Mayhem Hall

[Minty]

Day 3 - Tuesday

WHO WAS KILLED IN THE FIRE?




Nobody - not for want of trying. Minty burned forever while the fire fighters kept changing their minds whether to put him out first or the stove, microwave, table units and trash compactor.

Minty got singed (& despite the dangers of that moodlet ran outside when it was all over to light a bonfire!), everyone else though was OK - even Ahmed, who was shoved into the flames twice by the fire fighters as they tried to put out Minty.

The insurance was about §650, the damage put together would cost about §1500 to put right. I decided to leave it until the kitchen was going to be clear before putting it right.




Come the dawn, Minty was still looking singed as he had breakfast on a table with two discarded juice cartons, one left by a smelly Steven heading for first class, the other by a still dog tired Yo!WhoMovedMyCheese.

[removed] was now in the kitchen, at the point of passing out tired, at the point of peeing the floor bursting, & at the point of supermodel malnutrition levels. What does she do? Heads for the coffee maker!

When a minute later Cassie was so lalalala from hunger she went the wrong way at first as she ran to catch her class on time, while a still singed Minty & Yo! went off to play computer games (Minty also not bothering to clear up), I decided enough was enough & some intervention was required over & above fixing the kitchen.




Yo! was forced to go to bed & sleep (not nap as he tried to do - twice!), Minty was forced to shower, & [removed] had her coffee cancelled right out of her hand & forced to have yoghurt instead before being sent to the toilet & straight to bed. She looked so pleased! However, it turned out that [removed] fell ill an hour later (not surprising) & will be contagious for the next two days.

Poor Caspin along with Ollie got the job of tidying up the dining room & kitchen as the only ones that had it all together. I'll make it up to them later.

The stove, trash compactor, microwave and two kitchen units had to be replaced. I gave them the Streamlined stove, as it was self cleaning & had a hunger rating of 10 (up from the 4 of the SimmerChar Dual-State). I also sold off the Anson Hot Beverage Maker which I think is the source of all their troubles - too many of them running on caffeine bursts, not sleeping or eating properly.




Steven had a good practical session with the radio transmitter, once he stopped using it to rap "Yo suckers, the name's Serp, & am reaching to ma crips!" & instead began shockjocking why did anyone think we'd find life on Mars the Solar System when they couldn't even find life in Mars, Pennsylvania.

YeGangnam tried to get his attention while he skilled up on logic with the chess, but he ignored her - either that or his lack of a shower deterred her. Could be it was a deliberate tactic to ensure a day of total uninterrupted academic achievement, for after skilling up the logic, he was straight to studying. He's quite the swotty pants on the quiet.




This is more than can be said for Cassie, who fell asleep in class! Lucky for her that their lecturer never turned up, although that didn't stop students putting their hands in the air to ask questions to no-one. Unless the lecturer is one of those other students' imaginary friends & I couldn't see them.




Afterwards, I forced her to go to the Toasted Beans coffee shop to get something to eat at once since it was nearer than Malen Hall. As she couldn't get a sausage roll, she had to make do with a Cheese Danish. Isn't she Miss La Di Dah with her knife & fork instead of eating it in her hands like the rest of us?




Breebree got more out of studying at home than she got out of the day's lecture. She & Minty looked SO happy

The only reason Jeremiah's looking so pleased is he finally turned up at the lecture with 2 minutes of it to go. He also paints at home - for all of a few minutes at a time!




Chaos ensured when I had to wake Ahmed, Caspin, Ollie, Yo! & an ill [removed] all to attend their lectures on time (all were sleeping or napping). Perhaps Bobert ought to have done the same judging by the way his eyes glazed over in his class with a lecturer that looked a total bunny boiler. He was however the first to use the new oven & blender, but wasn't happy with the stains on the floor that wouldn't wash out (will go back to fix this!).

However, after this everyone at last began to act more normally & more to some semblence of a routine & sociability. [removed] & Yo! were eating & sleeping properly, there was even Ollie, Bobert, Caspin & Ahmed having a group discussion in the lounge after studying together. Yo!WhoMovedMyCheese also became the first to get some social standing on campus, in this instance online with the Nerds.




There was one final curious part to the third day. After returning from class & gossiping with Cassie, Breebree went upstairs & made to pull down the deadly bed which again had gone up of its own accord. Nothing happened thankfully, but she thought better of it & went to sleep in one of the singles. Later on, Steven & Jeremiah chose to sleep on the couch & an outside bench (!) respectively rather than chance the deadly beds, while [removed] practiced trick shots waiting for Breebree to finish sleeping & take a prewarmed bed.

(Yo!WhoMovedMyCheese was also caught out trying to establish ownership of a bed - detagged!)

If tomorrow no one sleeps in the Murphy beds, it could be everyone has learned to avoid them, as I saw a couple of them talking about them earlier. It's not the case of avoidance because they're a double bed - there's often a race for the normal double bed in the room across the way (today won by Bobert, much to Steven & [removed]'s annoyance.)

That brings day three to a close, for once without any dramas!