{Nine (37)} &diams Well everybody loves a joke / But no one likes a fool

[burntorangesky]

Whomever tied my shoelaces into a knot this morning, it was not appreciated. Kindly do not enter my room without permission again.

[Pen taps]

Rogue, are you about?

[Slight pause]

Is everyone else [very small pause] alright?

-Fred

Comments

[spandexisyouth]

Who do you live with that would tie them together?

And I am very all right!

[burntorangesky]

Neither 00 nor Innovator would do such a thing, I am quite sure.

That is good to hear.

[spandexisyouth]

Oh! I did not know you lived with them. 00 is well?

And how are you?

[burntorangesky]

I have lived with them for some time now, actually. Yes, she seems to be.

I am well, thank you.

[ghost_of_00]

How do you define all right?

00

[burntorangesky]

Still being here, I suppose.

[ghost_of_00]

I am all right. [the period spot gets larger as she considers asking something else, but she isn't sure how to frame the question.]

[burntorangesky]

I am very glad to hear it.

[live_ringer]

Okay on this end. Something up?

[burntorangesky]

Not really, I merely felt like checking.

[live_ringer]

Ah. I suppose that's understandable.

Oh, remind me tomorrow at work that I have something to show you.

[burntorangesky]

Have you a gift for me, Gene? Or did you just find something that is too large, heavy, or awkward for one person to lift by themselves?

[desig_survivor]

I'm here. I'm [brief pause] okay.

You need something?

[Longer pause. He can't leave it at that; he was usually a little more talkative than this before.]

Someone greased half of the walkways in Section One. Somehow I've managed to keep from stepping in it so far, but that could change.

[burntorangesky]

Good.

I was thinking of taking up griffin riding, and of course you were the first person I thought to ask about that.

I shall remember that, if I need to go down there for some reason.

[desig_survivor]

[Hmm. That makes three women who've been interested because of him, and Promise and Stardust both vanished not long after. ...He hopes it's not a pattern.]

Well, lessons are open to anyone who's employed. It's probably better to stop by in the early afternoons on a weekday. Ask one of the grooms - they wear these fairly distinctive vests - for the griffin master, and he can set you up with a mild animal and a trainer.

You've heard that sort of - I don't know, cheerfully melancholy music around, right? I found out that it's coming from some kind of groundcar. No idea how it gets between the islands, though.

[burntorangesky]

[She's not going anywhere, don't worry.]

Thank you, I'll do that.

I have heard it from time to time recently, but I have yet to actually see where it is coming from. Perhaps the car merely appears from thin air. [She's... not entirely sure if she is joking about that.]

You called?

[man_genius]

Wow. That's just sad. That trick doesn't normally work unless you're IN your shoes and I know you're not THAT oblivious. EPIC FAIL.

Also define "alright".

Derrick lost his journal somewhere so he's hiding in his room and pretending to be a writer. Occasionally I hear thumps in there. I realllllllly don't want to know.

We're the anti social house! :D

[Derrick God-modded with Shuri's permission]

[grab_my_bells]

The kind of thumps we should be worried about, or the kind that we should congratulate him on later?

[man_genius]

UGH. I hate you. Mind bleach. Need some.

Considering I saw nobody enter the house for the past several hours I highly doubt it. Besides that, not the kind of thump you're thinking of, Oh Great Ninja Perv. Think shoe hitting the wall. Or...possibly a dead body, who knows. I'll deny this entire conversation the moment he gets his journal back.

[grab_my_bells]

I'm sorry. I think I gave the kid all of our stock of it.

There are other points of entry to your house than the front door, I'm sure. But, well, if the house starts to smell strongly in the next couple of days, you can probably assume dead body.