"Now wait just a nanosecond, Jon!" Karyn shouted, temporarily taken a bit by the use of nanosecond , but regaining her composure as she recalled the nerdy effects of the dice thus far. It was a compulsion, but the point was made.
She reached out a pale hand and grabbed Jon before he could even think of rolling that dice again.
"Jon, do you REALLY-" she paused to sniffle a bit, "-want to cast those paranormal cubes a second time?" Karyn stated, trying to make her dorky phrases sound serious. She gestured to her appearance and pointed straight at Jon's cheesy little bowtie.
"Indeed I do." Jon said, ignoring the nerdiness spouting out of him.
"It'd accumulate on the current geekiness. Let's say, for example, that fate yields 'Lovers' on that die. Now, what would happen with nerds that were also in love with everyone?"
Jon tried to scoff off the idea, but it sounded more like a nasally snort instead.
"Again, it'll end when the earth completes a rotation on its axis."
Karyn glared from behind her glasses and decided to twist Jon's frail little dork arm.
"OWW! OWW! OWW!"
He was obviously much weaker now.
"Jon, DO. NOT. DO. IT. "
Karyn took the opportunity to seize the dice from Jon. She immediately stuffed it in front the pocket protector of her shirt, smirking in victory. With the social awkwardness of nerds in place, Jon wouldn't be able to touch a girl where she stuffed it.
"Drat." Jon said, as he tried anyway, but the nerdy compulsions barred him from doing so.
"I'm honestly not sure if you can even comprehend what you could have done with that die. What if we were all enemies? If we're all nerds, with all the cliques assigned to a nerdy equivalent... what about those guys that skip class to go and mingle in the automobile maintenance building? What's the equivalent (snort) of troublemakers that build cars with modified, high-octane engines?"
"I don't have a clue."
"Well, assuming they end up like Sarah, with the personalities intact but retaining a dorky persona... they could be villainous nerds building... robotic devices or something like that!"
"...-and your statement is?"
"If everyone hated each other, they might produce items capable of delivering lethal force!"
A look of understanding was immediately in Jon's eyes, or, at least it was behind those thick glasses.
"The nerd curse you instated did not eliminate malice, Jon. It just made nerdy malice."
Jon nodded. He wasn't going to throw the dice. Karyn was pleased and smiled a cheesy grin. She absentmindedly rubbed her dull blonde hair for a moment.
"Ya know, I guess one good thing about all this is that we're more intelligent than before."
"Indeed... -but at what expense? We're using words like 'indeed', snorting like it's allergy season, and you heard me call a 'day' its scientific definition... -AND THIS BOWTIE. Did I mention how much I DESPISE this bowtie?"
"Well, it's only twenty three hours and fifty minutes or so of time. Why not make the best of it? I think this is rather silly, actually..."
With that, the two dorks maneuvered around Sarah, wanting to refrain from her snobby-as-ever attitude, and continued down the hall.
