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[Ang]

"Maybe we can take the text books and they can take the internet research." Cindy was sugesting whatever came up in her mind.

[JimmySpaz]

"That'll work," Libby agreed, with a slight shrug of her shoulders. "I can type for the internet stuff pretty fast." Libby walks calmly over to the computer her mind clouded with wonders of how long this Jimmy/Cindy treaty would last.


((Sorry I've been gone so long: :PCpwn: ))

[Ang]

((--cough Krista cough--- You gonna reply?))

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(( Err, sorry about not replying until now... ^^; ))

Jimmy shrugged in approval and shuffled over towards a shelf of books, pulling out a stack and running his index finger over the binds at titles. Looking back towards Cindy with curious eyes, he asked, "Well, which book do you want to start with?"

[Hugh]

Hugh looked off to one side and then another, brows arched and frowning slightly. His eyes darted around for a moment before he looked off in one direction and spoke up again, pulling off his glasses and cleaning them on one of his cuffs.

"Uh, Jimbo, did it ever occur to you that this might be... well, y'know, not some kind of disease? If I could make a suggestion, maybe we should go out and talk to people and see what they know."

Surprising words to come from the genius's ditzy dad, but they'd been said.

"'Cuz, I mean... you haven't heard of this happening before, have you, son? So wha' would books have to say 'bout it?"

Even he could put two and two together--and perhaps he was the only one who felt pushed for a speedy solution, even if only subconciously, because he was probably the only one out of all five of them that'd actually experienced the blackout firsthand. Perhaps this side of him'd be seen more often if he wasn't as oblivious to dangers as he usually was.

A timid smile followed his questions as he put the spectacles back on before some object of considerable shininess drew his attention away. He might've outdone himself in the mental capacity department, but he was still... well, himself.

((Return of the huge posts! Nyarnyarnyar. *eyetwitch*))

[Ang]

Cindy looked around at all the books on the shelf. But one really stood out to her for some odd reason. "How about the dark green one?" Wasn't sure of why she picked it but something about it made her wonder: I reconize that book somehow.

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Jimmy's eyes widened at one of his father's most brilliant speculations. "You probably are probably correct on this matter... I just felt like rounding up a little process of elimination, but if you feel the need to get working towards what the people think, I'm okay with it," Jimmy confirmed, but then noticed Cindy motioning and talking about the dark green book on his shelf.

"What about it?" he asked, walking towards his bookcase and picking up the green book. "Wait... this is a book about unknown, and possibly mythical diseases," he said, swirling around towards everyone.

[Ang]

Cindy had reconized the book after all. She saw it online surfing the web once. " Your right, thats what its on. And mental illnesses are on chapter 17." Trying to rember the book's chapters.

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Jimmy listened, eyes glued to the book before opening it and flipping to Chapter 17 only to discover that Cindy was right. "Great thinking, Cindy!" smiled Jimmy, scanning the page before turning it and looking at the next.

[Ang]

Cindy was amazed she still remembered the book clearly. She awaited for what Jimmy would come upon.

[JimmySpaz]

Libby listened intently to their conversation from her seat at the computer. How did Cindy know what chapter it was before she looked in it?, she thought. After pondering this to herself for a moment she began to wonder what the book's mental illness chapter said. She walked over to the rest of the group in curiousity and asked, "What does it say?"

[Ang]

((Krista, Hugh? Anyone?))

[Hugh]

((Once again, I was waiting for either Gwen or Krista, since Sheen hasn't posted in a while and Krista's sort of in charge of the show right now! Ah, well, here comes another post!))

When the group clustered around one green-covered book, Hugh couldn't help but focus his attention on them. Blinking and lifting his brows curiously, he ceased his mindless poking of the glittering surface of some large, temptingly chrome gadget that was located in a corner and made his way over to them, halting behind Jimmy and peering over the boy's head and into the book he held with little difficulty, considering his advantage in height.

Well, maybe books did have something in 'em about this stuff worth reading after all!

Two fingers took to the rims of his glasses as he adjusted them, squinting at the pages as they flipped. "Whuzzit say, son?"

[Ang]

Cindy pondered over what the book said. After all she hasn't remembered much about the book. All she could remember was the chapter and some of the illnesses inside of it. But thats all. To her curosity she managed to choke out words. "So what does it say, Jimmy?"

((I know. But we can't let this RP go to waste. We haven't even got to anything good yet!))

[Hugh]

((I know. We're kinda draggin' it on at a point in the roleplay where it doesn't matter all that much! Maybe I shoulda planned this RP more than I did. Scuh-yooz me--*runs off to write down ideas*))

[.:!Gwen!:.]

((Gah, sorry. @_@))

Sheen, after looking at Jimmy's inventions and accidently turning a small blue box into cheese, whips around with a sheepish smile. He noticed everyone is looking at a book Jimmy held in his hands, and did indeed not see the pushing of the big, shiny red button.

Waltzing over to in front of Jimmy, Sheen swiped the book and looked at the pages.

"Whoa-ho. Look at these pictures! It's got like a man with half a face and half a brain," he described the picture and read the caption underneath it. "'Figure A3: cerebrus furvus. An epidemic first recorded by the ancient Romans said to cause amnesia--" His eyes lit up. "Cerebrus furvus. I like the sound of that. STAND BACK! FOR I AM CEREBRUS FURVUS. BEHOLD MY HALF A FACE AND TREMBLE!!"

((For those of you who are like where in the heck does Gwen get "cerebrus furvus," it means black brain in latin))







.:!Gwen!:.

[Hugh]

((Gwen, that post just gained you a +5 to your awesomness score from me! XD))

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(( Ohmygosh. I didn't notice how far this RP has gotten until just now. Gehwoahoaw! Don't even attempt to decipher that. I shall roleplay... again! ))

Jimmy, glaring at Sheen for swiping the book from his fingers and making random remarks, quickly plucked it back out of the Mexican boy's hands. "I think I'll take that, thank you," he said, scanning the pages and flipping them every couple seconds. "Well, at least Sheen had the prior picture idea of the story down..." Jimmy paused to roll his eyes with a smile and continued, "It says for this disease, that the short term memory and long term memory are temporarily seperated for unknown causes." Jimmy frowned at the last two words.

"It causes the recipient to lose memory of their whole life for a short amount of time, and while gaining that memory back, the brain loses the period of time in which they were without their life experiences." Coming towards the end of that chapter, Jimmy sighed and shut the book, the information stored forever within the confinement of his brain.

[Hugh]

Hugh blinked at this new piece of information. "D'what? Unknown... unknown causes?" He placed a hand on his chin and peered at the ceiling for a moment in thought, which of course didn't go very far. He covered up his lack of ideas with a question.

"I wonder what's made it an epi... demic," he finished strangely, eyes widening for seemingly no reason. His expression was momentarily one of horror, and then it became blank.

There was a strange pause from him.

"Woah, man, is it disco-y in here!" he suddenly exclaimed out of the blue, delight in his eyes. Soon his gaze alighted on the kids again, and he blinked in confusion.

"...Who're you?"

Epidemic indeed.

[Ang]

Cindy looked at Mr.Neutron in confusion. Then she felt shaky in her own voice. "Mr. Neutron are you ok?" Cindy couldn't think of anything else to say. She now noticed that the epidemic had reached one of them.