[00:24] <DrakLap> So, I went to a university called Abertay. A shitty university, but one with a relatively prestigious games course at the time.
[00:25] <DrakLap> And Dragonkin sends me a tell one day saying 'hey, you go to Abertay, I'm going there maybe, tell me about it'
[00:25] <DrakLap> So I do
[00:25] <DrakLap> A bit
[00:25] <DrakLap> And he's all 'cool, yeah, sounds great'
[00:25] <DrakLap> And it ends there
[00:25] <DrakLap> A few months later
[00:25] <DrakLap> Furcifer (gah) sends me a tell
[00:25] <DrakLap> Saying 'Hey, DK is wondering where you are'
[00:25] <Dasquian> heh
[00:25] <DrakLap> And i say 'Uh, what? I'm right here'
[00:25] <DrakLap> 'No, dude - he's waiting for you at the train station'
[00:25] <Dasquian> god ;p
[00:26] <Beale> ...
[00:26] <DrakLap> . o O ("What?")
[00:26] <Dasquian> GUESS WHO'S COME TO VISIT
[00:26] <DrakLap> And I go 'Oh, fuck, what? Oh, okay'
[00:26] <DrakLap> thinking I probably just missed a mail or something
[00:26] <DrakLap> So I drive to the station and pick him up
[00:26] <DrakLap> About...
[00:26] <DrakLap> Three hours after he arrives
[00:26] <DrakLap> So he gets in the car
[00:26] <DrakLap> Cases and bags and everything
[00:26] <DrakLap> And I say 'Hey, you're a bit early for the term'
[00:26] <DrakLap> And he goes
[00:27] <DrakLap> 'Yeah, I left before I got my official confirmation of a place'
[00:27] <DrakLap> So now
[00:27] <DrakLap> Alarm bells are going off in my head.
[00:27] <Dasquian> haha
[00:27] <DrakLap> Because there are certain things you don't get until you have an official confirmation
[00:27] <DrakLap> like... well, a university place
[00:27] <DrakLap> Or
[00:27] <DrakLap> Accomodation
[00:27] <DrakLap> Or
[00:27] <DrakLap> A grant
[00:27] <DrakLap> But I'm cool, I'm collected, I go 'Oh, right - well, we'll just hit up the university administration and see what they have to say'
[00:27] <DrakLap> So we get there
[00:28] <DrakLap> And they leaf through the records
[00:28] <DrakLap> Muttering quietly to themselves
[00:28] <DrakLap> And they go 'Oh yeah, you have a place'
[00:28] <DrakLap> Phew, I say.
[00:28] <DrakLap> And then they say 'You'll get your accomodation placement in a week'
[00:28] <DrakLap> Aaaaaaaa, I say
[00:28] <DrakLap> Now, to put some context on this story
[00:28] <DrakLap> DK is a lovely guy
[00:28] <DrakLap> But
[00:29] <DrakLap> He is, or was at the time, a massive fucking internet douche.
[00:29] <DrakLap> Which means -
[00:29] <DrakLap> No social skills
[00:29] <DrakLap> A distressing love of anime
[00:29] <DrakLap> And a fascination with gadgets
[00:29] <DrakLap> (Of a sort)
[00:29] <DrakLap> Plus
[00:29] <DrakLap> You knoiw
[00:29] <Dasquian> Hahaha
[00:29] <DrakLap> He's just a guy who got off a train
[00:29] <DrakLap> I don't actually know him from Adam
[00:29] <DrakLap> For all I know, he's a fucking axe murderer
[00:29] <DrakLap> Who now has to live in my house.
[00:29] <Dasquian> Yeah, he loved his anime! I remember him giving me a load of anime songs over napster
[00:30] <DrakLap> Anyway, so I take him home, where I have absolutely no support for lodgers.
[00:30] <DrakLap> And there is where we have our first real clash of culture.
[00:30] <DrakLap> Which is when I say 'You want something to drink', and he says 'Yes'
[00:30] <DrakLap> (No please, but you know, WHATEVER)
[00:30] <DrakLap> So I say 'Well, I have <this range of assorted carbonated bevereges')
[00:31] <DrakLap> And he goes 'I don't drink those'
[00:31] <DrakLap> . o O ("Oh")
[00:31] <DrakLap> So I say 'Well, what about a glass of water', and he looks very sad at the prospect.
[00:31] <DrakLap> So I look in the fridge
[00:31] <DrakLap> And there's some orange juice.
[00:31] <Dasquian> I had to leave crilith alone in my room when I was on the dole, to collect my payout, and he ATE ALL MY FUCKING CRISPS
[00:31] <DrakLap> Except, I don't know how long it's been there
[00:31] <Dasquian> Like, an entire 12-pack bag of hula hoops
[00:31] <DrakLap> possibly since the fridge was purchased.
[00:31] <Dasquian> hehe
[00:31] <DrakLap> So I think 'Well, I'm not drinking it', and pour him a glass.
[00:32] <Dasquian> Poor DK ;p
[00:32] <DrakLap> Then I go buy him some fish and chips, because - well, I'm not someone who entertains, I have nothing in the house he will eat.
[00:32] <DrakLap> (They were fucking rancid too, I wouldn't eat fish and chips from my local chip shop if you had a gun at my head)
[00:32] <DrakLap> But you know
[00:32] <DrakLap> We survive the evening
[00:32] <DrakLap> And he sleeps on the couch
[00:33] <DrakLap> And then I spend the next day trying to sort him out with actual accomodation
[00:33] <DrakLap> Which I do by bullying and cajoling and shouting at people in the accomodations office.
[00:33] <bcowosity> lol dragonkin
[00:33] <DrakLap> Saying 'Look, I am not putting this mad swede up for a week!'
[00:33] <bcowosity> it used to shit me how people treated him like some kind of wunderkid:p
[00:33] <bcowosity> BECAUSE THAT WAS ME
[00:33] <DrakLap> So I get that all sorted out, and he gets his accomodation.
[00:33] <DrakLap> So I drive him there
[00:33] <DrakLap> And get ready to leave him
[00:33] <DrakLap> First thing he does is get out a compass
[00:34] <DrakLap> And determine the relationship of his window to the rising sun
[00:34] <DrakLap> . o O ("What?")
[00:34] <Tiggum> Hahahaha
[00:34] <Dasquian> nice
[00:34] <DrakLap> And then spends some time working out some stuff on his calculator watch
[00:34] <DrakLap> HIS
[00:34] <DrakLap> CALCULATOR
[00:34] <Dasquian> "Leave, leave now"
[00:34] <DrakLap> WATCH
[00:34] <Tiggum> Oh god, this just keeps getting better. :-D
[00:34] <Grimrak> this is amazing :P
[00:34] <DrakLap> And then I manage to extract myself from the situation.
[00:34] <DrakLap> Oh, for further context
[00:34] <DrakLap> My father had died a few months earlier
[00:34] <Dasquian> eesh
[00:34] <DrakLap> So this wasn't exactly what I wanted to spend any time doing. :-P
[00:34] <Dasquian> So not the best time to have a mad swede
[00:34] <DrakLap> Anyway
[00:34] <DrakLap> I dump him there
[00:35] <DrakLap> And I revel in the blissful silence
[00:35] <DrakLap> Until a few hours later I get a phone call
[00:35] <DrakLap> And it's
[00:35] <DrakLap> Yes!
[00:35] <DrakLap> It's him!
[00:35] <DrakLap> And he's on the verge of tears
[00:35] <DrakLap> Because he's SO RONERY
[00:35] <Dasquian> haha
[00:35] <Dasquian> god
[00:35] <Dasquian> awful
[00:35] <DrakLap> And I feel like an asshole
[00:35] <DrakLap> For some reason
[00:35] <DrakLap> i don't know why
[00:35] <Dasquian> Yeah, you cunt
[00:35] <Grimrak> you should have put him on a train home
[00:36] <DrakLap> It's not like I dragged him over ahead of everything being arranged.
[00:36] <DrakLap> Anyway, so I say 'Look, I'll come around tomorrow and we'll hang out, 'kay, but tonight I really just need not to fucking kill you'
[00:36] <Dasquian> I have no idea what possesses people to go to foreign places without being 200% sure every last detail is planned for
[00:36] <Tiggum> Man, how could you put a stranger up in your house, get him his own place, move him in and then just leave him there like he was some kind of adult able to cope with the situation? You monster.
[00:36] <DrakLap> So we part company
[00:36] <Dasquian> Because doing anything like that scares the shit out of me
[00:36] <DrakLap> And I drive around again the next day
[00:36] <DrakLap> Dreading it every mile
[00:36] <DrakLap> Now, there's nothing really to do in Dundee.
[00:36] <DrakLap> We have a boat and a hill
[00:36] <DrakLap> That's our tourist industry
[00:37] <Dasquian> I have no idea how the DKs and Criliths of this world can get on a plane to some foreign clime, with no plan of where they're sleeping, and expect things to work out
[00:37] <DrakLap> So I said 'Well, you want to go see a movie?', and he goes 'no'.
[00:37] <DrakLap> 'A pub?'
[00:37] <DrakLap> 'I don't drink'
[00:37] <DrakLap> Shopping?
[00:37] <Tiggum> Hahaha
[00:37] <DrakLap> 'I don't have any money'
[00:37] <DrakLap> Well...
[00:37] <Grimrak> Jesus Christ :P
[00:37] <DrakLap> What would yo like to do?
[00:37] <DrakLap> 'I have some DVDs I brought'
[00:37] <DrakLap> Now, alarm bells go off here too
[00:37] <Dasquian> Are they anime? :p
[00:37] <Tiggum> "Do you have a DVD player we can use?"
[00:37] <DrakLap> Yes, they were not hentai, which I was pleased about
[00:37] <DrakLap> but
[00:37] <DrakLap> What they were
[00:37] <DrakLap> Was Japanese Anime
[00:38] <DrakLap> Dubbed in Norwegian
[00:38] <Dasquian> Sailor girl stuff? ;p
[00:38] <Dasquian> god
[00:38] <Beale> Maybe he wanted hawt Drakkos love
[00:38] <DrakLap> So I said 'You know, I'm not really very keen on that'
[00:38] <Tiggum> "All Scottish people speak Norwegian, right?"
[00:38] <DrakLap> And that's at the point where my memory is now a complete blank
[00:38] <Dasquian> Wow, this is some epic social fail going on here
[00:38] <DrakLap> Seriously
[00:38] <DrakLap> I have no recollection at all about anything else that happened
[00:38] <DrakLap> Anyway
[00:38] <DrakLap> I survived that week of his solitude
[00:38] <DrakLap> And then the term began
[00:38] <Grimrak> We come to the point in the story where DK chloroformed Drakkos and raped him.
[00:39] <DrakLap> And I thought 'Yes, he will make friends and influence people with his charming foreign ways'
[00:39] <DrakLap> But no
[00:39] <DrakLap> He's at war with his flat mates
[00:39] <DrakLap> Because they listen to loud music and drink
[00:39] <DrakLap> So he gets moved to different accomodation
[00:39] <DrakLap> Where he goes to war with them too for the same reasons
[00:39] <DrakLap> (First year student accomodation, yeah)
[00:39] <DrakLap> And then like a month into his course
[00:39] <DrakLap> He quits and goes home.
[00:40] <DrakLap> And then I never saw him ever again.
[00:40] <DrakLap> Except
[00:40] <DrakLap> Five years later
[00:40] <DrakLap> I walk out of the university (where I am now teaching)
[00:40] <DrakLap> And guess who's there
[00:40] <DrakLap> You're right
[00:40] <Tiggum> God, it's like those stories that were on SA that were the fat anime nerd writing lotters to his housemate. ;-P
[00:40] <DrakLap> HE'S THER
[00:40] <DrakLap> THERE
[00:40] <Beale> holding a gun
[00:40] <DrakLap> It's like... 'Holy fuck, I have to wake up NOW'
[00:40] <DrakLap> But he came back, a few years later, to do the same course. :-P
[00:40] <Dasquian> Did you blank him
[00:40] <Dasquian> And walk past
[00:40] <DrakLap> And I said 'Uh, hi
[00:40] <Grimrak> you fool
[00:40] <DrakLap> And he said 'Uh, hi'
[00:40] <DrakLap> And then we never saw each other ever agan.
[00:40] <DrakLap> THE END