weekends do strange things

[brentwood]

So, uh, that's it?

You find out there's a video game about boarding school and then- poof- I show up? Not that I don't believe you but I'd personally like to think there was more to that thought process than you're letting on. I'm not that simple to conjure up, am I?

Also, that user name isn't great for hiding a secret ID. Just sayin'. And. If I could be back before curfew that'd be grea-- what? What do you mean you think you'll keep me around? You already have a me in your head! [ wow. weird. ] Just. Ugh.

Keep it to the small stuff, okay? Okay.

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[greenteengenius]

They were probably full of "feels".

And not "thinks".

[brentwood]

IIIII'm not sure I want to be handled by someone like that. [ He's not sure he likes being "handled"! ] I'm a firm believer that "thinks" should come way before "feels", not after. [ Otherwise, the "thinks" end up being of the glum sort. He should know. He's a teenage boy. ]

[greenteengenius]

Ah, but you are not a mundane, are you? They are ruled by their desire to see their beloved characters suffer and copulate, as far as I can tell.

[brentwood]

[ Error: 404. Page not found. ] Copulate. . . ?

[ NO NO NO DON'T ANSWER THAT THAT WAS NOT A QUESTION. ] Heh, well, I'm not going to let her force me to [ copulate ] do any of that. If she thinks I can't [ copulate ] fight back, she sure has another thing coming. [ copulate ]

[greenteengenius]

[Guess who's bad at social cues?]

Sex. Most of them are obsessed with it.

They all say that. Then they're forced onto some island where sex is required due to some extremely unlikely bit of pseudoscience.

[He sounds offended. By the pseudoscience, of course.]

[brentwood]

[ Oh god oh god initializing Evasive Maneuver 12. --even if. Pseudoscience. ] I'm too young for that!

[greenteengenius]

Really? I'm not that familiar with humans, but you don't appear much younger than I am.

[He doesn't actually care, mind you. He's already turned away and is poking at his omnicom.]

[brentwood]

No, trust me, one year [ Or more, in his case. ] makes all the difference between a good night out and being put behind bars. [ Oh god did he just PSA an alien? He thinks he just did. Awk-ward. ]

But. . . the island. It goes so far as to alter your genes?

[greenteengenius]

I doubt they have those laws.

That was simply an example. I understand there are multiple places they send people and various ways they force compliance.

[Lyrl's knowledge of these games comes entirely from other characters on here freaking out about them, so.]

[brentwood]

[ That sounds like it needs investigating. tim don't ]

Huh. And you. . . what places have you been sent to?

[greenteengenius]

I have been sent to a game which shortly perished and an alternate universe in which I lost my intelligence.

I think I might have preferred the sex requirement.

But I am no longer in either of them.

[brentwood]

[ "Lost my intelligence" sounds like-- worse than the sex thing, but Tim's definitely not going to prefer either. ]

Mind giving me any names? [ So he can know what to avoid? As if he had a say in it! ]

[greenteengenius]

I doubt you would have the same issue I have as a 12th-level intellect and therefore a "game-breaker".

But the latter game was called Sorting Hat. I was a wizard.

I do not think my mundane understands me.

[brentwood]

I got a 98 on my last test, and that's because I didn't study for it. [ That's something! And oh! Oh gosh that must have been a game set in the Harry Potter novels-- how cool. ]

. . . Must be hard to completely understand someone with a 12th-level intellect.

[greenteengenius]

I nearly successfully took over approximately 80 planets when I was a year old.

She thinks understanding of my personality is enough. Obviously not.

[brentwood]

You obviously win in that department but, uh- why?

Muns just. . . take what's easiest for them, ignore everything else. It's like-- I don't know. You took over 80 planets?

[greenteengenius]

I have no idea. My father lobotomized me so I don't remember it.

Yes, that does seem to be the case. Yes, with mind control. Mind control can be very effective if one is careful to kill everyone it doesn't effect. Obviously, I did not.

[brentwood]

[ That's-- what-- uh. There's some serious alarms going off in his head right now. ] The games took away that mind control, too, obviously. [ But really he's saying it like a question. ]

[greenteengenius]

[As there should be.]

No, I no longer have access to father's program, but I'm sure I could make my own. Something better. I simply have no interest in it. I have my education to further.

[brentwood]

[ . . . . . he can't not ask! ] How?

[greenteengenius]

It would be imprudent to answer that.