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 Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 8:36 am
It was late afternoon when Sherry wandered over to Mark's office. She had found herself with a bit of free time and decided to check in. She had a million different reasons why she could stop by - return his movies, update him on the fact the ring wasn't doing anything, ask about Carl - but honestly Sherry just wanted to stop by and hang out. She did have his DVDs with her though. She'd already watched them twice, and spent a good long time thinking about the One Ring and what it had done to the people and hobbits that had held it. She still wasn't sure about her conclusions, but that was for another day. "Mark," she said, strolling right into his office and assuming he'd be there, "You busy?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 12:54 pm
Mark's office was oddly empty, though the door was still open. It looked like he had left in some sort of rush, as the pile was looking a little more haphazard than usual. In a corner of the room, a pile of roaches were busy swarming over a long dead centipede, but that was another story for another time.
What was to be noted was that Mark had left his computer on, still mid-rp post type (it read something like "VS ULTRON V2 BOSS MECHANICS: HP 100/100" ) and his frozen pizza was still frozen with only one bite taken out of.
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 5:51 pm
Sherry stared at the empty office for a moment. It wasn't like Mark had other things to do besides be in his office, right? Her gaze went over the trash, some swarming roaches (shudder), and then back to his desk... which had a pizza on it. Who just left pizza sitting around like - "You're kidding me." Text from Sherry Why is your pizza still frozen? Seriously, Mark. Sherry was once again very concerned. Though, maybe food was a good sign that he was planning to return soon? Text from Sherry It's going to thaw if you just let it sit. Text from Sherry Hey will you be back in your office soon? Text from Sherry I'm gonna wait here. don't worry I won't touch anything. She glanced at the computer which seemed to be waiting patiently for him to return and finish whatever that was, and then back at the pizza. The her eyes settled on the computer again. Text from Sherry Does your computer have outside internet?
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:24 pm
The response back was almost immediate: it was actually uncanny how often Mark checked his texts. Text from Mark Yo bilbo don't eat my pizza
About five minutes later, Mark showed up, wearing his full Jedi regalia, severely out of breath. "Dude just had an intense LARP you don't even want to know, then I had to explain my stupid RP marriage to Mimsy that didn't actually exist, I just-"
He paused. "You didn't actually touch anything did you?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 11:34 pm
Sherry just kind of stared at her phone. She sure as hell wasn't eating his pizza, and she didn't really plan on touching the computer. Of course being told not to do something often made a person think about doing it more - So of course Sherry leaned in to get a closer look at the computer. It locked up and Sherry was actually a little bit impressed by the security it apparently touted. At least something was secure in here. The minutes began to tick by. Sherry watched the roaches start to pick at the pizza. "He's still totally gonna eat that," she said to no one but the roaches. She also wondered what exactly a 'jo crystal' was. She had actually began to look for something crystal-like when Mark returned. "No. Not yet. You do have a lot of stuff to touch, though. It's very tempting." She waved at the desk. "I brought your movies back. I was hoping to borrow more, maybe." She held up his DVD box. "Sorry to interrupt your LARPing. If you're busy now we can hang out later. I mean, if you don't mind hanging out with me. I promise I won't try to kill you."
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 11:48 pm
Mark wandered around the room staring at everything with a scrutinizing eye though it would be a miracle if he could actually tell what was off about literal heaps of junk. At least Sherry wasn't sinking this time.
He wandered back to his computer, and held up a finger. There was a very long period of awkward silence as Mark spent about five minutes just agonizingly typing up an RP post, with Sherry able to read every line (something about Tony Stark biding his time charging his suit's energy blasts against Ultron V2 or something with some sort of weird threesome romance that involved way too many female characters including Black Widow and Storm).
At last, the acting Death lead, as Mark liked to call himself now, turned around to face Sherry. "No, it's fine I already finished LARPing and re-configuring seriously so much hardware you don't even want to know seriously, should have spent more time on those updates, and don't even say promises you can't like, keep okay, you'd be the fifth person today."
Don't ask Sherry, just don't ask.
He sighed and it was intense and dramatic and really unnecessary. "Fine. But I get to pick the movies you're borrowing." His hands immediately pulled out Time Travel Hot Tub from god knows where.
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:54 am
Sherry did her very best to not read over his shoulder, but there wasn't much else to do. She wondered if this RP post was an odd bit of insight into Mark himself, and by the time he was finished with it she was certain. "Hm." She almost raised a protest about the promises thing, and then thought better of it. He might be right. Besides, he'd picked a movie for her. "What is that about? It's not a sexy film, is it?" Sherry had decided it was best to be blunt with Mark. "I mean, okay whatever, but I like to know what to expect." She wasn't going to judge. It was just hard to tell, considering it had 'hot tub' in the title. "Is there time travel?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:35 pm
"Not really," Mark passed Sherry that movie, then the entire first season of Clone Wars, only the second DVD of the Hobbit for some reason, and then a copy of Lesbian Vampire Killers. "I mean it's not really that sexy."
The Death Assistant kindly did not say anything of whether or not a movie called Time Travel Hot Tub had time travel in it. Upon finding an old copy of The Fifth Element, Mark paused suddenly gave Sherry a very scrutinizing look. "Say, you don't happen to LARP do you?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 5:50 pm
"Okay," Sherry said, accepting the movie, and the next couple, and while she stared at the cover of the one about Lesbian Vampire Killers and hoped it was the good kind of campy she added, "Okay, I'll watch it." Sherry felt a mental shove. Armagnac sounded very, very serious about this, she never used Sherry's real name unless she was quite serious. He doesn't have to loan us anything, be nice. To Mark she said, "Thanks these all look interesting." Upon seeing The Fifth Element she tried to calm Armagnac further. You'll like that. Everyone likes it. And Bruce Willis is amazing. Mark's question did make her pause. "I can't say I've ever tried. Why? Would you let me in on that?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 6:43 pm
Mark was beginning to wonder if the Fifth Element was probably too out of Sherry's league. Well, it was really just in case she finished Lesbian Vampire Killers and wanted some more quality DVDs. "Cool," he said, without any sort of high expectations. It was just more a miracle that she was returning them, and he briefly considered starting to charge for DVD rentals.
"And I'd consider letting you into our LARP group but you'd have to pass an application first for your character profile and stuff. It's like, super intense and serious, so you have to like, commit."
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:45 pm
Sherry was making a pile of DVDs on the corner of Mark's desk, not wanting to stand there and hold them all right then. "Well, I have been looking for something new to try." She wasn't going to tell him about the days she'd spent in a fog of sadness in her room, or about how she'd requested extensions on her off base research just for things to do and was sad she'd had to return. She wasn't going to tell him she was lonely. "What do I have to do? And like, if I don't get in... we can still hang out right?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 11:50 pm
"You can't just like, try it," Mark chastised, "It's a lifestyle. Once you go in, your life will be changed forever. And like, I reserve my judgement of you until after the application okay." Theoretically, they were hanging out right now but Mark kept on making dramatic jazz hands after every important word.
He took out a clipboard from underneath a printer and dusted it off, before flipping over to the second page. "Okay first question, male or female?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 2:26 am
"Okay." He seemed really passionate about it. Sherry was nodding, but she wasn't sure she was cut out for a lifestyle of LARPing. Armagnac was grumbling. "Um," Sherry said, ignoring her weapon. "Female." She didn't think she role play a boy. "Is the application difficult?" Sherry leaned over to try and see what was on the clipboard.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 11:35 am
Mark made a face at Sherry, as if trying to say rude, and scooted his rolling chair a little further back until it was pretty much flush with the pile of junk behind him. She did however manage to catch a glimpse of the clipboard that included about two hundred questions squeezed into a sheet of paper with what looked like an essay question at the end.
"Well, we have a lot of people playing female characters already so can you play a guy? Cool. Next question," the acting Death lead pressed on, "You need to pick a job class. Like I'm a Jedi Master, so you can't pick that. Well you could but you'd need to do padawan training first with a Master."
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:24 pm
Sherry frowned a little bit at Mark. He was being rude; she just wanted to see. "Uh," she'd been a caught a little off guard at her change of gender but she rolled with it anyway. Not that she had any idea of what other classes were available at all. She only understood about half of what was going on right now. "Padawan sounds fine. Is the training hard? Are there any Masters who can train one? What are the other options?" Sherry was beginning to wonder if she was getting in over her head here. No, no. She could do this.
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