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[shellfishlovver]

Students of Defence Against The Dark Arts class number twwo, I ask that you refer to chapter 35, specifically pages 223, 230 and 237 before you attend your first class.

I suppose I should also introduce myself wwhile I'm at it. My name is Murdoc. You wwill call me Professor Donoghue. I wwill be the second Defence Against The Dark Arts. Any questions should be directed here. That is all.

[Filtered to Eridan Ampora]
I believve wwe need to talk.

[Filtered to Cyrus Onikous]
I'll behavve if you do.

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[grandhighwizard]

A CONVERSATION WITHOUT RISK
could hardly be considered 'decent'.
BORING, PREDICTABLE, REPETITIVE, MORE LIKE.
i suppose some dullards want never to be surprised when they're talking,
BUT A LITTLE INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION IS A FINE THING.
words make marvelous weapons,
CUTTING AWAY THE DEAD FLESH OF A PUTREFYING MIND.

[shellfishlovver]

Lovely imagery you're usin' there. Perhaps you should have been a poet.
In any case, there's a time and place and situation for every conversation and not all of them need to involve flesh. It's not proper.

[grandhighwizard]

hard to avoid it.
SEEING AS IT COVERS UP ALL OUR BONES.

[Oh, damn, Rhys just cracks himself up sometimes.]

but a 'time and a place' and 'proper' mean rules.
THERE ARE NO RULES.
but what we impose.
THE JUSTICE OF BRUTALITY.
still, i'd hate to make you uncomfortable, my boy.
SHOULD I PLAY NICE?

[shellfishlovver]

Yes. Haha. How clever of you.

There are unspoken rules, actually. People who are unaware of them are generally...well..miscreants or mentally unstable.

And. I'm not your boy, Professor.

[grandhighwizard]

oh, i never said whether the rules were spoken or unspoken.
REMARKABLE HOW GROUPTHINK WORKS, ISN'T IT?
all the sheep bleating in unison.
I PREFER GOATS.

[shellfishlovver]

You talk a lot of nonesense. It's any wonder how your students keep up with your ramblins.

[grandhighwizard]

we're hardly effective educators if we don't
CHALLENGE OUR STUDENTS.
but i apologize for talking a little above your head.
PERHAPS PHILOSOPHY ISN'T YOUR STRONG SUIT.

[shellfishlovver]

Of that much I am aware. However there's a difference between bein challengin and bein bloody absurd.

You're bein awfully condescendin, I hope you realise.

[grandhighwizard]

i don't know that there is much difference.
AND AM I?
i do apologize - i have only the utmost respect for my fellow professors
OF COURSE.

[shellfishlovver]

No, of course you don't.
Now you're just bein' capricious.

[grandhighwizard]

CAPRICIOUS?
hm, i like that!
IT HAS A CERTAIN RING TO IT.
see, we CAN be friends, my boy.

[shellfishlovver]

Not if you keep callin me your 'boy' we won't.

[grandhighwizard]

sensitive about your age, are you?
TERRIBLY SORRY.
should i call you sir?

[shellfishlovver]

No, I'm not. It's improper for you to be belittlin' your fellow staff members.

[grandhighwizard]

haHAhaHAhaHA!
yes, very good.
I KNEW THERE WAS A SENSE OF HUMOR IN THERE SOMEWHERE.
i can hardly help it, can i?

[shellfishlovver]

I wasn't jokin'. Where did you get that impression?

If this is a joke about you bein tall, I swear to god...

[grandhighwizard]

you swear to god what?
DO TELL, MY CHILD.

[shellfishlovver]

I'm not your child.

[grandhighwizard]

of course not.
BUT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO ME?
i really must know.

[shellfishlovver]

I suppose that depends on whether or not you were making a height related joke.

[grandhighwizard]

of course i was!

[shellfishlovver]

You're insane.

[grandhighwizard]

DEFINE INSANITY.

[shellfishlovver]

No. I am not one of your students.

[grandhighwizard]

so you're going to insult me
AND NOT TELL ME HOW YOU MEAN IT?
how rude.