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[buddinghopes]

Who: Lia, open~
What: Various September things including a... surprisingly big package from home and free food.
When: Unspecified dates throughout the month
Where: Around campus
Warnings: None for now, I'll change this if necessary

Package - Early September
[Normally, Lia doesn't use her Flame ability for frivolous things, but this time, she can definitely, uh, make an exception. Sometime in early September, Lia can be found, in her Mana Drive state, carrying what seems to be an almost comically oversized box into the Lumiere dorm.

Or she's just standing in the elevator with the damn thing, casting an apologetic look at whoever might come in.

Or she's just... out of her transformation and trying to drag the box down the hall of the fourth floor.

Anyone want to lend her a hand?]

Lumiere Dorm - Throughout the month
[Lia is very present around the dorm, whether it's chilling in the common room on her floor, she can be spotted cooking or baking (if you ask nicely, she'll maybe let you have samples), and just... in general milling about if someone wants to flag her down for something. Come bother her!! Say hi!! Drag her into stupid things!! Be alarmed at the goose noises from her Switch!]

Library - Also throughout the month
[Of course, she's not entirely spending her time goofing off--she spends time in the library, surrounded by books. Lots and lots of books. Most of them are runecraft books from the library, but an increasing number end up being books that are... very much not. She seems a little protective over those books specifically... Still, if someone wanders over with the intent to sit, she'll snap to attention and start minimizing the space her stuff takes up.]

Sorry, sorry, got a bit carried away with all these books...

The Cross of Life - Late September
[Tables of free food really aren't a rare sight around campus, are they? Because set up near the Cross of Life is yet another, this one manned by Lia. There's quite the variety available, most of it sweet. Cakes, brownies, cookies... Anyone who approaches gets a wave and a smile.]

Hi! Feel free to take whatever you'd like.

Wildcard
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LIBRARY, a day or two before Sandman does a Sandman

[unlogic]

[Though she's added some other things to her routine over the past month, the library is still one of the more-common stops that Desidera makes during any given day.

Usually she doesn't pick out too many books at once, but this time she has an entire stack of them, with a few being about more-mundane subjects, but most being about various kinds of magic, some relevant to herself, others not but she wants to read about them anyway. The entire lot of books altogether looks like it should be tough to carry all at once—some of them are thick—but she doesn't seem to be having any real trouble.

When she finally sets them down and takes a seat, she notices the girl next to her scrambling to get her own stuff out of the way.]

Ah? Oh, sorry, I wasn't paying attention, so I didn't really notice this table was mostly taken. [She'd been focused on making sure not to drop anything by accident.]

[buddinghopes]

It's okay, I kind of... spread out more than I meant to.

[She manages to clear enough space for Desidera and offers a sheepish smile.]

Kind of been referencing a lot of books for runes, so... yeah... Oops?

[unlogic]

It's fine. I don't normally take up a lot of space, but I picked out more books than normal, this time.

[One of the books in Desi's stack looks like it may be an introduction to runecraft. Her roommate uses runes for a handful of things, so she feels that it'll be in her best interest to work on having at least a basic understanding of the craft without needing to trouble him over it.

She scratches behind an ear, at the spot between it and the base of one of her horns; there's been a little bit of an annoying itch there.]

Let me know if you need me to move, and I will.

[buddinghopes]

No worries! This should be fine.

[She grins, then turns back to her books for a bit.]

So, just getting interested in runes?

[unlogic]

A bit, yes. My roommate uses them, so I want to have at least some understanding of them myself.

[She pauses briefly, then adds on to her response:] We ended up working together during that incident near the end of last month, and the things he can do work rather well with the things I can do, but we're not entirely sure about the other way around, so...

sweets

[genz]

[ he keeps trying to stop since he already got a good number earlier, but then he ends up changing his mind and doing a little duo of portals for his grubby hands to get more, one slightly hovering above lia's table, and the other beside where he's seated some feet away. leo...

i mean, so long as he's being a bit annoying about it, he might as well help out the pitch. he waves his arm with a newly yoinked brownie in hand. ]

You heard the lady take them before I end up eating it all! I don't even need to get up to do it!!

[buddinghopes]

[Leo please... But really, if Lia minded, she would've asked him to cut it out by now.

So, you know, the fact that he's still up to this says plenty about how much she actually minds the shenanigans.]

They're here to be eaten, folks! If you want something, you'd better step right up and take it!

[genz]

At this rate we're gonna have club approval in the bag!

[ nom nom ]

Man, this must've taken you ages.

[buddinghopes]

Yeah, it really did... Not that I mind, though! Cooking's fun, and when people like the end result, it makes them happy. So, totally worth it!

[...]

Plus, helping ourselves to the leftovers is always a plus.

dorm;

[transfusionem]

[Sure, Lumiere isn't Adelaide's own dorm, but she's got enough friends there she spends quite a bit of time there. She's on her way to visit Maverick when she smells the unmistakable smell of cooking, and she decides to stop by the kitchen.

She's nosy. Sue her.

She pokes her head in, blinking at Lia.]

Oh, hey! [A beat.] Whatcha making?

[buddinghopes]

Oh, Adelaide, hey!

[She beams, putting down what she's doing to wave.]

I'm doing some practice runs for my part in a cooking club pitch. Quiche bites, specifically.

[transfusionem]

Cooking club?

[She finally steps into the kitchen, a curious look on her face.]

I haven't heard anything about a cooking club.

[buddinghopes]

I put out an interest check on the network a while back but not a lot of people responded to it... I mean, enough to do the paperwork way of getting a club made did, but now I've learned that one of the ways is having to present the club pitch to a panel of judges like Shark Tank...

[Ah, she's rambling...]

One of the guys helping with the pitch suggested bribing the judges with food, though, so I'm practicing so I can bring my A-game!

Package

[foolishjustice]

[Akechi's on his way on his way outside when he sees Lia in the elevator. He blinks, then looks at the box.]

Is that as heavy as it looks?

[buddinghopes]

.... It is, yes.

[She's letting the transformation drop as she sets the box down, with a bit of an "oof!"]

[foolishjustice]

Do you need some help? My Flame is suited to long excursions into the Outlands.

[buddinghopes]

You know what, it'd be a big help. What the heck did they send me that's so heavy...

package

[highelves]

[ ana steps into the elevator -- or well, she almost does. she sees...a rather large package, and someone behind it struggling to lift it. ana goes inside and puts her hands underneath the other side of the package. ]

May I help you with this?

[buddinghopes]

Oh--Ana, hey! Would you be so kind?

[Jeez, what's in the package, books?

(Yes.)]

[highelves]

Lia! That's you, isn't it?

[ even more so, ana won't mind helping! ]

Of course. What floor are we going to?

[buddinghopes]

Yes, hi, it's me! I'm planning on taking this up to my room on the fourth floor.

Package

[missleading]

[ Minako happens to be waiting for the elevator that Lia's taken up with her giant box. Looking down at her phone as the door opens, she doesn't seem to notice that most of the cabin has been claimed until the last second, stopping suddenly. ]

Whoa!

[ Hello? She sees a box, and a pair of legs, but??? What about the person carrying it? Is she getting pranked? ]

[buddinghopes]

Yeah, hi, sorry... I can, uh, try to scoot this over a bit?

[Well, there's confirmation of an actual person there at least...]

[missleading]

[ The box speaks! Well. Whatever is holding the box. This is some Grade A weirdness going on. ]

It's okay. [ She should probably just take the stairs, but... ] Did you want some help?

[ She can help carry this, or help spot for her. ]

[buddinghopes]

That'd be appreciated... this is pretty heavy...

[And clearly it's a bit awkward to carry, given how Lia's shifting her grip on it... finally lowering it enough so that her head's visible.]