The Roof, Tuesday afternoon

[notmyownage]

Graduation and the seniors leaving only stood to make Claudia realize that she'd been kind of anti-social, especially towards the end of the semester. Sure, avoiding people was something of a habit of hers, what with growing up around folks who couldn't even begin to understand her, but around here, most people seemed to take her brand of crazy in stride. Clearly, something would have to be done.

Which would be how she ended up on the roof with a baker's dozen bottles of diet soda, six rolls of Mentos, and several model rockets.

Yeah, she knew exactly what would happen when these things combined. That wasn't the point of this particular experiment.

[ooc: Open roof is open! It's a glorious day, and I'm jealous of Claudia's ability to enjoy it.]

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[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"So what are we blowing up?" Jake asked. He had no reason to be on the roof, other than the fact that he'd heard someone up here and he'd been curious.

[notmyownage]

Claudia grinned at him. "Model rockets. I considered loading them up with sparklers or something for homemade fireworks, but the diet coke would probably just put out the fuses."

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"Maybe I should have asked who you're aiming for," he grinned. "I leave you alone for a while and you come up with rockets."

[notmyownage]

"You expected anything different?"

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"No, would have been disappointed if you'd pined for me," he teased and moved closer to study the rockets. "So what's the plan, Doctor Genius?"

[notmyownage]

"Honestly? Set off rockets using mentos and coke and see how many people come up to go 'OH EM GEE, DOUBLE-YOU TEE EFF exclamation point, exclamation point.'"

Yes, this was a social experiement.

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Jacob laughed. "And hope none of them is security and they get you detention?" he checked.

[notmyownage]

"Detention is but a small price to pay for science!" Claudia smirked. "Even the soft sciences."

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"Ooooh, last famous words," he teased and straightened up, turning to face her. "Ok fine, where do you need me?"

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

Alex had been wandering the dorms and ended up on the roof somehow. Out of boredom, for the most part.

"Hey Claudia," she waved and then caught a glimpse of the items at Claudia's disposal. "Working on a project?" Alex's curiosity had been peaked.

[notmyownage]

"Just a little bit of fun." Claudia grinned over her shoulder at her. "Mento?" She tilted her head. "Is that the singular? Whatever."

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

"Nothing wrong with that," Alex grinned. "I never thought about the singular of Mentos before," she frowned slightly, "but sure, I'll take one. Thanks."

Alex raised an eyebrow. "You know, this looks like something my younger brother would attempt except it would go horribly wrong for him." As most things did. Poor Max.

[notmyownage]

"Sounds like your younger brother needs practice. Or chemistry classes." Claudia shrugged. "I'm setting off rockets. Wanna join in?"

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure I'd trust him with anything in chemistry class," Alex replied, only half-joking. "Oh, awesome! I am so in." Setting off rockets qualified as a good way to spend time in Alex's book.

[notmyownage]

"Sweet! I got lots of coke and mentos. You know the whole deal with those, right?"

Claudia figured everyone had to have seen at least one mentos and diet coke video online, by now.

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

"Awesome!" Alex laughed. She was going to enjoy this. "Oh yeah. I think I did this is Professor Durden's science class once." If she was remembering correctly.

[notmyownage]

"Then you already know the basics. The trick is getting the rocket on top of the bottle before the whole thing erupts."

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda felt the need for fresh air and altitude, so she came up to the roof.

She looked at the arrayed supplies. "I'm both afraid and intrigued."

[notmyownage]

"Both of which are appropriate responses."

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"What are you going to do?"

[notmyownage]

"Launch some rockets. Wanna help?"

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Yes." Leda said after a moment's reflection. Yes I do." She crouched down beside Claudia. "What do you need me to do?" It occurred to her that if the frog were here he might be tempted to try to ride one.

[notmyownage]

"Pretty basic launching mechanism. You put a handful of the candy into the soda. It foams up like woah, so you put the rocket on real fast and FWOOM!"

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"I can do that. So,is this magic candy or some of that science stuff?"

[notmyownage]

Claudia snorted at the term "magic". "It's all science, baby. Allll science."