Astrolinium wrote:
"I mean, I'm sure I saw worse in prison, I've just blocked it out."
"Ah, yes. Prison. I hear that tends to be pretty unpleasant...well, I suppose you have seen it all, then."
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by Separatist Peoples » Sat Jan 30, 2016 6:53 pm
Astrolinium wrote:
"I mean, I'm sure I saw worse in prison, I've just blocked it out."
by Astrolinium » Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:00 pm
by Wallenburg » Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:03 pm
Separatist Peoples wrote:"Oh, good lord, you, too? We apologized to the manager of the hotel and the wedding party in the ballroom below us. If they didn't want the chandelier to come loose, they should have used more than six screws. I don't know who called the fire department, but there was no reason to notify the press, too."
by Wrapper » Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:05 pm
Wallenburg wrote:She is silent for a moment. "Were you aware that Kay had feelings for me, Ben? I was quite surprised, but it seems that many people here had noticed beforehand. Well, she had kept it a secret from me for some time, until after we rescued you. Well, the thing is, I've been keeping secrets from you as well."
by Separatist Peoples » Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:12 pm
Astrolinium wrote:Separatist Peoples wrote:
"Ah, yes. Prison. I hear that tends to be pretty unpleasant...well, I suppose you have seen it all, then."
"I suppose. I dunno. I drink a lot, helps me forget most of it. Of course, being held hostage is no walk in the park during the Feast of Flora, either."
The ambassador from Astrolinium took another sip of his beverage.
Wallenburg wrote:"Yes, well...well I didn't know about that, Ben. I guess that's stuck in my mind now."
She is silent for a moment. "Were you aware that Kay had feelings for me, Ben? I was quite surprised, but it seems that many people here had noticed beforehand. Well, she had kept it a secret from me for some time, until after we rescued you.
Well, the thing is, I've been keeping secrets from you as well."
by Astrolinium » Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:23 pm
Separatist Peoples wrote:Astrolinium wrote:
"I suppose. I dunno. I drink a lot, helps me forget most of it. Of course, being held hostage is no walk in the park during the Feast of Flora, either."
The ambassador from Astrolinium took another sip of his beverage.
Bell raises his glass, which had been swapped out with a glass of Wood Alcohol when he wasn't looking.
"Drinking to forget seems to be the local sporting event of choice, after defenestration. Good job with that dolt Washington, by the way."
by Wallenburg » Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:39 pm
Separatist Peoples wrote:Bell holds up a hand. "I'm not sure I can withstand learning any more secrets, Helen. The last batch got me arrested, kidnapped, and beaten."
by Astrolinium » Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:54 pm
by Sierra Lyricalia » Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:17 pm
by Herby » Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:31 pm
Araraukar wrote:"No, I'm just curious. Humanoids are usually treated by doctors who themselves are humanoids, but I'm having a hard time visualizing a car treating a car."
Sierra Lyricalia wrote:"Well, we've all heard how their august automotive nation threw off the terrible lead foot of the dreaded Drivers lo these many years ago; they could hardly entrust their very lives to the same sort of people, could they? I sometimes picture a really complicated telepresence-robotics setup, where the car who's your mechanic gets on a special platform with huge ball bearings under each wheel, and those control the actions of a really sophisticated remote probe. Four-wheel-drive vehicles, and cars with all-wheel steering, would have an advantage just like ambidextrous humanoids do. Yeah, go on, Fifty-Three, laugh it up. I know y'all've got some other system, but it's not a totally bizarre picture."
She finishes the last of her beverage.
"I understand it's kinda personal. Be lyin' out my ass if I said I wasn't curious, though."
by Herby » Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:36 pm
Wallenburg wrote:Separatist Peoples wrote:Bell holds up a hand. "I'm not sure I can withstand learning any more secrets, Helen. The last batch got me arrested, kidnapped, and beaten."
Helen's expression darkens, and a tone of subtle anger enters her voice. "Ben, I really don't care whether you want to hear this or not. I helped to save your life, and you will listen to what I have to say. You see, Ben, I love you. That's the secret. I love you and I imagine that I will always love you. I tried to help you to understand. Damn, I even told you before Donnaugh dragged you away. I tried to be slow about telling you, but I guess I was too slow, because now I have no chance to even try for a future with you. I wasted my career to save you, and I wasted my love. I flew too close to the sun, I suppose, and now everything is a long fall to the bottom."
Helen feels tears building and wipes at her eyes. Her voice quivers but she continues. "I can't blame you, really, but how could you not understand that I wanted to be with you? I can barely look at you, Bell. All I can do now is be happy that you are happy. You get to be a distinguished ambassador with a lovely wife. And I? Well, I guess I'll have Gerald to comfort me in my final moments, but my career is over, and I fear that age will ruin me before I can find another person to love as I have loved you."
She stops speaking and looks down, sighing. Then she looks up at Bell, as if she has said nothing.
by Kernen » Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:53 pm
by Wallenburg » Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:59 pm
by Separatist Peoples » Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:03 pm
Wallenburg wrote:Helen's expression darkens, and a tone of subtle anger enters her voice. "Ben, I really don't care whether you want to hear this or not. I helped to save your life, and you will listen to what I have to say. You see, Ben, I love you. That's the secret. I love you and I imagine that I will always love you. I tried to help you to understand. Damn, I even told you before Donnaugh dragged you away. I tried to be slow about telling you, but I guess I was too slow, because now I have no chance to even try for a future with you. I wasted my career to save you, and I wasted my love. I flew too close to the sun, I suppose, and now everything is a long fall to the bottom."
Helen feels tears building and wipes at her eyes. Her voice quivers but she continues. "I can't blame you, really, but how could you not understand that I wanted to be with you? I can barely look at you, Bell. All I can do now is be happy that you are happy. You get to be a distinguished ambassador with a lovely wife. And I? Well, I guess I'll have Gerald to comfort me in my final moments, but my career is over, and I fear that age will ruin me before I can find another person to love as I have loved you."
She stops speaking and looks down, sighing. Then she looks up at Bell, as if she has said nothing.
Kernen wrote:Stooping to enter, the ten foot form of an ogre walks into the bar. His odor preceded him by several feet, the smell of rotting meat and an unwashed body. The ogre was typical for its kind. It had a body nearly three times as broad as a person, and two yellowed tusks protruded from it's bottom jaw. Beady, bloodshot eyes peered from a thick brow, and his yellowed skin was covered in a wiry hair.
The ogre's clothing was also fairly typical for it's race. He was swathed in a dirty vest and a grenade bandoleer. An AK-variant rifle dangled from his belt, chambered in the high-caliber ogres can handle, and with the wooden stock hacked off to create a bolter-style machine pistol, and a wickedly sharp war axe sat in a loop. The axe was probably the cleanest item on it's person, fastidiously kept shining and with a razor's edge.
"Nyos khe amaloki Bell. I'ska brashka i'fhan isarak'i!"
He pulls out a piece of ratty paper with the picture of his contact and approaches him at the bar. "Nyos khe amaloki Benjmin Bell."
The ogre tosses a sticky sack with something heavy inside onto the table.
by Herby » Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:04 pm
by Wallenburg » Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:07 pm
Herby wrote:What? No no no no no no, Benny, I swear on a stack of owner's manuals, if you dare look in that goddamn sack or even talk to that ogre before answering Helen... Dawww who am I kiddin'. Helen, wanna go for a ride or you wanna watch Benny do somethin' stupid just to avoid talkin' to you?
by Herby » Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:10 pm
Wallenburg wrote:Herby wrote:What? No no no no no no, Benny, I swear on a stack of owner's manuals, if you dare look in that goddamn sack or even talk to that ogre before answering Helen... Dawww who am I kiddin'. Helen, wanna go for a ride or you wanna watch Benny do somethin' stupid just to avoid talkin' to you?
"I, well...oh, that smell is repulsive..." Helen retches, clutching the table.
by Kernen » Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:10 pm
Separatist Peoples wrote:
"Oh, goddammit. What can I do for you now? I happen to know the ogres aren't members."
by Astrolinium » Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:15 pm
by Wallenburg » Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:19 pm
by Separatist Peoples » Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:19 pm
Herby wrote:What? No no no no no no, Benny, I swear on a stack of owner's manuals, if you dare look in that goddamn sack or even talk to that ogre before answering Helen... Dawww who am I kiddin'. Helen, wanna go for a ride or you wanna watch Benny do somethin' stupid just to avoid talkin' to you?
Kernen wrote:Separatist Peoples wrote:
"Oh, goddammit. What can I do for you now? I happen to know the ogres aren't members."
The ogre thrust the ratty paper at Bell and pushed the filthy sack towards him.
"i'Fhan'i jahar lok i'h, ke? i'drach arak i fhan, i'drach lok jahar. I bring, you pay!"
The fetid breath emanating from the tusked mouth was enough to make anybody's eyes water. Ogre diet consisted of meat from a wide variety of sources, and the superior stomachs were far less picky as to the quality of the meat than human stomachs might have been. This ogre was no exception.
Astrolinium wrote:Giovanni tried and failed to hold his breath, so he pulled a convenient surgical mask (don't ask) out of his pocket, stuck a pine-scented air freshener (also, don't ask) in it, and strapped it happily to his face.
His voice muffled by the fabric, he said, "Is this thing literally so dumb that even the translators can't pick up what it's saying? Given that I've understood everything everyone else has ever said here, that must be an advanced level of stupidity, maybe even pre-language levels."
by Herby » Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:24 pm
Separatist Peoples wrote:"Herby," Bell says through very clenched teeth, "the ogres are a violent, incredibly mercurial, slave-taking society that quite literally glorifies in killing non-ogres. Shut. Up. Unless you really think I'd survive ignoring him."
by Wrapper » Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:34 pm
Herby wrote:Separatist Peoples wrote:"Herby," Bell says through very clenched teeth, "the ogres are a violent, incredibly mercurial, slave-taking society that quite literally glorifies in killing non-ogres. Shut. Up. Unless you really think I'd survive ignoring him."
Huh. Gee I dunno, looks kind o' like a teddy bear to me. Yo. Shrek. Buy you a drink? Neville makes a mean mudslide if that's your thing.
by Astrolinium » Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:36 pm
Separatist Peoples wrote:Astrolinium wrote:Giovanni tried and failed to hold his breath, so he pulled a convenient surgical mask (don't ask) out of his pocket, stuck a pine-scented air freshener (also, don't ask) in it, and strapped it happily to his face.
His voice muffled by the fabric, he said, "Is this thing literally so dumb that even the translators can't pick up what it's saying? Given that I've understood everything everyone else has ever said here, that must be an advanced level of stupidity, maybe even pre-language levels."
"Mercurial. Slaver. Violent for fun. Stop making this worse!"
by Kernen » Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:46 pm
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