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[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

One of these days I might go into what it's like to be the only nova at your university. Especially if you've got a hefty case of fire burning all around you. Not that my pretty little anima hurts anyone, but it seems to really freak some people out. They know it's not going to hurt them, and most of them have even touched me to verify it for themselves. Still, they want to sit a few seats away from me. Cowards and fucktards, the lot of them.

Fire does freaky-ass things to people, even when it can't harm them. It's like they think if I sneeze the wrong way that something's going to be all cinders and ash. And while I know all you can't be hurt mountains of muscle out there aren't scared of little ol' me, it's a different story when ya know I could turn you into toast if you cross me.

And my rep is pretty well known too. I'm that girl, the one that did that thing over the summer. Being the only nova, and being unable, and unwilling regardless, to hide it, means everyone knows and everyone looks.

I got this crazy half-celebrity, half-lit stick of dynamite thing going this semester.

There's a hell of a lot more, but I just wanted to check in and let those of you who care know I'm still alive and kicking. And Preston, I've been a good little productive member of society (I'm sure you're keeping tabs on my probation) while keeping my GPA from slipping at the same time.

So never fear everyone who keeps criticizing me for not doing anything with my life. I'm still in school, still on the honor roll, still on the way to getting my degree.

[Lemmy Chillmeister]

Sorry my hot little Cinammon Cinder, but you hang with the flats and your gonna figure out why they call them monkeys. The elemental and the powerful freaks them out. Your a flaming princess of grace and beauty. They fear you. They fear the fire consuming their imperfect little bodies, afraid of being found wanting and the impurities catching flame and devouring them.

[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

Yeah, I've considered that. It's not like I'm dating any of the little twerps, though, and I'm certainly not going to give my quantum cherry to one of them.

[Preston]

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Originally posted by Juri 'Salamander' McClendon:

Fire does freaky-ass things to people, even when it can't harm them. It's like they think if I sneeze the wrong way that something's going to be all cinders and ash.

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Originally posted by Juri 'Salamander' McClendon:
And while I know all you can't be hurt mountains of muscle out there aren't scared of little ol' me, it's a different story when ya know I could turn you into toast if you cross me.

You ask and answer your own question, Ms. McClendon. They know you can turn them into a pile of ash if you think about it.

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Originally posted by Juri 'Salamander' McClendon:
And my rep is pretty well known too. I'm that girl, the one that did that thing over the summer. Being the only nova, and being unable, and unwilling regardless, to hide it, means everyone knows and everyone looks.

I got this crazy half-celebrity, half-lit stick of dynamite thing going this semester.

There's a hell of a lot more, but I just wanted to check in and let those of you who care know I'm still alive and kicking. And Preston, I've been a good little productive member of society (I'm sure you're keeping tabs on my probation) while keeping my GPA from slipping at the same time.

Glad to hear it. Even if you never use the education you are earning, the time you spend developing your own ideals and purpose may prove invaluable.

[billy Horrorshow]

Yeah. I too finished my degree after my eruption. Man do the nodeless get a kick out of us. For all their fear, cowardice, etc....they are so wanting to be in class next to you. Mainly because they know we're "something." Cult of personality, whatever.

Lemmy: While I'm sure the elementals and powerful folks scare the be-jesus out of people, I've always found the FREAKY ones freak people out. Hell, they freak me out from time to time. Ever see "Rat-Head Rabid" on XWF? Guy's a pussycat in real life. He's just got that "wet, drowned & dead rat" look that makes people cringe.

Oh and no fair calling Salamander a "Flaming Princess of Grace and Beauty"....That's officially Rodi's title.

[Wakinyan]

I couldn't even begin to imagine what college life would be like for me. I wonder if I could get a football scholarship? Just another one of those impossible things.

I miss you Juri. Let me know what your are doing for your break this winter.

[Singularity]

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Originally posted by Totem:
I couldn't even begin to imagine what college life would be like for me. I wonder if I could get a football scholarship?

Why not a whole group of us? I played linebacker when I was a baseline in high school, I am sure I still have some game. I understand Amped is rather fast, he could make a good running back. Very Bad and Troll would made a good pair of blockers, but both already have degrees.

[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

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Originally posted by Totem:
I couldn't even begin to imagine what college life would be like for me. I wonder if I could get a football scholarship? Just another one of those impossible things.


I miss you Juri. Let me know what your are doing for your break this winter.

Aw, thanks hon. I miss you, too. How's the other corner of the triangle doing?

[Walker]

Nova powered game of American Football?

I think my powers would make a mockery of any attempt to play. You'd throw me the ball. I'd step sideways through a quick warpgate. Touchdown. Again. The crowd goes... To sleep.

Salamander Similar to what Preston says, I would think it's the fact that you produce fire around yourself without any effort that most freaks the Baseline out. That's got to set a paranoia loop going in their brains where they start imagining what you could do if you put your mind to it. Also they probably are wondering what the hell happens when you sneeze? Rather than reacting in wonder or with curiosity, as a Nova might, most Baselines just get The Fear.

The Baseline simply can not deal with us. Or perhaps they are not flexible enough to deal with us when we start doing stuff like that. Who knows?

[Jager]

I would rather have a few good friends than a ton of shallow ones. If the locals can't deal, fuck'em. You don't exist to please them and they should get used to the fact. A few will deal with you as you are, and are worth the effort.

Walker, let's not forget that People are dangerous, not just novas. Forget that and you may end up in next weeks obit column.

[Wakinyan]

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Originally posted by Juri 'Salamander' McClendon:Aw, thanks hon. I miss you, too. How's the other corner of the triangle doing?

If it was only as fun as it sounds in theory.

[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

I meant how are you and Apep.

[Walker]

Indeed, Joker, let us never forget that people are dangerous, but at the same time, as you so delightfully put it, fuck 'em. We do not exist to please them and they should get used to the fact.

Now then, begs the question, what shall we do if and when they prove unable to deal with us?

[billy Horrorshow]

Man, I feel bad for the nodeless sometimes. Does EVERYONE else here feel so distant from everyone around them?

I mean seriously. I've seen the other "are we human or not" threads. Spooky stuff somehow. Is there something wrong with me since I still feel human?

I need to talk to my Teragen support council. Obviously I'm just not with the program these days.

[kestrel404]

I look at it this way. I'm a different species from baselines. I'm also a different species from my dog. I get along just fine with my dog. I get along just fine with my baseline friends.

Apples and oranges, you say? It's all still fruit.

[billy Horrorshow]

Alchemist I thought you said you were married and had a couple of kids. When you sleep with your wife is that like sleeping with your dog? No insult to her, (How many "fucking a dog" joke set-ups are there going to be? my bad) but is it inherently "wrong" to treat a nodeless as a partner? I don't know there's just a connotation vs. dennotation thing going on with using the word species.

It strikes me as a respect issue. I'm just curious how you deal with your kids now that they belong to another species. It all strikes me as rather cold, particularly coming from a family-man.

Reminds me of the film "Parents."

"And one day, it'll be dark everywhere.

Now go to bed."

[Jager]

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Originally posted by Walker:
Indeed, Joker, let us never forget that people are dangerous, but at the same time, as you so delightfully put it, fuck 'em. We do not exist to please them and they should get used to the fact.

Joker? Were in the hell did that come from compadre?

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Originally posted by Walker:
Now then, begs the question, what shall we do if and when they prove unable to deal with us?

Don't worry about it. Be more worried about what happens when some other nova decides that, for whatever reason, you gotta go. That will happen first.
Nothing like Warping away from somebody attacking you just to have them Warp right back beside you. It can ruin your whole life.

[Ian 'Very Bad' Blakely]

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Originally posted by Jager:
Were in the hell did that come from compadre?

You may not realize it, but you come off as very condescending on occasion. I'm sure that was not your intent, but still, it's there.

[Jager]

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Originally posted by Ian 'Very Bad' Blakely:
You may not realize it, but you come off as very condescending on occasion. I'm sure that was not your intent, but still, it's there.

Really?

I guess I will stick with the Joker-moniker for a bit, then. Don't want to get too big for my britches.

[kestrel404]

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Originally posted by billy Horrorshow:
Alchemist I thought you said you were married and had a couple of kids.

Divorced.

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It strikes me as a respect issue. I'm just curious how you deal with your kids now that they belong to another species. It all strikes me as rather cold, particularly coming from a family-man.

I don't 'deal' with my children. I love my children. They are a part of myself, and inseperable from the way I perceive the world. If you are ever fortunate enough to have kids, you will hopefully understand that.

How do I relate to my children? Quite well. I don't get to see them as often as I'd like, since I'm halfway across the country from them. But I visit them every few weeks and I get a call from one or the other every few days.

Have you ever owned a pet or knew an animal that you really loved? Respected it and viewed it as intelligent and insightful to the world around you? I used to own dogs, before I errupted. I viewed them as friends, and they were just as important to me as my human friends. Often moreso, since animals aren't nearly as judgemental.

Did I respect them? Yes.
Did I care about them? Yes.
Were they the same species as me? Not even close.

Bringing up sex is irrelevant to the point I'm trying to make.

[Walker]

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Originally posted by Jager:
Joker? Were in the hell did that come from compadre?

What! You mean that quip about Dolphins being tasty was for real!!

I thought we had a mutual understanding here. I thought that I knew that you could kick my arse all over creation, that you knew that I knew that and that you wouldn't feel threatened by a little thing like that.

Whereas what must have been going on was; I knew that you could wipe me to a thin paste, assumed that you must have known that too, that you had deduced that I must have known that as well and so therefore, given that you didn't know that I knew that, may have veiwed my childish name calling as a possible threat, slur or preemption to aggressive action.

My apologies for any confusion

[Sakurako Hino]

O_o; Okaaaaay.

I leave you kids alone for five minutes, and you're already losing all definition of sanity?

Seesh. >_<

[kestrel404]

Grumble. No one understands a good metaphor anymore these days. All you kids are too literal minded.

[Juri 'Salamander' McClendon]

Maybe the problem is it simply wasn't a good metaphor!

[Walker]

Sakurako Speaking of maybes, maybe you have too narrow a definition of sanity

[Sakurako Hino]

I'm just playing along and having a good time too, Walker.

[billy Horrorshow]

It brings me no small amount of joy to know that I'm only really a tertiary accomplice to the madness that lies within this thread.

I have no idea why Alchemy's grumbling, why JOKER strikes a strange cord, and I had no hand in the whole Nove League football thing....I was an AV geek.