JANUARY MINGLE | OPEN

[oneandmikleonly]

[It's a new year! Well, by the fragile construct of calendar time we're creating on this planet, anyway.

Here's a an open mingle for all your January needs! Are you trying to stalk our new alien stalkers back, or reach out to them, or fight them? Building? Exploring the biomes, for fun and/or to uncover more about our alien friends? Researching? Hugging URSULA? Raising Birdogs or getting involved with other wildlife? Making or breaking resolutions? OTHER? Whatever it is you're doing, you can put it here.

Don't forget to check the OOC plotting post to see what's going on and get involved with missions!]

Comments

[godstongue]

[ Yes the last one looks sick that won't save her from the embarrassment later of using it again. ]

Certainly not after what I've done for them. But they are kind people so I highly doubt that they would do something as cruel as play a prank on me.

[ None of them are like Alice who toys with the fact that Erina is so naive! ]

I never knew that they were so popular. Honestly when they showed me it it was like being introduced to a new feature on my phone.

[gnasher]

oh? what'd you do?

that's a little funny.

[godstongue]

The moment I stepped into their dorm they bombarded me with questions and plates of food to taste and critique. It was quite overwhelming.

Would it... be funny for you to hear that I only properly learned how to use a washing machine once I came here?

[ SOREY SAID IT WAS NORMAL! SHE TRUSTS HIM. ]

[gnasher]

what's the equivalent of a captain at a cooking school? that's what that sounds like to me. cooking captain, with a bunch of damn underclassmen interrupting your day over and over.

it depends. there were definitely some guys on my team whose moms still did their laundry for them.

[godstongue]

We have the Elite Ten Council, if that counts? It consists of the top ten students in the school and I'm part of it. The only complaint I had was that they were very persistent, but helping them wasn't too bad because at the end of the day they definitely needed it.

And I'm a first year, most of the students were too with the exception of a few.

Is it like that for swimming? I would think there's a major a difference since it seems more like a team sport... right?

[gnasher]

seriously? how old are you?

swimming has both team and individual events. so the atmosphere of a school like mine is really competitive, and you have to work to bring people together and create team spirit. i would've thought food naturally brings people together...

[godstongue]

Sixteen.

[ they just fuckin asl'd i'm crying ]

Tootsuki is a competitive school. By the end of my year out of the thousand first years attending it will be cut down to just one hundred, and when I was brought here we were already having our promotion exams where failure resulted in immediately expulsion. Having people to depend on would just make going forward very difficult when you don't know whether or not they'll be the next to go.

[ Reading it over once she realizes just how much of a hypocrite she is, but she decides it's not a bad thing. ]

Outside of school however I like to believe that it brings people together.

a/s/l

[gnasher]

you must be an incredibly strong and passionate person.

16/f/hell

[godstongue]

I'm just used to it.

Re: 16/f/hell

[gnasher]

you don't get used to that level of competition and pressure without being strong and passionate about what you're doing. i'm trying to go olympic, don't try to bullshit me.

[godstongue]

[ Three Hours Later™. ]

Well this was a refreshing conversation but I must put my attention elsewhere.
Your contribution is well appreciated, Rin Matsuoka. Good day.

[gnasher]

[hm]

yeah, no problem. see you around, erina nakiri.