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Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:07 pm**

Liriena wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:My hatred of these people increases every second.

Wait... you mean India is not like Somalia but with tigers? Gosh, my whole life has been a lie!

That reminds me of how, on occasion, I'm no better.

So I was in South Africa and met this Somali man, because there's a lot of Somalis in South Africa. I started making some generalised statements about his country, and he got really annoyed with me, because I'm an idiot and I actually know far less about Somalia than I thought I did.

It was an educational experience.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:09 pm**

Astrolinium wrote:What does Elfen High have in the way of summer school? And, really, what happens during the summer? Does everyone go home? Do people largely stay? I know there must be a summer break because of when the school year has been shown to start and end.

People can go home, a few people stay, and there's also communities and people in EH who live there all year and live nowhere else. Part of the reason Minh's marriage failed was because he never really had time to take off work.

There is a summer school and courses people can take in summer, but it's mostly break.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:09 pm**

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Astrolinium wrote:What does Elfen High have in the way of summer school? And, really, what happens during the summer? Does everyone go home? Do people largely stay? I know there must be a summer break because of when the school year has been shown to start and end.

People can go home, a few people stay, and there's also communities and people in EH who live there all year and live nowhere else. Part of the reason Minh's marriage failed was because he never really had time to take off work.

There is a summer school and courses people can take in summer, but it's mostly break.

Thanks -- this one-shot is set over Summer 2030 and I'd hit a road bump in that regard.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:13 pm**

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Liriena wrote:Wait... you mean India is not like Somalia but with tigers? Gosh, my whole life has been a lie!

That reminds me of how, on occasion, I'm no better.

So I was in South Africa and met this Somali man, because there's a lot of Somalis in South Africa. I started making some generalised statements about his country, and he got really annoyed with me, because I'm an idiot and I actually know far less about Somalia than I thought I did.

It was an educational experience.

Which is why I try not to talk about certain issues. I know I don't know shit about most countries, societies or scientific theories.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:14 pm**

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Astrolinium wrote:What does Elfen High have in the way of summer school? And, really, what happens during the summer? Does everyone go home? Do people largely stay? I know there must be a summer break because of when the school year has been shown to start and end.

People can go home, a few people stay, and there's also communities and people in EH who live there all year and live nowhere else. Part of the reason Minh's marriage failed was because he never really had time to take off work.

There is a summer school and courses people can take in summer, but it's mostly break.

Summer school in Elfen High is unspeakably horrifying.

It involves a potato peeler and a screaming duck.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:14 pm**

Astrolinium wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:People can go home, a few people stay, and there's also communities and people in EH who live there all year and live nowhere else. Part of the reason Minh's marriage failed was because he never really had time to take off work.

There is a summer school and courses people can take in summer, but it's mostly break.

Thanks -- this one-shot is set over Summer 2030 and I'd hit a road bump in that regard.

No problem. If you need more info, I'll provide it.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:15 pm**

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Astrolinium wrote:
Thanks -- this one-shot is set over Summer 2030 and I'd hit a road bump in that regard.

No problem. If you need more info, I'll ~~provide it.~~ make it up.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:16 pm**

Liriena wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:That reminds me of how, on occasion, I'm no better.

So I was in South Africa and met this Somali man, because there's a lot of Somalis in South Africa. I started making some generalised statements about his country, and he got really annoyed with me, because I'm an idiot and I actually know far less about Somalia than I thought I did.

It was an educational experience.

Which is why I try not to talk about certain issues. I know I don't know shit about most countries, societies or scientific theories.

Good.

I remember when people started discussing apartheid after I ended up in South Africa and I would think "All of you, fuck the fuck off, you know nothing."

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:18 pm**

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Astrolinium wrote:
Thanks -- this one-shot is set over Summer 2030 and I'd hit a road bump in that regard.

No problem. If you need more info, I'll provide it.

Do most teachers live somewhere on the campus or do they live in the surrounding whatever (what does surround EH? A town? The countryside?)? And if they live on campus, do they live in The Main Building or is there, like, a village or apartment complex somewhere on campus for them (or even one somewhere in the myriad depths of the building itself)?

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:18 pm**

Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:No problem. If you need more info, I'll ~~provide it.~~ make it up.

Precisely.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:19 pm**

Astrolinium wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:No problem. If you need more info, I'll provide it.

Do most teachers live somewhere on the campus or do they live in the surrounding whatever (what does surround EH? A town? The countryside?)? And if they live on campus, do they live in The Main Building or is there, like, a village or apartment complex somewhere on campus for them (or even one somewhere in the myriad depths of the building itself)?

Elfen High is alone in the Norfolk countryside.

Most staff stay there, though some go on vacation.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:21 pm**

Astrolinium wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:No problem. If you need more info, I'll provide it.

Do most teachers live somewhere on the campus or do they live in the surrounding whatever (what does surround EH? A town? The countryside?)? And if they live on campus, do they live in The Main Building or is there, like, a village or apartment complex somewhere on campus for them (or even one somewhere in the myriad depths of the building itself)?

EH is in Norfolk. I cannot remember what is the geography there other than white and rainy.

And teachers live wherever they personally find good, including the main building, somewhere in Norfolk, the EH village which I now think exists. And some live in the school depths.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:22 pm**

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Astrolinium wrote:
Do most teachers live somewhere on the campus or do they live in the surrounding whatever (what does surround EH? A town? The countryside?)? And if they live on campus, do they live in The Main Building or is there, like, a village or apartment complex somewhere on campus for them (or even one somewhere in the myriad depths of the building itself)?

EH is in Norfolk. I cannot remember what is the geography there other than white and rainy.

And teachers live wherever they personally find good, including the main building, somewhere in Norfolk, the EH village which I now think exists. And some live in the school depths.

There's no need for a village; everything is internal.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:23 pm**

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Liriena wrote:Which is why I try not to talk about certain issues. I know I don't know shit about most countries, societies or scientific theories.

Good.

I remember when people started discussing apartheid after I ended up in South Africa and I would think "All of you, fuck the fuck off, you know nothing."

Oh, you'd love my father.

"China, Japan, Korea, India... no difference there. They are all shitholes, like Somalia or Turkey."

Have I mentioned he can't (and apparently refuses to) tell the difference between an Arab Muslim woman and a Hindu woman?

Oh, I love my demographic.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:24 pm**

Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:EH is in Norfolk. I cannot remember what is the geography there other than white and rainy.

And teachers live wherever they personally find good, including the main building, somewhere in Norfolk, the EH village which I now think exists. And some live in the school depths.

There's no need for a village; everything is internal.

I rather like the idea of a quaint little village within EH.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:24 pm**

Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:EH is in Norfolk. I cannot remember what is the geography there other than white and rainy.

And teachers live wherever they personally find good, including the main building, somewhere in Norfolk, the EH village which I now think exists. And some live in the school depths.

There's no need for a village; everything is internal.

I just liked the idea somehow.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:25 pm**

Astrolinium wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:There's no need for a village; everything is internal.

I rather like the idea of a quaint little village within EH.

This makes a lot more sense.

The EHers don't live in it, though.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:25 pm**

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:There's no need for a village; everything is internal.

I just liked the idea somehow.

It's absurd at just the right level to be the sort of thing where you go, "Oh, well, duh."

Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Astrolinium wrote:
I rather like the idea of a quaint little village within EH.

This makes a lot more sense.

The EHers don't live in it, though.

Well, no, I imagine it would be faculty and a native population which doesn't quite match up to any surface ethnolinguistic group.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:26 pm**

Astrolinium wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:I just liked the idea somehow.

It's absurd at just the right level to be the sort of thing where you go, "Oh, well, duh."

Nationstatelandsville wrote:This makes a lot more sense.

The EHers don't live in it, though.

Well, no, I imagine it would be faculty and a native population which doesn't quite match up to any surface ethnolinguistic group.

No, the staff is banned after the Pub Incident of 1978.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:27 pm**

Astrolinium wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:I just liked the idea somehow.

It's absurd at just the right level to be the sort of thing where you go, "Oh, well, duh."

Nationstatelandsville wrote:This makes a lot more sense.

The EHers don't live in it, though.

Well, no, I imagine it would be faculty and a native population which doesn't quite match up to any surface ethnolinguistic group.

I wonder what they'd be like.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:29 pm**

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Astrolinium wrote:
It's absurd at just the right level to be the sort of thing where you go, "Oh, well, duh."

Well, no, I imagine it would be faculty and a native population which doesn't quite match up to any surface ethnolinguistic group.

I wonder what they'd be like.

I'm guessing Celtic -- they likely are a relic of pre-Roman Britain -- mixed with whatever ethnic minority has traditional served as Elfen High's janitorial staff, very possibly with the odd random mutation here and there.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:30 pm**

Astrolinium wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:I wonder what they'd be like.

I'm guessing Celtic -- they likely are a relic of pre-Roman Britain -- mixed with whatever ethnic minority has traditional served as Elfen High's janitorial staff, very possibly with the odd random mutation here and there.

The school didn't have an entrance before the 1910's.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:31 pm**

Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Astrolinium wrote:
I'm guessing Celtic -- they likely are a relic of pre-Roman Britain -- mixed with whatever ethnic minority has traditional served as Elfen High's janitorial staff, very possibly with the odd random mutation here and there.

The school didn't have an entrance before the 1910's.

Like the school gives a fuck.

It seems like it often does random time travel shit.

And, pausing to think, I really like Astro's idea.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:32 pm**

Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Astrolinium wrote:
I'm guessing Celtic -- they likely are a relic of pre-Roman Britain -- mixed with whatever ethnic minority has traditional served as Elfen High's janitorial staff, very possibly with the odd random mutation here and there.

The school didn't have an entrance before the 1910's.

So?

I imagine the spot on which it's built has always held some sort of magical significance. I think perhaps at one point it would have been a sacred place to, mmmm, perhaps Sulis.

Posted: **Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:32 pm**

Astrolinium wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:The school didn't have an entrance before the 1910's.

So?

I imagine the spot on which it's built has always held some sort of magical significance. I think perhaps at one point it would have been a sacred place to, mmmm, perhaps Sulis.

Maybe because it's a dragon corpse.

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