PBA: R 002 Janis and Mal

[5/19/17, 8:20:57 PM] Janis: Janis finishes wrangling the puppies and goes to find Mal.

[5/19/17, 8:22:08 PM] Janis: Janis will carry Wink, the Blink Dog. She's her favorite, as she's the only one she can actually pet without gloves.

[5/19/17, 8:22:19 PM] Malagaste: ((Well, there is the kitten.))

[5/19/17, 8:22:24 PM] Malagaste: Mal can be found in the library.

[5/19/17, 8:23:12 PM] Nation: (I still think it would have been more on-brand if she named the blink dog Blink.)

[5/19/17, 8:23:12 PM] Janis: ((True, but she still likes the Blink Dog))

[5/19/17, 8:23:31 PM] Janis: Janis enters the library. "Hi."

[5/19/17, 8:23:42 PM] Janis: Janis still has her hair a bit singed from the fight.

[5/19/17, 8:23:49 PM] Janis: "...what'cha reading?"

[5/19/17, 8:24:13 PM] Janis: ((Janis is getting more creative))

[5/19/17, 8:25:03 PM] Malagaste: Mal: "Sixth-Dimensional Characteristics of Trasmutational Matrices in Sixth-Tier Spell Variants."

[5/19/17, 8:25:16 PM] Janis: "..."

[5/19/17, 8:25:45 PM] Janis: "...ok...sounds...well, it sounds smart."

[5/19/17, 8:25:58 PM] Janis: "...it doesn't bite, right?"

[5/19/17, 8:26:18 PM] Malagaste: Mal eyes the book suspiciously. "... I hope not."

[5/19/17, 8:27:47 PM] Janis: Janis comes over and sits by him. "...I think the tank's coming along well.  I've almost got it moving forward.  Your spell enhancing this is really cool."

[5/19/17, 8:29:36 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Oh, well, it's just standard amplification magic. I mean, I've been working on that kind of stuff for a pretty long time. ... it's even been working for like, a whole year.

[5/19/17, 8:30:17 PM] Janis: "...well...it's still cool."

[5/19/17, 8:30:24 PM] Janis: "...you met Wink, right?"

[5/19/17, 8:30:44 PM] Janis: "She's nice, but really hard to keep still."

[5/19/17, 8:32:01 PM] Malagaste: Mal holds his hand out to the dog hesitantly. He's obviously expecting to get bitten.

[5/19/17, 8:32:21 PM] Janis: Janis hands Wink to him. She's very friendly.

[5/19/17, 8:33:02 PM] Malagaste: Mal takes the dog and scritches it, and rubs its tiny tummy.

[5/19/17, 8:33:39 PM] Janis: "I don't know why all the puppies are different.  Not sure who to ask around here."

[5/19/17, 8:33:58 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Well, we are in a library. Maybe we could find out.

[5/19/17, 8:34:12 PM] Janis: Janis groans.

[5/19/17, 8:34:41 PM] Janis: "Reading's not a me thing, really."

[5/19/17, 8:35:16 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Well, it's a me thing.

[5/19/17, 8:35:39 PM] Malagaste: He stands up and starts toward one of the corners of the library, puppy in hand.

[5/19/17, 8:36:12 PM] Janis: "I know.  You're a lot smarter than me."

[5/19/17, 8:36:20 PM] Janis: Janis follows.

[5/19/17, 8:36:26 PM] Janis: "That's why we're a good team."

[5/19/17, 8:36:51 PM] Janis: Janis smiles at him

[5/19/17, 8:37:40 PM] Janis: "...any ideas where to start?"

[5/19/17, 8:38:08 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Not really. What are all the ... puppies again?

[5/19/17, 8:39:05 PM] Janis: "Wink's a blink dog.  Spike's a Dire Wolf.  Flamey Jr.'s a Hell Hound.  Flicker's a hell hound-blink dog hybrid...and Fuzz-Face is a cat."

[5/19/17, 8:39:19 PM] Janis: "...that's probably the weirdest one."

[5/19/17, 8:39:56 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... Fuzz-Face is a cat?

[5/19/17, 8:40:10 PM] Janis: "I mean...I'm pretty sure she's a cat."

[5/19/17, 8:40:48 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... and they're all different. Maybe she mated with a chaos... canid, of some kind. Are those real?

[5/19/17, 8:41:09 PM] Janis: Janis shrugs. "What's a canid?"

[5/19/17, 8:41:50 PM] Malagaste: Mal: A doggish animal.

[5/19/17, 8:43:01 PM] Janis: "...so...we need a book on dog-like animals."

[5/19/17, 8:43:42 PM] Malagaste: Mal: No, we need a book on chaos animals.

[5/19/17, 8:43:51 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Then we can look and see if there are chaos... dogs.

[5/19/17, 8:44:32 PM] Janis: ((...I've got a 13 on investigation. Can we find anything like this?))

[5/19/17, 8:47:13 PM] Janis: "...I mean...this library should have something like that, right?"

[5/19/17, 8:47:58 PM] Malagaste: ((Sure!))

[5/19/17, 8:48:01 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Right.

[5/19/17, 8:48:42 PM] Malagaste: Mal heads to a back corner of the library and starts scanning the shelves.

[5/19/17, 8:50:42 PM] Janis: "...hey, Mal.  You ever think about...anyone, from back home.  Like...did you have friends in the Underdark?"

[5/19/17, 8:51:44 PM] Malagaste: Mal: I didn't have time for friends.

[5/19/17, 8:51:55 PM] Malagaste: Mal: I had too many sisters.

[5/19/17, 8:53:05 PM] Janis: "...so...like...you didn't think about other girls?"

[5/19/17, 8:53:26 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Well, my cousins ordered me around too I guess.

[5/19/17, 8:54:23 PM] Janis: "...sorry.  That's...not what I meant.  I forgot that's how...what do you like doing?"

[5/19/17, 8:54:35 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Well, I read a lot, I guess.

[5/19/17, 8:54:48 PM] Malagaste: He keeps scanning the shelves, and then climbs up one of the mobile staircases for reaching the high ones.

[5/19/17, 8:55:20 PM] Janis: "...Mal...the book we're looking for right now...you wanna read it, right?  Like...you're not just doing it cause I brought it up."

[5/19/17, 8:57:12 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Well, it's not exactly my area of interest.

[5/19/17, 8:57:49 PM] Janis: "Mal, you don't have to listen to me just because I'm a girl.  I can look for it by myself, if you want.  Just...do what you wanna do."

[5/19/17, 8:59:52 PM] Janis: "If you don't wanna look up chaos animals, or build a tank, or learn to turn into animals, then don't do it."

[5/19/17, 9:02:13 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... is this some kind of weird trick? Are there people who don't want to build tanks and turn into animals and look up things about their environments?

[5/19/17, 9:02:58 PM] Janis: Janis smiles. "Ok, that's fair.  I just...were friends...and I only want you to do stuff cause you wanna be my friend...not cause I'm a girl or cause someone else told you to."

[5/19/17, 9:03:23 PM] Janis: Janis pulls a book off the shelf. "I think this is a good place to start."

[5/19/17, 9:04:17 PM] Janis: "It says ...something something Chaos in the title."

[5/19/17, 9:04:40 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Oh. Well normally I do. I mean, grandmother lets me do a lot of things too. She pretty much lets me do whatever I want as long as I'm learning stuff from it.

[5/19/17, 9:05:02 PM] Malagaste: Mal: "Chaos Beastes And Where to Finde Them." Yeah! That could be it.

[5/19/17, 9:05:43 PM] Nation: (Chaos Beasts and Where to Bind Them)

[5/19/17, 9:07:13 PM] Janis: Janis reads over his shoulder as they look through it.

[5/19/17, 9:08:31 PM] Malagaste: Mal pages through it. It appears to be in draconic.

[5/19/17, 9:08:50 PM] Janis: "...do you read draconic?"

[5/19/17, 9:09:14 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Yeah. A lot of magic is written in draconic.

[5/19/17, 9:10:15 PM] Janis: "That's cool."

[5/19/17, 9:12:12 PM] Malagaste: Mal: It doesn't shift meaning over time very quickly.

[5/19/17, 9:12:30 PM] Janis: "...I don't know what that means."

[5/19/17, 9:12:44 PM] Janis: Janis sits next to him.

[5/19/17, 9:13:14 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Well meanings for words usually change over time a little bit.

[5/19/17, 9:13:32 PM] Janis: "...they do?"

[5/19/17, 9:13:51 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Yeah. Like... well all the examples I can think of are in Undercommon. But they do, just trust me.

[5/19/17, 9:14:11 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... there are chaos dragons?

[5/19/17, 9:14:37 PM] Janis: "...well...yeah.  I mean...Tiamat's a chaotic god and she's...like...Queen of the Dragons."

[5/19/17, 9:15:20 PM] Janis: "...like...I think that Isk and Marti are technically chaotic dragons, but they're nice ones...I think...I don't know how it works."

[5/19/17, 9:15:40 PM] Malagaste: Mal: No, these are of chaos.

[5/19/17, 9:15:56 PM] Janis: "...wait, things can be made of chaos?"

[5/19/17, 9:16:13 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Yeah. Oh hey, look, a chaos cat!

[5/19/17, 9:16:20 PM] Malagaste: Mal: .... it looks like a normal cat. That can't be right.

[5/19/17, 9:16:42 PM] Janis: Janis looks at the illustration. "I think I knew that cat."

[5/19/17, 9:17:15 PM] Janis: "It would sit there for hours and then just go nuts for no reason."

[5/19/17, 9:17:54 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... "Indistinguishable from a normal cat unless you look at the thaumic resonance."

[5/19/17, 9:18:30 PM] Janis: "...yeah, sure, of course you'd have to look at the ...thematic rotation."

[5/19/17, 9:18:37 PM] Nation: (Spoilers, all cats are chaos cats.)

[5/19/17, 9:19:19 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Resonance. And there we go, chaos hound.

[5/19/17, 9:20:08 PM] Janis: "What's it say?  There aren't any pictures."

[5/19/17, 9:27:39 PM] Malagaste: Mal: They're just chaos elementals in dog form.

[5/19/17, 9:28:04 PM] Janis: "...so...could Flamey have...done it with one of them and thus...chaos babies?"

[5/19/17, 9:30:21 PM] Janis: "...anything in there about...like...that happening?"

[5/19/17, 9:31:47 PM] Malagaste: cst

[5/19/17, 9:31:55 PM] Janis: ((Cat))

[5/19/17, 9:32:11 PM] Nation: (Central standard time indeed.)

[5/19/17, 9:38:49 PM] Malagaste: Mal: That's pretty much how it happens, yeah.

[5/19/17, 9:38:55 PM] Malagaste: Mal: I mean, it had to have.

[5/19/17, 9:39:16 PM] Janis: "...I guess so...should we check them with Tarak or Wynn or someone?"

[5/19/17, 9:39:25 PM] Janis: "I mean...they're not evil."

[5/19/17, 9:39:32 PM] Janis: "...well...Fuzz-Face might be."

[5/19/17, 9:43:26 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Animals aren't usually evil. Or good.

[5/19/17, 9:43:57 PM] Janis: Janis pets Wink. "Well, it's good we solved this, I guess."

[5/19/17, 9:45:02 PM] Janis: "...you know, Tarak and I were talking, and he said I should talk to you, which is silly...probably nothing to think about."

[5/19/17, 9:46:40 PM] Malagaste: Mal: You are talking to me.

[5/19/17, 9:47:08 PM] Janis: "Yeah, and I do all the time.  So...why talk more?  I mean...we should, but...why make a thing of it, right?"

[5/19/17, 9:47:18 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... make a thing of what?

[5/19/17, 9:47:51 PM] Janis: "...do you like me?"

[5/19/17, 9:49:02 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Yeah? I mean, you hardly ever hit me or call me names or turn me into a slug.

[5/19/17, 9:49:19 PM] Janis: "...I feel like that's a low bar."

[5/19/17, 9:50:26 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Most girls are a lot meaner than you.

[5/19/17, 9:51:27 PM] Janis: "...I'm not sure that's true, but I don't have a lot of experience with other girls so...sure."

[5/19/17, 9:52:57 PM] Janis: "...but, thanks."

[5/19/17, 9:53:24 PM] Janis: "...I think most boys are a lot meaner than you."

[5/19/17, 9:55:26 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... maybe. The important ones are for sure.

[5/19/17, 9:55:54 PM] Janis: "...I'll take your word for it.  All the important people I know are here."

[5/19/17, 9:58:04 PM] Malagaste: Mal: I like it here.

[5/19/17, 9:58:14 PM] Malagaste: Mal: The library is amazing.

[5/19/17, 9:59:00 PM] Janis: "...I'm not a good judge, but I am glad you like it here.  And I'm glad you're here."

[5/19/17, 9:59:05 PM] Janis: "...and I like you."

[5/19/17, 10:02:18 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Oh, well, I like you too, obviously. I mean, you have great ideas like tree tanks.

[5/19/17, 10:03:13 PM] Janis: Janis smiles. "But you're really good at figuring out how to do the things.  Like...you actually know stuff."

[5/19/17, 10:03:48 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Well yeah. I've been studying a long time now.

[5/19/17, 10:06:50 PM] Janis: "...well...even so.  I like it."

[5/19/17, 10:07:48 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Good.

[5/19/17, 10:08:07 PM] Janis: "...thanks for helping me...with the puppies."

[5/19/17, 10:08:22 PM] Malagaste: Mal: No problem!

[5/19/17, 10:10:12 PM] Janis: Janis leans in and kisses Mal.

[5/19/17, 10:10:49 PM] Janis: ((On the cheek))

[5/19/17, 10:11:21 PM] Nation: ((He turns his head and she ends up kissing his nose or eyeball.))

[5/19/17, 10:11:30 PM] Malagaste: Mal freezes up. "Uh... what was that for?"

[5/19/17, 10:12:00 PM] Janis: "...I thought we were...connecting?"

[5/19/17, 10:12:32 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... wait, you're not talking about sex, are you?

[5/19/17, 10:12:49 PM] Janis: "NO!  ...not really.  ...maybe kissing."

[5/19/17, 10:14:17 PM] Janis: "...I mean...if you weren't that's fine...I...this doesn't have to mean..."

[5/19/17, 10:15:40 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... We are way too young to even be having this conversation.

[5/19/17, 10:16:16 PM] Janis: "...yeah, ok.  I'm gonna go now.  ...we can just never talk about this again."

[5/19/17, 10:16:37 PM] Janis: Janis gets up

[5/19/17, 10:17:32 PM] Janis: Janis leaves

[5/19/17, 10:18:18 PM] Malagaste: Mal chases after her. "Hey, wait. I just meant we'd get in trouble."

[5/19/17, 10:18:53 PM] Janis: "I don't wanna have sex!  We're like...so not ready for that!"

[5/19/17, 10:19:03 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Yeah, definitely not that.

[5/19/17, 10:19:18 PM] Janis: "I just...I think you're kind of cute."

[5/19/17, 10:19:23 PM] Janis: Janis is beet red.

[5/19/17, 10:20:52 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... are you sick or something? Nobody ever thinks that. I'm all bony and not pretty. And I don't have good manners and stuff either.

[5/19/17, 10:22:32 PM] Janis: "I am not sick, and you are so pretty.  You've got those soft eyes, and your nose is cute.  And you're smart, and sweet and...you're cute."

[5/19/17, 10:23:38 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... now I know you've been hit on the head or something. Mushrooms? Is it mushrooms? I ate some bad mushrooms one time and I thought my mother was a six-eyed devil for a week. ... to be fair I'm still not totally sure she's not.

[5/19/17, 10:24:41 PM] Janis: "Look, if you don't wanna, that's fine.  I mean, I'm all puny, and my hair's all messy and weird and I've got, like, no boobs, at all.  Even for my age, there should be something, and there's...just not."

[5/19/17, 10:25:22 PM] Janis: "And, yeah, I don't wanna have sex, but...like...I see Wynn and Val and I see Tarak and Bell and Aziz and Marti and...they seem happier together.  ...and I wanted to know what that was like."

[5/19/17, 10:26:00 PM] Janis: "And, again, not the sex stuff...but...I dunno...I thought maybe we'd hang out and do all the stuff we did and maybe kiss sometimes and hold hands and...all the other things."

[5/19/17, 10:26:39 PM] Janis: "...and now that I say everything, it sounds super weird and I think I'm just being a dork, and...I'm sorry."

[5/19/17, 10:27:40 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... It is super weird though. But yeah... adults make it look nice, I guess. I don't know. Maybe we should start with just holding hands and doing stuff together.

[5/19/17, 10:28:23 PM] Janis: "...how about we just do what we did before and forget this ever happened?  ...cause, I think I ruined it and I think we were good before."

[5/19/17, 10:29:40 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... or we could look it up. You know, find out how it's supposed to go when you're young and stuff.

[5/19/17, 10:32:55 PM] Janis: "...I don't know...I think I'll do that later...I...think I should go be somewhere else for a while.  ...but you are cute, and you shouldn't let people say you're not cause they're lying.  And...this isn't a you thing, I don't think.  I think I was wrong here."

[5/19/17, 10:33:05 PM] Janis: "...I'm wrong a lot."

[5/19/17, 10:34:00 PM] Janis: "...I think I'm just gonna go."

[5/19/17, 10:34:12 PM] Janis: "...I'm really sorry."

[5/19/17, 10:34:23 PM] Janis: "...thanks for all your help."

[5/19/17, 10:34:36 PM] Malagaste: ((phone))

[5/19/17, 10:34:43 PM] Janis: (( lol ))

[5/19/17, 10:36:19 PM] Malagaste: ((But seriously phone.))

[5/19/17, 10:36:27 PM] Janis: ((I know. Just...timing.))

[5/19/17, 10:42:44 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... well, okay, but don't be all weird about it, all right? I'll find a book, that should help.

[5/19/17, 10:43:09 PM] Janis: "I cannot promise to not be weird.  I spend a lot of time as a wolf."

[5/19/17, 10:44:07 PM] Janis: "But...sure, maybe a book can help.  ...just...don't tell the others, ok?"

[5/19/17, 10:44:15 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Yeah but like... normal weird, not weird weird.

[5/19/17, 10:44:25 PM] Malagaste: Mal: I won't. I don't want to get into trouble.

[5/19/17, 10:44:40 PM] Janis: Janis nods. "Ok, normal weird it is."

[5/19/17, 10:45:47 PM] Janis: "...you find a book...I'm gonna...go run or beat up a dummy."

[5/19/17, 10:45:55 PM] Janis: "...thanks, Mal."

[5/19/17, 10:47:14 PM] Malagaste: Mal: Sure. No problem.

[5/19/17, 10:47:22 PM] Janis: Janis leaves this time

[5/19/17, 10:47:29 PM] Malagaste: Mal: ... that was weird.