#786: “Love's Manual Lost”

*** Now talking in #suburbansenshi
Topic is -= Well you've got learn it somewhere, right? =-

[23:53] * =^catablanca^= hops into Xadium's lap
[23:53] * @Dr_Xadium looks down at Artemis
[23:54] <=^catablanca^=> X, sorry... about this...
[23:54] * =^catablanca^= LEAPS onto Xadium's face and CLAWS IT!
[23:54] <@Dr_Xadium> GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
[23:54] * @Dr_Xadium drops onto the ground
[23:54] * C'est_la_V can be seen pushing a wheelbarrow of pinkish books out of the TARDIS
[23:55] * C'est_la_V somehow pushes it up the stairs
[23:55] * =^catablanca^= notes the coast is clear and lets go
[23:55] <@Dr_Xadium> *gets up*
[23:56] * C'est_la_V sneaks back downstairs and tippy-toes back to the TARDIS
[23:57] <GERMATOID> WHY WAS MINAKO-KUN WHEELING ALL THOSE WHEELBARROWS OF ROMANCE NOVELS UPSTAIRS?
[23:57] * =^catablanca^= facepalms
[23:58] <@Dr_Xadium> ....What?!
[23:58] <@Dr_Xadium> The 500 romance novels I bought as research on human courtship rituals to woo Minako?
[23:58] * =^catablanca^= hangs his head
[23:59] <=^catablanca^=> Someone else wanted them for the same reason.... but it was supposed to be discreet.
[23:59] <GERMATOID> HOW IS WHEELING THEM UPSTAIRS IN A WHEELBARROW IN THE MIDDLE OF A FULL ROOM DISCREET
[23:59] <=^catablanca^=> Think about where we live.
[00:06] * @Dr_Xadium is listening to: SRPC0010 06 SAMURAI HARDBEATmp3.mp3 [128 kbps]
[00:06] <@Dr_Xadium> What makes me think Japanese Hardrave will be good for a headache I
[00:07] * =^catablanca^= makes no comment
[00:07] <@Dr_Xadium> Oddly... it is... the pounding from the headphones masks the pounding in my head.
[00:09] *** =^catablanca^= [arty@ip6943.ai.co.jp] has quit IRC (I AM NOT A KLUTZ)
[00:13] * GERMATOID NOTES HIS LITTLE GIRL HAS BEEN ACTIGN ODDLY LATELY
[00:14] * @Dr_Xadium is listening to: SRPC000X onogiri 05 POWERPUFF GABBERZmp3.mp3 [128 kbps]
[00:16] <FireFly_9> *upstairs, distant* ""She was safe from her own headlong recklessness. No matter how tempted she might be to take this lurking passion to its natural crescendo..."
[00:19] <@Dr_Xadium> What the... she reading...
[00:20] <FireFly_9> "Lucien," Elizabeth gasped. "You go too far."
[00:20] <@Dr_Xadium> ><
[00:21] * GERMATOID NOTES SHE'S READING THEM IN MONOTONE
[00:21] <=^catablanca^=> You'd think she'd remember some variation in vocal tones, given her complaints about y'know.
[00:22] * @Dr_Xadium will not dignify that with a reply.
[00:29] * @Dr_Xadium is listening to: SRPCH001-2 FAREAST HARDSTYLERZ mp3.mp3 [128 kbps]
[00:34] <FireFly_9> You have slain me. No attacker's spear could strike me down.
[00:34] <@Dr_Xadium> ...
[00:35] * FireFly_9 is upstairs researching
[00:36] <FireFly_9> You darling, darling. You wield that cane as if to the manor born.
[00:36] * @Dr_Xadium thinks she's reading them like she reads scholarly texts. Slowly and methodically.
[00:37] <FireFly_9> You have caused me to suffer a pleasure that transports me to the land I knew not but dreamed of unawares.
[00:38] <FireFly_9> I am spending. I am spending. I spend. I die.
[00:39] <@Dr_Xadium> ........oy.
[00:39] <FireFly_9> I am quite sick with delight.
[00:39] <FireFly_9> How you have served me. I am ruin'd. Now, dress quickly, before the Viscount returns.
[00:40] <@Dr_Xadium> Was I like this...
[00:41] <FireFly_9> I am inflamed beyond the power of modesty.
[00:41] * @Dr_Xadium just sighs.
[00:43] <FireFly_9> Quickly, my love. These bonds excite me to a fever's pitch but I fear me that the Lady will soon be wanting her petticoats back. What the....
[00:43] * The sound of a book closing can be heard
[00:44] <FireFly_9> Alas. that these delights should be no longer-lived.
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