i haven't been looking for anything like the royale [ can't find it. pree's still in stasis, so there's no point. ] but the red light district looks promising to me
i'll show you bossy. when's the last time we sparred?
[ (ง •̀_•́)ง ]
i'm not going to join the royal guard so i think i'll have a chat with mistress koralle, see if she needs security want me to make it a package deal, or is the siren song of nerdery too strong?
[ he's insufferable. why is she friends with him again? (oh, because she loves him. because he's her gravity. even if he left - right. not thinking about the time he didn't want to be a package deal anymore.) ]
i bet you'll find nerdery even working security with me
[ dutch doesn't remember a funeral. she doesn't remember seeing alvis' body. none of that's happened for her despite the strange dreams in stasis, the things she remembers that cannot possibly just be dreams. ]
we can start toasting to everyone who's awake, too wouldn't want our sessions to get boring
same time a whole bunch of people woke up. seems like that comes in circles
[ dutch hasn't gone into the green yet. she hasn't confronted aneela yet. she's still thinking things will go according to plan. that she'll kill aneela and die. ]
Or I was. It feels like my hard drive's glitching.
[ He remembered the station now, obviously, but he hadn't then — maybe because there hadn't been a station to remember yet. Clara's memories had been set to pause for a while, too. ]
[ the hard drive glitching, weeks, all of it. she needs johnny to make sense of these experiences; if he can find an explanation why this is happening, at least she's not going crazy.
their world is gone. but if they both remember — ]
woke up just before the final battle, too, which has got to be the universe laughing at me
[ "Same for me" is a relief. Then she keeps going.
If they were talking face-to-face, she'd know he was full of shit. Text makes it easier to put his confusion on the back burner — he doesn't want to lie, exactly, but he needs to at least figure out the right way to tell her what she's missed. ]
Yeah, well it's a shitty joke. Does Alvis remember the same things you do?
i'm gonna ask what the last thing he remembers is and then yeah i guess we share preferably over a bottle of whiskey
[ dutch knows what it's like to have pieces of your story missing. alvis might not know that he's missing any, but she still won't keep that from him. ]
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did you know they call hokk wine here?
[ or something close enough to hokk, at any rate. ]
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[ Not that he can talk. ]
But yes, I do know. And beggars can't be choosers, but I'd prefer hokk. What's your verdict?
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but yeah, she has to agree. ]
maybe we just haven't had the right wine yet
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A very diplomatic approach. So the only solution here has to be drinking more, right? Make sure we get a fair sampling.
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scientific as shit
sampling and all that
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Have you found any good bars? Because I'm 0/3 on anything remotely resembling Pree's.
[ Probably only because they don't have Pree. He kind of makes it. ]
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i haven't been looking for anything like the royale [ can't find it. pree's still in stasis, so there's no point. ] but the red light district looks promising to me
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Same, though. I was thinking it might be a good place to find work.
[ And after a short pause: ]
Not that kind of work.
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[ did she just snort-laugh at her phone? yeah. ]
you'd make a terrible sexer
or a great one befriending all his visitors. i don't know which is more terrifying
i think i need my brain bleached
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[ the opposite of bleach?? ]
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all right then
if we fall on hard times and our usual skillset doesn't cut it, we've got a back-up career for you
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[ he would bc he's a sucker. ]
You saw the job ads, right?
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[ it's cool, she loves him, too. even if he left and she's still not entirely sure how to handle that. ]
yeah
what are you thinking?
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[ Definitely a typo on 'boss lady' .................. ]
I'm thinking they all look a little too incorporated, though actually getting paid for nerdy shit IS tempting.
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[ (ง •̀_•́)ง ]
i'm not going to join the royal guard
so i think i'll have a chat with mistress koralle, see if she needs security
want me to make it a package deal, or is the siren song of nerdery too strong?
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It's been a while. And I'd love to be a package deal. For now, anyway. We'll see how seductive nerdery is in a month or two.
[ Which is... weird, planning long term. He's still not completely convinced, despite the HD view of their world blowing up. ]
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[ he's insufferable. why is she friends with him again? (oh, because she loves him. because he's her gravity. even if he left - right. not thinking about the time he didn't want to be a package deal anymore.) ]
i bet you'll find nerdery even working security with me
comes back from the dead to wrap this thread up
Let me know if you need backup with the job hunt. I'm ready with the extremely earnest and entirely fictional recommendations if you need them.
welcomes a zombie into my arms
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sometime post update for him, pre or post for her??
So I guess that's one less drink in our weekly toasts. Bummer.
When?
post for her too if they're coma buddies
we can start toasting to everyone who's awake, too
wouldn't want our sessions to get boring
same time a whole bunch of people woke up. seems like that comes in circles
[ but something else: ]
we were both in stasis again weren't we
thumbs up
(Or not, because she'd still be in the green — or had been). ]
Yeah.
[ What's the right approach, here. Asking outright?? Nah. ]
Have a good nap?
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sure
had some sweet dreams
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[ Dubious. Unless they're on polar opposite pages, but there's one good way to find out— ]
I guess you could call our touching reunion sweet.
[ One good memory, and a safe one. ]
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that the only thing you remember?
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[ Well. ]
Or I was. It feels like my hard drive's glitching.
[ He remembered the station now, obviously, but he hadn't then — maybe because there hadn't been a station to remember yet. Clara's memories had been set to pause for a while, too. ]
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[ the hard drive glitching, weeks, all of it. she needs johnny to make sense of these experiences; if he can find an explanation why this is happening, at least she's not going crazy.
their world is gone. but if they both remember — ]
woke up just before the final battle, too, which has got to be the universe laughing at me
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If they were talking face-to-face, she'd know he was full of shit. Text makes it easier to put his confusion on the back burner — he doesn't want to lie, exactly, but he needs to at least figure out the right way to tell her what she's missed. ]
Yeah, well it's a shitty joke. Does Alvis remember the same things you do?
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[ Please share your thoughts on how to handle funky timelines so he can follow your lead, thanks. ]
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and then yeah
i guess we share
preferably over a bottle of whiskey
[ dutch knows what it's like to have pieces of your story missing. alvis might not know that he's missing any, but she still won't keep that from him. ]
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Right. Then I think I owe you a bottle of whiskey.
[ It's going to come out eventually, and he's tried keeping secrets from Dutch. It doesn't work. ]
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[ what are you implying, johnny jaqobis ]
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[ He needs to work his way up to the big event. Assuming you can call 'telling someone they died' a big event. ]
Are you at the bar?
[ He means at work, but either way it's a fair guess. ]
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[ but when has dutch ever left something well enough alone? ]
are you saying you remember more than i do?