Involuntary RPG

TO: Miyu Ogawa [je-te-miyu314@docomo.ne.jp]
FROM: Taki Tanaki [supermaths@mail.yahoo.co.jp]
SUBJECT: Evolved Person Seeking Help

{ooc: this message is written in Japanese}

Ogawa-san,

I hope your weather is very nice in Australia right now. My name is Takashi Tanaka, but please you can call me Taki. I have been following you on Twitter for much time now (@supermaths) and have sometimes made retweets of your tweets that are very smart or funny. I live in Suginami near Tokyo with my parents. I am an evolved human like you.

I have the power of a very smart computer brain for doing math, but the Ministry of Vol Affairs will not acknowledge my power. They think I am joking with them but I am a real Vol. I want very much to come to the International Vol Institute in Australia where I can be with people of my own kind and work to use my powers to battle injustice and save the world.

I hope maybe you will help me to convince the MVF that I am a real vol. I do not want to cause you trouble but this is very important. Thank you very much for reading my email.

Sincerely,
Takashi Tanaka

PS - I very much like when you tweet pictures of IVI and your peers. Please tell Neve Simonetti-Di Monda that I think her haircut is very nice and that Alex should stop fighting. :(

PPS - Go Eagles! ^^

TO: VOL CLUB MEMBERS
FROM: Nawal Bechara
SUBJECT: ( I set up the blog! )

WHO: Jodi Duncan.
WHAT: Being sad, having feelings, and calling home.
WHEN: Sometime after midnight, 31 August 2012.
WHERE: Outside the lab, then the common phone.
WARNINGS: Swearing.
STATUS: Completed narrative.

( Not for the first time since arriving at IVI, all she really wanted was to go home. )

WHO: Jimmy Boudreaux, Hailey Hamilton, Others (we hope)
WHAT: Country music @ pub night
WHEN: September 1
WHERE: Pub
WARNINGS: ?
STATUS: IC/OOC
( Line Dancing! )

TEXTS

TO: Javier Amaya, Damien Harrington, Benjamin McIntyre, Allegra Hawke (individually)
FROM: Carter Gray

Might've done something really fucking stupid.

TO: Daisy Hughes
FROM: Carter Gray

Hey, s
Didnt want to distu
Sorry I left so early, didnt want to wake ya

TO: Sherlock
FROM: Anthony

Still awake?

TO: Princess
FROM: Han

생일 축하해! Happy Birthday!

To: Teagan
From: Aksel

Hey you i'm awake.

WHO: Aksel's friends, and anyone who feels like swinging by, as this is totally public
WHAT: Birthday things!
WHEN: Dinnertime and then @ pub night
WHERE: Cafeteria and then, well, pub night!
WARNINGS: TBA?
STATUS: IC/OOC!

( IC/OOC birthday things! )

TO: International Vol Club [ivc@gmail.com]
FROM: Taki Tanaki [supermaths@mail.yahoo.co.jp]
SUBJECT: Hello I Am A Vol

Hello Nawal Bechara and International Vol Club!

I hope your weather is very nice in Australia. Please excuse but my name is Takashi Tanaka, but please to call me Taki. I am very excite for your new blog that is nicely made. I am a Vol in Japan and I am very interest in this matters. My power is to do super maths.

Please my government of Japan does not believe I am Vol and I hope maybe you are help me to go to Australia with you. I want use my powers for good and be on your teams! I am very thankful if you are help me.

Very much thank you,
Takashi Tanaka
"Super Maths Man"
Suginami, Japan

PS - Is there a maths club at International Vol Institute?

{OOC: I don't know who this email would actually go to, but I'm happy presuming it gets forwarded to all Vol Club members right now, for max exposure. Maybe they change the settings afterwards to reduce spam, but right now he's in all yo' inbox}

( Written and delivered as a sullen 5-year-old; strikethroughs left passive-aggressively legible. Fuck you, Omar. )

TO: Allegra
FROM: Claudia

how was the date??

TO: hhannigan@ivi.edu.au
FROM: eseabeck@ivi.edu.au
SUBJECT: The Thing You Asked
ATTACHMENT: harry 01-09-12.pdf

( See attached for response. )

WHO: Omar Calderón [Puerto Rico] and Tess Bigelow [New Zealand]
WHAT: Tess decides to give Omar a bit of advice
WHEN: Afternoon, Saturday, September 1st
WHERE: Quad
WARNINGS: Language, talk of Crimes

( Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, here's my number, so kill me maybe. )

TO: lo
FROM: omar

dunno if i can hang out with u any more

TO: mal
FROM: omar

answer ur fone idiot

WHO: Sel Sarin & the Assistant Dean of Students.
WHAT: Someone on Team Swan finally slipped up and mentioned getting drunk in Sel's room; Sel has to face the consequences.
WHEN: Sunday afternoon, September 1st.
WHERE: Assistant Dean's office.
WARNINGS: None.
STATUS: Narrative; complete.

( Sel had considered himself lucky to be at IVI. He still did. It was an escape from Singapore's harsh containment plan for its Vols, and while IVI's rules were strict, in many ways they were much more lenient than the ones Sel had known back home. )