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[inhairently]

i'll make this prettier soon

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[pinballer]

hey
this is vance

just wanted to say it was alright hanging out with you i guess
and you have cool hair

[ This is his attempt at being nice...baby steps. ]

1/2

[inhairently]

Hey man

Thanks You have cool hair too

[ ok so it's not EXACTLY steve's style but 70s/80s dudes gotta stick together in this terrible place where people don't know style if it bit them in the ass ]

[inhairently]

[ He thinks about it for a minute or two, then decides to send a second string of texts because the kid deserves to know. And also to not be told by someone who's going to use the word "obliterated" ]

Where are you can we meet up

I have weird news about this place It's kind of heavy

Better to hear it in person

[pinballer]

fucking finally
everyone else says i look like a poodle
have they even SEEN led zeppelin
people from the past or future or whatever have no taste

and yeah it's not like i have anything fucking better to do
bring on the weird news

[inhairently]

Right! I don't get it
Most people here talk to me like they don't think I'm cool
I'm REALLY cool

[ never have i ever had been quite damaging ]

But yeah ok you can come to my room if you want
My roommate is out
It's 133

[pinballer]

god, right
i am so fucking cool and no one even realizes it
like
hello????

that's right across from me, i'll be right over

[ And there's a knock on Steve's door in about ten seconds. ]

[inhairently]

[ When Steve answers the door, he's a little disheveled. His ~cool hair~ is mussed like he's been running his hands through it a lot and he just looks tired. ]

Hey, [ he says, trying quite hard not to sound too grim. ] Didn't know we were neighbors. That's cool.

[ He shuts the door behind Vance and takes a seat on the edge of his bed. He hasn't thought much about how he's going to say this. Should he just go straight into it? Guess that's better than trying to pad it with small talk first. ]

So this thing I found out, it's kind of big. [ Well - ] Really big, actually. You might wanna sit down.

[ well so far he's doing no better than Smith ]

sent sometime during weed party after they parted ways

[thefreak]

🖐👉🤏💥👻🫠🦊🍑🔥🧨🎸🦄

[inhairently]

[ This is Steve's first encounter with emojis and he's so freakin stoned he feels like Eddie's just sent him a chunk of the Rosetta Stone ]

w hat

is that a unincorporated

wait

unincorporated

uncork

unicorn

that one

[thefreak]

don't hurt yourself, man

[ It's fine, Eddie's not laughing his ass off at this or anything. ]

yeah, it's a unicorn. pretty bitchin, don't you think?

[inhairently]

[ in lieu of confirmation of whether or not the unincorporated uncorked unicorn is bitchin, Eddie will receive the following: ]

🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕👅👅🙏👌

[ Steve may or may not have asked whoever is closest to him how to do little pictures ]

[thefreak]

[ There's something endearing about communicating solely via emoji.

Also Eddie's still pretty pleasantly stoned, and food sounds good right now, so all Steve gets in reply is: ]

🍨❓

[inhairently]

👍🍨🤩

text, the day after weed party

[pinballer]

hey steve
we're bros, right?

[ Is this because he wants a favor? Yeah. ]

[inhairently]

[ HMMM is it ever a good thing when someone poses this question out of the blue ]

i guess it depends on why you're asking

[pinballer]

um
you know chrissy, yeah?
she mentioned you once

[inhairently]

yeah i know her, why?

[pinballer]

we hung out last night but she was high as balls

[ And thus he's not sure if any of it was 'I like you' affection or just 'I'm high' affection. He could ask her himself but that's scary and he doesn't know how to be honest with his emotions. So, asking your bro to do you a favor it is. ]

can you find out if she thinks im cool
dont tell her i asked just like bring it up organically

the day after weed party

[bubblegumheart]

Why did they put a face on the shit emoji?

[Yes, this is the burning question on her mind after rereading the conversation from the previous night.]

[inhairently]

it doesn't make any sense! why would they even put a picture of shit in the first place

i don't understand

[bubblegumheart]

RIGHT?

Who decides what pictures they add in anyway? Why put a face on it at all? WHY PUT IT THERE AT ALL?

[Why is this what she's latched onto this morning instead of eating breakfast? Hmm.]

[inhairently]

i don't know

maybe friday does it? that would make sense right? maybe where she's from things are reversed

people don't have faces but other things do

like shit

[bubblegumheart]

I mean I guess there's probably a universe out there where people don't have faces. Which means there's probably one where other things do.

Not sure I want to think about a reality where shit has a face though.

[How many times are they going to say shit? Chrissy has no idea. She would like it to stop. She would also like to stop thinking about this particular emoji.]

Do you think it can talk?

delivery.

[thefreak]

[ at some point during the night of december 24th, eddie will slip a piece of paper under steve's pillow. it's a sketch that has been gone over with watercolor paints depicting steve wearing some kind of fantasy garb with the caption --

level 14 human paladin.

along with a character sheet that clearly looks like eddie has handwritten from memory (at least until he gets his books back!). it's not filled out yet.

attached is a note written in eddie's messy handwriting: ]

to my paladin in shining armor,
thought you might be in need of some bardic inspiration.
-em

Wake up back on the ship

[theweakhavepurpose]

[ Before Steve wakes up, Pratt & Sharky's gift basket delivery service has come and gone, leaving a festive parcel outside his door. There's a tasteful notecard reading GET ALIVE SOON BUDDY.

Inside is various candies, this hoodie, an extremely tasteful sign that makes no sense, and various other odds and ends. Go wild picking things out.

Welcome back to the Serena Eterna.]