01<@Ardweden> [Day: Wednesday, September 1. Time: Fifth period lunch!] 01<@Ardweden> [It's the best time of the day! Or something approximating that... anyway, it's baked potato day!] 01<@Ardweden> [Session Start.] 06* Sydney arrives early! She was planning on going back to her locker to exchange stuff, but somehow she ended up at the cafeteria instead, so she just goes with it. 01<@Ardweden> [Sydney has the wrong books, but at least she gets food earlyish!] 06* Tiffany is in line a little ways behind Sydney and is rather surprised at that! At least Sydney's hard to miss in line, unlike her. 06* Sydney gets her potato with cheese and broccoli. Yummy. 06* Javy gets in line another way beyond that, and looks around to see who's around now. 06* Tiffany also gets a cheese and broccoli potato. And a side salad as well, because she's not the kind to just eat potato. 01<@Ardweden> [Not many people yet! You guys got there early, and the majority of students are still entering.] 06* Sydney gets an apple and a banana as well, then takes a look around to see who else has arrived. 06* @Tyler heads through the line not paying attention to folks. 06* Sydney notes Tiffany and Javy, then heads to the table they'd been sitting at the past couple of days. Alas, Tiffany, you are not rid of her today. 01<@Ardweden> [Sydney actually gets to the right table on her first try!] 06* Tiffany looks at the table for a moment, then looks at some nearby free tables as well before settling on Sydney's again and making her way there cautiously. 06* Javy looks around for anyone else he knows behind him, too! Standing around in line is boring that way. 06* Sydney looks up from her potato and waves to Tiffany. 01<@Ardweden> [A few students behind Javy are Leah and that brunette friend of hers. They're talking animatedly about something and don't seem to have noticed him.] 06* Tiffany responds quietly as she sits down, distracted as she sets down the tray. "Hey..." How's it going? 06* @Tyler will keep going through tryign to decide how to get enough food out of this. 01<@Ardweden> [Tyler finds that he can get one or more baked potatoes, and the standard options of salad, bagel, etc. are available.] 06* Javy isn't sure how much he wants to be noticed, but he waves at her a little anyway. Mmm... 01<@Ardweden> [At the wave, the brunette nudges Leah, and she looks up, then grins and waves back!] 06* Javy waves again, with a little awkward smile, and then looks back up the line. Potatoes, huh? 06* @Tyler might actually get a salad... It's that horrible a day or something. 06* Tiffany stabs at her potato and doesn't look at Sydney. "Okay, I guess. I suppose you're going to be eating at this table for the rest of the school year?" 06* Sydney blinks. "I don't know. Do you want me to leave? I didn't mean to intrude or anything. I just thought we might want to talk about dream stuff." 06* Tiffany keeps stabbing at the potato. "It's fine. We do have some stuff to talk about anyhow..." She's looking even less at Sydney now, if that's possible. 06* Javy makes his way forward in the line slowly. 06* Sydney glances over at the line. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve walks in, followed shortly by Tony, and they get in line. Steve looks excited about the prospect of getting food, at least!] Okay. Guess it makes sense to wait for Javy and Hank before we start. 01<@Ardweden> [Tyler gets to the end of the line now.] 06* Tiffany stabs her potato. Victory! "I suppose..." She frowns a little bit as she takes out a broccoli/potato/cheese mess and then gives Sydney a glance up, sighing. "Sorry." 06* @Tyler will get three potatos with chili and then head off. 01<@Ardweden> [Tyler gets quite the meal. Steve spots the food Tyler's lugging off and nods approvingly. Soon, Tyler will be ready to try to snatch the grasshopper pie from his hand.] It's okay. I mean, I am kind of intruding. I'm just hoping not to be too annoying about it. 01<@Ardweden> [Javy gets to the end of the line, finally!] 06* Tiffany leans into her hand and glances at Sydney, taking a potato bite. "Couldn't tell you. It's not like I have people banging at my door to get to know me." 06* @Tyler will go find a seat and scoot the chili off the potatos shoving the evil veggies to the side* 06* Javy gets a potato with chili, one with scallions, and a small salad, and then grabs some water. 06* Sydney smiles a little. "Well, I'll I won't bang on your door unless you invite me over, then. Or unless it's an emergency. But I'd call first then." 01<@Ardweden> [Tyler removes veggies and beans and leaves only the meats on his potato.] 06* Tiffany looks at Sydney for a moment, gazing at her and folding her hands together. "Well, I barely even know you outside of school. And barely even that." 06* @Tyler sstarts to eat A potato and meat. 06* Javy slows down and stops by the table, and shifts his tray. "Hey, uh..." He stops, and says, "Uh, I should, I should go eat with the team. For a bit. I'll come back before we're done." He pauses, and adds quickly, "With lunch, I mean. If you want." This is true. So! I- 06* Sydney is interrupted by Javy. "Hey, Javy. Sorry, I'd forgotten about your previous lunch plans. I was going to wait on talking about stuff until you and Hank got here. But, uh, if you guys want to talk later, that's cool." 06* Javy shakes his head quickly. "No, uh, it's okay. I can come back. But I need to..." he colors a little, and looks at the other table. "I need to spend... some time. There." 06* Tiffany looks up a little at Javy and gives him a half-smile. "Of course. Yeah, I think we can share what we found later." 06* Javy nods, and smiles back a little at Tiffany, reflexively, before hurrying off to the swim table. 06* @Tyler will save his potatos and beans for Steve. 06* Tiffany watches him go. "Wonder if he's always been that nervous..." 01<@Ardweden> [Javy arrives at the swim table. Two students are already there - Jonah and Cole - and Jonah looks up from his butter and broccoli potato as Javy arrives. "Hey, Javy. How's it going?"] 06* Sydney shrugs. "No idea." Hey. Okay. 06* Javy sits down, setting down his tray. "Potatoes." 01<@Ardweden> [For the record, Jonah has short black hair and very blue eyes, and is just under six feet tall; Cole is a couple of inches shorter, and thinner, with blackk hair and brown eyes. They're both swimmers, like Javy, and so are lean and fit.] 06* Tiffany nods. "Yeah. I guess different teams and all." She stabs at the potato. "We went searching for info the other night. On the Fringe, I mean." 06* Sydney bites into her apple and chews thoughtfully. "Yeah? What did you find?" 01<@Ardweden> [Jonah nods. "One of the better lunches, in my opinion." " 06* @Tyler just frowns and looks over at Tiffany's table and back again. 01<@Ardweden> ["That's just because it's easy to get meat-free," Cole comments. "Nacho day is *way* better."] 06* Tiffany stabs her salad to balance things out and goes to chew. "Well, apparently a lot of people think Ashgate is haunted. And people've talked about lights being on, particularly at the Fringe, but nobody actually being there when they looked inside." 06* Javy starts eating his potato with scallions. "There are vegetarian nachos." Wow, so... this sort of thing has been going on for a while, then? Or at least supernatural stuff of some sort? 01<@Ardweden> ["Doesn't change that it's better," Cole says with conviction.] 06* Tiffany sighs. "'A while' doesn't even say the half of it." 01<@Ardweden> [Steve and Tony approach Tyler's table. Steve has three potatoes on his tray, like Tyler, only every topping known to man and some unknown are on each of them. Tony has two with chili and cheese.] Like... hundreds of years, then? How long has there been an Ashgate, even? 06* Javy looks down at his plate. "I like both. For some days. But the nachos are weird sometimes. Like. Like too fake." Like...we were looking back in the history and apparently it's been here since the 19th century. Just about as long as anyone can remember. Wow. That's crazy. And kinda freaky. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve sits down and starts chowing on the potatoes, and Tony sits, catching Tyler's look at Tiffany's table. "What's going on?"] It is, yeah... <@Tyler> Pissed, my favorite target has some one else playing with her. 06* Hank arrives late. It's out of character for him. But whatever. Cue fanfare! Man, I wonder if this dream thing is the most recent weirdness, or if it's been going on for a while too and we're just the latest ones. 06* Tiffany stabs at her potato again. "Latest ones." She pauses for a beat and then, if Sydney has any reaction, looks at her. "Walrus told me." 06* Hank gets in line. 06* Sydney blinks. "Huh." She takes another bite of apple and chews for a bit before swallowing. "Maybe I should go talk to him sometime. He seemed... I'm not sure 'nice' is the word for it, but probably less likely to do something terrible to us." And he has an awesome hat. 06* Tiffany poke pokes. "You have to know how to talk to him." She sighs and takes her bite. "Tyler hates him." 01<@Ardweden> ["Man, you really have it in for that girl, don't you," Tony says, and Steve swallows and asks, "Isn't that the chick you told Josh to stay away from?"] I'm starting to notice that Tyler hates many things. 06* Tiffany shrugs. "He's a tool. Part of a small little posse who thinks they're big stuff." 01<@Ardweden> ["Like stale," Jonah says. "At least it's almost impossible to mess up a baked potato." Right about now, Kit approaches (another swimmer, younger, with longer brown hair in a ponytail and an aquiline nose). "Um, hi guys," he says quietly as he slides his tray onto his table and similarly slides into his chair.] 06* Javy nods to Kit. "Hey." 06* @Tyler frowns. "Shut the fuck up. I'm just worried when some one else is moving in on our deal. Means they are planning something and I don't knwo what it is." 01<@Ardweden> [At that, Steve turns to Tony. "That's her, right?" and Tony sighs. "Yeah, Steve."] 01<@Ardweden> [Steve goes back to eating massive quantities of topping and potato and topping!] <@Tyler> Steve, I'll give you two potatoes for one of yours. 01<@Ardweden> [Hank gets to the end of the line! It's baked potato day, with a wide variety of topping options! He may get more than one potato.] 06* Sydney sighs. "Yeah. And yet, here he is involved in the dream world with us." 06* Hank gets 2. topped with... I dunno? Bacon? That sounds good. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve looks at Tyler's potatoes, which are covered in beans and veggies and meat, and then his potatoes, which are covered with AWESOME. "Eh... well, okay," he says, sliding one of his Tyler's way. It wobbles and some chicken and cheese and ranch and hot sauce falls off.] 06* @Tyler hands Steve his two potatoes. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve puts the potatoes on top of the other potatoes. Naturally.] 01<@Ardweden> [Hank gets bacontatoes! Looking at the rest of the cafeteria, Tiffany and Sydney are at the usual table, and Javy's sitting with some dudes he doesn't recognize.] 01<@Ardweden> [Oh, and Tyler and his jerk friends are hanging out, of course.] 06* Javy calmly eats through a potato, sitting quietly with the swimmers. 06* Tiffany shrugs. "Had to be one in the group, right? At least I'm surprised it'd be someone like me too." She looks over at Tyler's table for a moment. "Could still be someone worse..." 06* Hank goes to the Tiffydney table and takes a seat. "'Sup girls? Mmm... bacontatoes." He takes a bite. Omnomnom. 06* @Tyler grabs the awesometato and turns in one motion chucking it in general at Tiffany. 01<@Ardweden> ["Anyone have or had Mr. Johnson for geometry?" Cole asks. "Yeah," Kit says, "I'm in his class...?" And then Tyler throws a potato.] Hey, Hank. How's it going? Ain't too bad. How you been? Oh, pretty good. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve stands and reaches his out to save the potato, almost in slow motion, as the potato with every topping known to man (and some not) leaves Tyler's hand, sails through the air in a perfect arc, and lands squarely in Hank's back. The entire cafeteria goes silent.] 06* Javy nods to Cole, as well, and then watches the potato fly. 06* Sydney goes dead quiet. 06* Hank cranes his head, looks at it, looks back at Tyler's table, then turns to Tiffany and Sydney. He smiles. 06* @Tyler grabs napkins and wipes the evidence off as fast as he can praying to every diety around silently. Excuse me a moment. 06* Tiffany goes silent too, just looking at Hank and Tyler's table. The expression on her face is blank. 06* Javy goes wide-eyed, and sets down his fork and knife. 06* Hank gets up and makes his way over to Tyler & co.'s table. 06* Sydney whispers to Tiffany. "It's way too late to say that it's not worth it, isn't it?" 06* Tiffany doesn't respond to that. She just puts her hands on the side of her head. "This isn't happening..." 06* @Tyler tries to act like he doesn't know his doom is approaching. "So, Math sucked today." 06* Hank gets to the table. "'Cuse me, fellas. Tyler, didn't I tell you we was gonna have words next time you pulled a stunt like that?" <@Tyler> Stunt like what? 01<@Ardweden> [Cole says, under his breath, "Oh, this is gonna be bad. That guy is *huge*."] 06* Javy looks at Cole, and says very softly, "Uh, should we... should we stop him? I kinda..." he trails off, and finishes with "locker next to mine." 01<@Ardweden> ["Sorry, dude, what was that?" Cole asks.] 06* Hank reaches out with one huge arm, grabs Tyler's head and pushes his face into his potatoes. "Like that, fucker." 01<@Ardweden> [Tyler's vision is filled with chili and potato. Delicious! Tony and Steve stare at Hank, not really sure what to do. He is pretty huge.] 06* Javy blushes a little, and says, "Should we stop him...?" and then makes a soft noise, and follows lamely, "Never mind." 06* Tiffany stares at Hank for a moment and then politely excuses herself from Sydney, dumping her tray and trying to sneak out of the cafeteria before things get ugly....er. 01<@Ardweden> [As Tiffany tries to sneak out, she nearly bumps into Nate, who's entering. "Afternoon, Tiffany," he says cheerfully, and then is greeted with a more or less silent cafeteria. "Wha- oh," he says, spotting Hank and Tyler.] 06* Tiffany frowns as her stealth is interrupted and follows Nate's gaze. She sighs. 06* Tiffany tightens up her pack a little bit more. "I gotta go. Tell Javy I'm sorry." She makes her way around him and out. 06* Javy is too transfixed to notice that Nate has shown up. 01<@Ardweden> Nate turns as Tiffany goes. "Sure...?" 06* @Tyler grabs one of Steve's other potatos and tosses blindly back at Hank, completely missing. The Potato lamely goes thusquish against the wall. 06* Hank tilts to one side, dodging the.... whatever was thrown at him. "You just don't know when to quit, do ya, son?" he says, then grinds Tyler's face into the potato meal, probably getting it in his hair. "Howsabout you apologize and promise never harass anyone again, before this gets ugly?" 01<@Ardweden> [Steve frowns. "That was my potato," he says, sadly.] 06* Hank doesn't glance at Steve, but he does say, "Sorry, you can have one of mine. Lost my appetite anywho." 06* @Tyler was about to fight more but then just gives up. 01<@Ardweden> [Tony stands up. "Hey man," he says, "You made your point. Back off already."] 06* Javy flinches a little when the second potato goes flying, but he doesn't get up or anything. 01<@Ardweden> [At this point, the rest of the cafeteria goes back to talking amongst themselves, as it's quite clear nothing cool is going to happen like knife fights and blood.] Soon as he apologizes. I want to hear him say it. 06* @Tyler flips Hank off or rather generally raises his middle finger at anything in the area. 06* Javy shakes his head, and tries to look away, getting his attention back on the potato. Hank can take care of himself. 06* Hank backs off. After grabbing whatever it was Tyler was drinking and dumping it over his head. "Fucking dumbass." He goes back to his table. 01<@Ardweden> [Another potato goes sailing through the air, beautiful in its cheesy goodness, to hit Hank in the shoulder - and splash all over the girls sitting nearby.] 06* @Tyler is getting chili out of his eyes and thinking another half day skip isn't a bad thing. 06* Javy swears softly, "Madre de dios." He looks at the guys at the table. "Now this. This is ugly. Now. We should go." 01<@Ardweden> ["Hey!" yells one of the girls, "Watch it!" and she throws her own potato at where the other potato generally came from, hitting some other students...] 01<@Ardweden> [Jonah nods in agreement, running his hand through his hair protectively, and Kit's already on his feet, trying to scoot around the edge of the cafteria for the closest exit.] 06* Hank turns around, starting to crack his knuckles.... and is completely taken aback by the alternate potato thrower near him. 01<@Ardweden> [The students near the center of the cafeteria, around Hank and Tyler's table, erupt, and an all out food fight ensues. POTATO BOMBS EVERYWHERE!] 01<@Ardweden> [Other students are trying to get in on it, while still others are trying to flee and nevertheless getting splash damage.] 06* @Tyler takes that as his cue to leave. "Steve, leave the food, we're going to hit up the Chinese buffet down Pine." 06* Javy gets in with the fleeing, following behind Kit and grabbing his stuff as he goes. 06* Hank takes the escape option. This isn't the kind of fight he was hoping for! D: 01<@Ardweden> ["What? But- fine, but you're paying!" Steve yells, getting to his feet as a potato splatters all over their table (and them).] 06* @Tyler bolts for the door then. 01<@Ardweden> [Hank tries to escape, but he does not make it out unscathed, as he was at ground zero of the food fight. Same with Tyler and Steve, and Tony, as he follows.] 06* @Tyler doesn't care he has a car and can clean the mess up later. His friends are free to ride with him. 01<@Ardweden> [The swim team makes it out safely, though. Thank goodness for their hair!] 06* Hank just... heads for the restroom then. 06* Javy gets out, then, and halfway down the hall, laughs loudly. 01<@Ardweden> [And so, people went their separate ways. More or less.] 01<@Ardweden> [Session End!]