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[madman_with_a_box]

[It was easy to say that John was new to all of this strangeness. It was a fact, and yet, that bit of logic had done very little to ease his mind in regards to what all this entailed. He is, after all, a man of science, but he's also incredibly excitable - and under a lot of stress due to upcoming classes beginning soon. It's his first entry on this mysterious Network, and he's sitting on a sofa in a rather mundane looking living room - aside from the papers, random gadgets, and unfinished looking projects scattered about. An impressive stack of quantum textbooks rests near his knee, which is fluttering up and down rapidly in an anxious movement.

He leans forward, peering over the rim of his glasses, and frowns a little.]

I sort of like this idea of this Network thing. It's all very...clandestine, hush hush, bonding experience, speaking out into the void of the internet in the hopes someone hears you and has something important to say. I like it, it's clever - even if it does leave you feeling a bit exposed. Internet's not really all that secure, is it? Anything can end up on the dark web for the right price...

Anyway. It's all well and good, and I'm getting used to this idea of Different, even if it is bloody mad.

What I want to know is why my entire research plan decided today that it wanted to be delightfully lemon flavored? [He holds up a cheerful looking bowl of lemon sherbet, which he sort of wrinkles his nose.] Honestly. It could have at least had the courtesy of being banana flavored if it's going to inconvenience me.

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[darkforcerising]

Bold choice, liking banana flavored stuff.

[captainspain]

[Jack stares at the screen feeling that odd sense of weirdness that he gets around Anthony and Alec. But with the accent the feeling is strong. He smiles]

At least it's your research plan and not your phone or coffee pot like me. I almost ate my keys once too.

[inquiryguqin]

[On the video, there's also a fellow researcher. In the background, there's piles of textbooks and historical looking antiques]

It just seems to be a lemon sherbet week. You do research as well? I'm curious for academic purposes, what is your specialty?

[Quantum physics, he's wonders?]

[seawalled]

Oh, God, you look like them too.

I'm being tested, I just know it.

[scotch_egg]

Oh come on. Who the hell are you now?

Please tell me your father isn't Alastair because if he is I may go strangle him myself.

[he had enough bloody family to deal with. It could be they weren't related at all, but one look at that face reminded him sort of a picture taken from sixth form. Except he was too bloody chipper.]