It was a few years ago that I realised I had a problem. Being young and foolish, it didn’t take much pressure for me to ‘give it a try’. “You’ll like it,” some people had said... and they were right... and soon enough, I became addicted.
Before I knew it, I’d become a regular user and my life had started to go downhill. Sure the stuff gave me a high when I got a fix, but the time in between each dose of ecstasy was an unbearable lifetime of insatiable craving. I became distracted by thinking about when and how I could get my hands on another fix; so much so that in my last years of high school, when my friends had a free period and I didn’t I would ask them to help me out. I knew I shouldn’t have asked, but I just couldn’t help it... the stuff was just too addictive.
Things didn’t get much better when I started uni. Having no one to talk to about my habit, I had found no way to alleviate it and was, by then, more of a slave to it than ever before. One of the first things I did upon setting foot in Monash was get connected. Somehow, perhaps instinctively, I knew where to look and pretty soon I had gotten myself into ‘the loop’ so to speak, and had managed to make contact with a dealer. The price per dose was pretty steep, but what other choice did I have? It had been too long since I’d last felt that tremendous rush and by that time, if I had them, I would have been fully prepared to give up my babies twice over for a fix.
It’s disgusting I know, but that’s what the stuff will do to you. It lures you in with its false promise and phony sense of wellbeing and once it digs its claws into you, you can’t escape. There’s no cure for it; there’s no miracle rehab, and even if there was, and you came out of the place clean, you wouldn’t stay that way for long.
That’s what bubble tea can do to you, guys. Once it has you hooked, it won’t let you go. So to anyone out there who will listen, please, I beseech you... don’t drink the stuff!!! The next time you feel the urge to get a bubble tea, do yourself a favour and give it to me before you get dragged into the gaping abyss of addiction. It’s already too late for me... so let me sacrifice myself for you... ;)

Hehe hoped you guys enjoyed that!!! ^0^
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hmmmm methinks its time for a quick update since exams and my short spell in hospital has forced me to put off talking about myself for MUCH TOO LONG!!! XP

That said, since i've been preoccupied with exams since about a month before swot vac (which is what I adamantly believe should be the period where you suddenly come to the shocking realisation that you have exams and start trying to cram 13 weeks of information into your head in time for that 9:30am exam for which you're sleep deprived and wishing that you'll catch swine flu on the short trip to Caulfield...) because I had two exams due before the official start of the exam period, there hasn't really be much going on and it makes me sad :(

Roleplaying has been put off for the past few weeks due to people needing to study etc... however, duing the few sessions that we HAVE had, there were many highlights ^-^
To begin with, poor Alex being caught up in a giant frat orgy while we were tailing a drug dealer at the behest of our latest client... XD
It all began when the beautiful and increadibly charming Lady Orchid, owner of the Black Cat strip club hired us through our contact Vladimir for a two day recon job. We were to shadow and learn as much as we could about a certain two drug dealers who had been causing her a bit of business trouble and to report our findings to her. We were told that one of the dealers hung out at an Orc Biker Club and the other hung around a university campus so while Dave and Oliver (our two orcs) headed off to the club, Alex and I (the two youngest members of the party) hit up the university. When we got there, we realised that because of the sheer size of the campus, we wouldn't be able to find him on foot so Alex hacked into the security cameras and after a few minutes we'd tracked him to one of the frat houses. Being a nerdy hacker, Alex decided to stay in the library away from the house full of jocks and surf the Matrix so it was up to me to try to find a way in :S Being unsure of what to expect inside, I decided upon a frontal attack... and knocked on the door :P The door was opened and a guy came out, gave me a once over and said "...sorry we're not interested in buying cookies". That was when I remembered that being an Elf makes me look like I'm 12 years old. So I promptly Astral Projected and collapsed on the front step!!! :D Searching through the room I managed to find our guy talking to one of the frat boys. Apparently they were to have a party that night and because some sorority girls (can't remember which one they were from) were gonn be there, they needed to get a big batch of drugs. Once the tansaction was complete, the dealer left and I returned to my body to find that I'd whacked my head on the front step and had a pounding headache :( Shaking it off, I proceeded to score myself an invite to the party. Apparently highschool girls getting into frat parties to hook up with college guys isn't as uncommon as it perhaps should be and the guy bought my story :D Apparently it was to be a pool party and bathers were optional... :S

So that night I headed back to the frat house to find the party already in full swing. The guy I had spoken to earlier, who turned out to be the president of the fraternity, met me at the door and immediately tried to get me to take one of the pills they'd gotten from the dealer earlier. Being able to Assense, I could see that it was the same drug that Oliver had taken in Europort when he had a very thorough customs check with a male Orc gigolo :P What the drug did was make magically mundane people able to see auras and to feel another person's emotions............. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand therefore enhance sex... -_-; The drug could be damaging to magically active people tho so I tried palming it... and epically failed my Palming roll T-T Luckily our magi group had just Initiated the previous week and my chosen initiate ability was masking which lets you maniputlate your aura to make yourself appear mundane or weaker or stronger than you actually are. So giving the excuse that I wanted to 'save the pill for later', I made my aura 'sparkly' like everyone else's in the room who had taken the drug ^-^ Unfortunately, because Alex isn't magically active, he had to take the drug and ended up losing his virginity to two girls called Christie and Alicia in the midst of the ensuing orgy :P By the end of the night I'd gained a new contact (the frat president) with both connection and loyalty of 6 (which means that he can get me anything I want and that he wouldbe willing to die for me :3)!!! XD

On the second day of tailing our dealers, the university dealer had a mysterious rendez-vous with a cop at a very shady no-tell motel. It turned out that he was actually an undercover cop. I don't think his assignment was made clear ormaybe I jsut wasn't listening when Brendan told us about it :S Anyhoo, at the end of the day everyone returned to the Black Cat to give our report to Lady Orchid. She then decided that the university dealer and his cop friend were too much of a threat to her and hired us to 'take care of them'. Given that we'd all already gained one point of 'Notoriety' during our shenanigans in Europort, we decided that making at least one of the murders look like an accident was probably the best way to go. So Amber, Oliver and I followed him to the Biker Club which appeared to be the hangout for drug dealers and Amber slipped an identical pill to the one I'd pocketed at the party (which she took from Oliver's stash :P) into the guy's drink. After a while, under the influence of the drug he decided that it would be a good idea to go for a joyride. We followed him (me probably riding in the sidecar since i'm the smallest T-T) and i summoned my new air spirit (called 'Windy' ^-^) with the power 'Accident' to take him out. It took a few tries (for a drugged up guy he had excellent control of his bike) but eventually the guy lost control of the bike and skidded under a truck... there wasn't much of him left when he came out the other side :S

As for the female cop, being the only one to have actually seen her, I used Windy's Search power to locate her at her office. Once that was done, Amber and Marcus decided that it would be too risky to kill her at work so they initiated a stakeout and waited for her to come out of the building. When she finally did, Amber followed her to her house and Marcus headed back to our base. Since our plan was for me and Amber to take out the cop, on his way back, Marcus called ahead and I used Windy's Search to find Amber ^-^ Since I was Astral Projecting from our base, I was there in a few seconds and we headed up to the cop's room. Since Amber had cast Invisibility on herself and I could walk through walls, we didn't run into much trouble.
Once outside the room, Amber knocked on the door to make sure we'd gotten the right person but because the room was magically shielded and she's a magical adept, she couln't actually get inside. So as the cop closed the door again, I cast Shattershield and broke through the magical barried before castingmy new spell Powerball at the door and knocking it clean off the hinges and sending the cop flying. Amber jumped in and proceded to use her awesome ninja skills and weapon-like fists to beat the cop to death. It was all over pretty quickly. However, since Katrina wasn't there with us, we didn't get to Sterilize the place... hopefully Amber didn't leave any hair or anything behind :S Anyhoo, since it was nearing the end of the session, we headed back to the Black Cat and got paid ^-^

hmmmm my quick update turned out quite long... oh well!!! ^-^