A HEARTY TEAM POST

[neigh_sayer]

Who: AlcheMe + Visitors if you feel so inclined
Where: Alc dorms
When: post heart games

[SO HOW WE DOING GUYS AND GALS]

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[liftoft]

Haha, yeah! I shoulda expected I'd run into you sooner or later! You in charge, yet?

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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[The system has stopped responding.

One moment please...]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You can't just---

[Sputters. Stops.]

The fuck did you---

[And one more try]

When the fuck did you get back?

[liftoft]

[ all of this restarting just makes him laugh, thought not mockingly, the sound bright and cheerful ]

Just a couple of days ago! I meant to get around to see people buuuuuuut I ended up just holin' up here with my cute siblings instead! You know we got girls, now? Damn, what am I sayin', of course you know that, you know stuff and you clearly come over! But it's exciting, in some kinda way.

[ Hope Intensity didn't want to get a word in edgewise for a second there ]

--Anyway, how're you, how's your dragon? Still the hecking cutest?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[He doesn't even try to get a word in edgewise. Too flabbergasted at... whatever this is.]

If you're asking if my dragon is the cutest, then yes. Still undeniably the most beautiful thing here.

[liftoft]

Glad to hear it. It'd be downright heartbreakin' if that had changed. Hey, I got good news--I remembered that I actually got to go to space!

[ if X seems a little all over the place, well... cut him some slack, four days isn't quite long enough to have gotten over the novelty of having people to talk to ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Of course you did.

Were you doubting yourself? For shame.

[liftoft]

No, it was more like... I assumed it was somethin' I was still workin' towards! I've been tryin' to get to space my whole life!

[ his.. his whole life... this... eighteen year old? ]

But it turns out I made it already! That's somethin' I can really be proud of.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[HIS WHOLE LIFE]

So then what's the dream after that?

[liftoft]

Hehe... gettin' to space was always just the start! Humans don't really have the technology for long-term space travel yet, but I'm gonna be there helpin' 'em figure it out! And then I'm gonna go all the way to the edge of the universe! So that everyone can follow after me!

Hey hey, you know what else? It turns out I lied my way into the astronaut exam in high school, 'cause I was so impatient to get to space!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Lied?

...

About what?

[liftoft]

Haha, my age! You need a college degree for that exam, and I had just finished my first year of high school!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I thought it was over something important.

Having an age requirement is just useless gatekeeping.

[liftoft]

Yeah, exactly! I aced the test anyway, so it clearly didn't matter! I still got in trouble, but they let me in anyway... they couldn't not! I'm the best--the Ultimate!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And went to space before you even hit twenty. You sure showed them.

[liftoft]

Hehe... you know it! That's what it means to be an Ultimate! And I'm gonna keep showin' 'em, too! I never really believed in "impossible", but after this place I believe in it even less, so... nothin's gonna stand in my way!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Well. Good to have our village optimist back.

I suppose not even being on awful third-rate television shows can slow you down.

[Is he being sarcastic?

We just don't know.]

[liftoft]

Aw, we gotta be at least second rate television! And I dont see it slowin' you down either!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

As if I would give them the satisfaction.

[liftoft]

S'what I love about ya!

[ wraps his arm around Intensity's shoulders - and how nice, one of the few people he doesn't have to lean over awkwardly to do this with - and steers him through the door ]

Anyway, don't mean to make ya stand around in the hall! What's up?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Let's X lead him wherever.]

Was coming in to chat with B.

See. Nothing has changed since you've been gone.

[liftoft]

[ he doesn't take him far, just into the common area. In one...corner? Can a round room have a corner? In one area near a wall and out of the way, there is a variety of lamps on a theme spread out across the floor. From the materials dotted around those lamps, someone appears to be trying to solder them all together on a single circuit ]

Aw, I'm sure some stuff has. I'd be worried if absolutely nothing had changed--you're all still living and growing, so you shouldn't stay the same. It's not healthy, y'know!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Picks up the light for Jupiter]

Working on your planetarium already, I see.

[liftoft]

Hell yeah I am! 'Cause if I can't bring everybody to space with me just yet, then I'll bring space to them!

. . .

...I had to move rooms when I got back, 'cause they moved somebody else into mine, y'know? And I realized it didn't even matter, 'cause I hadn't ever added anything to it when I'd been here before--and that's totally wrong! You'd expect a guy like me to have a room full of personality, right? So what's it say if I've got a totally empty room? I got all kinds of ideas for that place, now.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Oh really?

I thought you'd hang some of it up in here. It's very on brand for a wizard, after all.