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[experiencepoints]

Who: Nightingale, SS Caprine
Broadcast: N/A
Action: On the Caprine!
When: Backdated it the Shuffle

[hello, Caprine, it is a ship mingle!]

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[experiencepoints]

[She does, though she stumbles trying to process what she just heard.]

Hold on a minute, what was that?

[deshabille]

[Mal cocks her head to the side, so she's briefly in profile; then she turns face-forward again and half-shrugs.]

Undead.

[experiencepoints]

[Okay, given Nightingale's history, and what appears to be going on here so far, it doesn't take her long to come to an obvious conclusion, if for all the wrong reasons.]

... Are you a vampire?

[deshabille]

[Unseen, Mal grins, holds up a hand with her forefinger and thumb about a centimeter apart. Just a little bit.]

[experiencepoints]

... There's not a troll or anything on this ship, is there? Because that would basically confirm that I'm hallucinating all of this.

[deshabille]

No trolls, no. I'm not sure they'd actually fit in the halls.

[She may know a different sort of troll than Nightingale does.]

What, you don't believe in trolls?

[experiencepoints]

No, one of them is on my team.

[Probably. She knows a Homestuck one.]

Along with a vampire and a Miqo'te, so I'm a bit alarmed.

[deshabille]

Nothing to worry about. I don't bite.

[Ho, ho.]

[experiencepoints]

... Doesn't not biting make you go slowly insane?

[deshabille]

Everyone thinks that. It's rude to stereotype.

[experiencepoints]

Uh, sorry? Just, it's happened before, so...

[deshabille]

[She laughs, low and good-natured.]

It used to. I'm on other stuff now. A more politically correct addiction.

[experiencepoints]

... What?

[deshabille]

Engineering.

[No, really.]

[experiencepoints]

... I. I don't think that's how that works?

[deshabille]

I'm glad you know so much about me.

[experiencepoints]

I mean. Isn't it food? You can't just decide you can build shit instead of eating.

[deshabille]

That's not how it works, where I come from. There are people who use politics instead of blood. Engineering makes a lot more sense than that.

[experiencepoints]

What.

[deshabille]

[An effusive shrug. SHE DOESN'T KNOW OKAY.]

[experiencepoints]

[She doesn't appear able to process this...]

[deshabille]

[Mal just laughs.]

Sorry. Vampires are stranger than fiction would have you believe.

[experiencepoints]

Believe me, it's not fiction that has me confused.

[deshabille]

Ah. Well, we are supposed to be very mysterious, so. Sorry about that.

[No, Mal, you're just dumb and weird.]

[experiencepoints]

That's definitely not how I'd describe the ones I met.