The C.I.C. - Weekend edition.

[spectre_alenko]

Feeling rebellious after successfully ditching half a week at the new school, Kaidan did what all teenage rebels do - he threw a rager.

For a definition of 'rager' that equaled 'bought a bunch of sodas, threw them in a cooler, set up a bunch of snacks in the big game room, and hoped people would come by'.

The raven had once again flown in like it owned the place, yelled at him for a few minutes, and took up its customary place on the front desk.

Kaidan had taken up position in the large game room, sprawled on the couch. Since nobody else was there yet, he fired up the Sims 3 and began working on some interpersonal relationships in his town.

Yes, the teenage boy was making couples 'WooHoo' until exhaustion.

Description of CIC here.

[ooc: Open, no OCD. If you've been invited, come on in. If you haven't been invited, come on in. Bored awkward teenager onboard.]

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[uncertain_dume]

Well... there was no way Caleb was going to get his meditation in today. Not at the beach, anyhow. There kept being distractions. But he remembered that somebody had offered him another kind of distraction a few days ago, and...

... Well, if you couldn't beat 'em, right?

Of course, he was two steps through the door and peering curiously at the raven, and already wondering if he was in the right place or not.

"Uh," he said to the bird. "Do you work here?"

[spectre_alenko]

The raven cocked its head to regard Caleb with one gimlet eye, then gave a very exaggerated nod of its head.

Kaidan's laughter floated in from the back room.

[uncertain_dume]

Well, the bird could understand him and answer him easily enough, which meant that Caleb was relaxing a little bit and offering it a smile. It was sentient enough to pass muster for him, anyway.

"I was looking for... um." He gestured to the back room, where he'd heard the laughter coming from. "Him?"

... They had completely forgotten to exchange names. Which Caleb hadn't anticipated would leave him gesturing around vaguely, trying to explain himself to a bird in a video game place.

"Is it okay if I go in?"

[spectre_alenko]

The raven cocked its head to and fro for a moment, then nodded again. It chirred, a little disappointed that no shinies were forthcoming from this customer.

"Oh come on!" Kaidan cried, incredulous.

[uncertain_dume]

Caleb actually kind of felt bad for disappointing the bird, but he didn't really have anything to his name that it would be interested in.

The lightsaber would have been a bad idea.

But he smiled, anyway, and lowered his head in a slight, thankful bow, before making his way to the room where... other boy... was yelling? At something?

At least he knocked on the door instead of just walking in.

[magnusrushesin]

"There's a bird in here. Everyone sees the bird, right?" Magnus shouted in case no one heard him.

[spectre_alenko]

From the back room, Kaidan shouted back, "Yeah, he comes in every day and helps out. I don't argue with things that have knives on their faces and feet. Come on back!"

[magnusrushesin]

Magnus squinted at the bird to see if those were literal knives before just going with it. "Cool. We gamin', bro? Some E3 type stuff?"

[spectre_alenko]

"Hey," Kaidan greeted the new kid, agreeing, "We're gaming. I don't know what E3 is, but if it's a game that exists, it's probably on one of the systems, somewhere. Got a preference of type of game? Oh - and hi, I'm Kaidan. Help yourself to sodas or snacks."

[magnusrushesin]

"Not important," Magnus assured him. "I'm Magnus. Magnus Burnsides! Do you have Fantasy PUBG?"

That wasn't a real thing. It was not a real thing at all.

[uncertain_dume]

"I think he works here," Caleb offered. "He's pretty okay."

What? Conversations with sentient non-humans weren't that strange where he came from and Caleb could communicate with animals besides. It worked out.

"Next time I come back, I'll have to bring something shiny for him, though."

[magnusrushesin]

Well, Caleb was technically a space Cleric, so that tracked.

"I've got some gold coins. You wanna give it to him?"

[uncertain_dume]

He was about as good at stopping to dole out heals as the Cleric Magnus would be used to, too!

"You don't mind parting with them?" Caleb blinked. "I mean, he would really like it."

[magnusrushesin]

As long as he didn't loudly fuck plants, Magnus wouldn't complain.

"I've got a bunch. Like, way more than I'm used to."

OOC

[spectre_alenko]

I am cracking up at Magnus' excitement over everything. He is delightful.
Dear Eliot's player: I am so sorry.

[firstofitskind]

Right, okay, continuing that mission to “have fun” meant taking Kaidan up on that offer to play video games! So here he was!

“Um, hey?” he said, poking his head in to the game room.

[spectre_alenko]

"Liam!" Kaidan greeted cheerfully, "Come on in! Grab some snacks."

Congratulations on being the first person Kaidan had a name for!

[firstofitskind]

“Wow,” Liam said, looking around the room as he stepped inside. “This is really something.” He didn’t have much to compare it to, but it all looked very impressive.

And there were snacks. Liam could hardly say no to snacks.

[spectre_alenko]

"Thanks!" Kaidan couldn't really take credit for the gamerooms, since they were here when he arrived, but he had a bit of pride-of-place anyway, "It's pretty sweet. You said before you hadn't really played any games, but do you have any idea of things you might like to play? The machines have a lot of games on them."

Of course there were snacks! Kaidan was highly food motivated even as an adult.

[firstofitskind]

“I- I don’t know,” Liam admitted, a little hesitantly. “Something with... strategy, maybe?” Given his parents’ backgrounds, surely he’d be good at something like that? He hoped, anyway.

[sharp_man]

Hannibal was investigating the small city he'd found himself in. There were many interesting parts and people in it so far.

He saw the lights on in here and came in, curious. He eyed the bird. "Bien, salut." He smiled; it cocked its head at him and he returned the favor.

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan's voice can be heard from down the hall, laughing at something.

[sharp_man]

Hannibal held out his hand to the bird, who eyed it, nipped his fingers, then pointedly ignored him.

He shrugged and followed the voice down the hall. "Hello?"

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan looked up from the couch and greeted, "Hello! I'm Kaidan, welcome to my random room of games and gluttony! Come on in!"

[sharp_man]

"Gluttony?" Hannibal asked, amused. Games could be amusing, but he had his priorities. "I am Hannibal. Are you also new here?"