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[theboogieman]

Who: Zhas & Others
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Also yes
When: Now

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[ RED FISH CREW | voice broadcast ]

[in the middle of nothing-in-particular, everyone hears the unmistakeable rock-tumbler voice of your resident skullface over their personal communicators.]

Bad news: assassins on the ship.

[a pause, silent...]

Good news: assassins on the ship. Coil, you have two minutes.


[ PUBLIC | text, a while later... ]

looking for someone to get some parts from Spirit for me

small, complicated mechanical pieces. i'll pay for it.

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voice;

[dontthinkaboutelephants]

Are you serious?! Why didn't you throw them off your trail before they made it to the Red Fish?!

[Hey, Zhas, have an angry criminal.]

voice;

[theboogieman]

[if he had the capacity to laugh, he probably would have.]

I have faith. Not an issue.

voice;

[dontthinkaboutelephants]

Faith in...? Our ability to handle this? I don't like killing people, you know.

[He might be in the minority with this crew...]

voice;

[theboogieman]

Not yours.

[obviously. Coil and Sye, though, he's pretty sure they can handle themselves. and those two absurdly tall brothers. and the weird ninja lady that supposedly lives here.

he's still using that same monotone as always when he asks (?):]

Who said anything about killing.

voice;

[dontthinkaboutelephants]

[Wow rude.]

I assumed.

[You can't see it, but he's narrowing his eyes. He sounds suspicious, though.]

You don't want to kill them?

voice;

[theboogieman]

[somehow even more flat:] I don't kill humans.

[though a moment later, he does make a small, gruff little noise as it occurs to him that he should probably text... Coil... about that rule...]

voice;

[dontthinkaboutelephants]

Hm. [He sounds vaguely... impressed. Hm.]

Why do you specify 'humans?'

[Because for Arthur, it's humans and animals, nothing else.]

voice;

[theboogieman]

[well, it's better that he sounds impressed than... disappointed or cynical. he can get over petty arguments and stupid grudges, but someone who disagrees with his morals is in for a lifetime of problems.

so, a point in Arthur's favor. who'd have known. he's quiet for a minute, but only because he hates actually asking this question out loud to other people.]

Do you know what vampires are.

voice;

[dontthinkaboutelephants]

[He pauses.] Well, I've heard of them in fiction. The consensus with my world seems to be a creature that drinks blood from humans, turns into a bat, can't be in the sunlight, killed with a stake...

voice;

[theboogieman]

Mm. They're not fiction.

[he should probably add, "where I'm from" in there somewhere, but he doesn't really believe that. he knows better than anyone that just because people don't think they're there doesn't mean that they don't exist.]

That is what I hunt. Not humans.