Christmas Cake Quest

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  1. Jiku Neon Kingdom Keeper

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    You break the awkward silence with another question. An unrelated question. That question. The one you just thought of. What is her deal? She's a student. Duh. She's a grad student. Duh? She's studying some kind of Math you blocked out in college. Wow. She doesn't go out to party or anything. Sure. She doesn't like talking about herself with strangers. Okay. You tell her that they don't seem to come stranger than you when she pauses. She extends the pause, but doesn't let it progress into full blown silence. No way would she let something so convenient occur. She instead asks you about yourself again. This time just a generic one. You tell her you're boring and you don't do much other than study and hide in foliage. She laughs at you. Well maybe your joke. But you're pretty sure it's you at this point.

    You get the feeling that she knows you're lying but doesn't really care. It's somewhere between looking down at you and finding you amusing. Or like finding you amusing the way people find comedians or clowns amusing perhaps. Is that a good or a bad thing? Are you a clown or a comedian? She's still there. You finally add that you may have mistakenly overheard something that happened in the room over behind you and ask if she wants to hear. She said she was there. You act like you acting unsurprised because you were surprised but not really because you're unsurprised because you knew that. She buys it. Or your acting looped back in on itself so much that it doesn't matter if she bought it. She asks what you thought. Not your problem. Wow. She expected something else because she started laughing again. You really need to look into that clown/comedian thing soon.

    At this point, you think that it's a good time to not be here in a location (physically) where you can get caught snooping around. Not to mention that you're in a position (metaphorically) that you find uncomfortable and stressful. But you're stuck (socially) in the conversation which is keeping you there (geographically), so you need to think (critically) to escape (literally) from this whole thing (shortly). You open your mouth to speak but realize she's been talking for the last thirty seconds about something. You have no idea what, but you just agree with her and say you've got to go. She asks for your name.

    You should...
    [] Run now.
    [] Tell her your name.
    [] Change the topic to the next thing you notice.
     
  2. Lauriam I hope I didn't keep you waiting...

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    [X] run
     
  3. Ghost King's Apprentice

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    [♡] Tell her your name
     
  4. 61 No. B

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    change topic
     
  5. burnitup Still the Best 1973

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    [X] Change the topic to the next thing you notice.
     
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    Tell her your name
     
  7. Jiku Neon Kingdom Keeper

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    You extend the last syllable you were in the middle of when it finally hits you that she's asking for your name. You're pretty sure it's not an "uh" but you think that it was an "ah" or an "er". Either way you slide it into a new topic with much the grace of an awkward teen's first sexual experience. You tell her that your name is a sidewalk and that you already left. In the not inconsiderable time between you realizing your mistake and her realizing your mistake, you start walking while waving.

    You've made it out of that circle of hell. She waves back with the awkwardness of the aforementioned teenager. You're great at making things awkward, just like when you actually were in college. You're suddenly acutely aware of where you are again. It's only been a few years since you graduated but you defintiely felt like it was a lifetime ago. Your time in college was both some of the best years of your life and the biggest letdown it possibly could have been.

    You never ended up doing ninety nine percent of the things you'd heard that you were supposed to do in college. You didn't even have your first beer or go to a college party until you were halfway across the stage at graduation, practically. You start thinking more about what you've done since college. It's a lot faster because it's a lot less but midthought you stop either way. It's not like you wanted to stop lamenting your misspent youth. No, you actually tend to do it a lot. Especially when you see people 3 years younger than you. No, no. The thing that stopped you was something entirely else.

    It was a stop sign. You dolt, you just walked into a stop sign. You're now swearing up a storm and your vision out of your left eye seems to be transposed about thirty degrees up from your right. Fresh hell. Someone stops to ask you what happened.

    You tell them...

    [] Nothing is alright, you need a hospital.
    [] Everything is fine, you don't need help.
    [] You're part of an art installation.
     
  8. Lauriam I hope I didn't keep you waiting...

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    [X] Nothing is alright, you need a hospital

    (though I was sorely tempted to claim art installation) xD
     
  9. burnitup Still the Best 1973

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    [X] Nothing is alright, you need a hospital.
     
  10. Jiku Neon Kingdom Keeper

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    You calmly and carefully explain that you are certain that there is nothing wrong that a hospital couldn't fix. Based purely on the response you receive from that person who you can only see as a blur through tears on one side and at a funny angle on the other you think that you may perhaps have been disproportionately staid in your response. It could be that you were swearing like a sailor up until they started talking to you and it could be something on your face. You ask if there's something on your face. Blood is. They tell you that it's blood (a lot). You would grimace, but you already are grimacing pretty hard. You then ask why they're looking at you like that (you know, the way you can't tell they are but are sure they are). They pause, start talking and then finally person you cannot really see offers to drive you to the emergency room. It's close and used to dealing with head trauma.

    You should...
    [] Accept and go get in that stranger's car.
    [] Refeuse and call the EMTs.
    [] Walk to the hospital yourself.
     
  11. Lauriam I hope I didn't keep you waiting...

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    [x] Ambulances are super expensive. Let's risk the stranger danger I guess