Of course, the main reason Isaac started running at the mouth and shouting was COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE!  He just wasn't prepared for the sudden surge of activity in his brain, overloading his impulses and deadening the headache in his brain.  With that said, let's go over to our scorecard now to see how everyone was reacting to the super-caffienated card game invitation.

Diana was interested, but didn't know how to play and was basically pleading for Isaac and everybody else not to be so loud.

Jean was [i]not[/i] interested, and as far as Isaac could tell, he was also miffed about something...which was not unusual.  Poor guy.

Luke was also not interested and grumbling about wanting to get back on duty, but that may've been more about having made Diana cry.

Michael...hadn't been in the room, but he'd heard Isaac and walked [i]into[/i] the room to register his lack of interest.

Victoria wasn't even paying attention, and seemed way more intent on having words - and possibly fists - with Luke.

Boy, morale here is shit, isn't it?  He couldn't even teach Diana right now, since she was in a really bad mood.  Isaac did, however, say to her [color=f7941d]"Alright, I won't shout anymore.  Sorry about that.  It just sort of came out."[/color], and that ended the idea of them all having a friendly card game together, trying to bind them together in some cohesive manner.  They just didn't have the emotional glue to keep that all together.  Well, you couldn't blame him for trying, anyway.  He wondered, though...  Where was Lucia in all this?  She would've been all over this idea, and probably hook in [i]at least[/i] Michael.  So, that much was a bust, but...there was one other thing, a loose end, if you will.

[b][color=ed1c24]"So...  No more drinking, then?"[/color][/b]

[color=f7941d]"Looks like."[/color]

[b][color=ed1c24]"What do we do about that bottle of Scotch in our room?"[/color][/b]

There was still roughly half a bottle of that stuff in their possession.

[color=f7941d]"I guess we'd better save if for a rainy day."[/color]

[b][color=ed1c24]"Will Jean be alright with that?"[/color][/b]

[color=f7941d]"He won't ask me to toss it out when I'm just holding onto it.  He knows I wouldn't abuse the stuff."[/color]

He was just getting into the spirit of it, after all.  Jean's main problem with the drinking problem was entirely to do with the drinking [i]contest[/i] - or contests - that occurred yesterday.  That kind of thing made him and Britta seem almost responsible.  Well, [i]almost[/i]...  Drunken behavior had led to the two of them becoming involved, suddenly, when the closest thing they had was him making a promise not to leave her behind if there was trouble.  It just sort of happened, and while Isaac had no regrets and Britta felt it was even worth doing, he still had to wonder if those were true feelings or just the habitual practices of someone under the influence.  They'd bonded, but they were going to have to bond further than [i]that[/i] to make it seem like it was completely of their own volition.

Still, Isaac was heading off to [i]store[/i] the bottle of scotch in with their things so Jean couldn't, say, confiscate it.  And he was gonna make sure the other Oceanics and anyone else who hadn't heard Jean's proviso of not imbibing anymore was aware of the fact.  It was their commander's order, after all, and he was going to make sure it was followed.  Because...Jean was right.  Getting plastered on the first day was one thing, but keeping it up to the point where it'd interfere with their mission was a bad idea.  So, with Isaac off doing that, Britta decided to hang around and make sure that Diana was going to be okay.  Victoria was already after Luke, so she just decided to take a seat near Diana and Michael.

...when Diana began to seriously break up, suddenly, she could tell that something big was wrong.  Luke was offensive, but you had to remember that there were things up with that girl long before [i]he[/i] showed up.  Like with Franz, Britta could tell that something deeper and darker lay with in.

[b][color=ed1c24]"Diana?  What is it?  What's [i]really[/i] wrong?"[/color][/b]