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038 ± [visual | location: 14th floor laundry] washed the dirt off our intentions

Jun 16, 2011 12:51

Another careless chucking of the tablet, another free show from the resident headcase. This time he's in the laundry room, wearing a red and black striped tank top, charcoal gray sweatpants, and a very dismayed expression. Clearly something has gone wrong in his world.

"Oh cripes!" Glitch declares and holds up a garment that looks like it has been ( Read more... )

# event, /system glitch, { dawn summers, wyatt cain, @ central, { stefen, { liz parker, glitch, anita blake, (anytime)

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[ voice ] justaddmarbles June 17 2011, 01:52:50 UTC

Huh? Oh, yes, I I'm fine, just have a...laundry thing. [ pause ] Maybe it'll bring out her eyes.

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[ voice ] justaddmarbles June 21 2011, 15:16:12 UTC

N-no, no, I think I've got it under control. [ for the moment at least. meanwhile the distress of her original reply has finally registered ] Is there something else going on? You sounded a little...like there's been bad stuff.

[ Glitch: occasionally oblivious. ]

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[visual] tin_hearts June 17 2011, 22:44:16 UTC

"Glitch."

It was a fortuitous coincidence that Glitch responded best to monosyllabic prompts in times of stress, and Wyatt largely preferred getting to the point as fast as he possibly could.

"Wash it again. If it still veers towards the Realm of the Unwanted, boil the shirt with a couple of sliced lemons. Should take care of the rest."

See what a good friend you got, Glitch? See? He's friggin' Martha Stewart in a cowboy hat. Only he didn't get to keep the hat, so no hat for him. Woe.

[visual] justaddmarbles June 18 2011, 15:04:24 UTC

"...you know I'm starting to doubt having ever been the smartest man in the Zone."

Glitch shook his head and dropped the shirt back in the washer, then found a hanger for the robe. Drip dry seemed like the best approach. "Thanks Cain. No idea what I'd do without you."

Answer: invent a time machine to send the shirt back to before it was ruined.

[visual] tin_hearts June 18 2011, 17:10:01 UTC

Wyatt tilted his head, scrunched up his eyebrows, and gave Glitch a small knowing smile. "I'm sure you'd think of something, sweetheart."

[visual] justaddmarbles June 19 2011, 17:28:19 UTC

"Eventually." A touch of the rueful, there. Detergent was carefully measured, double checked, and then dumped into the washer. "Where'd that come from, anyway? 'Sweetheart'?"

Look it has to come up eventually.

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[Visual] vampbogeyman June 17 2011, 22:50:54 UTC

Anita couldn't help smirking at the scene that was being shown on her tablet.

"Let me guess. Mixed your colors with your whites?"

[Visual] justaddmarbles June 18 2011, 15:46:54 UTC

"Yeah. Again." Sigh. "I-I've gotta stop trying to do this without supervision, it doesn't usually end well."

[Visual] vampbogeyman June 20 2011, 02:40:02 UTC

Oh, dear. So this was a recurring problem.

"Laundry's tricky that way. Always double-check when you separate, helps cut down on this kind of... incident."

[Visual] justaddmarbles June 20 2011, 17:40:17 UTC

One among many, yes.

"I did, o-or I think I did. It must've snuck in, or just been under something." The world will never know. Glitch frowned and absently turned the shirt over in his hands. "At it doesn't have a hole in it, that would be worse."

Optimism: thinking of bad things that could have happened and being grateful that they didn't.

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[ voice ] tothelibrary June 18 2011, 00:54:14 UTC

...I did that my first month at college. I ruined my favorite shirt.

[ all the sympathy. ]

[ voice ] justaddmarbles June 18 2011, 15:50:14 UTC

Oh that's awful. [ pause ] And and seeing as this is my only proper shirt now...well, it's just insult to indignity.

[ voice ] tothelibrary June 19 2011, 15:45:45 UTC

It's... vintage? Ish. You could tell people it's a fashion statement.

[ voice ] justaddmarbles June 19 2011, 17:38:02 UTC

[ the concept of "vintage" is lost on a man who dresses like an Edwardian dandy. that said ]

In that case it'll fit in with the rest of my wardrobe, i-if I ever get back to it. The limited selection's getting annoying.

[ he really misses his vests, okay ]

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[Visual] painsinger June 18 2011, 21:22:18 UTC

...strange. But then, everything about this place is, really. There are far too many machines that he's never seen before. Lately, he's started to learn to be grateful that he took his turn with the chores back at the Collegium, but...it was still odd.

"What are you doing?"

[Visual] justaddmarbles June 19 2011, 17:41:51 UTC

Glitch was tossing the rest of his non-hang-dry clothes into a dryer, but paused to glance at the tablet. A new face, but the hair would certainly make him memorable.

"Laundry," he replied with a shrug. "Okay, trying to, i-i-it's a little treacherous."

[Visual] painsinger June 23 2011, 01:20:11 UTC

"It can be, sometimes." His voice was maybe just a little amused to match the expression on his face. It was hard not to be, really, considering everything. And amused was a better thing to be than, say, terrified.

[Visual] justaddmarbles June 23 2011, 01:32:11 UTC

Glitch would agree with you 110% on that, Stefen. Laugh in the face of danger.

"E-especially when you're absent of mind as I am." He chuckled and shook his head enough to make his corkscrew curls bounce. "Name's Glitch, by the way, I don't think I know you."

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