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Who: Daniel and Genji
What: Daniel's backdated birthday fun
When: After work
Where: The arcade
Rating: Will update as needed. This being them, probably fairly light but then again...
( go daniel, it's your birthday, we gonna party like it's your birthday... )

American Thanksgiving was pretty nice. I have vague memories from when I didn't remember who I was, of celebrating, sort of, in this weird child of immigrants way that I guess any children I might end up with would end up experiencing instead, but that all feels like a memory from a movie, so my first official one as myself was really nice.

We do have a Thanksgiving at home, and it's always on the 23rd of November but it's quite different, and is a day designed to thank workers. Families all have the day off and do something together at a park or amusement park and then have fish and rice dinners. Usually at home, when I was little, my Ani wound up making the time to do something with me when the rest of our family was...doing things I didn't want to be involved in. I absolutely loved him then and even now I wish that things may have turned out differently. I DO miss him, in spite of everything between us, at least the person that I once knew him to be, and I miss my Master, who taught me everything I needed to survive, and then some, but I HAVE found happiness here, and in the spirit of the holiday, I was thankful to spend it with someone I adore.

Today was also a good day. After a long time coming, my gensen, er, arcade is open. We're right near the food court in the mall, and on the first day, I managed to pull in a lot of people to check the place out, including kids whose parents wanted to take part in Black Friday sales. I do have some new machines, some vintage, and a new shipment of Alpacasso coming in for the biggest claw machine, along with some cool things for the others, and some really great capsules, so if you're at all into that kind of thing, head on over?

Yesssssss. Back to normal.

Genji, babe, I'm back to my own body.

I ought to have asked this a lot sooner. I fear I've been adjusting myself to a strange new ability that I have gained, and did not want to risk harming anyone, but... I have been through something similar to some of you before. I've never quite said all there is to say about myself, and I am still not ready for the full story but...

I've adjusted to extremely altered circumstance before. Confining, horrifying circumstance. The truth is that our mind is an extremely powerful weapon. Part of why some of what has happened to some of us, the ones who haven't always been a part of this place believed it for so long and can adjust now, I think. And it contributes to why some others have trouble, and others who are only affected by the newest events...


At any rate, the thing I learned through my own training, through MY teacher is that you can train your mind to accept almost anything when there is no other possible response. There's this zen term, Gaman. It means that you accept what seems unbearable and you do it with dignity and patience... The theory is that you persevere...that you survive.

If anybody needs help with that...in any of these circumstances... I don't know everything my teacher does yet, probably not ever, but...I CAN get you started. If you wanted.

Who: Daniel and Genji
When: 06/10
Where: Daniel's
What: arcade discussion
Warnings: TBD but low


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Is it hard to run an arcade? I found the PERFECT store front for it and could handle the initial rent but...

Is it me or do the moments of quiet and rest now fill anyone else with some sense of impending doom? Fortunately, my mentor showed me the techniques to quell these negative emotions when they appear, but I wonder about literally anyone else here. Are you dealing with those moments of peace that worry you since they won't last?

A lifetime of too much action, I guess. It makes you get a little loopy, huh?

We should start a support group. I can teach meditation.

This will sound strange. This IS strange, I will admit it myself. You may have noticed that Andrew Sugita has been missing since the beginning of the summer. Obviously the high school has probably located a new science teacher, which may be just as well, due to...other circumstances. I do understand that and really, it is not the biggest issue here.

I have been missing because I was taken, at the time, and I have been in a house of horrors ever since. I woke, as some of you, are calling it on the internet, a few weeks ago, and I was in little shape to get out of here, due to... a variety of circumstances.

The summer appears to have been a long one, physically and mentally, but I do not remember very much of it. The last few weeks, however, have been...odder still, and perhaps more difficult to manage. Zen is a refreshing concept, but it can only get you so far when your struggles are...rather unique.

I've found an address, and he works at the carnival though I don't feel putting that out there is safe for me. Such things can be traced by those reading this, and I've managed to hide all traces of this post from my captor, but...

What I need now is help to escape this place I have been taken as I continue to adjust to the things I have learned about myself.

I do know there are things I CAN do on my own, things beyond the usual kidnapping "victim" has in their repertoire, but I am weak still, and unable to enter the mindspace for it, though I try.

I need help to get out of here, and likely help that does NOT involve the authorities as HE is going to find out sooner and put on a show of this being an internet forgery that way, when it is nothing of the sort.

May I speak with people willing to assist me in staging a break out from this Hell not of my making?

...

Who:Cleveland and YOU!
What:Kidnapping and torture probably?
When:Night
Where: His basement.
Rating:TBD but probably high depending
Status:Open until someone answers.

( Here we go again/I feel the chemicals kicking in )

It's Senior Prank season.

Usually, I manage to avoid them, by virtue of being the coolest teacher here, but this year, I seem to have lost that immunity. Or having a meeting during my prep period was just too much for them, it's hard to say, but well, I think it actually worked out.

I walked back in for my next class after lunch to find my classroom was a blanket fort and all my seniors from every class arriving in pajamas, carrying snacks and games and sleeping bags. They even sprang for pizza and they brought me a robe and onesie of my own.

They'd all arranged to hang out for the afternoon, and we blew off a LOT of steam, which we all needed after their AP exam.

Fun day for all of us, EXCEPT...

I REALLY can't let this one stand. There's got to be some way to get them back/say thanks. Any ideas out there?

I contributed to the Robotics Team Bakesale and...

( (image heavy. not cut for characters. NSFW but mildly so. Implications more than obscenity) )

Best faculty advisor at the school or what?

We are back on the air, Westview! This is what happens when you let lions and tigers run amok near the camera cables am I right? Of course I am, I'm always right!

Anyway, I'm here near the city square, ready to take your burning questions live on the air. Come by!