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[Aseaheru]

Try painting. Just... paint. dont try to paint anything specific. ((hoping for some interesting guff to show...))

[escaped lurker]

Try painting. Just... paint. dont try to paint anything specific. ((hoping for some interesting guff to show...))

I like the way you think. This could turn out very interesting. Nothing much to add, besides the obligatory grab for news after pondering what we actually want to draw.

On that matter, do not ask if they have a theme of some sorts going. Would somehow defeat our suggestion... ;3

(( Too bad that it was only our youth. Or maybe it might even be for the better that way. Actually, I am mildly sure that this might be the case... ))

[Ozarck]

Actually, let's heed the therapist's advice to not look for news while in social situations at least for now.
Ask for a canvas and if their are brushes, paint, and a space for you. Try to stand fully erect (to appear taller).

[Harry Baldman]

Refraining from any further words, you decide that now might be the time to just go ahead and paint. You pick up a sheet of canvas, some oil paints, a palette and a set of paintbrushes and set about painting something. You're not sure what just yet, but you suppose it'll come to you.

And you do suppose it does. While not thinking of anything in particular, your hands move naturally, without deliberation, as you place thick globs of red, brown, orange, yellow and white paint on the canvas, then spread them around in almost meditative brush strokes. Going with the flow as you paint freely, the blank canvas soon becomes a rather interesting mishmash of colors, all flowing toward a distant point in the top right corner in a wavelike fashion. The colors intermix as they reach this point, becoming darker and less distinct, kind of like an inverse sun.

After about an hour of painting, you feel you are just about done. Looking at the painting, you feel a certain calm descend over you. You're not sure why, but the entire thing seems... thought-provoking to you. And once you get to thinking about the sun-like shape of the point where all the colors meet, you start to see other shapes in it as well. Difficult to say how much of it is your own mind playing tricks, but you think you can see a landscape there. Kinda like that place you had therapy in. As you appreciate your work, you feel rather happy for some reason. Not joyful, you'd say, but just very content and peaceful.

As you appreciate your work, you notice one of the Jonathans looking at your work as well - it is easy to recognize him as Jonathan Two. As you look at him, he slowly turns his head toward you.

"That's an interesting piece. Reminds me of the city," he says, a particular slowness to his voice as he looks at you.

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Spoiler: A Description of Jasmine Thyme Model 376 (click to show/hide)

Name: Jasmine Thyme Model 376

Gender: Female

Attributes: heightened senses of taste and smell, increased manual dexterity, improved intellect, unobtrusively good looks, improved interpersonal ability, slight owner fixation, cranial netlink implant.

Skills: skilled chef, proficient at maintenance and repair, proficient at making smalltalk.

State of Mind: calm due to painting.

Inventory: fresh Jasmine Thyme uniform (worn).

Notable Physical Abnormalities: branded.

[escaped lurker]

Thank him for the compliment. Or what you just will presume to be one, for lack of low-self-esteem on said matter. Maybe looking at what the others have painted - granted that they permitt you to do so - will yield more interesting results will give you a deeper insight into painting. Or what passes as that around here.

If there is some of an aftershow to the painting, do feel free to attend. Else thank them for the opportunity, and tell them that you certainly enjoyed yourself, wich might result in other visits later on.

[Ozarck]

To Jonathat two: "Oh really? What do you see in my painting? Why does it remind you of the city? I thought it might kinda look like something else, myelf."

[miauw62]

Jonathat & Jonathis.

[Ozarck]

Jonathat & Jonathis.

And Jonatheother. Oops.

[Aseaheru]

Ha!

[Harry Baldman]

"Why, thank you," you tell Jon Two, assuming that he just complimented you and it wasn't some kind of condescending, conspiratorial, snakelike maneuver to somehow destroy your credibility in the painting club forever. "What do you see in my painting? Why does it remind you of the city? I thought it might kinda look like something else, myself."

"I don't know, really. Just had the feeling, to be honest," he says. "Looked at it, and I saw East City. It seems strange that you don't see it... but, then again, maybe not. We all see different things," he continues, and by the end it seems like he's talking more to himself. He morosely shambles back to his canvas, which, aside from a few subtle black lines, is completely blank, and engages in a staring contest with it. You look around the room, and it seems like the rest are still busy painting - the other Jonathans seem to be working on painting flowers and animals in a slightly stylized fashion, while Francis is drawing the shape of a woman doing something, it seems, and he's far from done presently.

You're not entirely sure whether you want to disturb them as they are, since they seem pretty busy. Well, except for Jon Two, who appears to be vegetating at his canvas.

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Spoiler: A Description of Jasmine Thyme Model 376 (click to show/hide)

Name: Jasmine Thyme Model 376

Gender: Female

Attributes: heightened senses of taste and smell, increased manual dexterity, improved intellect, unobtrusively good looks, improved interpersonal ability, slight owner fixation, cranial netlink implant.

Skills: skilled chef, proficient at maintenance and repair, proficient at making smalltalk.

State of Mind: calm due to painting.

Inventory: fresh Jasmine Thyme uniform (worn).

Notable Physical Abnormalities: branded.

[Aseaheru]

Paint another. Well, ask Jon two first

[Ozarck]

look again at our own painting. See if we can see the city in it.

[Harry Baldman]

You look back at your painting for a bit, examining it intently from several distances. However, you still don't see the city in there. You're not sure where he gets it from, really. It's really way more evocative of something way more... peaceful than East City, you think. Hm. Well, anyway, you walk over to Jon Two.

"Mind if I use your canvas? It's just that I'm done with this one already, and you know, I hate being idle and whatnot, so..."

Jon Two looks at his canvas, then sighs.

"Go ahead. I wasn't feeling it today, anyway. I'll just sit back and watch."

And with that, you walk over rather happily over to Jon's barely-begun work and start adding your own touches to it. You carefully extend some of the lines, adding new ones alongside them. You keep on painting, adding, deftly moving your hands in bold brush strokes, creating something mildly reminiscent one of those new-age religious ornaments, white lines on a canvas that's mostly black by the time you're done with it. Really, you're not sure what you drew just there, but you think it's kinda pretty, all geometric and whatnot. Didn't take too long, either - rather than the slow, meditative way you painted before, this one was painted in a more lively fashion, mostly just you having fun with what you've got, which wasn't much, to be honest. After finishing the thing, you feel oddly fulfilled, like you really did something good by filling this blank in the room. When you're done, you present the thing to Jonathan Two. He stares at it for half a minute.

"What is it? It reminds me of something. Something way back," he says, rather less moved by this painting than your first one.

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Spoiler: A Description of Jasmine Thyme Model 376 (click to show/hide)

Name: Jasmine Thyme Model 376

Gender: Female

Attributes: heightened senses of taste and smell, increased manual dexterity, improved intellect, unobtrusively good looks, improved interpersonal ability, slight owner fixation, cranial netlink implant.

Skills: skilled chef, proficient at maintenance and repair, proficient at making smalltalk.

State of Mind: calm due to painting.

Inventory: fresh Jasmine Thyme uniform (worn).

Notable Physical Abnormalities: branded.

[Aseaheru]

Wait, why did we take his canvas? Arent there any spares?

apologize for taking his canvas, citing that it was tactless of us and we where still a bit... Eh...

[Ozarck]

we asked politely, he agreed. instead of apologizing we should thank him for sharing. He seems morose. Make small talk. See if we can'tperk him up a bit, or find out why not. Don't be pushy about it though.