Chilly Boulder, Wednesday.

[gospel_of_oblivion]

Had Illyana ditched class? Absolutely. Did she feel bad about it?

Not one bit. Yana did not like authoritarian figures.

"I want, um, that Skywalker Special thing please," she told the person behind the counter. "With extra sprinkles."

Hey, when in doubt, double-down flaunting the fact you were skipping class.


[OOC: For all the members of Ethics that came along for the ride, and open to everyone else, too!]

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[chirpchirpchirp]

"... I don't know what that is, but I'll have one with chili pepper on it," Vette piped up.

She would eat it.

And would have no regrets about it later.

[gospel_of_oblivion]

'No Regrets' was totally the name of their band. If they were a band.

"You can put chili peppers on ice cream?" Illyana looked intrigued, as the idea had never occurred to her before. "...nah, maybe next time. I really want extra sprinkles today."

[chirpchirpchirp]

"You can put chili peppers on anything if you want it badly enough," Vette shared, grinning a little. "Sprinkles are good too, though. I can respect that."

Vette just had a very adventurous mouth, was the thing.

[handystand]

"Oooh, choco-strawberry, please!" Okuyasu ordered, as it was his favorite.

"That was a pretty neat trick, with the teleporting," Okuyasu said. "Is that a Stand or are you just... special?"

No one but you had a Stand, Okuyasu.

[gospel_of_oblivion]

"Dunno what a Stand is," Illyana said around a mouthful of ice cream. "'M a mutant. I can use the Stepping Discs to teleport."

[handystand]

"That's a good Stand name," Okuyasu said quietly. Well, as much as anything Okuyasu said was quietly.

"It's still really cool. I can sort of teleport but really what I do is erase the space between things. Not exactly the same."

[gospel_of_oblivion]

"Where do you put the space you erased?" she asked, tilting her head as she thought about it. "Does it come back later? Do you just put it down in a pocket dimension and leave it there until you're done?"

[mother_forker]

"Fork yeah! Skipped class and getting ice cream with no consequences whatsoever," Eleanor cheered; arms raised in victory as she walked through the portal and got in line for ice cream. "Blondie? You are my favorite person now. Can we do that every class?"

[gospel_of_oblivion]

"Does needing to pay for our ice cream count as a consequence, since we wouldn't be spending money if we were sitting in class?" Illyana wondered. "Whatever. I don't like authoritarian pronouncements, so sure. Any time he pulls something like that, I'll 'port us out."

[mother_forker]

"Okay. I've only said I love you to two people in my life. One was Stone Cold Steve Austin. The other person was a man in a dark room that I thought was Stone Cold Steve Austin," Eleanor said with the utmost sincerity. "Teleport me out again and I may just proclaim my love for you..."

She paused.

"You have a name right?"

It was then she discovered a flavor of ice cream she hadn't seen before. "Shrimp ice cream? That's disgusting."

She promptly ordered two scoops.

[unusual_sith]

Lana had elected not to ditch class, like the nerd she was, but ice cream still sounded good, so she showed up after being released from class.

"You are all insane," she said fondly. "Have you left anything for latecomers?"

[gospel_of_oblivion]

"Nerd!" Illyana hollered, though it was without rancor. "Did you sell us out? Sell outs don't get ice cream."

[unusual_sith]

"I did not," Lana said. "I will freely admit to being a nerd, though. Also to wanting to see what the instructor's reaction was."

[mother_forker]

"Do not order the shrimp ice cream," Eleanor said to big-sis-what's-her-name with her mouth full of shrimp ice cream. "It's disgusting."


That did not stop Eleanor from eating the shrimp ice cream.

[unusual_sith]

"And yet you're eating it?" Lana asked.

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"Lana," Tisarwat smiled after a bite of her own ice cream--in a bowl. Don't get her started on cones. "Glad you decided to join us."

[unusual_sith]

Lana smiled back. "I'm glad I didn't miss it. How's the ice cream?"

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Sorry, Dean Skywalker; Tisarwat enjoyed your class, but an escape with her classmates involving Ilyana's Stepping Stones was considerably more interesting, so she was definitely game for the relocation, even if she wasn't expecting to have any ice cream herself.

Of course, she did notice the servers were wearing latex gloves as they scooped, so now her whole plan needed altering, and the plethora of choice didn't help.

"Does anyone have any recommendations?" she ventured, as she curiously took in the bevy of flavor options, and continued to pretend that she wasn't just following every step of the way.

[mother_forker]

"Do not get the shrimp ice cream," Eleanor suggested with her mouth full of said ice cream. "It's an acquired taste."

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat's head tilted a little, because she was pretty sure the shrimp ice cream was exactly what she'd heard Eleanor order.

It was almost too bad she hadn't known about the shrimp ice cream earlier, though, because then she could have brought the Translator here. Almost too bad. Because then that would have meant she would have brought the Translator here.

"Well, it can't be any worse than the coffee one," she noted, and maybe she was giving it a hard time because she had been hungover at the time, but Tisarwat was Not Impressed.

It was too bad there wasn't a tea--

--no. No, she took that back. It was probably a good thing there was no tea flavor, because Tisarwat was sure it would be a complete abomination.

[handystand]

"Choco-strawberry!" Okuyasu said with enthusiasm. "It's definitely my favorite, at least. There's a lot more variety here than my hometown, though."

Small town 1999 was a little different than Fandom.

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"With a recommondation like that," said Tisarwat with a faint laugh, "how could I go with anything else? Choco-strawberry it is, then. And I'll hope you haven't steered me wrong."

[gospel_of_oblivion]

"I got the Skywalker Special because I thought it was funny, I don't even know what's in it," Illyana admitted. "You can grab an extra spoon and try a bite if you want."

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"No, that's alright," said Tisarwat, who still remmebered Illyana and her sandwich at the station, and, besides, even if there were spoons, there were still bare hands holding those spoons, and, look, it was a whole thing, the fact that Tisarwat was even going to have some at all was a big step forher. "Maybe I'll see how you like it and consider it for next time. Is it actually named after the Dean, though? Are there others named after different instructors?"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine had several very good reasons for ditching class, and one of them was that she actually sort of wanted ice cream now.

"Can you just keep putting chocolate on that?" she asked, not letting the worker stop until it was drenched in syrup.

Look, go big or go home. Maybe not Skywalker Special big.