So I hear you fancy yourselves as an adventurer!

[hopefulpageturner]

WHO: Jake English and YOU!
TONE: Mischief and Shenanigans!
RATING: PG-13-Rish?
WHEN: 4/27
WHERE: Great Hall/Forbidden Forest
WHAT: Jake English adventurer extraordinaire and his chums go to investigate their rumor of the week for their adventure. Shenanigans and probably getting busted for sneaking out late are bound to happen
STATUS: In progress




[Jake will just be standing, rather inconspicuously outside of the Great Hall, shortly after dinner has ended, waiting for other students to come and join him for their late night adventures and what not. It isn't past curfew so being out, wandering the castle isn't anything he can get in trouble for. Besides, it's only shortly after dinner ended. He could always say he's waiting for his friends to get back from the toilet before they all head off for the evening. It was fool proof. After all, this is Jake English we're talking about. He doesn't afraid of anything. Especially rules and especially teachers.]

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[mo_cara]

[Well, at least one other kid has shown up. A tall, lanky boy that looks like he should be at least a fifth year, if not a sixth, though he's actually only a third. He's wearing a heavy purple hoodie, what looks like polka-dotted pajama pants, and kind of creepily off-kilter clown make-up in black and white.]

Yo, motherfucker. [The casual epithet sounds sort of odd in Gamzee's lilting Welsh valley accent.]

[hopefulpageturner]

[Ah, well, he's a little bummed out. But he does suppose it is nearing the years end and most students are probably too tired for an adventure during the week. He greets the other boy with a slight salute.]

Greetings, mate! Looks like it might be just us tonight! But that's always fun too! There's more to do with a smaller group!

[mo_cara]

Nah, I brought my bro. [cheerfully, gesturing at Eridan - considering their difference in height and appearance, it's kind of odd to think that they're the same House and year] He is all over this adventure shit.

[Which is obviously not quite true, but leave Gamzee his illusions.]

[hopefulpageturner]

[Jake seems a tiny bit skeptical, because Eridan doesn't seem all that thrilled, but he shrugs it off.]

You dressed sufficiently, you think? [He beams, and gives the other two thumbs up, in a pistol fashion.]

Because I'm all set to head out!

[mo_cara]

Sure, motherfucker, let's get our questing on!

[hopefulpageturner]

[Jake is a bit small next to Gamzee, not by much, but he's a little smaller than the other kid. He reaches out an arm and playfully drapes it over his shoulder, and points an arm outwards, pointing at the main doors.]

Onward to adventure, my friend!

[And with that, he guides the two boys towards the doors--and outside.]

[mo_cara]

[Gamzee slouches after without protest, with his usual mellow smile on his face. It's rare the taller boy gets particularly super excited about anything, but this does sound like it could be a laugh, and magical sprites that get you high is worth checking out. He pulls out a rumpled packet of cigarettes the moment they hit the open air, though, sticking on in his mouth and lighting it off his wand before offerin the pack around.]

[hopefulpageturner]

[Once outside, Jake gets a bit excited when he sees Gamzee's pack of cigarettes, as he starts to lead the other two boys into the forest. He grins a little, amused by the banter between the other two.]

Mind if I bum one of those off you? Been a frightful long time since I got t'smoke anything.

[mo_cara]

Sure, bro. [holding out the pack] Ain't you got no fags?

[hopefulpageturner]

[Jake pulls one from the pack, and holds it to his mouth, using his wand to ignite the end of the little stick.]

I would, but my gran's not too fond of me blankening up my damn lungs.

[mo_cara]

I think there be spells for that shit. [casually, blow smoke rings in the air]

[hopefulpageturner]

[He's impressed. He can't blow smoke rings.]

I promised. I'm not the kind of chap to go about breaking promises left and right!

How did I lose this thread? /sobs

[mo_cara]

Then how come you be smokin' now? [Gamzee asks curiously.]

[yerawwizarderi]

[Eridan only came because Gamzee came, and it's hard to resist the powerful seduction of make-outs and the more dubious promise of booze. If the former is not had he is going to be furious, because adventure is not quite his thing; for one thing, it has a tendency to ruin his clothes no matter how much of a brawler on the Quidditch field he might be.]

Right, so, what's the big fuckin' secret adventure?

[hopefulpageturner]

[Jake greets him, looking INCREDIBLY excited! TWO PEOPLE JOINING HIM NOW!]

Pixies! Endorphin and equilibrium teasing pixies! Being around them for more than a few minutes actually gets you high! It's so bloody exciting! And the school doesn't tell anyone about them because of their affects!

[yerawwizarderi]

[Eridan does not look in the LEAST bit thrilled by this at all]

So basically it's a fuckin drug trip?

[hopefulpageturner]

[Oh. Oh. That's GOLDEN.]

[And Jake just laughs a bit, quite literally holding his stomach.]

Only if you want it to be! Think of it as getting close to a fire! If you're close enough it's warm, and cozy! But if you get too close everything just becomes a tad bit painful! That's the fun of it all! There's a damn risk!

[yerawwizarderi]

Yeah, there's a risk we could all get fuckin' expelled and also get completely shitfaced, what an adventure. I thought you were like huntin' werewolves in the forest or something, somethin' that would be actually dangerous and stupid in a different way.

[hopefulpageturner]

No, werewolves is for next month! [He laughs.]

But you know, if you think this is stupid, you can always stay here! No one's really forcing you to come, are they?

[mo_cara]

[Don't mind Gamzee, he's just going to casually drape an arm around the younger boy, though at least he's not obviously macking on Eridan - the Slytherin tends to get all up on anyone he considers a friend.]

[yerawwizarderi]

[Yooooou. Eridan leans into him like it's absolutely nothing, like it's his due that Gamzee should want to put an arm around him.]

Are we really doin' this?

[mo_cara]

Hell yes we are. [Gamzee agrees with a mellow smile, letting his hand hang down to rest against Eridan's chest.] Adventures are good for shit. Motherfuck if I can be remembering what, but something.

[yerawwizarderi]

[Eridan snorts doubtfully, casually easing himself up tight against Gamzee's side.]

For gettin' a whole lot a time wasted, how about.

[mo_cara]

Shit, you remembered it for me! For getting wasted! [Exclaims cheerfully, grinning down at the younger boy and leaning in to him a little, clearly happy to have Eridan pressed up so nice and tight.]

[yerawwizarderi]

That is NOT what I said. [It's hard to manage to be irritated with Gamzee draping all over him, but he's trying.] Could you stop thinkin' about that for five seconds maybe and think about what a goddamn pile a poppycock we could be gettin' ourselves into?

[mo_cara]

What's the motherfuckin' worstest that could be happening? Like some pixie chickadee gets all up someone's nose or something? I go out in the motherfuckin' woods all the time, it's cool, babe.

[yerawwizarderi]

Are you allowed to call me that if I'm not a girl? [Narrow eyes, and the perpetually skeptical sneer still remains firmly in place.]