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[ Look, it's an Isaac, slouching in his old room - the one that matches the numbers on his arm, not the one he sleeps in. It looks mostly unused because he's only been in there for all of six hours before he moved down to Derek's space. "Mostly" is a keyword, though; he's been staying here infrequently, in between avoiding Derek and other familiar (adult) faces. Maybe Erica knows where he's been. Or Remus, or Hayley, or Tyler, or Seraphim. He's pretty sure no one over eighteen knows, Isaac's gone lengths on the matter.

He's not wearing his mask, even if he's been wearing it a lot lately; Isaac knows a thing or two about keeping quiet, especially about things that can and do hurt you. The confused sad look he's wearing right now, though - it's a bit too clean. It's sincere, mostly.

"Mostly" is our word of the day.

Then he holds up a combat knife for the network to see.]

I don't know anyone she was friends with, but for what it's worth, Miss Rosella's not around anymore. She left me this, for some reason.

It's a pretty big knife.

Anyway, people have been disappearing, and there's this big thing going down about Smiley and stuff, so I guess this is a bad time to ask about gym equipment, and like. Who do we talk to about appropriating one of the bigger rooms or a holodeck to set up a gym? I mean, we probably already have one or two but this one's more of like, a club thing?

More of a thing that's just ours, not something pre-made and ready to use. Is that allowed?

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[ FILTERED TO-- DEREK HALE : AUGGIE ANDERSON : JENNA SOMMERS : JOSH LEVINSON || viewable to erica reyes ]
i checked everywhere i could and i can't find her. network id's 404 error-ing me, so i guess she's not on the ship anymore.

this is the knife she stabbed me with, i'm pretty sure.

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[ ooc: if anyone wants to say they saw isaac sneaking around and stuff, feel free to say something about it! isaac's been: a) helping erica look for boyd, b) helping tyler look for his uncle, c) hiding from hunters, d) hiding from derek, e) hiding from adults in general, so if you're 21+ and you noticed a teenager quietly avoiding you in the hallways, it's probably isaac. team jailbait can just throw him a rock or something, though, because he's been emoting over some of the recent drops. ]

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[A slight hesitation, and then Edgeworth switches over to video. He looks slightly disgruntled.]

Apologies, then. Most of my acquaintance would hardly be happy to receive such an item.

[ well aren't you a pretty face full of lines, sir ]

I guess we keep different friends, sorry?

Friends are hard to come by when you're lost in space as it is.

[And Edgeworth's face, in response to that, gets a little bit more lined yet.]

I see no reason why we need discuss friends. That was only a very tangential part of the point I was making.

...Okay, I'm honestly confused. What was the point, if not the differences in friends?

[ dude your face might get stuck like that, don't frown so much. ]

The point I was making is that people are rarely happy to find knives laying about their rooms, or tucked into their mailboxes, or what-have-you.

Unless they knew what it meant to be left a knife or some other kind of tool, though?

There was a note and stuff. That counts, yeah?

Fine. It counts. I had merely assumed, for some reason, that you perhaps were not thrilled to have found something that's clearly designed for killing people. I don't see that as a completely unreasonable assumption.

No, I get that, I got what you meant the second time around. It's just, I guess I'm used to having friends who're pretty weird? [ understatement of the year goes to guess who? ] A knife's probably one of the nicer things, considering.

[ it's mostly true, too. ]

Then I shudder to think what you get under other circumstances - though I apologize if my speculation is "ruining" anything else.

Serious question - you know that was a mostly a joke, right? [ mister you need to relax a little. or don't, since it's a little funny in a weird way. ]

[It probably says something about Edgeworth that he'd thought that Isaac wouldn't notice his butthurt.]

...Jokes start out "knock knock" or something of the sort, as I understand it. They're not accusations about "ruining" things.

[ it's a good thing isaac's fairly sensitive to things tucked between the lines. he's pretty well-versed in it himself, given the chance. ]

"Knock knock" jokes the lamest type of jokes, man, you should be offended with those than the other types. It's like, below puns, you know? And puns are bad half the time.

Who taught you jokes, anyway?

[Watch yourself boy puns are awesome.]

I will stop you before you suffer any misconceptions: I myself do not tell jokes. That, however, does not stop me from knowing of humor from osmosis, as it were.

[ you used osmosis and misconceptions in a single reply. if isaac had any doubts about your misguided sense of humor, this probably cemented it. r u 4real? ]

Riiight.

So just... not tell jokes around you unless they're knock-knock puns, then? Seriously, man, what are you trying to say here, it's like weird signals city.

This isn't hard to pick through. I'm questioning your assertion that your earlier comment was indeed intended to be humorous. I don't know how much how simply I must frame this.

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