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[raisedinabox]

So it occurred to me, I don't think I've ever been part of a moderately sized group of intelligent people before where there was only one person writing a novel or a screenplay. God knows we've got enough free time for it, so I was wondering if anyone other than the Marquis was working on anything? I mean, between the floods and the ports and the

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[stopthat_destro]

[Rex just stepped out for like five minutes to take a message on his communicator, only to return to TREACHERY. He can practically smell his awesome soap being used.]

Hey!

[With a scowl and fists clenched, he stomps over to the shower in use and slams his palm on the tile to get the occupant's attention.]

You're using my soap!

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[raisedinabox]

[Jesus Christ, seriously? Jim recognizes Rex's voice immediately, and for a moment, he actually considers the possibility that among his many other neurosis? Rex had some kind of insane obsessive control issue over his soap. Then he reflects. This is Rex. It's far more likely that this is just the excuse of the week to harass Jim about something, and he is so sick of it by now. So instead of considerately returning the soap, like an adult, he peers around the side of the shower at Rex, GLORIOUS, LUXURIANT SUDS STILL FILLING HIS HAIR, and replies:]

You're joking, right? It's soap.

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[stopthat_destro]

[JIM.  Of course it's Jim Profit.  Jim, who is so obsessively jealous of his former wardens' clear preference for Rex that he now resorts to even trying to smell like him.

Sickening.  And, not to mention, unhealthy.  Rex narrows his eyes.]

It's not just soap; it's my soap.  It's extra moisturizing, and it smells nice, and why on Earth would you steal my soap?

[He holds out his hand.]

Give it back.  Use your own... clunky... yuppie soap.

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[raisedinabox]

[Jim frowns slowly, and considers explaining that if soap is just lying around in the communal showers then he doesn't consider it to be stealing, and that his soap happens to be very fine, organic yuppie soap, thank you very much.]

[But Rex was being a jerk.]

[So instead, Jim just stared at him, working up a fine lather from the soap in his hands, before retreating back into the shower.]

[19centconstable]

I have given thought before to writing a sort of mystery adventure novel.

[raisedinabox]

One of my favorite genre's. I don't suppose you have a plot in mind for it?

[19centconstable]

Oh, I wouldn't know. A murder, I suppose. Of strange circumstance. Perhaps even something...supernatural.

[raisedinabox]

Something supernatural, you say? Like a vengeful spirit perhaps?

[raisedinabox]

Oh, I don't doubt it. I'm sure you'd have plenty of people offering cover quotes for it.

[strangehstorian]

I'm writing an encyclopedia!

...It's a bit ambitious, I admit. How are you doing, Jim?

[raisedinabox]

That's nothing to be apologetic for. I've always believed that setting your goals high is the only way to achieve your potential. You must have a great deal of experience to be undertaking something like that.

I'm doing just fine, thank you. No books in the works myself though, I'm afraid. I was never much of a writer.

[strangehstorian]

Well, not in writing. But I feel as though there are so many things about other worlds here that go unexplained when all you really need to do is ask - or have a resource!

That is good. Anything you are working on?

[raisedinabox]

[CHROMIE, HOW CAN LITERALLY NONE OF MY CHARACTERS DISLIKE YOU? You're too awesome, clearly :c]

The beginners guide to cross-dimensional exploration. That's quite a remarkable project, from the sound of it. How much have you done so far?

Not right now. I had a few things I was working on, but they sort of resolved themselves. I guess I'm at a bit of a loose end.

[helpmejeeves]

I've been working on a trifling little thing about one of Jeeves' exploits, the last one we had together before I came here, as a matter of fact. I somehow ended up engaged to two beazels simultaneously, and Jeeves, with his magnificent intellect, managed to get me out of even that most dire predicament.

[raisedinabox]

Wait, really? How did you accidentally get engaged to two people at the same time?

[Then, as an afterthought:]

Did you end up marrying either of them?

[helpmejeeves]

It's a bit of a long story. I'd been engaged to them both before, you see. Not at the same time, mind you, but in succession, on multiple occasions. So each of the fillies thought that she had a standing invitation, as it were, to attach herself to me whenever she liked. In this instance, it just so happened that they both exercised that right on precisely the same day.

Fortunately, Jeeves pulled me out of the soup and they both got engaged to other gentlemen instead. Although I use the term "gentlemen" loosely.

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[raisedinabox]

If you'd been engaged to both of them multiple times in the past, did you not... I don't know, want to marry one of them? You could always have just turned down their proposals.

[He's gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you're really, REALLY rich, because there is no other reason why women would marry you.]