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[bastardofipswich]

[ BEHOLD... a teen witch sitting on his bed. He seems way too energetic, considering he's indoors and doing nothing. (lbr he's nursing a magic-high right now, and it's got him feeling both restless and aimless at the same time.) ]

Hey, show of hands, who here's got too much free time right now? [ HE'LL START. Look at that hand go up. ] Come on, at least one of you watching raised your hand, too. So let's do something about it. Get drunk in public, find a corner to loiter on, a shop to vandalize, you know, normal kids' stuff.

[ He grins. ]

Kidding! [ With a shrug and a careless wave of his hand. ] I'd get up to way worse than that if I wanted to be a public menace. [ Still kidding? EH. ]

Anyway, I can't be the only one here with nothing better to do, so who wants to play a game of Would You Rather? Look, I can even start:

[ He claps his hands together and makes a show of thinking. ]

Would you rather... Have superpowers, but die young. Or be perfectly average, and live a long, painfully uneventful life?

Comments

[bastardofipswich]

[ ...girl. ]

ok well clearly i'm going to have to be a bad influence on you

[talentedscavenger]

[...what?]

...Yeah, good luck with that.

[bastardofipswich]

i'm SERIOUS. we'll start small and semi-educational so you don't have to feel too guilty about having fun

like

scrabble

[talentedscavenger]

[She can't take him seriously through text.]

I've been doing fine without doing much 'fun'.

....What's scrabble?

[bastardofipswich]

you only say that bc you don't know what fun is

so it's this game where you have a board with a grid on it. and each player has a bunch of tiles with letters on it. and each letter is worth a certain amount of points

and then you make words on the board with the tiles but you've gotta be strategic and crap to get the most points

look it makes more sense if you just play it

[talentedscavenger]

[....So you create words out of random pieces...okay.]

It sounds....interesting.

Perhaps you should ask someone else to play. I'm busy at the moment.

[bastardofipswich]

oh i can ask more people. IT'S A FOUR PLAYER GAME, SUCKER

and we've already established i've got too much free time [ SO HE CAN WAIT ALL DAY. ]

[talentedscavenger]

[....She's not going to go to this. Not unless he managed to find her, but he couldn't do that, right? nevermind that her username has her NAME in it]

Go ahead and ask other people, but I'll pass on this.

[You will be waiting forever! ]

Imagine this is formatted correctly I’m on my phone

[volitaunt]

Come on Rey. Let’s try it.

[HE WILL DO IT WITH YOU you need fun in your life okok ]

LMAO

[talentedscavenger]

[lkdjfklsdjfdslkf!! POE! WHY!? THIS GUY IS WEIRD! AND WHY DID YOU TELL HIM HER NAME!?]

Can we discuss this later?

[volitaunt]

[ BECAUSE.... he has no sense of caution. ]

Sure, I guess. Why?

[talentedscavenger]

[ .....apparently her doesn’t. ]

Because I would prefer to talk about this in person.

[volitaunt]

Uh oh. Am I in trouble?

[ Poe you idiot. ]

[talentedscavenger]

No you're not.

Why would you think that?

[volitaunt]

dunno, 'can we discuss this later?' is the sort of thing the general usually says before she drags me into her office by the ear

[talentedscavenger]

But I'm not the general.

[She figures out a way to make this text private.]

I don't want to play games with someone I don't know.

I don't even know why they're interested in playing games.

permaprivate;

[volitaunt]

you're not, but be fair: who is?

[ The General is entirely singular. ]

okay, okay, i understand. sometimes people just play games for the sake of playing games. there doesn't need to be a reason for it. it's just fun.

[bastardofipswich]

why? :,(

[talentedscavenger]

Because.

[Yes, best argument ever.]

[bastardofipswich]

wow were you on the debate team in school?

[talentedscavenger]

No, but I can sense your sarcasm.

On my planet there were no schools.

[So, you wanna try that again? Huff, Huff.]

[bastardofipswich]

i'm not sure if i should be saying 'wow that sucks!' or 'lucky you'

[talentedscavenger]

How about saying neither?

[bastardofipswich]

so you never really learned how to socialize, either...

[talentedscavenger]

I learned it’s better to keep to yourself.