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[drunktexting]

the drill, you know it

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[sreuqcal]

Oh, I didn't either....

[bloodbanker]

Then wouldn't it depend on the costume?

[sreuqcal]

Good point. What was it again? Not that I'm trying to be nosy.

[bloodbanker]

HAMLET.

IT'S NOT EVEN A SEXY COSTUME.

I'm done with theater majors. Seriously, this is the last time.

[sreuqcal]

Some people would find it sexy. Shakespeare was quite a charmer.

Also, I'm afraid I'm going to stick with my original statement. Much, much worse things.

I can't help you with the last part, unfortunately.

[bloodbanker]

It doesn't come off easily, it's been worn I don't know how many times— besides. Once is a kink. Five times is a burgeoning fetish, and not one I share.

What have you seen that's worse?

I know, I know. I bring this on myself. I should stick to guys from the math department. Although that has its pitfalls too, let me tell you.

[sreuqcal]

That's quite a laundry list. No pun intended, of course.

Some costumes have props.

Are those pitfalls perhaps math puns? Or is it something else that has you choosing art over science?

[bloodbanker]

Well, I did laugh, so bravo.

There's a sword, does that count?

Math puns are a turn-on for anyone with any sense. But I could tell you a very graphic and sad use for prime numbers which quite honestly ruined me for a little while.

The theater guys are... More available? Easier? More flexible (literally and figuratively)? I don't know. Maybe what I should be doing is stop looking for someone from the same programs.

[sreuqcal]

I'm going to hold off on puns about swords if it's all the same to you.

And I'm almost positive I know what you're talking about, but I don't dare ask in case there are two graphic, sad uses for prime numbers.

I think that's a very old piece of advice. Mixing it up, I mean. Assuming it's an option. I have absolutely no advice to share about flexibility though. None whatsoever.

[bloodbanker]

Wow, I somehow did not see that when I sent it. I meant a literal sword, though.

I'm really hoping we're not thinking of the same person, too.

No, obviously not. No suggestions whatsoever.

[ Jealous? Probably still a little, but not in a bad way. He is 85% over his crush now, and rising. ]

[sreuqcal]

That part would qualify as uncomfortable. But there are worse props than swords.

Oh no, there's no possible way.

I couldn't even begin to refute the idea strongly enough. Zero suggestions! [ Oh boy. The warlock doth protest too much? ]

[bloodbanker]

You're building to something. I can tell. Just spit it out. You'll feel better, I promise.

I'm hoping you're sure!

Seriously, though: suggestions? Not about that, just... Suggestions?

[ Some kind of sportball player, maybe, who knows. ]

[sreuqcal]

Or will I feel worse?

I'm positive. Absolutely positive. Please trust me on this.

Think about what kind of sword you want to bring to bed? [ Yes, this is Magnus Bane. Super smooth McExperienced Guy. Dates a lot of people. And stuff. ]

[bloodbanker]

Probably not, and I'll definitely feel better, so you should tell me.

Okay, okay! I was kidding, you know.

The one I can't have and am clearly too stupid to get over.

[sreuqcal]

What if I say it's just as bad for a water bed as your friend's Hamlet prop and leave it at that?

Well, thank you. Occupational hazard, you see.

Oh, that kind. So not the sort that's dangerous for water beds.

[bloodbanker]

You will have cursed me to forever wonder and imagine and flinch just a tiny bit at the suggestion of unvetted sex toys?

What is?

The kind that's dangerous for everything.

And I don't have a water bed, though I did sleep in one once. Can't say I found it restful. Or... Helpful, for that matter.

[sreuqcal]

Well, that wasn't my intent. Though I'm now forced to reflect on the idea...

Being a know-it-all? I'm supposed to know your future, that sort of thing, say things with total assurance. Like that.

Everything covers a lot of things. Everything?

Helpful, right. [ Hey, he can't comment. He's been "abstaining" from "a lot of things" since before the invention of the water bed. The modern one, that is. 1971! ]

[bloodbanker]

I don't think you need to worry.

At least you have a slightly more valid claim to the title than I do. The only cards I can read are at the blackjack table.

Emotionally, educationally, socially, probably morally. Maybe even financially. All the ways that count, basically.

Well, they're not! There's no... You can't get any resistance.

[ This Axel would be genuinely saddened to know, Magnus. He's glad you have Alec now, truly. ]

[sreuqcal]

I never would have considered there a need until this moment!

In some cases, I'm sure that's more useful. [ Maybe? But Magnus actually is magic, so blackjack probably isn't an issue for him either. Cheater. ]

Well, that is a lot. Now that you've put it that way.

I imagine it would be... frustrating. [ What kind of turn did this conversation take? Scratch that, how many turns has it taken?

Alec is... Hm. Alec is great. Yes. That's a succinct way of putting it. ]

[bloodbanker]

There is always a need. You never know what someone's going to produce.

Yes, but you don't get kicked out for doing it. Unless you did it in a casino, which would be kind of strange, but they do attract a lot of very gullible people, so maybe not the worst idea.

[ Takes a cheater to know a cheater!

They are probably both cheaters in matters not of the heart, all told. ]

Some things just weren't to be, I guess. In another life, maybe.

[ Or maybe in this one, in a few years, when he's graduated...

This is a very twisting conversation. ]

[sreuqcal]

I'm going to be very honest, I don't spend much time thinking about what people produce. In that respect.

People are oftentimes pretty eager to hear their futures, whatever the setting. That's been my experience, anyway. [ Throughout the years...

Magnus definitely cheats death. So that's a thing. ]

I always like to say that patience is a virtue.

[ Oh, so it's like that, is it? ]

[bloodbanker]

You would if you'd met half my dates in the last year.

People, yes. The management, however, might take a dim view.

[ And Axel is pointedly not asking. It's not that he thinks badly of Magnus, or his business, but he's one of those reading-cues-and-telling-people-what-they-want-to-hear sort of skeptics, though he has faith at least in Magnus's good heart, and thinks he's more likely to give them valuable peace of mind and closure than take advantage of them.

Besides which, he's not sure if he wants to know his future right now. At the moment, he thinks it would be too depressing to listen to. ]

Easy to say for a guy who's basically married, but you have a point.

[ It's not remotely like that, but Axel doesn't know that, yet. He'll find someone else long before then, but at the moment, this is all he hangs onto. ]

[sreuqcal]

That sounds very... grim.

I'm pretty accustomed to that. I guess this is one case where it would be warranted. Not that I'd ever set out to sabotage someone's business. That doesn't seem very friendly.

[ Let's just say Axel is a pretty wise person. Also, Magnus wouldn't want to hand over an unfortunate prediction, not to Axel! Not on this subject. It seems like... a sort spot. A little.

Understandably so, too. Magnus knows a little about having a complicated love life. ]

Basically married? Is that so? [ Where in the...

No, never mind. Not asking!

For those who can't predict the future, the present really is all there is to hold onto, right? ]

[bloodbanker]

The dating scene is a grim place.

You wouldn't sabotage it. Well, not unless you told them they weren't about to win anything. But I think they'd still be hung up on it.

[ Not sore so much as constantly irritated and inflamed. It'll get better with time. Maybe when he's not in his classes anymore.

Does he know, indeed. ]

That's totally so. Speaking of predicting the future, there's a pool on you guys, you know.

[sreuqcal]

That, I wouldn't know about. I'm dating for the first time in a long while now. It's a brave new world?

I promise my cards and I will go nowhere near casinos!

[ Sure. Yes. Probably. He knows a lot of things! Things someone with a normal lifespan definitely should not know. ]

You're kidding.