Hagakure's Load-Bearing Lode: Pick up a Pebble and Put it in a Propitious Place

[crystal_ballin]

Who: Hagakure and maybe you, dear reader
What: Hagakure is carefully placing rocks in patterns outside (and inside???) the mansion
Where: All over the grounds
When: Here and Now - 3/18 - 3/25
Warnings: Hagakure being Hagakure.

Recognizing the fickle nature of the new reality that he had been vaulted into, Hagakure has spent a great amount of effort and time over the last week in collecting particularly auspicious rocks, and he is, at this very moment, placing them in key locations all over the school grounds, so as to better anchor this reality and prevent it from slipping off into another dimension.

He's clearly struggling, in trying to move this 30-pound rock (he doesn't work out very much, okay, it's heavy, stop giving him such a hard time, dude) carefully into place over there in that spot that's in the middle of something inconvenient where you were trying to do a thing.

Is there. Is there now a smallish rock in the middle of the kitchen, with a note on it that says "Load-bearing rock, do not move"?

He's probably not crazy enough to actually be gluing rocks... no, no, he's definitely crazy enough to be gluing a rock there. In the shower.

Comments

[garmentgoddess]

A rock in the middle of the kitchen. "Hey!" Rene shouted from the doorway, apron tucked over her arm. "Rocks don't go in the kitchen! People can trip!"

[crystal_ballin]

"That's why there's a sign on it, dude, so people see it and don't fall."

It's very super obvious, Rene. Get with the program.

[garmentgoddess]

"That's not the point!" Well it was partially the point. "Don't put rocks in the kitchen! We're not making stone soup."

[crystal_ballin]

"What's stone soup, dude?" asked Hagakure, not catching the reference. "The rock's are lodeload-bearing rocks, pinning the mansion down into this reality's geomantic forces, preventing us from spinning off into some terrible new world again."

See, reasonable.

[garmentgoddess]

"It sounds like a lot of malarkey to me," she groaned. "Just get them out of here!"

[crystal_ballin]

"Sheesh, dude, lighten up."

He's not getting anything out of anywhere. In fact, he's still gluing a rock to a space beneath a table.

[garmentgoddess]

"Get out of there!" She started to pry up one of the rocks, which was giving ever so slightly.

[crystal_ballin]

"Woah, who died and made you queen of the kitchen?" Hagakure asked sarcastically. "It's a free kitchen; you can't make me do anything I don't want to, dude."

He added extra super-glue to the rock he was currently gluing down, mostly out of spite.

[garmentgoddess]

A little bit more...

"It's common sense! You don't glue rocks to the floor, ya bonehead!"

[crystal_ballin]

"You know, your bad attitude and your name calling isn't helping me want to do what you tell me to do, dude," said the model of responsible behavior who was gluing rocks to every available surface.

[garmentgoddess]

She pried one up. "Take your rocks out of here!"

[crystal_ballin]

"Make me, dude." He glued down another rock.

He's not afraid of you mostly because you haven't directly threatened to kill him or do him great bodily harm. Because Hagakure's fun like that.

[garmentgoddess]

"Fine!" She picked up a rock he hadn't glued down yet, and another, and another, and another, and shimmied up to the window to toss them outside.