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[chiastic]

Name: un: PXW
Date: Feb 13
Format: Text

[Anyway.]

WANTED-- Lodging in a respectable rooming or boarding house, with a strong desire for the latter. The following accommodations must be met: No animals kept indoors; No children; No fellow tenants who might be susceptible to the vices of liquor, betting, or marriage. The room must be clean, quiet, private, and immediately available. A locking door is most preferable.

Prospective tenant is an educated man of science accustomed to long hours, with little taste for parlor games.

Make your reply here. References to be waived for the sake of expediency and convenience ONLY, and may be requested upon inspection of the premises.

Comments

[mensrea]

[ Goddammit, there goes his super crafty way of tricking this wet blanket into rooming at the local prison. Oh well, at least now he hasn't totally destroyed his credibility and reputation (yet). ]

Hey. You. Yeah, you. No, not PXW. You. Hit me up for the deets if you need them.

[ Please don't. ]

So, Mr. or Lady Science, what do you specialize in? Chemistry? Physics? Causing high school students to miserably question if they'll ever be worth more than a D- on their science project?

[chiastic]

Why do you ask?

fuck i just reread the post and Warthrop already specified he's a man WHOOPS

[mensrea]

Because you mentioned it and I'm curious.

[ Read: He's bored. ]

All good; lbr, i forgot i specified it

[chiastic]

Regrettably, relieving the burden of your curiosity is not my responsibility.

[mensrea]

Boooo. I mean, I could waste our time guessing. And you can pretend to ignore me. But I'm VERY persistent. Do unread messages irritate you? They drive me nuts. I hope these watches come with a mute button, buddy, because you're going to need it.

[ And if "PXW" does not give in to this little terrorist's demands, Stiles will indeed start spam messaging him. What kind of messages, you ask? The unfortunate stream of consciousness drivel that comes from a teenager with currently unmedicated ADHD. ]

[chiastic]

[Eventually in reply: dense, tl;dr jargon filled screeds which are clearly meant to be as wasteful as someone's time as they are unrelentingly dry. At least, one would hope. Otherwise "PXW" is just a terminally boring writer. A lot of Latin is involved.]

[mensrea]

[ Alas! Even though the content may be frustratingly dull, Stiles is encouraged nonetheless. Back home, he’s been teaching himself Latin in an attempt to translate the Argent bestiary – which had been helpfully digitalized to his personal cell phone. And from his cell phone, it has been transferred to his comm watch through camera pictures; useful, since his phone has since died. ]

I’ve been looking for someone to translate Latin! Talk about a freaky coincidence. Okay, I’m sending you some files from a bestiary. I will PAY YOU (disclaimer: at some point) if you help me with them.

[ Not even half a minute later, Stiles has sent over the photos he took of the digital bestiary. There are pages on: werewolves, werejaguars, werecoyotes, wendigos, and kitsune. ]

( OOC | The text in the images is in English, but it’s supposed to be in Archaic Latin. To avoid Warhrop translating them if he can read them, let’s just say that that the handwriting is super messy and the photo quality not great. )

[chiastic]

How did these fall into your possession? Where are they from?

[mensrea]

Family of hunters from my home world. They've been recording their findings on supernatural species for centuries. Can you translate it or not?

[chiastic]

[Oh phfft, other worlds. For a second there, he'd almost been interested in the prospect. But the boom is irrelevant to the present, and its curator irritating enough that Warthrop is more than happy to cut off his nose to spite the face of multidimensional intellectualism.

So: no answer is forthcoming.]