01<@Ardweden> [Day: Monday, September 20. Time: Fifth period lunch, oh yeah!] 01<@Ardweden> [A new day, a new week, a new... something. The weekend was eventful - or not, and today's lunchtime event is sloppy joes. Delicious? Also sides consisting of green beans and fries. Students are already getting in line.] 01<@Ardweden> [Session Start.] 06* Tyler is in line staring at the gloop that awaits his lunch time fun. 01<@Ardweden> [That gloop has the nutrition Tyler desperately needs to get through the day. D:] 06* Tyler is very unsure about said GM statement. He just looks resigned to the gloop. 06* Sydney enters the cafeteria, looking obviously agitated. She does a quick scan of the tables, then sighs and gets in line. 06* Tiffany gets in line a little bit after Sydney. She has a book and binder under her arm as she gets in there, but she does look around to see if there's any usual harrassing subjects around. 06* Javy skips the line entirely, and carries a small, tied-up package of food over to the usual table, taking a seat at the end. 06* Sydney notices Tiffany get in line and moves back a few spots to stand with her. "We've got trouble," she says quietly. 01<@Ardweden> [Tyler meets the end of the line before too long, as he got to the cafeteria pretty early. SLOPPY JOES :D] 06* Tiffany frowns a little bit and looks a bit startled when Sydney drops back with her, as she was a bit preoccupied and then finally looks at Sydney. "What's up?" It's my sister. She's been sleeping in a lot lately. She slept through her alarm this morning, and that *never* happens. 06* Tiffany frowns more and then looks more fully on her, preoccupation lost. "What?" She mutters afterwards. "God, are we just not noticing other people or is it always going to be someone close to us?" 06* Tyler will get some sloppy joes and head for his table frowning at them. 06* Javy unwraps the cloth from around his lunch and opens up the tupperware inside. Looks like it's a pretty simple chicken and vegetable stir-fry. I don't know. And... I mean, I could just be being super-paranoid here, but it's enough of a pattern that I'm really worried. 06* Tiffany sighs. "Well...I was going to suggest us walking tonight anyways, but I was hoping it was so we could figure some stuff out...not for, you know, this..." 06* Tiffany puts a hand on Sydney's shoulder and looks at her, forcing a half smile. "Don't worry. We've got a good track record so far. 2 and 0. This one shouldn't be any different, right?" 01<@Ardweden> [Tyler gets to his table once the GM stops wasting time wondering what, exactly, he's frowning at. Steve is there! And no Tony. Even Steve looks concerned, as he downs a sloppy-joe-french-fry-green-bean sandwich.] 06* Sydney half-smiles in return. If nothing else, Tiffany reaching up to pat her shoulder is super-sweet. "Yeah, I guess so. We're getting more experienced. And we're working on figuring things out. And we can talk to the others." Yay, sentence fragments! 06* Tyler is obvioiusly frowning at the gloop... why the gloop? Oh god gloop. Steve's food makes him smile though. 01<@Ardweden> [Looking around, Sydney does notice Natalie entering, yawning, with her friend, Leah. She seems relatively with it, in that she's not stumbling into things or people.] 06* Sydney attempts to subtly point Natalie out to Tiffany. "There, that's her with the dark hair, with that other girl." 06* Tiffany nods. "Yeah, of course." She taps the book on her side. "Plus, I think I've got something." She then looks around Sydney to try and see Natalie, just to see her yawning. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve says around a mouthful of (sloppy) joe, "Tyler! Y'seen Tony?"] Not recently what's up 06* Sydney eyes Tiffany's book with interest. "Yeah?" 06* Tiffany nods. "I think I know who those three statues are now." You were right, actually. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve says something pretty incomprehensible, then goes through the trouble of swallowing before he says, "Dunno, dude. Didn't see him before school today. Matt and Josh neither."] 06* Sydney looks surprised. "I was? Wow." 01<@Ardweden> [Tiffany and Sydney get to the end of THE LINE.] 06* Sydney orders joe and beans. 06* Tiffany lets out a brief, short laugh at that and covers her mouth. "Hey, you *can* be sometimes. I'll let you know when we get the group together." 06* Sydney grins briefly and nods. 06* Javy looks around to spot people as he starts eating! He even has a little thermos of tea, it seems. 06* Tiffany gets to the end of the line and looks at the sloppy joes and sighs, resigned. She just orders a salad and soup that's the usual fair. Much better than trying to decide whether the green beans or the bun after the sloppy joes is soggier. 01<@Ardweden> [The food is given to the girls in short order.] 06* Tyler frowns and looks at his sloppy joe. "Eh, not really hungry, you want this?" 01<@Ardweden> [Steve brightens, concern gone. "You sure? Thanks!"] yeah just not really hungry 01<@Ardweden> [And then the concern's back as he takes the food. "Dude. You feeling okay?"] 06* Tiffany takes the food and goes to the usual table. No infiltrating Tyler's table today. That's been done. 06* Sydney heads to the usual table with Tiffany. 06* Javy is already sitting there! He waves to the pair of them. 06* Tiffany waves to Javy, then looks around. "Hank absent today?" 01<@Ardweden> [There's no Hank yet, at least.] 06* Sydney waves to Javy as well and sits down. She sets down her tray, then reaches into her backpack, gets out a notebook and pen, and sets them on the table. 06* Javy shakes his head. "Hey. Uh, no, I... he hasn't been. Here." 06* Tiffany sets down her book on the table. It looks like a pretty hefty volume. It's title reads "The Comprehensive Guide to Greek Gods and Goddesses". She then sighs. "We've got another problem." 06* Sydney nods. "My sister may be the next one in trouble. She's been sleeping in a lot." My mom is totally freaking out, because first I start sleeping through my alarm 'cause of all the dream stuff, and now Nat's doing it too. 06* Javy looks down at the book, then to Syd, and back. "Uh..." He focuses on the book, looking concerned and curious at the same time. "Are, uh, that... what? No... again?" 06* Tiffany frowns some more and lets out a breath. "If it keeps happening to people who are close to us, I wonder if Suzanna's next." We should warn Hank. 06* Tiffany shakes her head. "Eventually. One thing at a time though." He... yeah. I think it's... we can wait. This, uh, we should deal. This part first. 06* Tiffany notices Javy looking and taps the book, looking at him. "Good news is...I think I found our mystery statue people. I don't think we're going to have much time to look into it, but it may tell us who's on what side though." 06* Sydney nods and opens her notebook to a blank page. "Go for it." She idly pokes at a green bean with her left index finger. 06* Tyler frowns and watches Steve right now. 06* Javy looks from the book up to Tiffany, and then off to the side of her, off into the crowd self-consciously. "Yeah. Uh... I want to hear." 01<@Ardweden> [Steve blinks at his friend. "Tyler?"] Yeah? 06* Tiffany starts flipping through the book a little bit until she finds a page that she left earmarked. She opens the page marked "Oneiroi" which talks about the sons of Nyx and brothers of Hypnos, Thanatos, and Geras. In it, it talks about three named brothers from Ovid: Phobetor, Morpheus, and Phantasos. All three of them are mentioned as being represented as beautiful males with black wings, 06* Tiffany and there's some pictures of surviving artwork. 06* Tiffany taps the page. "There." 01<@Ardweden> ["You okay?" Steve asks.] No. It's... complicated. 06* Javy leans over to look at it more closely. "Can I?" He tentatively reaches to turn the book closer so he can read it. Yeah, go ahead 01<@Ardweden> [A few of the pictures do, in fact, depict winged men, though not *exactly* like the statues they remember. And none of them have all three together.] 06* Javy takes it, and moves his food aside, so he can give it a quick read. 06* Sydney leans over to get a better look. "Is it weird that I think some of those pictures are pretty cute?" 01<@Ardweden> ["Oh." Steve chews for a while, then says, "Uh... you wanna talk about it?"] Nah. Just means you like the strong silent type. All stony and such. 06* Javy laughs sharply without looking up from reading. 06* Sydney laughs a little, then clears her throat and checks her notes from before on them. 06* Tiffany grins a little at that, and then glances at the part that Javy's reading now. Last time I tried I hurt some one. Seriously hurt them. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve blinks. "Really? That sucks."] Yeah. So... not sure if I should. 06* Javy finishes skimming it over, and nudges it towards Syd. "That's... so, is the Raven... is it. Uh. He... one of those?" 01<@Ardweden> [Steve shrugs, taking another huge bite out of his sandwich. "Mmfl." He chews. "If y'wanna, y'know."] 06* Tiffany glances at Javy for a moment and nods briefly, then pauses. "Well...uh...yes and no." I mean he said he was an aspect of Phobetor. That could mean he's a representation of him. Or it could mean he's a servant. 06* Sydney takes the book and starts adding a bit to her notes. 06* Tiffany gestures vaguely. "We don't really know. But we do know he's aligned with him." 06* Tyler sighs and looks down at the table. "I got choosen for something important. I gotta do it, but it means hanging out with Tiff-tiff more. It also means doing something that... well I wouldn't want some one doing to me..." 06* Sydney nods and moves the book back to Tiffany. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve blinks. "Y'kill people?" he asks, curiously.] 06* Javy nods. "But if... well. Uh... it said, birds are part of his, uh... his..." He fumbles for the right word, and tries. "... aspect? If that's... but I guess it doesn't mean... that it is. Uh. Really him, I mean." No. Yeah. I mean it *could* be. But I don't want to jump too big on it without any info. We'll probably find out that if it's important. 06* Tiffany pokes the book. "The important thing is...there's at least two other guys." 01<@Ardweden> [He shrugs. "Can't be that bad, then... right?" He takes another bite.] 06* Javy nods. "Yeah. It's... how long did it, uh... I mean, it looks hard to, uh, find. In the book. It's not, ah, a big part." He takes back up his stirfry. Don't know. How..how would you like some one knowing all your secrets? I mean it's not that but... 06* Tiffany waves it off a little. "Look, that's not important. I mean, it's info, right? Info is good. And we got it on our own." Which means that if we keep looking with this as a start, we're bound to find more. 06* Javy sneaks a look at her, impressed. "It's still... yeah. It is good. We should look more. We, uh... let's ask Nate, too. To help." 01<@Ardweden> [Steve blinks at Tyler, then shrugs. "I dunno, dude. I don't think I'd care that much."] 06* Sydney takes another look aback at the line to see how Natalie's doing. I don't know. I would. I wouldn't want it done to me. At all. 06* Tiffany nods at Sydney and points at her with her salad-covered fork. "Right." She takes a bite of it and follows Sydney's gaze. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve scrunches his eyebrows. "... Okay?"] 06* Javy looks off that way, too, if everyone else is looking that way! Though when we do it... it's needed... kindof... It's confusing and I don't want to say specifics 01<@Ardweden> [Natalie's just getting lunch! She now has a tray full of food, and Leah's more or less guiding her sleepy self to the freshie table they usually sit at.] 01<@Ardweden> ["Dude, that *is* pretty confusing."] 06* Javy blinks a couple of times. "Is that... why are we... is that her?" 01<@Ardweden> [And Nate walks in, late as usual! He waves cheerfully to the PC table as he gets in line.] Yeah, that's my sister and one of her friends. It is.. I just... 06* Tyler sighs and shrugs at Steve. "It's important but..." Uh yeah. 06* Tiffany turns and blinks, looking at Javy. "Um, why?" 06* Sydney is concentrating on Natalie and Leah and misses Nate waving. Sorry, Nate! 01<@Ardweden> [Steve just looks confused still. Which doesn't stop him from eating, mind.] 06* Javy waves back to Nate, and then back at Syd. "She's Leah's friend?" 06* Sydney blinks at Javy. "Yeah. You know Leah?" 06* Tiffany looks at Javy some more and tilts her head. "Leah?" I mean, I've only met her once or twice but she and Nat are always hanging out together... 06* Javy nods, and looks down at his food. "Yeah, she... we go to, uh... she's a bassoonist. With, uh. Mrs. Collins. Like me." Um. I mean. I don't... I do oboe, but... So.. sorry, just.. in a mood Oh, cool. Don't what? 01<@Ardweden> ["'Sokay, dude. Sure you're not hungry?"] 06* Javy glances up at her halfway. "Uh. Bassoon. Just... Mrs. Collins does both. Most woodwinds, actually." Not really. It's been a long week 06* Sydney takes a sip of her soda. "I think my mom's disappointed that neither of us turned out to be all that musical. She teaches violin." 01<@Ardweden> [Steve nods and shrugs in one motion, somehow, and eats! FOOD!] 06* Tiffany blinks. "Oh." She feels like she's finally on track of the conversation. "So you play instruments together?" 06* Javy nods to Tiffany. "Yeah. Uh, we do. Um. We're playing together soon, uh... next, um. Recital." He looks interestedly at Syd. "Where? I... is it near here?" 06* Tiffany takes another bite of salad, looking down at it. She blurts out, "Is it open the public? The recital I mean." 06* Javy blushes, and looks back at Tiffany, the most direct since she sat down. "I, uh... it... yeah. It... it is. You..." He trails off, and comes back up with, "...have flyers." 06* Sydney looks like she had to think about about the answer. "Yeah, it's the college near here." Relative distance, so tricky! 06* Tiffany giggles and looks up at Javy, smiling at him. "You're gonna be okay with me going, right? I don't wanna mess you up." 01<@Ardweden> [Hold the phone. Tiffany giggled?] 06* Javy feels his ears burning. "No, I, uh... I... I can handle it. Uh. I'm used to it. It's, ah... if you want?" He looks hastily at Syd. "That's cool!" 06* Sydney grins. "She'd probably enjoy meeting you. It'd make her happy to know that Nat and I each have at least one musically inclined friend." 06* Tiffany pouts a little, but it doesn't look *too* sincerely offended. "Of course I do. I mean, ah, I've never really known anyone who's played before..." Now she's blushing too... 06* Javy nods to Syd. "I... if you want, we could... I'll ask Mrs. Collins. Maybe she knows her, too." He turns back to Tiffany, mostly. "I... well. Uh. Now... now, you do, so... you can. If you want." He fidgets with his fork, and adds, "I, uh. Please?" 06* Sydney nods and then watches Tiffany and Javy. The awkwardness is kind of adorable. 06* Tiffany watches Javy for a moment as he fidgets and the blush kind of goes away. She kind of blinks at the please. "Uh, of course. Why wouldn't I?" She sounds a little confused now. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate walks over to the table, food on a tray. "Afternoon, guys," he says, breaking up the silence and setting his tray down and then his backpack.] 06* Tiffany looks up at Nate, a little startled at his intrusion, but she recovers in a moment. "Oh. Uh, hey Nate." She's not looking directly at him. Maybe she's blushing again. 06* Sydney looks up at Nate and smiles. "Hi, Nate!" 06* Javy nods to Nate, happy for that. "Hey Nate." He looks back at Tiffany. "No, uh... that's... sure. I'll... after lunch, I can get you one. A flyer. So you'll know." 01<@Ardweden> ["So, um..." Steve says around his food as he looks for a topic that doesn't involve Tyler being all cryptic and stuff. "You gonna ask someone out for the dance?" Yeah, that'll totally work.] 01<@Ardweden> [Nate smiles back at Sydney, because smiles are a little infectuous. "What's going on?" he asks her, as Javy and Tiffany are clearly mid-conversation.] 06* Tyler shrugs. "Don't know. Not really a dance guy." 01<@Ardweden> ["Oh." Yup, that totally worked! Steve eats more.] 06* Sydney looks at the book. "Mythology research." Then she looks back at him and her smile falters for a sec. "You know, for the thing." What about you? 01<@Ardweden> ["Oh, yeah. Whatcha looking up?" Nate moves over to help, food largely forgotten before he even got to it.] 01<@Ardweden> [Steve coughs on his sloppy joe, then chews, then swallows. He has the decency to look embarrassed (for once). "Uh... I dunno, dude. Most girls don't notice me really."] 06* Sydney points to the article on Phobetor, Morpheus, and Phantasos. "These guys." Hey if you wanted to go you should ask some one. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate reaches over for his soda. "Huh. The Oneiros?"] 06* Tiffany nods slightly, now that the conversation is off of Javy and her and oboes. "You know about them?" 01<@Ardweden> [Steve scratches at the back of his head. "Well uh... that one girl was cute. Um. She didn't say her name, but she was in the Gamestop?"] 06* Sydney unintentionally echoes Tiffany. "You know them?" 06* Tiffany gives Sydney a bit of an odd, surprised look. She may be amused by that but it's hard to tell. 01<@Ardweden> ["Not a whole lot," Nate admits. "They deliver dreams and nightmares. And visions, I guess." He sips his soda. "Morpheus is the one everybody knows about, if anything."] Sure man, you should try it. 06* Javy also feels freer now, and goes back to eating his food. He looks pretty happy with it. 01<@Ardweden> [And then Steve looks panicked. "Uh, but- no? I mean, dude! What if she doesn't like me."] 06* Tiffany chews on her salad again. "Visions?" She talked to you man, you gotta give a shot. If you don't take the chance how will you know? 01<@Ardweden> ["Yeah, well." Nate gestures with his free hand. "For example, Morpheus delivered messages from the gods. That's pretty much a vision."] 01<@Ardweden> ["And hallucinations kind of double as visions, and that's Phantasos' thing, more or less."] Huh, I wouldn't have thought of it that way. At all. 01<@Ardweden> [Steve frowns, thinking that through. "I guess..." he concedes. "But that means you should ask someone, too."] 06* Javy looks impressed at Nate, with his mouth full. 06* Tiffany taps her cheek, thinking a little bit. "Huh." She then points at Phobetor's name. "What about him? Know anything about him?" 06* Sydney finally turns some of her attention to her lunch, which is now soggy and cold. She frowns and eats a few green beans. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate nods, having another sip of soda. "Nightmares. And he appears as animals, mostly. I'm guessing that's why you're interested."] Fine, who should I ask? 01<@Ardweden> ["I dunno! Who do you like?"] That's one reason. 06* Tiffany raises her fork to her mouth. "It's a bit more complicated than that." She chews another salad bit. 06* Tyler shrugs. "Don't really have my eye on any one right now." 01<@Ardweden> [Nate looks at Tiffany for a moment. "Do you want to elaborate?"] 01<@Ardweden> ["That's okay, I don't really have my eye on that one chick, either," Steve says. Yes! A way out!] Oh screw that, you're asking her. I'll just have to ask some one myself. 06* Tiffany sighs a little bit and then looks down at her salad. "I don't know how. It's hard enough getting you involved in all of this at all and I'm not even sure how to *explain* all of it..." It's just...weird, you know? 06* Javy nods a couple of times. "It is, but... if we've shared this much, then, um... I... let's share more. To explain. It could help. Right?" 01<@Ardweden> ["Aw, man." Dangerously close to pouting, Steve! He eats more, sulkily.] 01<@Ardweden> [Nate eats some lunch, letting Javy and Tiffany talk it out.] 06* Tiffany sighs a little bit more and then looks at Javy. "Alright. But not here, okay? We should probably head for the library or something." 06* Tyler stands up. "I'm going to do this now so you can't back out." He starts scanning the room for a victom...er willing accomplince...er beautiful girl. Or outside even. 01<@Ardweden> [There are plenty of options, ranging from Delilah and her crew to Tiffany to all sorts of girls in between.] 06* Sydney checks her watch. "Lunch period's almost over. Want to meet after school?" Okay. But, uh... we're still eating, so... can we... um. There's got to be something that, that we can say, um... here. No one'll know. Or... yeah, outside could work. But not the library, uh, not yet. 01<@Ardweden> ["Hey," Steve says suddenly, "No asking someone just to do it."] 06* Tyler stops himself from moving for Tiffany and Sydney with those words. "Damn." He sighed. "Fine, I'll find some one I want to go with and ask them." 01<@Ardweden> [Steve beams in VICTORY! And then finishes a sandwich. IN VICTORY!] Oh, you're not winning that easily. I'll do it, for real, by the end of the week. 01<@Ardweden> [His face falls. "Damn."] 06* Javy munches down his food, looking at the pictures in the book again. 06* Tiffany nods. "It's just a lot to talk about." She rubs her head. "I...uh...sorry for blowing you off the other day, Nate. That was unfair, but I'm *really* not sure how to treat all this stuff with people who aren't in the group..." You gotta ask this girl man, and if doing this helps you do it I will. For real. 01<@Ardweden> [Nate shrugs. "No problem. You had stuff you needed to work through. I get it."] So do we want to meet up after classes? 06* Tiffany nods. "That sounds good, actually. I'll bring the book." 06* Javy nods quietly, and drinks some tea before saying. "I think I... yeah. I can." 01<@Ardweden> [Session End!]