After his Wild Cookie Adventure, Joker headed back to his room to get some studying in. Not that he really needed to; just that he felt like he ought to be spending some time studying. Before he started, though, he picked up the picture frame on his desk. He'd sent his dad a tie for Father's Day, and his dad had emailed back a holo of himself ( Read more... )

Joker... was pretty sure Eleanor had been avoiding him yesterday. When she took off after class without even saying "hi", he was definitely sure of it.

He headed after her, as quickly as he could manage. "Hey, wait up a sec, Babe! Can we talk?"

[For the girl.]

Today, Joker was once again indulging his favorite pastime: flying pretend spaceships in pretend battles against people online who might or might not be real, in order to get very real points that contributed to a very real leaderboard which said that -- over the course of the last few hours, anyway -- Joker was the greatest player pilot in the ( Read more... )

Joker sat down on his bed and sighed contentedly. The week on Tiptree had been nice, and it was great to see his dad and Hil again in person, but for all that they were there it wasn't home. Home was the apartment on Arcturus he'd never see again -- but home was kind of here, too ( Read more... )

After he woke up, before he showered, Jeff sat in his room and played video games. It was just that kind of morning. (Well, most mornings were.)

At the absolute last minute, he hurriedly finished the match he was in (which took a few minutes), logged off, and ran for the shower.

Yes, ran. On his own two legs, unaided.

[Open for anyone who ( Read more... )

Joker roared in frustration and pounded his fists against the mattress. Nothing! People were changing, transforming, becoming not-theirselves all around him, and he had NO IDEA how to fix it!

And, well, he said "people" like he was concerned about everyone on the island equally, but... Let's be real honest here. Jono and Cecil might look ( Read more... )

Today, like almost every day before or since, Skippy woke up first. He scurried off to grab Joker's leg braces, and then thwapped Joker with them repeatedly until he began to stir. It was better than any alarm.

Pyjaks had infested Arcturus Station a few years back, eating most of the food reserves, stealing all kinds of shiny and expensive ( Read more... )

Joker was blissfully asleep after a long night of partying, and planned to stay asleep for most of the morning and part of the afternoon. That was, unfortunately, not in the cards.

( PREPARE FOR THE COMING ROBOPOCALYPSE! )

With his roommate gone, Joker now had the whole room to himself. Having one side of the room just be empty kinda weirded him out a lot, so he was taking the opportunity today to spread his stuff out across the whole room.

[I dunno. Open!]

Jeffy Maroe, the Gremlins' star running back, lay in bed, cutting to a flashback remembering.

He remembered catching the football, running for a touchdown, kicking a field goal, throwing the football, tackling the quarterback, dancing in the end zone, and all of the other things running backs did, which he was the best at. (And if the stadium ( Read more... )