1 - I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy

[officially_odd]

[Odd's life had a tendancy of requiring an unusual amount of laundry. A fry cook's life was hazardous enough. While Odd himself didn't object to the lingering aromas of bacon, bubbling fat and hashbrowns, they had proven to be less than welcomed by other people in his life. And then there were the stains. It could take any number of scrubbings to

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written; though with the water she gets through this the ink bleeds and she doubts any answer

[haruno]

Kansas has a particular feeling?

[officially_odd]

[it takes him awhile to even think to look at the journal. After he does, slowly making sense of what he sees there (communicating books. That was definitely one he'd have to tell Little Ozzie), it takes even longer to decipher this message into something that makes sense.]

[he speaks. He doesn't have a pen and, even if he did, he wouldn't trust it to write well]

...I wouldn't know, really. I've never been there. But I suppose it would have a feel to someone who had.

[haruno]

An odd statement to make when you show up somewhere new, then. I take it that's what this is? That you're new to Paradisa, this world, not just in a place here you didn't expect to be.

[officially_odd]

It's a movie quote, actually. Or...well..near enough.

If this is Paradisa, then I guess I am new. I don't usually go to a lot of castles.

[deminuit]

[ and he comes through the door just in time to hear that. ]

Give the man a prize.

[officially_odd]

...Thank you sir, but I don't need a prize.

[he shifts awkwardly, wondering if there was a place he could wring out his shirt without dripping all over the place]

[deminuit]

[ he's just dusting off his coat. ]

Did this place drop you in the pool, or did you just trip and fall in?

[officially_odd]

It dropped me in, sir, but there was falling involved.

[waterproofed]

Got dropped in the pool, huh?

[officially_odd]

Not intentionally.

[waterproofed]

It's okay. I popped up in the lake when I got here.

[officially_odd]

It seems an odd way of arriving someplace new. Though I guess it could be worse.

dictated;

[gottaknockhard]

[Not that Spike sits around reading very often, but he does notice when the journal starts dripping off the table it was resting on. He peals it open curiously and sees how he effectively ruined whatever was on those last few pages. ...This again.]

I'd like to know whoever thought this was a good idea.

dictated;

[officially_odd]

It certainly wasn't my choice, sir. At least, probably not.

dictated;

[gottaknockhard]

[Sigh. At least it doesn't smell like it got dropped in a toilet.]

I guess that'll have to stay rhetorical then.

dictated;

[officially_odd]

I'm afraid so, sir.

If you don't mind me asking, just how many people talk through this book? [he's wondering how many more are planning on commenting]

[sexyhitchhiker]

[she's swimming around, minding her own business when THERE'S SOME CRAZY GUY ALMOST FALLING ON TOP OF HER.

She's hit by the resulting wave and sputters as she resurfaces.]

What the fuck is wrong with you??

[officially_odd]

[Odd can keep his cool in many situations...but even he can't pull off composure when being unexpectedly dropped into a pool. He comes up sputtering as well, coughing as he clears his lungs.

At first, he just stares at the girl he nearly drowned as he reaches for the edge of the pool to hold on to. He's really tired of being dropped into bodies of water]

Well... [there's a pause as he coughs again, grimmacing at the sting of chlorine in his throat] I've been told I'm a terrible liar.

[okay. Maybe he had some composure.]

...

[sexyhitchhiker]

[she just stares at this guy while treading water]

Let me rephrase that. [she swims towards the other side and grabs onto the edge so she can yell at him better.] You tried to kill me!

[officially_odd]

[blinking a bit, he frowns at the accusation] Why would I try to kill you?

...I generally try to avoid that sort of thing. Killing really isn't a required skill for fry cooks.