W3 🛸 PLAYER CYOA: SEVENTEEN AGAIN (JAN) 🚀 ARTHUR & GREGOR

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CHAT

[riverbeans]

[Chat among yourselves, wander the classroom, etc. This will be a FFA, by which I mean that you may get mod tags from your fellow classmates to talk to...]

[verminous]

[bothers jan while eli is out

he's just leaning over to the closest person.]

Hey, how much do you think grades matter for this kinda thing...

[riverbeans]

They can't be that important, riiight...? I mean, some people have way more stuff going than them than how well they did on a test. [has rodya been getting good grades? mystewy. but another classmate speaks up, having overheard.]

Grades still tend to be pretty important for getting into university, though. Why, did you fail the last test, Gregor? [so says the class's tiniest high schooler.]

[verminous]

N-no, of course not! Come on, it's not like I'm failing anything, just... had more important things to focus on. More stuff going on for me, like Rodya said.

[stuff like swimming which he has a completely normal high school passion for.]

[riverbeans]

Those are the words of someone who bombed it, Greg. [rodya looks too smug about this for someone who just acknowledged that tests are not everything, mayhaps.........]

[verminous]

I did not bomb it-! I just... well, the essay part was rough, all right?

[rodyaaa don't call him OUT like this. he gives her arm a little nudge like 'quit iiiit'.]

[riverbeans]

[rodya laughs.] Whatever. You'll be fine, Greg. It's not like this is an application for anything... yet!

[verminous]

Yet...

[ughhh. it will be eventually. he does not look forward to it.]

[expiries]

[it's time to awkwardly chat]

What are you, um... Thinking of writing?

[verminous]

Not sure yet. Writing out your own skills is always hard, right? Like... you put it down, and then you wonder if that's one of your best skills, and what really counts anyway...

[expiries]

Well, uh - what do you like doing? Maybe that could count as a skill.

[riverbeans]

[anise, the class's second shortest high schooler, pipes in.] You could put swimming and say you're aiming for an athletic scholarship!

[verminous]

I'm putting it down either way, but-- hey, not a bad idea.

[hmmm. contemplating.]

You think talking to people counts as a skill, or would they say it's more like bothering 'em.

[expiries]

Uh - I think you could totally put down something like socializing, right? That's a good skill.

[verminous]

Right, right... I could probably make it sound better, though. What, ah, what's a good word for that?

[expiries]

A better word for socializing?

[...]

Networking?

[verminous]

Networking, right-!

[snapping his fingers, with a nod.]

You're a lifesaver.

[expiries]

Ha, thanks. I try.

[verminous]

So what're you putting down, eh?

[doing that obnoxious dude thing of leaning over to try to read off his sheet and see if he's got anything]

[expiries]

I don't know, I mean - there's a lot of stuff I like to do, but I don't know how much of it would count.

[nothing yet besides his name]

[verminous]

C'mon, like what? Tell me what you're thinking.

[expiries]

Well, I mean, I... You know I like to swim, but - there's other stuff. I don't know. Art, flowers...?

[verminous]

Don't see why you couldn't put those down. Plenty of people get degrees in plants, 'ne?

[expiries]

I don't know if I'm that good with them. But - maybe.

[verminous]

Isn't that the point of learning? C'mon, if you're interested, do it.