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Who: Everybody who hates this moon! And a few that don't!
Broadcast: Nope
Action: The Good Ship Iskaulit
When: Throughout the Toxic Moon event

[Y'all, Misty can't be the only one who hates this place, so let's all gather on the Iskaulit, safe from all that dark and rot down on the polluted moon and have ourselves a good time!

(Or at least, a pollution-free time).

A list of establishments on the Iskaulit can be found here!]

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Well, you have other strengths. And chess can be fun, but it can also be kind of stressful depending on the other player.

Yeah people always get too competitive about stuff like that.

Hey, I am a joy to play with. [Smirking.]

Now why don't I trust that?

I don't know. I have a perfectly trustworthy face.

[She laughs.]

Don't worry, I trust you. Just maybe not with chess.

[That admission is touching even if it is almost jokingly delivered. Trust is important and hard. And, of course, dangerous.]

Probably wise. But at least I don't cheat at it the way I do with cards?

I wouldn't know even if you were. I hardly ever play cards of any sort.

I wouldn't do it like that then. I just used to play with some boys who made cheating part of the game. Seeing who could out-cheat the others. [She can be competitive and challenging, but duplicitous isn't her thing.]

[She rolls her eyes good-naturedly.]

Boys. Shoulda known. They're always pulling crap like that.

Not a fan of people of the male persuasion?

Oh no, I mean, I like boys, but they're real dumb sometimes. Gotta always be showin' off how manly they are and shit.

I have seen some posturing in my day.

What did Wrath call it? The Hurf Durfs? [She's not sure that sounds right.]

The what now? I ain't ever heard of that.

She made a broadcast about it shortly after I got here. It's actually when I met her. You should ask about it.

[Misty laughs.]

I'll try to remember that. Hurf durf.

Yes, good. I'm sure you'll enjoy the response. I was in my interrogating phase back then, so I was a little less playful at the time.

Your interrogating phase?

I was on guard when I arrived. I've done this all before, but I didn't know anyone. Not really. [There were X-Men and it helped, but they weren't her X-Men either.] Learning everything I can helps me. Sometimes that means just firing questions at people. [She wasn't that bad, and she was certainly better around some people, but maybe Misty has noticed she's relaxed a bit.]

I think that's pretty normal around here. Normal as anything gets anyway.

And trust me, you weren't near as bad as me when I got here.

Yeah? What did you do? [She was much worse when she got to the prison, but that was over a year ago now.]

I mean... I thought I was still in Hell, so I was kind of freakin' out.

[Not kind of. You were definitely freaking out.]

Hell, right. I guess hell can look like anything then?

Looks like whatever you're most afraid of, so it's different for everybody.

[She nods.] Then this is the part where I'm only curious on the inside without asking. [Because asking what someone else's hell looks like sounds very triggering and yet curious enough she didn't literally keep it to thought only.]