5th floor common room: [2/23] - evening

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Once again, Pippi is here with her script for Midsummer Night's Dream.

Dispite spending much of the day listening to the Ramones, she's still got songs by Butler Fetish stuck in her head...


It's Monkey Brain Soup!
In the Cantonese cuisine
It's quite popular.

Elsewhere? Not so much.
But most Cantonese people
Will go "Yum yum yum!"

Washington DC
Those cats, they don't eat much soup
Made from Monkey's Brain!

It's Monkey Brain Soup!
In the Cantonese cuisine
It's quite popular.

The taurine is full
Tender cubes of Monkey Brain
Floating placidly

Perfectly seasoned
Monkey Brain Soup is the best.
An exotic treat!

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"They're all yours," Walter said, flopping down in a chair.

"Odd day. Do you know anyone who has been showing weird new powers? It seems to be going around like a flu."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi went up to the pencils and peered at them.

"Yeah. Everything Pip touches becomes covered in glitter... His hair sparkles and is mesmerizing..."

She pulled out a red hanky and wiped them off, then pulled them out of the wall.

"I was doing some homework and they just... Disappeared. It was odd."

She blew her nose dryly into the hanky.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"The sparkles did?" Walter took his rings off and tucked them in his waistcoat pocket before leaning over to grab a trashcan and put it on the floor in front of himself.

"I wish the spaghetti would. I had to clean it up in my room." Walter then flicked his fingers as though he were trying to cut the bottom out of the can. Instead, unsurprisingly, streams of spaghetti flew out of his fingers into a lump in the bottom of the can.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi stops mid-blow and blinks.

"Okay... So... We won't have to eat in the caf for a while?"

*sniff*

*thwip!*

Suddenly? The red hanky was gone.

Pippi looked down at her now empty hands. Then down at the floor through her two now empty hands. Then up at the ceiling.

"... Ah rats! That was my favorite hanky!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter blinked.

"Um... now that I'm thinking about it... where were those pencils before you sneezed?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I don't know." she said.

"Suddenly, the pencil I was using was gone. So I picked up another, then that one was gone..."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Huh." Walter shook his head and began flicking his fingers at the wastebasket, trying to turn off his sudden spaghetti flinging powers.

All that came of it was a full wastebasket.

Pippi's problem couldn't be what he was thinking, could it?

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi looked over Walter's shoulder into the wastebasket.

"Smells good. Not sure I'd want to eat it out of a trashcan..."

*sniff*

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I wonder if I can control it enough to get other kinds of pasta," Walter muttered as he debated what to do with all the spaghetti he'd just created.

He looked up at the sniff, wondering if he was going to need to dodge another of her explosive sneezes.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi rubbed her nose with the back of her hand.

"Even if you can't, you could theoretically end world hunger... Doing this doesn't make you tired does it? Do you feel like you're using anything up making all that?"

[[ooc: Heee! Walter is a Pastamancer (http://www3.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php)!

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter looked down at the wastebasket. "I could make the world fat and unhealthy, at least. I haven't been able to do it for long, but so far it hasn't made me tired."

He grimaced at one thing he'd tried, though. "Wearing gloves doesn't turn the power off, either."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Pip was going to try gloves... Not sure if it worked for him." she said scratching at her tummy.

And as she did so, she pulled the red hanky from under her shirt.

"Hey! Here it is!"

*sniff*

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter turned around and looked at her quizzically. "Are you trying some amateur magician tricks? Because I've seen Gob work, and he might get jealous."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"... No. I just found it. It was just... There."

*sniff*

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

That is so peculiar. Do you think it happens to anything you are holding on to? Pencils, your handkerchief... oh wait." Walter fished around in his pocket and pulled out the button (http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a232/bellatemple/butlerbutton.gif) that he'd gotten at Empire the day before. "Hold on to this and see if it disappears."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi places the button in the palm of her hand and sits her looking down at it.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

While they waited, Walter set the full wastebasket aside and went to find another one. He was going to practice until he got this spaghetti thing under control, or until his fingers gave out, whichever game first.

"I wonder if I am pulling this stuff from some alternate plane filled with spaghetti? Because it's not coming from me. I think I would notice if I were losing body mass to turn it into pasta."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi giggled.

"Somewhere, there's a massively confused and angry Italian chef."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I am sort of hoping that somewhere around here there is someone who is spraying spaghetti sauce from their fingers." He stopped and thought about that before adding, "Not from anywhere else though, because that would be wrong."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Blech!" she said with a chuckle.

She looked down again at the button in her hand.

"... Do what unseen?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter waved a hand vaguely at her. "Everything? We are supposed to seamlessly make things happen while our masters are busy with other things like making the sort of money it takes to hire a proper butler, or saving the world, or both."

He smirked and returned to trying not to fill the new wastebasket with spaghetti - and failing.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi nodded sagely to Walter's explanation.

She continued to watch him create pasta while holding the button in the palm of her hand.

"...Okay. That's really just odd."

*sniff*

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"The pasta, or the fact that what you're holding isn't disappearing? Because everything has been odd today."

He was really failing at failing to make pasta.

Maybe he should fill someone's closet with it...

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"The pasta really. I'm not so conserned with the fact that..."

There was a pause.

"Oh. No. It's gone."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter looked up from the wastebasket and raised his eyebrows.

"Now that is odd. Is it hiding behind your ear or something like that?" Pippi really was going to make Gob jealous.