in the Great Hall, right inside the entrance door, where everyone would be sure to see it.

It was a fortune-telling machine, its slots modified to take generic tokens of any kind -- a

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[needsanewliver]

Well, why not. It was a good way to kill a few minutes. Nathan had nothing better to do at the moment, anyway, so he fed the machine a washer, and it read his fortune which the mun indeed screencapped out of amusement: "Accept the next proposition you hear

[charlesofdensen]

"Are you putting washers in that machine?"

Ofdensen kinda missed the point, there.

[needsanewliver]

"Well... yeah. That's what they're there for." Or so Nathan assumed. Why else would a big bag of washers just be sitting next to the thing like that? He stepped aside and turned to look at Ofdensen with a slight smile. "C'mon. Your turn now," he said, privately hoping Ofdensen would get one of the really embarrassing ones. He was pretty hot when he was flustered, after all.

[charlesofdensen]

Ofdensen eyed the washers dubiously (they're washers, after all. Not coins) but took one anyway and put it in the machine.

"Relax already!"

Ofdensen blinked. "Er..."

[needsanewliver]

Nathan snickered and not-so-subtly began to invade Ofdensen's personal space. "I think you should take its advice," he said in a low voice. Against his better judgment, he put in another washer, and it read his fortune: "Virginity like bubble, one prick all gone."

Cue an awkward cough.

[charlesofdensen]

"I think the machine deserves a good kicking in," Ofdensen said after Nathan's next fortune. He added another washer.

"Better to be pissed off than pissed on."

Another eyebrow raise. "Oddly fitting."

[needsanewliver]

"Heh. Bet Murderface wouldn't agree." Nathan allowed himself a small moment of aaaangst black and brutal rage, wondering, not for the first time, where the hell Murderface and now Pickles had gone off to. Maybe they'd made like the rest of the band and had decided to gay it up together?

"Hey, d'you think him and Pickles are fucking now too?" he asked in an undertone. "Because maybe they, uh, felt left out? Since the rest of the band... you know." Including himself. Wow. Dethklok was certifiably at least half gay now.

And after another washer: "Underwear is not the best thing on earth - but next to it."

"I like that one," Nathan said, smirking.

[charlesofdensen]

Ofdensen rubbed his face; that was not a pleasant image. "I don't know. I haven't seen them. I fear they've popped."

And after that last fortune, Ofdensen was glad he was rubbing his face. All the better to hide the flush.

"After one of you converted William to freeballing? I'm sure he'd disagree with that as well."

[needsanewliver]

"They're not listed on the popcorn plaque." He looked embarrassed, and was suddenly glad Ofdensen wasn't looking at him at the moment. "I... passed it earlier. And glanced at it. Since I was there anyway." In truth, he seemed to find an excuse to pass it pretty much daily so he could check it. Just in case. Just... to make sure...

It wasn't Murderface's or Pickles' names he looked for first.

He leant closer to Ofdensen, peering at him with a smile that was becoming goofier by the second. "What've you been up to lately, anyway?"

[charlesofdensen]

Ofdensen looked at Nathan with a smile. "Thanks for checking, Nathan."

He shrugged. "Studying, mostly. Enjoying the autumn weather when I'm not."

[needsanewliver]

"Studying what?" Nathan was attempting to sound interested, and mostly succeeding. He'd had enough practise with this sort of thing, after all.

"We should... um... hang out. More. Sometime. If you want. You do still kinda owe me dinner, I think." Remembering what Skwisgaar had mentioned about Ofdensen trying to turn Toki into a lady a conversation that's being handwaved for now, he quickly added, "But no magic shit. I don't want you turning me into a woman like you did Toki." He gave Ofdensen a suspicious look. "Why did you turn him into a woman?"

[charlesofdensen]

Ofdensen facepalmed. "I didn't try to turn him into a woman, I slipped him truth potion so he wouldn't prevaricate." He looked up in slight concern. "They still think I did that?"

[needsanewliver]

"Skwisgaar was, you know, kinda pissed... and worried. I think him and Toki wanted to fire you for a while," Nathan said, looking rather awkward. He did not want to deal with that sort of shit. "And he, uh. Skwisgaar said that Sweden country-dude said you're part Danish? To be honest, I think he was more pissed about you keeping that a secret than you turning his boyfriend into a lady. Feeding him truth potion. Whatever." He frowned. "You gonna make a habit of slipping us all truth potion now?"

[charlesofdensen]

"How did Sweden find out?" Ofdensen sighed. "I didn't tell him-or you-because in the first place I'm only an eighth Danish, and in the second that doesn't affect my job, and in the third if you fired me because of that I have legal grounds to sue Dethklok for discrimination."

Ofdensen looked up. "There are plenty of things I don't tell you guys about me. Being part-Danish is minuscule."

He then shook his head. "And no. You, Pickles, and Skwisgaar would see through that, if William figured it out he'd steal my supply for his own uses, and..." he murmured the last part but it sounded suspiciously like "I couldn't do that to you anyway".

[needsanewliver]

"Guy's a country. He probably just knows." And, surprisingly, Nathan was actually right for once. His eyes went wide as he stared at Ofdensen, surprised and dumbfounded by what he'd said. "You'd sue us? Us? Seriously?"

His expression faded into an uneasy look and he sighed. He already knew there was probably a lot about Ofdensen he didn't know, and had the growing suspicion there was just as much he wouldn't want to know... "But I don't want to fire you. They don't either, now, as far as I know. They were just pissed about the truth potion stuff. What exactly did you ask Toki?" Despite being partially as well as selectively deaf, he did catch the last part, and couldn't help smiling a little. Smugly.

[charlesofdensen]

Ofdensen hesitated before answering in a strained voice, "No. Just him." He shook his head again, those weren't things he needed to think about.

"Whether they were sleeping together, making sure they were careful, reassuring Toki that it wouldn't get out to the public until they were ready for it to get out. Oh, and promising to get the Shoggies copies of the book about Toki's Deddybear."