Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Up until recently maintained as a museum, the childhood home of the Braddock family has been pressed into service as classroom space for the University. Additionally, the increased demands have led to the main ballroom being converted into a cafeteria for University students on a meal plan. The old library has been bolstered with college textbooks.

Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:52 pm

Several hours after Natalie dropped him off, Will staggered back into the manor, rubbing his temples. It was not a several-hour walk to the manor from the road, but it takes a lot longer when you stop along the way two dozen times to protest the world spinning.

The walk, the cold air, the after-effects of the punch-up and the quite significant tonnage of alcohol in his system had given him the proper inspiration -- that was the word he would use, yes -- to take actions into his own hands. Failure required consequences. If no one cares enough to implement consequences from without, it is imperative on those seeking to improve themselves to impose those consequences from within.

...It made a certain amount of logical sense at the time, at least.

That is why his first stop was to the library's computer lab, where he fired off a quick, surprisingly comprehensible e-mail to ASHLIE.

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I will no longer be requiring a room assignment; please remove my name from the registers and re-assign the space as required.


Satisfied, he staggered back out of the library towards the general direction of the dorms. Rather than returning to his room, however, he instead jimmied open the door to the janitorial closet, stepped over the various mops, vacuums, and other detritus, and closed the door behind him.

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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:31 pm

Will can hear muttered curses in what sounds like German interspersed with growls approaching the janitor's closet.
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:34 pm

Will stood, back flush against the back of the closet, arms at his sides, at attention, neither drawing attention to himself nor attempting to hide.
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:36 pm

"Where's the verdammt mop?" She grumbles as she throws the closet door open.

Then her nostrils flare for a moment before she looks directly at Will, blinking in surprise.

"...is this some sort of joke?"
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:44 pm

"Not one I am party too, at any rate," Will said, looking straight forward, slightly through Isolde.

"You were searching for a mop?"
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:45 pm

"Why are you in the closet? Hide and seek is for small children."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:52 pm

"As property of the university, this is one of the most ideal places for me to be stored -- accessible to all who need it, yet out of the way to prevent accidents."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:56 pm

"...you're not a robot. You'd smell different if you were."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:57 pm

"No, I'm not. I'm a shapeshifter. A piece of semi-sentient clay, in my default form. Salt of the Earth and all that."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:58 pm

"A shapeshifter that drank half a brew pub, by the smell."

"Get out of there."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:04 pm

"Not quite half the brewpub," Will protested, obediently clambering over the various janitorial equipment to stand in front of Isolde.
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:10 pm

"So what, a wild night out and you decided you were janitorial equipment?" She asks, withdrawing a mop from the closet.
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:13 pm

"'Decided' nothing. I was purchased, by the university, as military surplus, where I had been serving my country as a variety of useful implements for the past 50-odd years. It is...It is my duty to continue to provide what the students and faculty need here, at my new home."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:26 pm

"I've seen you going to classes. You were there when the mad child was fighting us, too."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:31 pm

"Yes. I...

...Defense of the campus is definitely something I strive to contribute to. Keeping everyone safe and happy are two of my most treasured values.

You may or may not have seen me in class; I've been...a lot of different places, as needs warrant."

Not -technically- a lie.
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:33 pm

"You're a student. You stay in the dorms. Stop winding me up," she says, stalking down the hallway with the mop.
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:35 pm

"I...

...as you wish," he said, slumping his shoulders slightly, and retreating into the closet.
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:40 pm

She stops as she hears Will getting back into the closet.

Spinning on a heel, she walks back towards the closet.

"What is wrong with you?"
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:41 pm

"You know, I've been asked that question a great many times, and had people answer it for me a great many times. I could provide a list, if you'd like."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:41 pm

"Can you sum it up in a sentence?"
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:47 pm

"A run-on sentence, perhaps.

Rather than a feral or mythological shapeshifter; I focus on inanimate and inorganic forms, with all the psychological side-effects one might expect, thanks to a severe trauma and a robust sense of self-preservation."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:49 pm

"So you like being things. Do you like sitting in the closet for no damn reason?"
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:54 pm

"No, but I like sitting in the closet for very important reasons."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:56 pm

"So what important thing am I pulling you away from?"
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:58 pm

"At the moment? Nothing. You found your mop, so I'm not necessary. But I'll be there for when someone does need assistance."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:00 pm

"Is that why you made a noise like a kicked puppy when I told you to stop winding me up?"
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:03 pm

"I don't believe I sounded like a kicked puppy..." Will argued, lamely, in his defense.
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:04 pm

"I have some experience in that."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:04 pm

"Kicking, or being kicked?"
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:06 pm

"Use your imagination."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:10 pm

He looked her over, carefully.

"You look like the kind who would kick someone while they were down, so I'm going to assume the former."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:11 pm

"What about you, do you think you deserve a kicking?"
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:13 pm

"That's not up for me to decide, ma'am. I strive not to, but am not always successful."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:15 pm

"So why are you hiding in the closet and not running back to that redhead?"
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:17 pm

Will visibly stiffened up at that.

"The, uh, 'redhead' is fine. She has her champion, she has her friends. There is surely someone out there that needs me more."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:24 pm

"So you expect me to believe you're not one of the Morrigan's creatures?"
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:25 pm

"I'm not. I'm really, really not," he said, emphatically.

"Not here, anyway. Not this Morrigan.

I am property of Xaviers University, and ASHLIE Minamida specifically. Take it, or leave it, it is the truth."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:27 pm

"I think I've figured out what you are, and it's none of that."

"What you are is sulking."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:41 pm

Will glared at her.

"You have your mop. Was there anything else you needed today? I live to serve."
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Re: Well, it RHYMES with Thinking...

Postby Isolde Schwarz » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:49 pm

"No, I think I'll leave you to your misery," she says, heading back down the hallway.
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