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lastvoyageslogs2010-12-19 11:04 pm
Chores & Other Assorted Defeats (Open!)
Who: Sherlock Holmes & Anyone
Where: Art Room, Warden Conference Room, Laundromat, Dining Hall, and the Library...and anywhere else, I suppose.
What: A day in the life of...
When: HOLY THE ENTIRE DAY, BATMAN!
Mistletoe Status: Just-abouts and barely-escaped encounters welcome! Holmes' observational skills will save you at just the last moment.
Warnings: Sherlock is smarter than you.
{The titles of all threads say where he is at the time, feel free to bump into and bother him. And don't worry about taking up my time; I have no life and this is not an issue.}
Where: Art Room, Warden Conference Room, Laundromat, Dining Hall, and the Library...and anywhere else, I suppose.
What: A day in the life of...
When: HOLY THE ENTIRE DAY, BATMAN!
Mistletoe Status: Just-abouts and barely-escaped encounters welcome! Holmes' observational skills will save you at just the last moment.
Warnings: Sherlock is smarter than you.
{The titles of all threads say where he is at the time, feel free to bump into and bother him. And don't worry about taking up my time; I have no life and this is not an issue.}

LAUNDROMAT
At some point he manages to clean a basket of socks, and he is covered in suds in his shirt sleeves. He seems to not notice how undignified he appears.
LAUNDROMAT
The man was dressed well but decidedly English, which put the whole "doing laundry" thing into perspective.
LAUNDROMAT
It should also be noted that his pile contains very few items of clothing, his "hamper" being a re-purposed battered picnic basket, and various sheets of instructions (including a book on keeping house) have been tossed around the room.
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With entirely feigned confidence, Holmes attempts to wash his night clothes, pressing the final button with a flourish. After a satisfying rush of water and whirring of mechanisms, Holmes smiles to himself. He introduces himself to his unlikely instructor as he momentarily brushes past her to fetch his The Complete Housemaker's Manual of Clean Living and Tidiness About the Home booklet from the table where he'd thrown it in an earlier fit.
"Good day, Miss."
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WELL, I NEVER
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ART ROOM
He tries out some of the room's offerings, at points sculpting (something that might be a bust, with almost no detail), drawing, and...tasting paint, to memorise its specific flavour. It's something on an improvement on the paints of his day, which contained lead.
ART ROOM
In the art room, she finds a man tasting paint. She watches him blankly for a moment before surreptitiously sniffing the paint to see if there's anything special about it.
"Smells like paint."
ART ROOM
"Indeed, I had not expected it should smell as anything else."
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A madman eating paint.
He watches from the doorway briefly, before spinning on his heel, his black cloak billowing behind him.
DINNING HALL
Potentially the most useless tag in the /world/
He was more tired than usual, though, and it was obvious in his heavy-lidded stare and desperation to cram more caffeine (coffee) into his system. It had taken him a moment to note the Victorian ninja in the first place which meant his observational skills were sliding. Which could be potentially dangerous.
His eyes followed Holmes over the rim of his third cup, though if he was noticed, the most greeting he'd put forth was an acknowledging nod.
NEVER
Pouting at the selection (but mostly the fact he'd had to come fetch it himself) Holmes eventually selects an apple. It had been a long time since he was without at least one person constantly pushing food toward him and demanding he eat something, and as such it had taken some time before it occurred he would do well to find food. He would be only able to survive on tea so long.
Taking a bite of the fruit, Holmes scans the older man not so far away. Official, militaristic or constabulary in manner, and possibly having nodded at him in greeting over his drink. Erring on the side of caution, Holmes returns it with a small bow, taking a few small steps forward to briefly introduce himself.
"A pleasure. I am Sherlock Holmes."
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[Whoops, apparently I can't read]
[Happens to the best of us.]
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DAMN OUR SIMILAR HABITS
And because she was a Warden with an overinflated sense of importance to boot, she had a habit of nicking them from the kitchen when she thought no one was looking. This was the case today, made slightly different in that the apple she reached for happened to be snitched by someone else at the very last second.
She looked up, blinking. "Oh. Hello."
O SHI-- YOU CAUGHT HIM
His slight pivot causes his overly dramatic and formal clothing to give a light swish, and reveals both the small exposed amount of his clothing that is white as well as his watch chain draped into his waistcoat pocket. "A pleasantly light repast," he says with a small smile at the little plate of fruit.
LIBRARY
Holmes peruses several other books as well, on various sciences, lands, technologies, and developments, some obviously to catch up with the times but there is no connecting line between his reading material.
He spends nearly ten minutes poking at a computer terminal, long enough to find information he could not locate in a book, but not long enough to transfer it to a paper medium. He doesn't ask for help. He will refuse any offered help, and he won't try long enough to figure it out himself. Anyone wishing to complete this task for him will have to figure out what he wants and do it for him, and likely be thanked (if at all) by a grumpy, defeated Holmes. Enjoy.
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"Aren't you supposed to be some sort of genius?"
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"If genius requires knowledge of such unnecessary glowing blights then I gladly resign myself to the status of intellectual tadpole."
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HAY IT'S SOME BRAVERY
Oh... oh, dear.
His first instinct, and selfishly so, is to sit and start asking what's true and what isn't. His manners get the better of him, though, and instead he replaces the cart quietly and disappears momentarily to his desk.
Several minutes later, a disposable cup bearing a standard breakfast tea prepared in the way he remembers seeing at the inn during port is set carefully out of the way of flipping pages, but close enough to eventually alert Sherlock to the steam, and the Doctor is off to go about his business again.
MAN IT'S LIKE BRAVEHEART LION ALL UP IN HERE
The smell of the tea intrudes his book-centric world before the footsteps or the feeling of a second presence, though had he not been over-engrossed in his studies he would have likely noticed far sooner. At first he seems stunned and lost, unaware of where he is, who is visitor is, or what his visitor has brought him, but he soon brightens as these facts sort themselves in his mind.
"Ah! The tea is most welcome, thank you. I hope I find you well, Doctor."
THEY MAY SHEAR MY MANE, BUT THEY'LL NEVER TAKE... MY /FREEDOM/ !!!
YEAH BUT YOU'D LOOK LIKE A GIRL
LIKE A GIRL WITH MEL GIBSON'S BUTT.
NOT SURE IF WANT
HAY GUY
Still. Rex was slinking, skulking from shelf to shelf in pursuit of a particular text on theoretical engineering (from the ~future~ as well as what might have been an alternate reality), when he passed by Sherlock Holmes at the computer terminals.
And then, ten minutes later, book tucked under his arm, Rex passed the terminal again, finding Holmes rooted to the same spot, on the same screen.
"I suppose it isn't equipped with the most intuitive operating system," he remarked in an even voice, neither mocking nor offering any sympathy. It was just an offhand statement. "Just be thankful you don't have to navigate through MS-DOS." Old school, right there. Man, MS-DOS was almost like ancient history... unless you're Sherlock Holmes.
SUP BB
"Dr. Lewis." Holmes jabs a key on his console that bears a left-facing arrow. "I do not intend to navigate such appliances any more than is absolutely required of me."
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IN WHICH I GRIPE ABOUT A COMMON PROBLEM IN GRANT WRITING.
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WARDEN CONFERENCE ROOM
ANYWHERE ELSE
corridor!
Either way, he'd finished cooking for the day and was more stressed than he'd like to be about things, so the gym sounded like a good idea. He wasn't expecting to run into anyone, but not averse to the idea either.
corridor!
"Ah! Forgive me," Holmes is perhaps a touch more tactile than Paddy would appreciate, briefly touching him with flattened palms in apology before bending with grace to pick up his book. "I shall not keep you from visiting the gymnasium. I assume you box? A most noble past-time."
Holmes peers at the somewhat foreign objects over Paddy's shoulder, studying them. "Your gloves are quite curious."
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