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ooc: Exams, coursework and housing; oh my!

MESSAGE FOR THE GENERAL POPULACE:
Things haven't seemed to have changed much since me and Dripik made our announcement. The fact is that without some more realistic characters, that is, characters you could possibly find in an actual Oddworld game, I don't think we'll ever see a W@RF 9. At the moment we're stuffed full of happy happy sligs and mindless mudokons and the plot is going slower than, to quote a certain English genius, an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping. There's no character development, mainly because most of the characters are so 2D they make the 60s Doctor Who cardboard cut-out Daleks look convincing.

I really don't want this thread to die but some players need to take a long, long look at their characters and consider whether they could appear in a game alongside Abe, Queen Maggie and other famous Quintology Characters. (Please note that I am deliberately not naming names; you know who you are and I don't want anyone posting to say 'och, he's talking about me, sob, sob, emo, emo'.)
If you conclude that your characters are emotionally shallower than a tellytubby, kindly do something about it. Change them, replace them, whatever. Gosh, we could do with some fresh blood around here.


And at long last it is IC time.
Slaveless, when Krik got arrested they took his fame away from him, even for the things he'd already accomplished. But nevermind.

IC:
Krik put on his very best 'I-am-your-intellectual-and-social-superior-you-looser' expression and informed the intern, "This mudokon has her own, very specific work to do, and is none of your business how she does it. She is here for a reason and does a job, neither of which one such as yourself," (He made every sign of disdain) "Would be expected to understand." And he marched away, Dionysia trailing behind him without her usual smirk.
"So," Krik declared firmly as they moved out of sight of the lab, making Dionysia wince.
However, she was not to be outdone, "Well I couldn't let them call Skillya, couldn't let her send anyone here to look around or it'd be the death of us all!" She snapped at him.
"And was this before or after he declared his passionate, undying love?" He sneered.
She tried to ignore the jibe but it bit at her and threw her off, "I don't... It was after, when I... we... After the lab. I took his down to the basement and he said he... Well, he said some rediculous stuff, like I was some idiot! I told him to get lost and left, I thought I was blunt about it. I didn't expect him to run about telling everyone how much..." Her rising anger trailed off and her body-language became rather confused.
"And was what the intern said true, that a slig carried you to the lab after your accident? Was it the same slig?"
Dionysia fingered the scar on her arm, "I don't know, I wasn't paying attention." Anger flared up again, "It hurt! I had my mind on other things for Odd's sake!"
Krik stopped walking and glared at her until her anger faltered, "You are not an idiot, Dionysia."
She opened her mouth to argue, and then shut it again.
"And neither am I," He added pointedly and recommenced walking.
Feeling that the intern had ruined a good afternoon, she followed reluctantly.

As they reached the bottom of the stairs she asked, "What you said, about me being your mudokon..."
"Yes? What about it?" He snapped irritably.
She looked awkward and said nothing.
"It's perfectly true," He told her snippily, "Don't delude yourself Dionysia. We made you, we own you. That's life."

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"Uh, Kix," Kix replied to Hembar distractedly. She knew that the other mudokon was trying to be friendly and that she was just being rude but she was worried about Anni. She glanced over her shoulder and saw her running around the garden while Jim stood nearby, even from a distance looking rather bemused.
Trying to ignore the nagging worry for her friend, she turned to Hembar, gave a (slightly forced) smile and asked, "So uh, how long have you worked here?"

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"So how does it work?" Anni asked excitably.
"It's not complicated," Said Jim in a resigned sort of way, "We grabbed the pump from the grinders; there's a lot of spare parts lying around there from when they fixed them. Kix and Dean found that long tube somewhere the day before yesterday, so we connected it to the water supply in the security tower and to the pump here, and then put that hose on the other side of the pump. You just flick the switch on the pump and the water comes out," He finished, slightly lamely.
Anni pranced across the garden and picked up the hose and turned on the pump. Then she spent a happy minute watering the as-yet-unseen seeds.
After a short while it became rather obvious that the plants couldn't possibly need any more water, however, and she flicked off the pump. A awkward silence seemed to have shot up since she'd turned it on. "So er, what did you all do yesterday?" She asked Jim, trying to carry a conversation.
"Just fixed p the pump... Listen Anni," He spoke very quickly, trying to get the words out before she could interrupt, "What happened in the cafeteria earlier?"
"Nothing, I told you! I just had a headache!" She replied loudly.
"Some headache!"
"That's all it was; I just felt really ill and needed to get outside!"
Suddenly realising they were arguing, and not enjoying it much, Jim stopped and forced himself to calm down. "Listen Anni, we're your friends and we want to help y-"
"If you were my friends you'd believe me!" She shouted, somewhat inconvincingly, and then ran off.
Slightly annoyed at himself, Jim found that he was running after her.

ooc: Anni and Jim have their first big argument!
I've always seen Kix as a sort of Mother-figure to Anni. She looks after her.
Dionysia was I think slightly more annoyed at being refered to by Krik as 'it', but she can't tell him that any more than she can tell him the truth about her and gappiqu.