Open RP in the Great Hall!

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

Matt looked at the plate in front of him.

A thick, succulent, home-made burger lay in front of him. It was laid reverently between two slices of freshly-baked bread roll and garnished with a perfect combination of sauces and vegetables. The plate was also covered in thick, crispy and golden looking potato fries. There was even a little silver server with ketchup, barbeque sauce, a glass vinegar cellar, an antique pepper grinder...

Which was fair enough, but all Matt had asked for was directions to the nearest McDonald's. His junk-food cravings were apparently going to go unanswered for some time.

Sighing - and perhaps a little wary - he picked up the masterpiece of a burger and took a bite.

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[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

Even if he wasn't hungry, the smell was enough to make Near's mouth water. "Looks good," he said, then realized that Matt likely didn't want to talk to him.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"All I wanted was a Burger King," Matt said, giving the meal a bemused look. "Or a McDonald's."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"Still. You can has cheeseburger," Near pointed out.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

Matt blinked, then laughed. "Dude. I thought you only went on the internet for super-serious L-business."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"Being L may be serious business, but..." Near smiled, "I need to keep some familiarity with idiom."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Ah. Okay." Matt took another bite of the exquisite burger.

He considered apologising for being a dick the other morning, but decided not to bring it up. Not even the fact he'd had to go for a walk through the castle to get away from the noises from down the corridor.

"Been keeping busy?"

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"I have, actually. I'm setting up an experiment..." He thought for a moment. "Perhaps I could convince you to help? Mello's helping with the questionnaire, but I could use a statistics expert."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

Statistics... eh. Matt was good at just about anything to do with math, but that didn't necessarily mean he could be bothered with it. He'd rather play some of his borrowed video games.

"You might be able to convince me," he said, dipping one of the fries into some ketchup (Jesus, was that home-made too? There were seeds in it!). "Depends."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"What kind of convincing would you like?" Near looked at him skeptically. "It's not as if we're getting grant money. I'll be giving Mello some special chocolate to thank him, but he doesn't know it yet. Besides, you don't even know what it's for yet."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

Matt shrugged. "I wasn't asking for money. I just don't want to do something boring."

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

Looking around to be sure they wouldn't be overheard, Near lowered his voice. "We're researching virgins... well, the legend of unicorns and virgins. We're testing to see what unicorns consider virginity to be."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Unicorns and virgins?" Matt repeated, keeping his voice completely normal and definitely overhearable. For the lulz. He considered, taking another fry and twirling it between two fingers.

"Right... and you want me to do the number-crunching?"

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"Our subjects aren't supposed to know, Matt. Don't compromise our data." He looked at Matt's plate, considered stealing a fry, and decided against it. "Yes, if you're willing to. Research projects work best with a team, right?"

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Okay, okay, don't have a fit. And sure, why not... there's not much else to do here." Matt had stayed the hell away from anything even resembling a research project since he was twelve years old. They really shouldn't have stocked Ender's Game in the Wammy's House library; Matt sometimes wondered if he'd have turned out differently if he hadn't read it.

Of course, some of the kids were probably fucked-up enough to think of it as something they would have wanted.

[cardarchitect.livejournal.com]

"Thanks. It's not as structured as it could be, but if nothing else, it should help us acclimate, learn more about this place." It was a relief, Near realized, that Matt was willing to work with them... with him. He hadn't known it would bother him so much that Matt disapproved of his involvement with Mello. "If the results are interesting, it can be an ongoing study."

[otakukonata.livejournal.com]

It took a few days, but her dad sent a couple systems. (To send more would get expensive.) So she got her DS and her Gamecube. Anything else she'd have to send on of them back.

She was looking for two people. One was Tomo, who still had her camera full of yaoi goodness. The other was Matt, who needed an ass beating in Soul Calibur 2.

She found the latter.

"Matt! Matt! The Gamecube came! So I've got Soul Calibur 2 now."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

Matt glanced up and grinned. "Awesome! I found an oldschool PS2 in Ravenclaw, but that wasn't one of the games I could find... Want a fry?" He gestured to his plate. "Where'd you end up, anyway?"

[otakukonata.livejournal.com]

"Arigato!" Konata said as she picked a fry off the plate. "Some weird fanon house named Sparklypoo. It's very pink. I'm probably gonna try to sneak in another house."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Ravenclaw's okay. Y'know. If you've got earplugs." He sighed and dipped a fry into some of the home-made tomato sauce. "I've not seen anywhere else, though... wait. A fanon house? You're saying this place has a fandom?"

[otakukonata.livejournal.com]

"I don't know, it didn't exist before, that I can remember. Cool, house elf!" Konata exclaimed as she waved the house elf down, asking for a chocolate cornet.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Huh. Weird." Matt grinned. "Man, just wait til that thing brings you your chocolate." He gestured to his meal. "This was what they got me when I asked where the nearest McDonalds was."

[otakukonata.livejournal.com]

"Well, that's a perfectly good excuse to sneak out and find it yourself, then!"

The house elf did know what a chocolate cornet was, and brought it to Konata, where she began to eat it in her usual custom-biting into the thin end, then licking at the chocolate that threatened to escape from the other end.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Heh. Believe me, I will be. But this isn't half bad, really..."

Matt really wasn't into sweet stuff, but he made a mental note to tell Mello about the cornet thing Konata was eating. If he thought it looked good, Mello would probably have a fit or something.

"So how's Hogwarts been treating you? When'd the Gamecube arrive?"

[otakukonata.livejournal.com]

"Got it earlier today. Got my printer too, so I can print up some pictures I took. Which reminds me! Once I get my camera back from Tomo, I'd like a picture with you."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Cool - wish I had someone to send me my stuff. It's probably all been sold, anyway..."

He blinked. "A picture? Why?"