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driftfleet2017-02-05 03:25 pm
collegedropout) wrote in driftfleet2017-02-05 03:25 pm
Video.
Who: Sam and you!
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: Bloodsport or Iskaulit Bar if you find a way to squeeze in an action thread!
When: Today or whatevs, but backdated stuff is cool too.
[The last week has been really, really rough. Most people probably know.
He's been all but nonexistent for that entire week, and a few days after, too. Buried in hell memories and glitched to the point of barely functioning, he had stayed aboard the Bloodsport mostly with Nami. For the better, he knows later on; Nami understood him best, when it came to that side of him. It doesn't make him anymore ashamed and embarrassed that people had to see that. It makes him a bit depressed in the short time that follows. He wakes up on the third as himself — himself now, anyway. But he decided to just sleep for a day or two and try not to think about all the baggage.
But — he'll get pushed to move eventually, and the bar does need bartenders.
He will be out at the bar as he had been before the glitch.
It was what it was, he reminds himself. It was a part of him, and it's... well, it's not over, it'll never be over, but he's come a long way. He's better than that husk he'd been in the garden. He adapted and he survived. That has to count for something.
Still, there's some things to address.]
[Video.]
Hey, guys, I'm alive. Sorry for being so MIA at the bar, but I'm back now... Let me know if I missed anything.
[He's much better. See?? No burns or scars, and he's got his hair brushed, and everything is A-OK.]
I wanted to... apologize to everyone who ran into me, last week. I, uh, I said some pretty miserable crap and I know I sounded like a crazy person. And I just wanted to thank you guys for putting up with, um... that part of me. It's been years, and I'm much better now, and I don't... want anyone to - [He pauses, wringing a rag from the bar in his hands.] - to worry or anything like that.
I'm okay now.
So If you need a drink, I'll be here.
[A deep breath.]
Well... I don't want to just leave it on that note, so.
... Aaaah, let me think.
...
What's something you've accomplished that you're really proud of?
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: Bloodsport or Iskaulit Bar if you find a way to squeeze in an action thread!
When: Today or whatevs, but backdated stuff is cool too.
[The last week has been really, really rough. Most people probably know.
He's been all but nonexistent for that entire week, and a few days after, too. Buried in hell memories and glitched to the point of barely functioning, he had stayed aboard the Bloodsport mostly with Nami. For the better, he knows later on; Nami understood him best, when it came to that side of him. It doesn't make him anymore ashamed and embarrassed that people had to see that. It makes him a bit depressed in the short time that follows. He wakes up on the third as himself — himself now, anyway. But he decided to just sleep for a day or two and try not to think about all the baggage.
But — he'll get pushed to move eventually, and the bar does need bartenders.
He will be out at the bar as he had been before the glitch.
It was what it was, he reminds himself. It was a part of him, and it's... well, it's not over, it'll never be over, but he's come a long way. He's better than that husk he'd been in the garden. He adapted and he survived. That has to count for something.
Still, there's some things to address.]
[Video.]
Hey, guys, I'm alive. Sorry for being so MIA at the bar, but I'm back now... Let me know if I missed anything.
[He's much better. See?? No burns or scars, and he's got his hair brushed, and everything is A-OK.]
I wanted to... apologize to everyone who ran into me, last week. I, uh, I said some pretty miserable crap and I know I sounded like a crazy person. And I just wanted to thank you guys for putting up with, um... that part of me. It's been years, and I'm much better now, and I don't... want anyone to - [He pauses, wringing a rag from the bar in his hands.] - to worry or anything like that.
I'm okay now.
So If you need a drink, I'll be here.
[A deep breath.]
Well... I don't want to just leave it on that note, so.
... Aaaah, let me think.
...
What's something you've accomplished that you're really proud of?
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Because if you're like him, he feels pretty bad for you, wow.]
... We do?
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I have died and been brought back as well. Not through any deals with Death, however. IT was forbidden magic.
And I have a habit of finding it, though that is more because of my profession than any real desire.
[anymore, anyway]
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[That sucks. But hey, he gets it, huh?]
My brother's done that. The whole 'forbidden' thing. It wasn't magic, but it was a crossroads deal -- that is, a crossroad demon grants you something in exchange for something else.
I can relate, though. The profession thing, anyway.
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[and that's a whole 'nother story she doesn't want to get into. She's still sore about the whole damn thing] . . . no offense to your brother, but one should not mess around with forbidden magic of any kind. Forbidden anything, really. It has consequences.
. . . you are not a mercenary, are you?
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[He shakes his head.]
It wasn't something I wanted for me either. We're hunters, actually. We tracked down murders caused by the supernatural and we stop them to keep the kill rate down. One of those supernatural things got me killed, I guess you could say, and that's... why my brother made that deal. Can't say I wouldn't have been stupid, too, though.
... It was my fault. I was kind of careless and turned my back, at the time.
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[she frowns, listening quietly] You and your brother must be close, then, yes? If you both are willing to be stupid for one another.
[she only says stupid because he did]
That is an . . . interesting job? It is not one I have heard of, at least. It is a little similar to the mercenaries who hunt beasts for money.
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[He smiles a little.]
It's an interesting job, yeah. I've been involved in it since I can remember, really.
I mean, I didn't start helping with hunts until I was about nine or ten, but it's kind of a family thing. Stupidly, as usual, we don't get paid. But it's nice to just... help people. Stupid me and my stupid brother.
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[but she says it with some humor in her voice, since he seems to understand]
Is that not - young, to be doing such a job? Though if it is a family thing, I suppose it makes sense . . . [a huff of laughter] You should get paid, at least for your stupidity. I am stupid all on my own, but I do not do it without being paid for it.
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We kind of get by... illegally. Um. Credit cards under fake names and hustling pool and poker games, and stuff. Luckily we have a normal residence now we own, so we pay way less than we used to, to stay places.
[He can't bring himself to speak past tense about his brother.
It's easier to just... forget what happened back home, the last few weeks.]
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My understanding of the modern world is that children do not work, so that is why I ask. It is a little strange to me, since boys start young learning their fathers' crafts.
[the talk about legality does amuse her though, and she cracks a real smile] I do not know what credit cards or hustling means. But I used to pickpocket for money when I was not being paid to be a criminal, so I know what living illegally is like.
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Hustling is... well, it's when you pretend to be too drunk to make good decisions. You play like crap for the first half of the game you're playing, up the betting pool, then miraculously get really good at the game in the last half.
So I mean, it's not... technically illegal.
Most people don't appreciate it, though.
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Is that what it is called? Then I know what it is, I have done that. But not with pool.
No, they do not appreciate it at all.
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Yep, that's sure it. I haven't done it recently though.
... I mean, maybe once or twice on waystations.
[A dimpled grin, albeit a little sheepish. Oops?]
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One must do what one must do, yes?
[does she condone this sort of terrible behavior?
You bet your ass she does]
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Guess so.
I try to be good otherwise.
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Do you? That's no fun.
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A book and a little music sounds like a good time.
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We can have reading circles set up, then, for us boring people.
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What is a - reading circle?
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[He grins, a little bit of a cheeky bastard.
Younger brother, this one.]
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That is the smartass tone of a little brother for sure.
This is the face of an older sibling who is not at all impressed]
I did not know it was literal.
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What do you think? It'd be a nice way to pass the time in space.
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I suppose it is. I do something like that with a friend sometimes.
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