(Ivory Tower) Sipping on Jungle Juice

Nov 29th, 2014 12:36 PM

“Megan's alright. She's cute,” Adam quickly amends. All of the SDT girls are, in some way, cute. “But, she does weird things. I can't really put my finger on it.” He shrugs, putting it back out of his mind. “Anyway, yeah, leadership want us to date each other. Says it's good for relations between our organizations and shit. So, if you Rush, you might get set up for life.”

In more ways than one.

Meanwhile, Avis is led up the upstairs. As expected, there's seemingly hundreds of posters on the walls. Everything ranging from Ras Trent Rastafarianism, to Porn, to the all important Pink Floyd poster that's an endemic to all college male dormitories. Two boys are playing the latest Call of Duty, barely paying attention to Avis and the other guy pick their way into the room. “Yeah, so...” the boy offers Avis the Adderall without any ceremony. Then a couple of tabs of, “this is that new shit –“ a pause as he searches for the word, “Glo or whatever that shit it is. Anyway, people've been been too chicken-shit to take it. So. Whatever. My dealer gave it to me gratis so you can have it if you want it.”

Avis Wits + Composure, please if looking at the GLO tab.

**Avis** · Dec 1st, 2014 10:25 AM

Avis took the proffered drugs, taking a moment to -- refrain from glaring at the add, and to study the Glo. It was a designer thing, she was pretty sure. Looked like something you'd just put on your tongue, maybe?

"What about the baggy?" Avis asked, looking up again. "Or did you run out?"

2 successes

**Star** · Dec 1st, 2014 11:44 PM

Huh.

Eyebrows bobbed, and he slowly spun his head, surveying the party. Taking. Stock. He also snuck a glance at the time. Asp and Avis both? Gone. Broken line of sight. Which meant, in an hour, they should all be on the balcony. So -- check the time.

Side note? Listen for screaming. Because Arrows.

"Huh. I mean, I don't know about you, but that doesn't sound like a bad deal. Well. Duh. Obviously you think so, too, because you're in. But this party? Dates on tap?" He did the eyebrows again.

Honestly? He was dying to know what 'weird things' Meagan did. But going full court press on a chick you've never seen? File under Overly Interested.

"Like, especially if, you know, all the hotties here are SDTs." He was going to burn in Pandemonium for this. "What's up with the whole Rushing thing? Like, what's this frat all about?" Well, he'd started it. Besides, if he wasn't Sig material, then he wouldn't have mentioned Rushing, right? Right. He nodded towards the door. "Let's go see if Lisa bailed."

See how that works? Backs. They get scratched.

Dec 1st, 2014 11:50 PM

Per Casitive, the back has nothing going on of interest.

The back was dead. Of course it was. Nothing was going right tonight, Asp realized. It was time to just chill and let the talkers do the talking. Why fuck things up by slamming her way back into a party where she plainly had been marked as unwelcome. It still hurt. She hadn't forgotten the thoughts from before. Training had just kicked back in. She could be upset later.

Now was the time to take post.

She made her way back around, looking at her phone for a sec and leaning against the patio wall to kill time. She wasn't doing sweet fuck all other than that.

Dec 3rd, 2014 09:56 PM

Every tablet drug has a small engraving on it. It's usually to differentiate it from everything else. Some of them are designer drugs sporting the logo of Mitsubishi or something equally cheeky. Most people don't even pay much mind to what's engraved on the tablet. Avis is not most people. The Warlock knows this rune, knowledge itching at the back of her mind like a small dog hoping to go outside.

“Dealer just said to try it, when I got the chance,” the guy says with a slight shrug. “But, the stories are fluttering around the campus. I heard that a girl over in the Honors Wing, flipped the fuck out and they had to wheel her out to the looney bin. It was on the blotter as a disturbance, but a friend of mine said shit was cray.” Apparently, Glo was gaining a sort of notoriety. An urban legend that is true. The tablet, then, becomes a dare.

“Rushing? It's just when you come to us and we see if you are one of us or not,” Adam says congenially, he's a happy drunk and jungle – juice sits on his breath. “We do a whole lot of things to build a family.” Read also, Hazing. “Shared experiences, you know, becoming leaders of the community.” Adam's left hand raises and makes a blah-blah motion.

Another sip of his drink and he gestures for Star to lead the way.

Outside, it's night, clear and still with a lingering warmth. The back-yard has nothing but a covered up pool that no one seems to be using. Music only echos out here and it's far less stifling.

Asp, however, feels it – just so and faint. Like a shiver or like someone walking on the back of her grave.

**Star** · Dec 4th, 2014 02:13 PM

"When's that start? Do I have to meet the President or something?" He dodged the metaphorical information wall while dodging party goers as he did a casual slide toward the door.

Hold the door open. One, it's Good Manners. Two, Adam might be a frat sponsor. Three, and most importantly, it put him behind the guy long enough for his hands to flicker out a message when Asp looked at him. After he'd made sure no one else was looking too, of course.

likes you work it

"Lisa!"

He moved up to match shoulders with Adam, and tossed out a fist bump.

"Sup girl? I didn't know you were gonna be here!" For a second, he thought about adding something about if he'd known, he'd have brought her stuff from that night. Which would totally make Asp sound Hook Up friendly. But. He didn't. Because Adam might be a Nice Guy and that might blow the interest check.

"Oh, hey, this is Adam. We were talking about rock climbing, and I told him you were like a total pro..."

Which was a Total Lie, but hopefully Adam could pick up what he was laying down. Give the kids a ball to bounce between them. Ice breakers, yo. They're a thing.

Dec 4th, 2014 05:13 PM

That tickle. Something about it, something that she knew. It was her Sixth Sense. That one that so often was constant around the Consilium, that scratch that let her know something supernatural was happening somewhere - tonight, it was important to listen to it because none of her allies had come in rocking spells. She scanned about gently, looking up the house and then around for some signature, something to follow that might give her more information...

Star.

Likes you work it?

"Hey!" She bumped his fist right on back, a genuine smile crossing her face. It was getting lonely out here, with those bitches having been so horrible to her. Was he really introducing her to a guy? Talk about social suicide for the poor fuck he was luring in. "Yeah, just thought I'd check it out. It, uh... yeah. It's okay."

Asp's gaze flicked over to Adam. "Yeah, I like to climb!" she said, offering her hand. She wasn't so great at this sort of thing... "Hi, Adam. Nice to meet you. You a climber, too?"

Liquid. Courage. Where...

...and where was the situation that was triggering the Sixth?

1 sux to PER some signature using her cloaked Sight that might lead her to further information

**Avis** · Dec 6th, 2014 05:58 PM

Though the knowledge tried to scratch it's way out, she had nothing to help it with, and so it remained trapped behind walls of meat and bone. She tried not to dwell on her ignorance over the rune, and hoped that her confused expression would just be taken for her reaction to holding an unknown, reportedly dangerous drug. Yet, for the sake of her cover, she tried to transform that confusion into curiosity, and the urge to sate it. The memory of riding atop a train, wind and stars streaming around and above her, seemed to hold the feelings she was looking for.

"Damn," she muttered, looking back up at the dealer with grin. "I guess I'm holding a bunch of tickets for one hell of a trip. Either that, or whoever made this fucked up the recipe. You sure your guy's not just giving you his bad product?" she asked, trying to hedge out some more information about the supplier.

Mysterium she is not

Dec 8th, 2014 11:04 AM

Adam suddenly gets cotton-mouthed and stumbles over his words as Lisa comes into view. A quick swig of his red-party cup and the young man picks up a lop-sided grin, “Yeah, Rock Climbing. Um, I haven't really done a lot of it, but I've been, you know, trying to learn and stuff.” Since every sentence now shall end with 'and stuff.'

The feeling is faint and Star feels that same tingle at the base of his spine signaling to Magic use. Maybe too faint to get a good grasp on where it might be coming from. It isn't from Adam, that's for sure, he's only a potential as far as Star knows. Another car? Another Frat House on the Row of Frat Houses they are standing on? There are a few suspects. A rocking car about 40 yards away. An opening door at two of the Frat Houses, one across the street and one a couple of houses down.

“So,” Adam says trying to keep the conversation going and not doing a very good job of it, “do you, uh, have any tips about rock climbing? I mean. There's a rock wall at the Gym. You probably know that already,” verbally kicking himself for suggesting something Lisa must certainly already know.

Upstairs at the SAE house, Avis can't get a grasp at the rune etched in the tablet. All she knows is Danger. “He might be,” the guy says with a shrug, “but this stuff isn't just coming from my guy. It got popular last summer, right? And it got real popular, here. Funny shit too, cus my guy says it's the safest damn thing. Public Safety hasn't harassed his bitch ass since starting to sell it.” A half-grin forms, “But everyone around here has been too chicken-shit to take it,” himself included, “so if you want it, take it.”

**Star** · Dec 8th, 2014 11:21 AM

Oh. Em. Gee.

Someone call the Transportation Bureau. There's a wreck in progress.

So much for dumping Adam for a bit? Well. At least they were talking. It could be worse, right? Like, Unknown Sparklies worse. Oh, right. There were Unknown Sparklies. He glanced back at the house. Obviously, it was Out Here but Avis was In There. See? This is why you don't Do That. Messes with your head, yo. Eyes slid around as he played with the cup and they Worded at each other.

"Dude, I know, right? Brrrrrr," he answered Asp. Eyebrows bounced.

"Hey, what's that over there?" The Red Cup stabbed outward toward the other frat houses. "Is that another party? Can you hit up another party?"

If they could move around, maybe they could triangulate. Play it off as getting Adam some Privacy.

"Because he's not supposed to date other girls, like, non ess dee tee," he faux whispered. He grinned at both of them. Yeah, he'd put that out there.

Rock cimbing. Dating. Because Connect The Dots.

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-12-01 10:09:40		Avis rolls 6 to lookin at dem tabs (wits3+comp3) (10 Again)		1, 9, 3, 4, 1, 10, 1		2 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-12-04 17:09:04		The Snakey rolls 7 to PER (where dat magic at) (10 Again)		7, 6, 3, 7, 8, 4, 7		1 success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-12-06 17:36:29		Avis rolls 2 to mebbe she know a thang? (wits3+occ1-2) (10 Again)		6, 2		failure

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