Fifth Floor Common Room, Monday Evening

[not_in_the_book]

"Can you hand me the ginger?" Ronan asked, as he ground some spices with a mortar and pestle. "The fresh, I mean." The fragrant smells of cooking curry were already pervading the common room, and probably making their way through the rest of the dorms. When Isabel handed over the asked-for ginger, he added some to the mixture in the mortar, and went back to grinding. "Thanks. I hope this isn't too spicy for whoever else comes along," he added.


[OOC: Open, as common rooms are! Come have some curry. :D]

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Hey Turtle!" Isabel waved. "We've got food!"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle waved back. "I know!" she said, smiling a little. "Hopefully sharing food, because, if not, you guys are just mean."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"You're only just realizing this?" she asked, grinning with what she hoped was an evil grin. "It's ours. And we're not sharing."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Lies!" Turtle gasped. "Everyone has to share their food; it's, like, the law, or something. Law of the dorms. Give me two days and I'm sure I can find it written somewhere in the library."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Okay, okay! We'll share," Isabel said quickly. "But only because I'm afraid of what you'll find if you go rooting around the library. There could be some enchanted book that'll turn us all into toads or something."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"...In the law section, Isabel?" Turtle said, giving Isabel a doubtful look for a second before it disappeared with a blink of realization.

"Although I wouldn't put it past this school to have a law like, 'this law will not be enacted upon until viewed.'"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Somebody could have misfiled? Stranger things have happened," she shrugged. "I mean I found an enchanted board game in a flea market and the next thing you know the island was like an episode of Wild Kingdom."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle blinked at Isabel for a moment. "....Is that where those ostriches came from?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"And the rhinos and the zebras," Isabel nodded. "You ran into one? I'm sorry."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"One ran into my store, actually," Turtle said, with a sigh. "No rhinos or zebras, though, thankfully, because the ostrich was enough. And I had to deal with the fact that this was a Tuesday, and Jeff was being so insistent that none of it actually happened when we reported on it, and..." She didn't have another point; Turtle concluded with a big, exhausted sigh.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh trust me, it all happened. Charlie, Wyatt, Peter and I were right in the middle of it," she told her. "Fighting to stay alive and finish the game to end it all."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"...All that from a board game?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"A magical board game called Jumanji," Isabel said seriously. "Wyatt orbed it to Antarctica when the game was over, so hopefully we'll never see it again."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Yikes," Turtle said, wide eyed. "I think I'm just going to stick to chess from now on."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"That's probably a smart move. I'll be sticking to Solitare on the laptop myself."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"So..." Turtle ended up asking with a curious tilt of her head. "Who actually ended up winning?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I reached the end first," Isabel told her. "But honestly at that point I didn't care who did. I just wanted it over. Especially after I got stuck in the floor."

[crashing now! Night!]

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"How did that happen?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I rolled and the floor under me turned to quicksand. I started to sink," she explained. "Wyatt rolled next to stop it. Which yeah, kept me from going under. But it almost meant I was stuck there till the game ended."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"And then did something happen to Wyatt after he rolled?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"That's when the giant spiders attacked," Isabel said. If she sounded a bit too cheerful, well in hindsight she realized they did kick serious butt together.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle's eyes grew a little in their width. "And here I was complaining about ostriches...Eeesh."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"The ostriches were pretty mellow. The lion on the other hand? Well, he was hungry."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Turtle's eyes weren't going smaller any time soon. "Did you guys deal with the lion, or someone else have to?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"There were four people with TK. The poor lion didn't stand a chance," Isabel chuckled. "We tossed him into Xander's office so hard he hit the wall and got knocked out."