Involuntary RPG

TO: "Mo" <mbenhamou@ivi.edu.au>
FROM: "Sonia Granville" <sonia.ann.granville@gmail.com>
SUBJECT: ( I don't expect you'll ever read this )

WHO: Muhammad Benhamou & Élise-Chloé Fournier [NPC] (the mother from these narratives (#4), who left Mo when he was 12. JUST FOR CONTEXT.)
WHAT: BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
WHEN: Ummm....backdated slightly, I don’t know...
WHERE: Coober Pedy, Australia, the closest settlement to the IVI campus.
WARNINGS: None.
STATUS: Complete narrative.

( It’s hard to explain, but I’m stranded in a bad place... and I miss you, and... I want to come home. )

WHO: Karen Cruz [NPC], Cecylia Nosek [NPC], Louisiana Jayne Fox [NPC], & Élise-Chloé Fournier [NPC],
WHAT: Four mothers (the fifth to come!) cope with their childrens' absence.
WHEN: Recently, but backdated. Vague, DWI.
WHERE: ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
WARNINGS: Sexual references, angst.
STATUS: Complete Narrative [part 1/2]

( JESUS LOVES VOL'S )

WHO: Nawal Bechara [PALESTINE] & Muhammad Benhamou [BELGIUM]
WHAT: Pianos, sex, and heartbreak.
WHEN: Night 2 — sometime after the girls’ dorms are poisoned.
WHERE: The Amphitheatre, in Mo’s usual practice room.
WARNINGS: It gets a little saucy. It also made Cairo cry. It’s easier if I admit this in the 3rd person.
STATUS: Complete log.

( I don't know how this ends. )

Who: Some of the Library group
What: Two VR Vols arrive wanting medical care and the library group decides what to do with them
Where: The library
When: 7 July 2013; in the middle of the night
Status: Completed dia-log
Warnings: Talk of murder sort of

( I didn't know you and Ernest were brothers. How quaint. )

[KINCAID/Sonia]

do you still have the camera, from when we made the video? can i borrow it?

[KEY/Nawal]

[in Arabic] i have the room to myself for a few hours, i think...do you want to come here? if sonia lends me her camera, i think we can make it so nothing but the sounds of midori's carmen fantasy will be heard...

---ORDINARY TEXT MESSAGE---
TO: elias
FROM: muhammad

[1/2] i need the room for tonight....not all of tonight, just maybe a few hours
[2/2] [...] for sex. ok?

WHO: Muhammad Benhamou [BELGIUM] & Understanding Jones [USA]
WHAT: A melodramatic reunion! A daring escape! A kiss! (Almost.)
WHEN: Backdated to Tuesday night (June 25)
WHERE: The medbay (where, just fyi, they are being kept without phones or computers.)
STATUS: Complete log.

( I've missed you. )

WHO: Muhammad Benhamou [BELGIUM] + assorted NPCs
WHAT: Comrade Benhamou has fallen! Plus a revelation of sorts.
WHEN: Mid-morning, Monday 6/24.
WHERE: Flamingo training.
WARNINGS: Mildly icky in places. One bad word.
STATUS: Complete narrative.

( That’s enough, Mo. )

WHO: Hunter Hunger Strike participants
WHAT: One meeting in two parts
WHEN: After training, Friday, June 21 (Day 4)
WHERE: The quad, then by the trees
WARNINGS: Hunger
STATUS: IC/OOC

( I volunteer as tribute! )

WHO: Muhammad Benhamou [BELGIUM] & Nawal Bechara [PALESTINE]
WHAT: A game of Flamingo Hide & Seek sends Mo a-calling.
WHEN: Backdated to...late May. During training hours.
WHERE: A training warehouse.
WARNINGS: A few sexual references, but pretty tame overall.
STATUS: Complete log.

( So you are, ummm, exercising? That’s — good. You look good. )

TO: Conner, Rose, Val, Kelly, Nawal & Mo

[1/3] Everyone is so angry it's making my powers do all sorts of awful things
[2/3] If anyone needs me, then outside of this additional training nonsense I will be in the library
[3/3] Since they won't even let me read the news any more I will work my way through their books one by one

TO: Neve

[1/2] Hello
[2/2] This is Rianne. I'm still working on things in the library.

TO: nawal
FROM: muhammad

[1/2] if one more person makes another comparison to guantanamo bay, i am going to light myself on fire
[2/2] (or at least i will have very bad indigestion)

TO: Donovan I now know better
FROM: Understanding

I know other people have offered but I woul rather ask someone I know better, so can I ask you a favor If you have some time to spare in San Francisco?

TO: Muhammad (UNSENT)
FROM: Understanding

I feel a lot of

WHO: Harlow Hart and Muhammad Benhamou
WHAT: Chocolate cake can make you friends and help with sads
WHEN: Sunday 12 May, evening
WHERE: Culinary classroom
WARNINGS: You'll want to eat some cake.
STATUS: Complete

( We get to eat it now, oui? )

WHO: Rianne Schulte & Muhammad Benhamou
WHAT: A rude awakening; Rianne enacts her promise to make sure that Mo makes it to Friday training.
WHEN: Friday 17th May
WHERE: Room 7F
WARNINGS: None
STATUS: Completed Log

(  We have towels. We even have extension cords, Allah as my witness.  )

TO: Conner

Thank you. This class is boring.

TO: Mo

Do not forget to wake up tomorrow, I will be making sure.

TO: Nawal

Are you enjoying your day?

TO: Rose

Thank you, if you helped him with that cake. (If not, he probably learned it from you anyway)

TO: SANDER SCHULTE [schultes@mail.be]
FROM: RIANNE SCHULTE [rschulte@ivi.edu.au]
SUBJECT: ( Happy Birthday )

TO: Understanding
FROM: Filipe

(1/3) soooo
(2/3) i really like your performance art piece this week
(3/3) it is spiritually moving???

TO: Mo
FROM: Filipe

i think april fool's day is at the beginning of the month just so that you know...

TO: rianne
FROM: muhammad

[1/2] so....there is any interesting news, lately? things happening elsewhere in the world that is not here?
[2/2] ...are you in class right now?

TO: silje
FROM: muhammmad

[1/3] you like to swim, oui? do you want to swim with me later, maybe?
[2/3] also it is the birthday of franz lehár, which i do not care about very much, but oh how splendid, tra-la-la-la-la-la-la?
[3/3] (a very silly german opera. not your style...)

TO: shannon
FROM: muhammad

[1/2] ummm, thank you for the tea last night....if this is interrupting you in class please disregard me, i am very bored
[2/2] also i will be seeing you in orchestra in uhhhh...less than two hours....

TO: eli
FROM: muhammad

are you paying attention in class? oui? non?

TO: elias
FROM: muhammad

[1/2] you know i almost texted you instead of eli...per accident...but then i thought, you know
[2/2] any bizarre thoughts from the minds of our peers, this morning?

TO: jada
FROM: muhammad

what is the strangest piece of music that has ever made you cry?

WHO: Muhammad Benhamou [BELGIUM] and Understanding Jones [USA]
WHAT: A breakup.
WHEN: Monday, 29 April 2013; evening
WHERE: Music Practice Rooms
WARNINGS: More melodrama than should be legal.
STATUS: Complete.

( Muhammad, he implored, voice now shaking, why would you do this? )

TO: eli
FROM: muhammad

i finished it. do you finish yours?

TO: ALL OF MO'S OTHER FRIENDS (who appreciate music, which i mean in a pedantic sense), ummm, THC, jada, nawal, fréd, joon-ho, ethan, (& jodi too, i guess), sonia, rianne, kelly, elise, shannon (etc??) (separately)

if you are not busy at the moment, i am playing a game. in the practice room 5b.

FOR YOUR OOC KNOWLEDGE: he's v. excited about his piano puzzler (that's the game! it's not anything dirty!) which is, ftr, "Carol of the Bells" in the style of Franz Liszt. Though a very pretty composition, it is extremely easy to guess. :(