[Last Time, on Battle High: Mariah reached out and grabbed hold of the captainship of Alexander 103 and refused to let go, even faced with an angry Ao-Lang. Hooray for Mariah standing up for herself. Also, Ao-Lang ran off in her socks, going who knows where.] [There's about three hours left util the appointment to watch the tape of your last fight with Musashi 103.] [We open on Alexander 103, where Isaac (in his newly acquired body), Mariah, and Karasu have just watched Ao-Lang run out, thankfully not crying. A crying Ao-Lang is a bit much to take.] [Session... START!] * Katie is now known as Ao-Lang * Isaac watches Ao run off and sighs. Stupid drama. * Mariah just sighs and sinks down in the chair a little. She looks immensely tired. * Karasu finds a new movie. * Brett is on IRC * Karasu finds a classics channel playing Jason and the Argonauts. .. oh, hey, that movie! * Karasu watches it. "What about it?" * Isaac glances over at it. * Mariah leans forward a little. "I like it a lot, that's all. Don't you think these old stop-motion effects are cool?" She looks a little more animated, quite possibly because of the change of subject. * Karasu nods. ~Slow-motion effects? Like the Matrix?~ No, like... the kinda Claymation stuff they did for the monsters. ~'cuz I was thinking bullet-time would be so cool, you could like go woooosh, and they could go wooosh, and then you could BAM! And they'd be all ugh, and...~ ..well, it *would* be cool if you could do it. But -- sometimes I forget what people here can do. There probably is someone here who knows how. * Isaac nodnods. Heck, we could probably do it if we figured out the trick to it... ~I'm already on it.~ ^^ Oh, cool. What have you been thinking so far? ~You didn't see last fight?~ Oh, more stuff like *that*? I was a little preoccupied, but what I saw looked really awesome. * Isaac nods. ^^ That's really incredible. ... you know, I really have to say, thanks for taking everything so well. I know it's been a really hard day for everyone, and it must be really weird for you. ~You have no idea.~ So I really appreciate everything you've done today. * Isaac eyes Mariah. .. except I said something wrong, right? ~Are you saying you wouldn't expect it of me?~ No. I was just saying, it was a lot to ask of *anyone.* I mean, waking up in someone's body and then having to fight? That'd be a lot of work for anyone. ~I did what was best for us. I did the only thing I could do, only thing anybody could do. It's a no-brainer for someone in my situation, it was the right thing to do.~ And I'm glad you did it. That's all I meant to say. ~I... I just have too much to think about right now.~ * Mariah nods. "Yeah, I get you." Don't we all? ~Your stunt didn't help things, though.~ ~I hope Ao's all right. I really do.~ * Mariah lets the "stunt" remark pass. "Hopefully she just needs to calm down." ~I don't think it's that.~ .. look, I'm sorry if she's upset. ~I'm not going to go divulging her feelings, but don't think this will be over quickly ts all.~ Few things are. ~I know you said you're sorry. I heard you multiple times.~ ^^; Yes, but I've run out of other things to say. ~Uh-huh.~ ~So do you want to do something else other than mope around now?~ If we could, I wouldn't mind. * Karasu sips his milkshake. "I'm watching a movie." ~Well, the fight's going to show in, uh... two and a half hours? So we could play a game or something.~ ^^; What were you thinking? ~I don't remember. I wan't to know what you want to do.~ .. well, I kind of have a weird request. ~Yes?~ I've never been a very good chess player. Would you mind sort of showing me how it's played better? I mean, I know how the pieces move and stuff, but... ~If you want to play chess, I can do that.~ ^^ Okay. I mean, if you don't mind giving me some help, I'd like that. ~Of course not. But the only way to get better is to play a lot.~ ^^ Okay. * Karasu gets up and walks off. "Be back later." * Mariah nods. "Got it." She stands up. * Isaac waves to Karasu and gets his chess set out. [Session... END!]